Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-29
From the Chicago Times.l
WOMAN As A VOTER.
A Chicago View Of the Female Suf-
frage Question.


A Chicago View Of the Female suf-
rrage Question.
In addressing the conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at South
Bend, Indiana, the venerable Bishop
Simpson said:
II want the day to come when women
will vote. Without their vote fear we
will never be able to put down the houses
of infamy and liquor saloons of our coun-
try. Nothing is SO ruinous to the coun-
try, it is true; and it is my opinion that
we can't get along without woman vot-
ing. 1T is not good for man to be
alone.
Herein Bishop Simpson makes an as
sumption which is almost always made
by the advocates of woman suffrage,
namely, that women are morally super.
ior to men. Those who make this as
sumption pay n tribute to woman, in
spirit of gallantry, but they do not pay
quite so high tribute to the truth
Woman is human being, as well as
man, and is apt to bear him pretty close
company in his degradation as well as in
his elevation. The two have different
natures to q certain extent, it is true; he
has a manly and she womanly nature,
and each nature has kind Of moral de-
formity peculiar to itself; but facts do
not at all bear out the assumption that
the deformity Of the one is greater than
that of the other. Man has the vices as
well as the virtues of the stronger nature.
Woman has the vices as well as the vir-
tues of the weaker nature. The vices
and the virtues of the sexes are about
equally balanced, and it follows that the
;nfnsion of woman into politics would bo
,ba Infusion of weakness into politics.
without auy compensating gain of yir.
tua
Bishop Simpson, in common with
otler female suffrapists. falls into two
srrors The first consists in taking only
naod women into the occonnt There
o.. hos,s of good and nnre and intaIIi.
80 .on,en in The land That nohodv
Gonbts But there are also hosts of had
snd imnpre and ;gnorant women. and
tha Latter are the ones who would
csr,a;plv ba the sw;ftest IN avail
themselves of the onnortunitv to vote
Tba womsn wbo arc ;ntarasted in main.
tain;na ..bonses of Infamv /" and Who are
ny.r re.av 10 drag the vopno of their
ou, ,s~ io,.n 20 ,bs;r orn iayaI wopld
I've tha most nromnt ~ cast their hal.
in,s Mt ,rorIj coma ,ha baar ana
Whisky drinkins wives and dangbters of
,ha - .nd wb;sky dr;nL;n5 crowds
'ahosa ha,,;ts ,ba noo3 b;sbo,, wo,Id reg-
nl,ts bv laws mads bv nnre Women
Vevt worla come the 'oiddv headed
tbrong Of Girls Who would describe an
honsst mechanic as "perfectIy horrid. "
ana ,,lots Of steamed ovsters on toast
as ..narrsc,lv snIend;i - Have the
Woo,t Ill s;st.rbnnd of ohscpra ..raforu-
49,, haan emitted from this enumeration
20. oa,.a~.p M a. ali Thay will
ba sa,,d anoro Tho varv t;rst last of
an uonld come tba gentle. loving ma.
-, noaast ,rua-b Hearted wives and
.rs. ,ha sacred Lgbts and orna-
.s =, tha bomea whera honorobls
ond vir,nons daughters are reared !.
~ 80, .wbo ;,s,;nct;yaIv know tbat
tbsirs !, tho emnire Of heart and home
md who ore WILING tbrouob these To 81.
ayota ana nnr;fv tbs stata
The GOOD bishon,s second error con.
uis,o ;o fo;Iinu 10 taka acconnt of the
n,aholIa ;nanaroa 81 noi;t;caj l;fe unon
the chnracter of women . II does not
saem 10 havs occnrred 10 him that mncb
of WIN, is had in nol;tics ia dna 10 the
tamntations 70 which those who exercise
nolitical nriv;Ieoes are subjected. The
person who is more accurately than no.
Iitelv described as n ward hummer" is
the nroduct Of certain noliticol onnortun.
;tiss What assnronce ;s tbers thst there
wonla not he the corresnond;no feminine
nroanct If like onnortunities were offered
to womsn9 Certainty no such assnr.
ancss ia to,pa in The fact that a vsrv
close annroYimation 10 this had nrodnc,
is evan now to be fonnd in nearly eyery
commun;tv And What ossurnnca is
there that there would not be found 10
erist a class of women corresnond;ng to
the class of men who sell their votes fo,
beer and whisky. or for the favor of an
emnloysrp Those who are acquainted
with The practices of neiphborhood scan.
dai.monpers. and who know what weap
ons the female politicians are using IN
their newspaper organs, can hardly doub
that politics would reach lower deptt
than ever if the same temptations of am.
hilton and ayarice were held ont IN wo.
men that are now held ont TO men 7
GOOD Bisbop Simpson were once to Sc,
two eve lambs of his own fold STRUGGLING
for the bonors and emoluments of Office
he would probably find himself too mucl
occupied in patching up two badly tor,
and Shredded regulations to give muci
time to the advocacy of woman suffrao,
for several months.
A third error NAV be mentioned II
lies in the snpposition that most wome,
would vote independently. according /,
the dictates of their own iudoments an,
conscienees. They wonld do nothing q
the Kind The wives and danobters n
nersons who like Rishon S;mnson tb;nl
that the saloons and brothels onoht I,
he exterm;nated bv law wonld vote viii
their hnsbands and fathers to mt dow,
the sajoons and hrotbals Rnt The viva
and dauoh,ers Of those who disaoraa viii
Bishon Simnson on these Subjects wonl,
vote with the;r hu.hands and fathers
And tho woman w;thont husbands an,
fathers would he ouite as likely to yot
aoainst tba Good bisbon az WITH him 4
perhans n;nstv.n;ns cases ont Of a hnr
Ia !. .-,IS.i.s a,E.- ~.