The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-08-16
HOW WOULD WOMEN YOTE2

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The question is frequently asked me;
s'For whom shall you vote this fall ;"
There is, I own, a strong odor Of sar-
casm in this question; yet, after deduct
ing the sarcasm, there is, I believe, an |
honest inquiry as TO how the thinking
women stand in regard to the two polit- /
ical parties-fherefore this question has
great significance. When the men of q
nation commence to ask women their
candid opinions upon national and po-
litical questions, the fact may be set
down as an evidence Of growth in the
women as well rs in the men Of that ma
tion.
When men cease lattering women
and take to comforting with them, there
is hope for the race.
But this is a digression. wish to au-
swer this question which so frequently
greets US.
do not believe there are half dozen
women among all the Woman Suffrage
women Of the North who would vote
for Horace Greeley. a half dozen might
do so in respect for the private character
Of the man, despite his obstinate con-
servatism, and forgiving the great
injustice he has done to the women Of
the land.
No man in the nation has done more
to retard the woman movement than
Horace Greeley. No man has thrown
greater disrespect upon woman, and the
thinking women Of this nation feel it.
He has had it in his power to do this in
calculable harm because for a quarter of
a century he has been Jupiter in the
nation, and the Tribune has been TO
millions an oracle of infallible wisdom.
\ loving people fail sometimes to see
when the years of dotage have come
upon their idol.
There viii doubtless be many women
who will wear the Greeley badge and
sport the greeley fan because their hus-
bands and fathers viii vote for Greeley.
But there are women who read, Judge.
scrutinize, reflect, whose opinions are
as well founded as the most profound
statesmen, and these women, though
respecting Mr.. Greeley for his chaste
life, would resist his election by every
means in their power, because he is a
disparager and an enemy Of the inter
ests Of our sex.
He sees in women mere housekeepers.
He recognizes only the maternal func-
ton, denying to women any individual
ity Of intellect and any stability Of char
acter.
He openly says he believes no woman 7.
can go out into the world to work for
her living, or to work for an idea with
out losing her womanliness and becom-
ing demoralized. He condemns the ap-
pOintment of women to all places in de-
partments at Washington, and if he
We're elected he would doubtless make a
clean sweep Of all the women employed I
by the Government and give their places
TO men.
Better in his estimation for a woman
to work for thirty cents n day, sewing
in some hot garret or dark cellar, than
to handle money in the handsome treas
ury rooms at Washington at twelve or
fifteen hundred dollars year.
Better that some man should get this
$500 and buy the virtue of the woman
who failed to keep herself alive on
thirty cents a day, than to have placed
that woman in position to honestly
earn her own support.
Now, these sentiments of Horace
Greeley are no secret. He has avowed
them publicly, privately and repeated
ly. He has been frequently visited by
ladies, inquiring into his sentiments on
these subjects in the hope that he had
gained higher wisdom, but he unhesi-
tatingly declares these are his firm con-
victions. How can any woman with
one spark of womanliness in her nature
wish to see this man i'm power? How
can any man with reverence for woman
and love for justice in his heart be will /
ing this man should fill the highest
place in this nation and become the rep I
resentative of this people before the ma
tions Of the earth?
May the contemner Of woman never
be the first choice of this free liberty
loving American people.
And how do the thinking women of
the nation feel in regard to the other
party? Well, though Grant has never
avowed himself Woman Suffragist. he |
has never, on the other hand, insuIted
all women by telling them the parlor. T.
nursery and sewing shop are the only
fit places for them. He has approved of /
the appointment of women to places of
high public trust. He has appointed
several women postmistresses, and the I
salaries Of women in the Treasury De- |
partment have been raised during his |
Administration. We have confidence
in Grant.
henry Wilson has put himself on rec
ora as one Of the staunchest friends of
the woman cause. I remember hearing
nun II,, say three years ago, in Steinwav
nan New York, II will not deny a
Tlght 70 my wife or my mother ,,,l,icb
Vaiue Tor myself-even IL did not con
slder 1t best for them. repar,1,s',I- - -
tlme was when men-even pood - ''-'
did not consider this ballot ,a.-1 --ei'
lor sueh as l." Henry Wilson stani.
before this nation one Of its finest -
sentative men-self-made. salf.ro;lP-,
firm, fearless, without coDcoit -. i0-70N'