Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-12

tons educational, social, moral, and religious
the vast questions of work and of taxation
questions in which woman's interests are
bound up as intimately as arc mans. They
pertain to woman's judgment as they do man
Judgment. Woman must not vote as woman,
any more than man vote as man, but as the
ettizea. We are told that woman must not
vote because ''her work is at home" Ger
tainly mans work is not politics. His work
is in the pulpit, in his counting-room. lie
don't vote either as man or worker, but as
citizen. Since Government makes woman
citizens, since it taxes her and ranks her with
men as regards pains and penalties. it should
rank her with men in regard to duties and
responsibilities. We urge it for the sake OF
men, putting women out OF the view entirely.
1t will help men to a better manhood.
coarse, ignorant, and brutal man desires Ito
keep intact the dcicacy" of the woman he
has made n slave in order to ON his but
tons and cook his dinners. He feels her in
ferioiity because government ranks her be-
meath him. Suppose this man and this woman
came TO this hall and there came on this plat
form the great political men of the time, and
they argue to the woman and treat her as an
equal for the sake of the ballot she holds in
her hand. The ignorant brute by her side
must periorce feel some respect for one whom
his master treats rs an equal. The old rule
holds good, Il nto him-or her-that hath
shall lie given" No work that man or wo-
man was meant to do is degrading and detil-
ing. Miss Dickinson did not believe that man
would treat woman coarsely and brutality ut
the polls. She thought that American men
must show sweet courtesy. a rare Difference,
because they couldn't help it. 1t is in the
heart and soul of every man with the name
for every woman with the name, wherever
found She will be treated at the polls as in
her own home. The lecturer spoke of the
first California pioneers, who without the IN
tlutnce of women. resolved themselves into a
state of society which was a shame to Christ
ianty; and exalted the ennobling and refining
presence of women everywhere. The very
men who deny women the ballot, because 1t
would hurt their tinencss, their delicacv, de-
fame them as friyilous and petty. 1t Is true.
But | don't accuse women; 1 accuse the So
cicty and training that make them what they
arc. God did not create woman as violet,
to smell sweet. nor as a lutte to send forth
harmonies, but rs He created man. an immor-
tai soul, and as such owing duties and respons-
Utilities to<every other immortal soul. The
scales of everlasting justice are held IN the
hands OF God and must swing down at last.
She did not expect miracle to be wrought ;
she did not believe that the millennium would
dawn when woman received the ballot. What
woman needs is the broadening OF brain, the
expansion of character gained through the
power that will come with the ballot. Woman
must help man as well as be helped by him.
She must inspire him as well as be supported
by him The nations of the earth will rise up
and call such one blessed, and God himself
will say TO her ''well done" No good will
come to man and woman i'll keeping them
asundcr. There is no work a man can do
but that will be better done by having a
woman by his side.