The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-08-22

i hide bound bachelor try IT ana see'
| / lock upon respectable children as
The bope Of the State, and If had
nv way these stsgnaut old rips who
wont marry, but prowl round and
live easy and die rich and leave no
sign. at least none to speak OF,
should be taxed heavy and the
money appropriated to the orhn's
fund, What's a man worth to the
State who leaves no defenders after
he's ded and gone; who patronizes
no Sundy schools or Mundy schools
buys no candy or baby clothes, or
balls, or barlow knives, or long
stockins, or jackonet muslin, or
hoop skirts, or galluses. What in
trust has he got in perpetuatin great
principles 7 Why a chronick old
bachelor can jest turn over in his
ono -horse oed and die and not keer
a darn if the world Gums to an end in
Is minutes He wouldent keer it
the devil was to break loose and eat
up the women and children alive.
Now Pm not sayin word agin
them married foaks who sumhow or
sumhow else haint aksidently been
blessed with offspring. BY no
means. They show a Willingness to
hav and that's enuff for me. I've
always apologized for peepul who
done the best they could, whether
tina sukseeded. or not. ! amt no
Bonyparte to chop a mans head on
for losin battle, whether he was to
blame or not. Pm a friend to mar
ried foaks, children or no children.
Lawful wedlock is society's main
spriug--ils back bone--its life in
shoorancc. I've no patience with
these stingy old stays who wont mar
ry without they cit a pile Of penshun
money, who wait to be hired to do
it, who hang around town waltln
for sum rich gal to turn up, while
there's lots Of poor ones, purity and
clever jest waitin to take shoogar in
thern.
Now | don't want to be misunder-
stood about this votin bisness. |
amt in favor women mixin up with
skalawags and trash at the polls
By no means. want the moral
strength and influence of their votes
bekaus they are better and purer
and honester than the men, but |
would hev EN- to stay at home and let
their husbands or their fathers or
their next friend vote for 'em as the
case may be. II a man fooled his
wife out Of hor vote it wouldent ex-
actly be the clean thing, but it would
DO family matter, and nobody's bis
ness. It would be the only thing
that some men fool 'em about
There's strong minded women and
weak minded men, and in such case ,
| / would let the longest pole knock
down the persimmon. The time
used to was when married woman
dident hav no voice in nuthin-ex-
sept maxim baby clothes. She could
ent own any property--she had M
sivil existence. If anybody Civ hel
anything the law required man t.
keep it for her. If che couldent Ii,
with drunken husban and quilt hin
, the law Civ him all the children. -
But as the world grows older she
keeps steppin up higher. Now she
, can own as much property as any
, body, and she can make will, and
in some States set on jewry, and in
/, 8 cases out of 10 she gets the chit
. dren when there is divorce. Sum
!, of 'em are studyin medisin and make
, the best sort of doctors for women,
and for children half hour old snt
i, under. They do clerkin and book
keepin and telegraphin and printin
, and can keep post ofiic better thar
a man and never steal u sent. Il
, they do peep into other women's let
/ tiers its only out OF kuriosity and
! they always seal 'em up again
, Take it altogether it looks to me
, like the time has nifty nigh cum
! when the men hav got to admit that
woman is just as good as man, il
: not better, in most everything thai
requires more sense than muscel,
wont say she ort to vote it she don't
want to, but do say that no politi'
shun could buy her vote with .
drink, BILL ARP.