The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-28
SHORT AND SHARP.

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pondent who sighns himself "Sam-
son." and goes for the "Woman's
Rights Movement in this stvle:
One of the most frequently offered
arguments by Mrs. Il. G. Stanton
aud her associates for woman's use
Of the ballot is that when they begin
its exercise, all the ills that flesh is
heir to will gradually disappear from
among men; also women.
Mrs. Stanton assures as that her
sex with theapower of the ballot, will
give society excellent sanitary laws.
inerciful treatment of the helpless
aud systems of social government
that will produce universal happi-
ness. Here are glittering gener-
alities.
The politician when out of Office
abounds in nothing SO much as in
fair promises. Give them the op-
portunity of administration, and we
are guaranteed the millennium; so it
is with the stroDg-minded woman.
She is great i'll speech, little in per-
formance.
Since women has taken free hand
in its production, our literature has
become both offensive and mischiey-
Gus. The vilest things of the last
twenty years have come from the
uuguided pens Of strong minded
women writer's.
The Byron scandal (ye gods OF vir.
tue and inodesty, forgive me for allud-
ing to the dannable affair." was the
works OF a woman, bred among fine
surroundings, whose judgment was
faltier than her heart.
The Beecher scandal, another of
kindred iniquity, is the work Of leaders
III the wopan's rights movement. A
woman has done this also. She,
with all its disgusting suggestions,
has lifted it into life and circulation,
The most Objectionable things i'll
modern romance have flown from the
pens Of that sex, whom we have
been led TO honor and defend. Our
arms grow week and our cheeks
blush to continue longer in their
defense. Forbidden things that
should never be named among us
are retailed without shame to our
daughters by bold women from the
rostrunl. Our grandmothers faint
over the recltals Of the young.
Death begins here.
Subjects that men decline to talk
about gush unchecked from the lips
of those who persist II calling them
selves slaves. One OF them, engag-
ed IN selling books, came to my office
the other day offering books which
the strong minded women declare
should be in the hands of every
young person in the land, but which
1 think should be publicly burned.
From all this the conclusion is
inevitable and the truth is offered as
unanswerable, that women more
than men lack the strength necesi
sary to stand for the true and the
right from the time OF Eve to the
present hour.
AS they have polluted our itera.
ture, SO will they degrade them.
selves and our politics by interfer.
ence.
In the unhappy investigation late.
ly conducted IN Washington, refined
and elegant ladies were dragged
from domesticity TO assist in washing
some very dirty linen. Does an,
one think that the spectacle was al
elevating one? Enlarge this tableau
and the atmosphere and the condition
OF this will prove most disastrous tc
the public peace anu welfare.
Woman already has unlimited pow
er for good in the Church, the State
and the home, but she still banker:
after forbidden fruit, and every ser
pent still, as of old, whispers TO hel
to seize more power and freedom
The end to the end of time will bt
the same.