The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-05-05
The Old Argument.

suffrage are almost identical with those
used during thirty years against negro
suffrage. 1t looks very strange to see
such papers as the New York Tribune,
which worked for equal rights, now
working vigorously on the other side.
Here is the way an editorial started
out in the Tribune one day last week:
"How They ARE GETTING ALONG
We forget into how many hostile fac
tions the Woman's Suffrage Association
is Just now divided, but we believe
three or four. AT any rate the sister
hood have split into SO many parties and
developed such talent for falling out,
that any doubt the public may have felt
about their pre- eminent fitness for basi-
ness must now be dispelled. Let us sec
then how they are getting along. In
Massachusetts, where their prospects of
success were supposed by themselves to
be brightest, resolution for an amend
mcnt to the Constitution, allowing wo
men to vote, has been rejected " the
Legislature by a large majority, and the
the people seem to be glad of it. In
Utah, where suffrage has already been
given to the sex, the sex despise it. In
Minnesota a Woman's Suffrage bill,
which had passed the Legislature, has
been killed by the Governors veto. In
Illinois, where the question was before
the Constitutional Convention, 1,4GO
women of Peoria petitioned not to be al
lowed to vote; so the XVIth Amend.
ment is dead in Illinois also. But these
facts would have little significance were
it not evident that Governors, Legisla-
lures, and Conventions have only re-
flected the sentiments of the women of
the country, and that the ladies, who in
directly exert powerful influence in
politics, are passing from indifference
towards the suffrage to positive oppo-
sition. Really, Miss Anthony is get
ting along very we'll indeed"
And here is another editorial in the
same number ofthe Tribune:
"We begin to fear that woman's pro-
mise that man will be greatly benefited
by her refining and tender influence at
the polls is, like most political pledges,
meant but 10 allure. At recent meet
ing of the Board of Education in this
City, a communication was received
from the Lady Assistant Teachers in the
male departments Of the Public Schools,
asking that the regulation prohibiting
the use Of corporeal punishment might
be rescnded, for the reasons that, since
its passage, "the schools are becoming
demoralzed, and the work of education
has been hindered." Unlike their fair
and stately sister Juno, who sought
with winning speech to bend to her will
the mighty Jove, they would bring un-
der subjection the schoolboy's unruly
sprit-would cram syntax and the mul.
tipication table into his stubborn head
by lacerating his feelings with that
dreaded engine Of torture known to
youth as the birch. We warn them
that, should they succeed, every boy
who suffers a fl1ggellation at their fair
hands will grow up to manhood with a
grim determination never to allow his
torturers tho divine blessing Of the right
to vote"
After reading such stuff, one would
be apt to think that no new element is
needed in our politics-tbat the men,
who now monpolizc all political power,
are governing our country in the most
satisfactory manner. Yet the Tribune
has been charging for years, that the city
of New York, where the Tribune has
welded its tremendous influence for
thirty three years, is governed wholly
by fraud-that not only the City, but the
State Of New York is completely con-
trolled by scoundrels, Often has the
Tribune asserted that the men of the
State of New York swindled Grant and
Colfax out of the electrral vote of that
State in 1868.
After sucering at women, We did not
expect to find in the very same number,
and on the very samo.pagc of the zri6-
une, the following editorial:
"GooD RmDANCE.-The Legislature
ofNew-York has adjourned! For this
and all other mercies, may We be duly
thankful, Whether it has left anything
unstolen, either in the Treasury or the
pockets of the People, may be ascer-
lained after the bills which it has passed
come to light. At present, a majority
even Of the members have no clear idea
of what those bills contain. Hundreds
of them have passed unread; not tithe
of them were deliberately considered
aud fully understood. Poor excuse as
this is, II is the best that can be offered
for the passage of many of them. The
Governor will probably veto or sthc
third OF themi but enough will be left
to characterize the body just dissolved
as the most protligate, reckless Legsla-
nre ever assembled in the State,
Aud this was to be expected,
"Crowns got by blood must be by
blood maintained" Elected by system
attic, wholesale corruption, it has proved
worthy oftsparentago. The good aud
true men in either House have been