The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-08-23

sense and spunk dares to do it,it shocks
their powritan modesty. Tho old judge
tried to look fierce and said a woman
shouldn't undersex herself. have
seen heap of mon who when they got
sorter old, took up sOur-grape spite
against good lookin women. But
Soosan looked at the judge as strait as
an esul. Sho stood up square ON her
pastor joints and remark'd that she was
freo-born and nativ-born and had prop
erty of her own, and had q right to
vote for the law makers of her choice.
She said that women done as much for
the country rs the men, and if they
dident fight In a battle they raised tho
boys that did. That havin them and
nursin en- and tendin to en- in sikncss
and in health was n harder job than
t1tln, and If the men didcnt believe it
jest let en- try it awhile. She sed If
the judge could name one good reason
why they shouldont vote She wanted
to know it.
Soosan's oycs flashed little angelik
fire when the judge fined her hundred
dollars, and she remarked that every
advanso in sivllization had to have its
martyrs, and she was reddy. She
throwd n hundred dollar bill over to
the clerk, and sed that she would bot
another hundred that that money never
reached the State Treasury. She didn't
mind that old judge no moro than If he
was a monkey. Sho told him that if
they would base the votin bisness on
morality, or property, or intelligence,
or nll threo put together, tho women
would be satisfied; but they based it on
Wearin britches, and drinkin whisky,
and chawin tobakker, and lkeepin one
Wife at home and another st1mwhero
else. She declared that shc had as
much rito to choose her politikul mas
ters rs tho Suthern niggers or tho
heatllen Chinee. That if tho women
could vote there wouldn't be drunk
ard, nor thief, nor fool on the bench,
nor In any other offs, and whisky
would be harder to got than arsenik.
An old red-nosed, swell-faced man
Winkcd one eyo at hor and hikkuped
ssthc h-he-hell you say" When tho
court adjourned the crowd cheerod
Soosy, and a man sed he'd pay tho fine:
another sed he'd SEQ her fair ite with
tho Judge; another sed the law didn't
say whether tho britches must be worn
outside or inside, and another sod he'd
rather risk tho women to vote than
thousands of them drunken furrincrs
and fools who elected John Morrissev.
Now I've been thinkin heap about
this votin bisness myself and nv opiu-
yum Or that Gov. Jinkins is a nifty
smart man. The first time he run for
Govnor they beat him bekaus nc sed
he dident think that every fool and
every vagabond ort to DO allowed to
vote. I1e was for drawin in tho lines
lnsted OF letten cm out, and the NOLAN
kolly sequel have proved that he were
right. If I was a king I wouIdent lot
any body vote who couldent toll
whether Gencrul Jackson was ded or
alive, or who took moro than thrcc
drinks a day as u regular thing, or who
chawd tobaker after he had gone to bed,
or VINO was n nleaner man than his
daddy, or who believed in ghosts and
witches, or who dident put on a clean
shirt onst Il week, or who lidcnt earn
SO cents day at sum rcspcl<tabl bis
ness, Or who shouted ut nito mcctins
more than two hours on a stretch. r
heard n blind frccnologist say that the
way to test mans sense was to draw a
strait line from the top Of his upper lip
to his forrcrd, and another from tho
lower corner of his nose to tho hole in
his car, and If tho anglo between was
less than 60 degrees he might be smart
for monkey but hc was n fool for a
man. He sod that this test would rule
out nearly all tho idiots and Afrikins
from votin, and If it dident their faith
in witches would. I woullent lot u
furriner vote until he had lived here
and behaved himself for ten years, and
he shouIdcnt vote then unless ho had
married an american gal or was u raisin
children on american soil. woultlcnt
let no unmarried man vote who was
over thirty years old though would
let all sich justify by swcarin that they
had tried but nobody would have en-.
Id mako en- name tho gals in their
af1idavy.
would let every married man and
his wife and every widder vote il they
! wasen't cut off by the forcgoin cxscp-
items. They should have one vote
apiece for themselves and one for every
child they had. This last would elevate
tho Arpian family about election times,
shore. Akkorting to Solomon, all sich
ought to hav heap of privileges for it
| afnt no picayunc bisiness to raise n big
drove of children. jest let any hide.