Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-02-25
Still Another.
From the Rutland Herald.
is IT BEST ?
RUTLAND, Feb. 2lst, 1870.

Ldttor oJ Huttdiu HtTotu'-A OF CA
| bans lady has asked Lucy Stone, :" Is il
right to thrust the ballot upon woman
when she does not want itg" To thi:
question Lucy Stone has made reply
not by answering it, but by asking tive
other totally different questions, some
what wanting in analogy.
Were i. not foreign to the subject OF
woman's rights" / would suggest that
the child, taking part with the perfect
and abstract right and trusting God for
the consequences, holding to the self
evident truth that governments derive
their Just powers from the consent OF the
governed" might reply to l. cy Stone
first question by calling fora vote on the
question, the ballot being conceded TO all
concerned.
Were it not foreign to the subject OF
"womans rights / would renly to
Lucy Stones second, that sending mis-
soparies TO the heather whe don t want
them " may be an impertinence. But l
forbear. Why did not Lucy Stone ask,
Is it right for pies to come out of tie
oven paatabIe and digestible pies ?" and
so ask common sense questions suggestive
OF inquiry, if she could not answer a
question properly put And why not
II add that pies ought to want to be "
palatable and digestible, and that food
generally, on, general principles, ought
to be worth, cooked, as much as it cos
raw.
The advocates of female suffrage say !;
Women do not vote now because 1t has
not become popular don't lose
heart for the anti-slavery agitators were
once in minority and unpopular and
now slavery is abolished. A good rea
son surely for thinking that the minority
may be right, but no reason for ASSUME
Jag that women should vote There is
fear that female suffrage is too popular,
through the unthinking of the masses
who nowadays suppose point is set
tied as soon as it is agitated.
Why not say Fulton was once
thought to be fool therefore people
will soon abandon railways to patronize
balloons and possibly, yes, probably,
grow wings, real wings, and so it alone"
To be serious, will not some male or
female agitator talk common sense, in
stead Of common nonsense, in answer to
the St. Albans lady and others.
Will not some agitator set about tell
ing how woman may be educated to
the ballot, and insisting that she shall
be so educated, before she Is allowed to
vote.
Will not some agitator explain how a
married woman can during the best part
of her life, be an active participant in
public and political affairs. How, by
swelling the mass of ignorant voters
/ NOtudH DdliOl can ECSOluLlbulLt Ddu
to good. How, in cities and States where
the corrupt overbalance the pure, wo
mans ballot is to remedy the evil
wherein the women of New York city
are SO scrupulous, SO high minded, St
honest, SO pure, Sc virtuous, that TIL
men-repeaters cannot repeat often enough
to balance the votes of the women wht
would scorn to vote often though
they might tie early" II the need
of women are great, If women are gre
viously wronged, will not some agitato
tell why these needs cannot be supplied
why these wrongs cannot be righted ex
cept through the ballot. Will not som,
such agitator be done with mere word
and substitute reasons that are reasona
BILE. In short, will not some woman
abandoning Lucy Stones dull general
ties and imbecilities, as well as Mrs. Liy
ermores you re-a- iar-and. coward, styl
come to discuss the subject II.