The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-21

q race OF women more like men, but Just as un-
like as possible. The times dem aud not Increasing
similarity, but dissimiarity. The world is not
starving for more politicians and orators, the
race will not die out or degenerate for lack OF
blatant stump speakers ana platform termagants
and scods but when the race OF old-fashioned.
sacrificing, devoted, contented wives and
mothers are gone, God pity the world If left to
the present set of women reformersl IL is
glory to the name and sex of woman that
good wives have moulded men into good
husbands, and good mothers make good
children. The neither of Washington did
not 90 to Congress or maDmuvre an army, and
should You ask her to-day, as she slumbers In
her grave, what she did for the world, she
would say, with mothers greatest pride; IL
gave the world my hoy George" Yes, into his
veins was poured her proud bood-it was his
life of her life-and into his heart her noble
viction of truth and duty. She did q mothers
full part when she wrapped her husband in the
hallowing glory of her sex, and clothed the
character of her child with her own charms of
purity and integrity.
THE BALLOT DELUs1oN AND SNARE.
And what have to say of the ballot? This
that it is delusion and snare phantom and
pretense. II is the remedy of quackery. 1t is
advertised to cure all, and will cure nothing. /
have no great objection to a woman depositing
a piece of paper in q poll-box on election day.
This is small matter, but it is the eternal thing
beneath this, and the infinite thing above this
which concern me. The wicked and senseless
thing of which this is born, and to which in turn
it will give birth: The disparagemento of womans
function by right of her sex. The ballot cannot
ennoble woman; It might degrade her am quite
sur time will tell. The thing will come about,
perhaps in time. 1t may work no harm.
God prevent it should No possible good can
come of 1t, am sure. We already see the way
the wind blows by the straws. The women
orators, this year, are nearly all pleading for
what? greater purity and strictness in divorce
laws; for greater protection to laboring women
for the elevation of fallen wemen; or even for
the ballot, that these results may be achieved
These huFI
or fussy and declamatory women are talking
about; but marriage and divorce, and they want,
as the Irish girl said of the Universalist religion,
''tbe terms made very easy" And what is this
but nursing scorpions in their bosoms, which
may warm for a moment and sting to the DEATH
And this easy going marriage and divorce can
work only harm, and that continually, to
women. And what shall we say of the offspring
of such people? Have the boys and the girls
of such parents no rights? Is no sacrifice to be
made on the part of the mother for them? l
incline toward the philosophy of the old
axiom:-'You have made your bed, and must
lie in it. 1t is infinitely nober aud diviner for
the woman to bear her griefs, if she is powerless
to reform her husbands manners, for the sake
of her children, than make them a public shame
by divorce, because of incompatibility of dispo-
sition.
MORE STRINGENT DIVORCE LAWS.
Instead of making divorce laws more lax, let
them be made more stringent, and perh lps
young people will be less ready and swift Ia
making matrimonial alliances. If it is needful
to have more divorces to suit the state of soci-
ETY., then should go in for curing the evil by
fewer marriages and better ones. 1t is pretty
nearly time that our friends, the lady agitators,
had ceased huddling all men together as brutes
and tyrants. Men don't like to be called
such hard names, especially by such ladies!
S0ethe Gsss noble Mev man led ~ wo%ans
reformed by her scolding and harsh ones ?"
| Then, when we hear itineratng married ladies
using such naughty words, we sigh and think of
that other saying of the great Germans: 's:-'He
is happiest,. be he king or peasant, who finds
peace in his home" Good men, and no less
! good women, have before their eyes, as the
nobest type of womanhood, which the great
Richter adored:-"If the loving, closed heart of
good woman should open before a man, how
much controlled tenderness, how many veiled
sacrifices and dumb virtues would he see re-
posing therein 2"
MAN DIFFERENT, BUT NOT SUPERIOR, TO
WOMAN
great folly of the woman movement is to
suppose that man thinks he is superior to
woman. He knows he is different, and believes
his sphere and duty, for the most part, are diff
| ferent; but only fool of a man thinks he is
superior. If these TERMS equality, superiority
and inferiority, must be used, then /, for one,
| give in that woman is superior; that is, higher
by nature and in the functions of her life. l do
not know that ever heard sensible man dare
assert his superiority to his wife. The man who
| succeeds in the world, and leaves to it a great
| inheritance of fame or fortune, is he who has a
| gOOu anu Wht WIG lOE ulb utarest lrlenu ana
counsellor.
BALLOT CANNOT AFFECT WAGES.
And, of course it is folly to suppose that the
ballot for women can affect wages for women.
Wages cannot be voted up or down. This ques-
tion is, and always will be- one of demand.
supply and efficiency. In this country we do
not want women to labor in the field, or as hod-
carriers, or street-sweepers. We do want them
to enter every occupation where head and heart
are most needed. And as these are fewer
than manual and menial occupations, there
are more women seeking them, and SO wages
are comparatively unremunerative. Here
the Federal, State, and municipal gov
ernments should set the example, and
pay women the same wages as men,
for instance, when employed as clerks or
teachers. Tor is it less a folly to suppose the
ballot for women will affect favoTably our
morals. Pray, tell me, how Jean Paul says:
1.-THE purer the golden vessel, the more readily
is it BENT the higher worth of women is sooner
lost than that Of men" And this saying all
observation confirms. Women are certainly
not less persistent and desperate in their
methods than men. And the sort of women
| who are clamoring for ballots and rights are of
the very type of our men lobbyists, intriguers,
ringleaders sports in politics, adyenturers, and
dead beats generally.
woMANs MOVEMENT WILL NOT AFFECT LEGIs-
LATIoN.
moreover believe it to be folly to suppose
the woman movement will affect legislation for
the greater protection of the rights of women.
One of the ablest judicial minds and officers OF
the country has recently said to me that the
laws of most of the States discriminate in favor
kof women. man has no right in the property
of his wife; wife has third interest in his.
Woman's property cannot be held for the debts
of the husbands the husbands can be held fol