The union Democrat., 1870-03-12
aaCRanEsTo CORRESPONDENTS
SAcRAhENro, March, 5th. 1870.


This il to be reasonable and unpopular
letter. I expect DO one in Tuolumne to be
pleased with it. / have not written it for
any ones satisfaction but my own. So you
may all set you teeth hard and get big mad
on.
POPULARITY.
Things are working. The women ask the
Senate to be allowed to vote. A strong fe-
male delegation on Wednesday lined the IN
side of the Senate Bar In appearance, some
Of them carried out the ideal of the Strong
,finded - female; others could show beauty,
curls and general attractiyeness. However,
as they represent On unpopular cause. 1t Is
we'll as to appearance and popularity OF man
ner to pick all the flaws possible They were
skinny scraggy," "sharped featured, y
"viragoish," "vixenish. unsexed, +" out
of their sphere" Their action was simply
ludicrous and disgusting. They should have
been ia their "true place." by the domestic
hearth. minding their babies, cooking their
husbands dinners and sewing on shirt but
tons.
| presume that Woman Suffrage is in Tu-
'olumne most unpopular theme, and write
as above not that the matter was really as
represent it, but because this Is the manner
in which nv readers want to see it treated.
We Of the Press can turn out n talk to suit
any congregation. That's the key note and
corner stone of the whole business.
- UNPoPULARITY.
Privately, believe that one mind has as
good right as another to voice in the reg
ulation of community, be that mind wrapped
Np in male or female envelope. The ex-
'frcme solicitude manifested by you who would
keep woman in the place to which ycu assign
her, keep her forever securing pots and ket-
ties, making beds and raising children. In
the latter occupation, some of yCI men ought
to fill her place for q child or two, and see
how you would like it. Sometimes the cry
that woman is to become unfeminine, lower
tion in public affairs comes from married men
who 60 home every night half drunk, whose
every breath is sirocce Of the combined
fumes of whisky and tobacco. and one-half
whose language in the house to their wives is a
curse or growl. That thousands of women
have endured this intimacy with respectable.
degraded hrutes for years, and still preserv-
ed their fenNainitv, is to me proof that thew
can also wade il the "ilthv poo! Of politics, +"
and the pool will be purified hy the contact.
As 10 women's capacitv for business, we must
not grant that, only when she ia left penri-
less willow with halEdc8en children, we al
low her to rough it through in some way or
either; we see her sometimes start business
of her own, carry it on successfully; and feed.
cl6the and educate her offspring. What is it
we then do? Allow that the same capacitg y
might without detracting one whit from her
womanliness he shown ia other fields? No.
Wenrc chiefly busy in Watching her conduct
to see that il ia above suspicion. This is one
of the perquisites of the Lords Of Creation.
INDEPENDENCE DAY SHALL COME.
But this is ail wrong. This is Democrat
ic paper and am arguing an offshoot of Rad
icalism. I should in accordance with the old
rules of journalism, oaly talk that which |
think will suit my readers. Then you are q
"good fellow And yet still, small voice
tells me that the day is not far off when the
American Press shall be q carrier of all man
ner of opinion; when opposing arguments
shall confront each other on the same page;
when every paper still in the editorinl column
maintaining its own principles shall not make
that term Freedom of the Press" mock
cry by denying place to any able and respect
full opponent; when that Press shall in the
expression of opinion scorn to be the fettered
slave of few hackneyed party gossips and edi-
torial room loungers.
HOW THEY Do.
have started and cannot stop. IF Ran
dali allows me standing room to talk the
above. believe he will permit me to crowd
in few reasonable words more. The worst
opponents of female suffrage are the women
themselves. Many of you women in Tuol-
'umne regard with repugnance, these women
active in this cause. Well. some of them do
at times wax ove--enthusiastic and talk be-
youd their supply Of hreath-and brains.
When they come before the public they bring
many of their little parlor aud kitchen weak
ness with them. Some of their business
meetings have very gossipy bodybuilding at
mosphere. They forget where they are and
what they are doing and run to scandal
and tattle of each other. They can't help
this. They have been brought up to it.
There are aspirations and iealousies too
amongst them. Sister A would already like
TO 60 to Congress; because she's got the most
diamonds. Sister'B would like to 60 because
she's got the most tongue. Man YOU know,
never puts himself forward. save when he has
conscientiously convicted himself of being the
right man for the right place.
now OTHERS DO.
But women have not. in this line had so
much experiences. They have been demoral-
iIed and be-littied by over participation in get
ting up those damuable rag-fairs. Their in
teRects have all run to seed on pin-cushions,
Tag-bables aud srabhags. to provide funds
that the Great God Of the Illimitable Universe
may have fence run around church or
new carpet put on it's floor. That's what's
the matter. And when thew have sw;nalsd