The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-10-29


EDIroR RLGisTER A dozen 0. two
OF the residents of our town had the
pleasure of hearing lady lecturer few
evenings since, in which lecture was
shown, or endeavorcd to be shown, the
reasons the anti woman's suffrage party
have and hold as excuse for their position
The bill announcing the lecture was so
ambiguously worded that we could only
guess as to the side of the question the
lady intended to present, and the lecture
itself played at fast and loose on the SUBJ
ject at such rate that legal gentleman
who listened attentively during the dis
course, turned to me at its close and
asked, sis she for or against the franchise
for your sex 2"
She started out with the cheering
information that California is almost
unanimously in favor of femal emanci-
patton : said that the matter was laid
before the last Legislature, and it's advo-
Gates were SO persistent, ana upheld their
cause with such apparent good logic,
that 1t remained for HER to achieve the
high honor of delivering before that
august body. and by her own unaided
efforts, defeating the bill" We had
all heard and read so much Of the imbe-
cili.y of the California Legislature that
,, He We're ready to believe it possible for
almost any adverse power to sway it, but
/ it remained for the feminine champion OF
a dying cause to tell US why that honor
able body did not, in at least one instance,
hearken to the voice of its constituency
A feminine lobbyist. by her OWN showing,
defeated the will of the people of Cs1itor
/ MIA
She admitted that her cause was hope
less +; said that suffrage for woman was
nevitable-[ imagine little applause
erel-but that it will only serve to array
sex against sex and that it is quite
| possible that it will cause the sex, at
some future day, to cxtcruIinate each
other!
Viewing politics from her standpoint
surrounded by whisky and shllalahs, I'r
sure I'd never want to vo,e j; but people
will look at such matters through tLe;l
own mentality.
Rightly regarded politics is great
power, potent for evil or good. aud pre-
dominate, not in the physical, but menta
capacities Of humanity therefore AMI
mails devoid of rational faculties are moi
known to form political organizations.
But did not intend in this brie
article to enter into platitudes To return
to the lecturer. The only point she sue
ceeded in making, was SO badly spoilee
by her example that its force was lost
She said that woman S modesty and virtu,
required her to keep herself SECLUDED
from political strife-that her sphere il
at "home '-imasin al excruciating full
ness of the capital . in the word-wher,
she could look we'll to the ways of he
household, | dropped my head in ason,
uuutterable. Only think of that poor
neglected husband, away down in Sar
Francisco, whose wife has deserted hi
fresidc for wider Field" neglected
his socks and shirt buttons, aud left hin
to black his own boots and cook his OWL
becfsteak, while she is nightly mountin:
the rostrums of the land of Webfeet
exhor,ins the feminine inhabitants there
of to stay by their 6resides, because the.
haven't time to vote. resolved thel
aud there, that the next time | go t,
California, | will endeavor to find th,
forsakcn Field, aud mend his socks ane
| wristbands MRs. b.
Mr.. Seller authorizes the Portland