The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-25
Common Sense.

III DOStOll, Anniversary week
Woman Suffrage is a necessity
whether viewed from a moral, religious,
intellectual or political standpoint. In
stead of making women masculine, it
will refine the politics of the country
and by enlarging woman's opportunities
will develop the purity and gentleness
Inherent in the female character.
We are all walking in dream, so
blind are we to the terrible evils which
flow from wOman's subsection, from the
repression of her faculties, by her dress
and education. From the very cradle,
young girls are deprived of the physical
trimming and mental stimulus which
boys enjoy. When the boy PLAYS ball
or skates, the girl is shut up in the
house with her doll and miniature sew
ing, Is taught that bodily activity is uu-
ladylike. Before girls are in their teens
thelr very dress is an impediment. Pub
nc sentiment must be encouraged to
surround our young women with an at
nosphere OF liberty and common sense.
a better fashion must be set. More IA
Norable physical and mental culture
must become universal.
Woman must have the same eduea-
lonal advantages as men. Oberlin. bv
tnlrty-iour years of triumphant exam
/ pie has already caused seventy colleges
IN tins country to admit young women.
But New England lags behind. The
University OF Vermont, Wesleyan Col
lege in MiddletOwn, Conn, Colby Col
lege in Maine, the new University of
BOston-these and few others admit
women. But the leading Eastern col
! leges exclude the women of New Eng
land while they admit the natives Of
China, Japan and the Sandwich Islands.
The Legislature of Michigan compelled
the Board of Regents to admit woman
to the State University-when will the
Legislature of Massachusetts compel
Harvard, Amherst and Williams To do
the same?
In the labor market woman suffers
her greatest disadvantage. Vice and
crime result from low wages, and wom-
EN- need the ballot to protect themselves.
Diversity of employment alone will
remedy low wages, and remove the
evil Of excessive competition, and wOm-
an must be educated To the point that
she will not deem work in any depart
ment of skilled labor degrading Wom-
en- who act as physicians fulfill 4 duty
long since demanded, as many women
have died of disease rather than consult
male physician. Many fields of en-
plOyment are open and one of the objects
OF this association is to enlarge wOman's
sphere Of industry.
We demand suffrage for woman be-
cause women are different and in some
respects superior to men as men are
different and in some respects superior
to women. We want human nature
represented, and the woman element in
politics is needed. He refuted the state
ment made by DR. Jarvis lately that
women are more sensual than men.
lie urged that law should Ice Just rs
rlgidly enforced against male night
walkers as against female night-walk-
ers. The Boston Chief of Police has
called upon our Legislature for such
law, but in vain. This winter, Mr..
Bowker, a suffrage member of the Leg
islature, tried To have 4 law enacted
Furnishing the Keepers of houses of pros
titutiOn with imprisonment. Ii passed
the House but was defeated i'm the SEN
ate. Suffrage must be the remedy for
these evils. The social evil will find its
| first check in the equalization of wages
lie also referred To the unjust laws, rs
to the property Of married women in
Massachusetts in regard to the mutual
inheritance of property, protection,
guardianship and management of chill
D w. AAAG AolllHllLAtt
reported bill, but it was referred with
out debate TO the next Legislature for
want Of time, and then weeks were
spent in discussing the management of
| the HoOSac Tunnel. No disfranchised
class ever have found or ever will find
justice in courts or enjoy equal compen-
sation and equal privileges with an en-
I franchised class.
The question Of labor is vital. Let
woman do anything that men can do;
/ let the world recognize her right; let
/ her take her place i'm the social circle
just rs she would if she were not labor
| ing; let women 20 into any employment
| they choose, and with this comes the
necessary increase OF pay. \ man who
marries for money is despised, and yet
you educate women for that. Woman
Suffrage changes all this, and educates
| the women to care for themselves, and
no longer be dependent on fathers, hus-
bands and brothers. Woman Suffrage
| is TO solve most of the social questions
| that are now agitating both men and
women. Mr.. Blackwell reviewed the
action of the Republican party, the ut
/ ter ignoring of the Woman Suifragists,
mot only by the State Legislature of
Massachusetts, but by the leading Re
publicans OF the country. Even Hon.
| Henry Wilson voted for Senator FIRE.
/ linghuysen's Utah bill, abolishing suf-
/ frage and subjecting the women of the
/ Territories to the old English Common
/ Law, but spite of his endorsement it
was defeated, and the women of Utah
saved the wrong and humiliation that
bill would bring them. For the future
| Mr.. Blackwelrs candidate would be the
man who believed in and worked for
/ Woman Suffrage, be he Democrat, La
bor Reformer, Republican or Prohibi-
] ZIONIST.
Speaking of the Utah bill, he said
that it was defeated by Mr.. Sargent,
| Gen. Butler and others, who having re-
ceived telegraphic entreaty To do So,
"flibustered and killed the bill" He
severely censured the Massachusetts
Legislature, and pronounced govern
ment which gave to every foreigner and
pauper the right TO vote, while depriv-
| ing women Of the same privilege, de-
serving of the curse of God and the rep
rotation of man. He urged his hearers
to vote for any party that would grant
the right of suffrage To women, ana eN-
pressed the hope that Mr.. Fitzgerald's
| Republican constituents would send
/ him TO the Legislature as long as he
wished to go there, that he might vote
and argue for the rights of women.
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