Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-10-02
BILL ARP.
He Gives His Views ON femal'
snGerRge and Miss B0OsHn AntDy.
y. WHITMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor.

BnnerRge and Miss bOOshn AntDy.
Mr.. EDITU-Soosan Antny aint nuthin
to me-that is nuthin partikler No
woman aint exsep Mrs. Arp, but when |
heard they was tryin her for votin, my
femme instinks carried me straight to
the court house. | was on her side yit.
Women in general is my weakness and
espeshually woman whose name is
Soosan. always envied man who
could fondle over his wife or his sweet
heart and call her Soosan." 1t sounds
SO meller and soft. SO when | seed
Soosan Antny arraigned up before the
Judge like konvict / was mad-mad
with the whole Yanky nashun. They
raise hellybilloo over the old broken
konstitnshun and mend it up so as to let
the black babboons vote in the rebel
States, bat if white woman OF sense
and spunk daFes to do it, it shocks their
pewitan modesty. The old Judge tried
TO look Gerse and said woman should
ent undersex herself. | have seen
heap of men, who when they got sorter
old, took up sour-grape spite against
good-looking women. But Soosan looked
at the Judge straight as an egel. She
stood up square on her paster joints
and remarked that she was free-born
and naGiye-b born and had property of
her own, and had . right to vote for the
lawmakers of her choice. She said they
done as much for the country ~ tle
men, and if they dident fight in battle
they raised the boys that did. They
havin EN- and nursiH en- and tendin to
EN- in sickness and helth was 2 harder
lob than ftin, and if the men dideHt BE-
lieve it jest let EN- try it awhile. She
sed if the Judge aauld name one good
reesun why they sho0'dept vote she
wanted to know it.
Soosana eyes flashed little angelik
fire when the Judge fined her one hun
dred dollars, and she remarked that
every advanse in sivilizatiOn had to
have its martyrs, and she was reddy.
She throwed kundred dollar bill over
to the clerk, aud sea she would bet an
other hundred that the money never
reached the State treasury. She sldent
mind that old Judge no more than he
was a monkey. She told him that If
they would base the votin business on
morality, or property, or intelligence, or
all three put together, the women would
be satisGde; hnt they based it on wear.
in britches, and arinkin whisky and
cbawin tobakker, and keeping. one wife
at home and another sum where else
She declared that she had as much rite
to choose her politikal masters as the
Southern nigsegc or the heather Chinee'
That if the womea could vote there
wonldent be drunkard, nos Q thief, nor
a fool on the bench, nor in any otheer
oflis. and wkieky would be harder TO giit
than arsenik. Aa old, red nosed, swell;
faced man winked one eye at her end
hikkupped the "h-he.heii y9p say.
When the eoart adjourned the cfoTd
cheered Soozy. and one man sed ne d
pay the fine; another sed he'd see her a
fair fight with the Judge enother sed
the lazy dident say whether tue brltches
must be vorn outside or inside, ane an
other sed he d rather risk the women to
vote than thousRps of them drunken
furriners and fools Sho elekted John
Morrissey.
Now I've been thinkin heap obout
this votin business myself, and my oSln'
vun ar that Gov. Jinkins is a nifty smart
man. The first time he run for Governor
they beat him bekaus he sed he dident
think that every vagabond ort to be al
lowed TO vote. BE was for drawn IN the
lines instead of lettin EN- out and the
melancholy sequel have proved that he
we're rite. If | was a king | wouident
let anybody vote who couldent tell
whether General Jackson was ded or
alive, or who took more than three drinks
a day as regular thing, or who cbawed
tobakker after he had gone to bed, ot
who was o meaner man than his daddy,
or who beiieyed in costs or witches, or
who didn't put on a clean shirt onst
week, or who dident sarn 90 cents day
at a respektabul Sisness, oF who shouted
at mite meetings more than two hogrs on
a stretch. heard a blind freenolOgist
say that the way to test a mans sense
was 10 draw a strait line from the top OF
his upper lip to his forred and another
from the lower corner Of his nose to the
hole in his ear, and If the angle between
was less than 60 degrees he might be
smart for a mOakeybut he was a fool for
! man He said that this test would rule
our nearly All idiots aud Afrikins from
votin. and If il dident their faith IN
wi,ches would. wouldn't let inrriner
vote until be had lived here and behaved
himself for ten years, and be shouldent
vote then unless he bad married an
Amerikin gal. or was rsisin children on
Amerikin soil. Iwoaldsut let no IN
married man vote who was over thirty I
years old; though | would let al slen
Justify by swearin that they had tried Dat
nobody would have EN- Id make EN-
name the gals in their aiidavy.
/ would let every married man aud his
wife aud ever widder vote II they Wasn
cut Of the foregoing exsepshuns. They