Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-09
DALLAS, SATURDAY, SEPT. 9.
What we Think.

ftrmerly appeared In the REPUBLICAN,
submits to US the following interroga-
tory:
We respectfully ask our brother if
he thinks it right or even exped,ent, to
longer politically legislate to cireum~
scribe woman,s opportunities ?'
Frankly, We do. Without saying
word concerning the platform laid down
by the lights who are now leading in
this great question, which in and of
itself is doing an immense damage to
this movement, we think the extension
OF suffrage in the direction indicated
would be decided damage to society,
and an irremediable evil to woman her
self. AS to the rights of woman, we
declare ourselves emphatically in their
favor. The right Of woman to sue and
be sued in her. own name to hold
property exempt from the liabilities,
and entirely free from the control of,
her husband to demand and receive
the same compensation when she per
forms the same labor which man does,
are rights which the well being of soci-
ety and the elevation of humanity to
the standard of civilization to which we
aspire, cannot, in our judgment, be rea.
sonably denied. The laws of the land
are being, and of right should be, so
amended and remo6eled as to speedily
secure these great ends. The reason Of
this is plain. The influence of woman
has ever been acknowledged by all
thinking persons. From the fall of
Adam to the present time, she has been
continually making her influence felt
Our earliest recollections and fondesu
remembrances are associated with the
hallpBed name of mother aud to be
lost to that influence is to be lost to all
that elevates and ennobles man, and is
a point in human abasemeut which few,
very few men ever attain. The mem
Ory of fond sister-one who has
shared our youthful sports, and who
was ever ready to rejoice in our success,
or sootbe our appointments, is one
which the basest of men haze acknow-
lodged exerted a salutary inhuence
and though it may not have saved them
from the paths of vice, have greatly
retarded their downward progress. Our
e earliest impressions are the most last
ing" is truth taught by an old adage
which no one pretends to deny. Taking
this for granted, women may rule the
world to their own liking for if they
cannot now secure the passage of such
laws as they deem most beneficial, let
them in the nursery instiIl iuto the
minds of their willing pupils an abhor.
ence of wrong and reverence for right
which shall prompt them when they
come upon the stage of action to take
such course as shall secure right and
justice to all. BY so doing, women may
become very Queens, not only in their
own households, but in society, in the
community, and in the country at
large. Then to cut an article short
which might be run to great length,
and yet not exhaust the subject, we
would say to the ladies, we welcome
you to all the pursuits in life in which
you may wish to engage; we will walk
hand in hand with you in the study of
the sciences we will stand side by
side with you in the practice of the
professions we will lend a helping
hand in any time of need We will look
upon you as the guiding star of our
destiny. and the wise counsellor in
times of trial; but we ask you, as
the well-wisher of society, as one hav>
ing the true interests Of mankind at
heart, to keep out of the degeuerating
influence Of political contests-broils
into which the more elevated and re-
fined even of The sterner sex enter with
reluctance land by so doing secure to
yourselves an influence among mankind
that can be secured in no other way,
and perform good for mankind which
shall rebound to YOUR credit and mans