Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-02-20
From the Wuman's Rights Department Of the
Toledo Sunday Journal.

Justice the Only True Policy.
The new Constitution Of PennsylvanIa makes
one feeble conca ssinu 10 women, BY making
eligible TO any Office OF school control or man
agement under the school laws of that State
thus, where a whole. plentiful loaf should have
been given, Ihro wing them buta erumb. While
we like to look at all concessions through the
most favorable and generous medium, it must be
confessed that we tire an1 sIcken at such pusi-
lanimity, oltusity, aud sefsbness In legislators.
0hio is in all respects more progressive State
than Pennsy sylvania-we trust and believe thai
she will Tar outstrip that State in the formation
OF her now constitution, as regards the rights
Of women. Her appreciation Of the needs Of
women and the righteousness of their demands.
we hope will threw into the shade the puerile
action OF the Pennsylvania Convention. That
their eyes were not opened that they could see,
and their brains stimulated that they could un-
derstand, was not owing TO any lack of Ell: ri on
the pait of the suffraRists Of that State, espec-
ally the "Citizens' Suffrage Association" Of
Philadelphia.
Tho present position Of women is an anomaly.
In s0me OF the States she can be elected to GER
tail Offices, but not 10 others, Her namo can be
On the ticket and she caR be voted for, but she
can ot vote. A woman can not vote for
woman but she can be voted for by men. 10
some States she may hold Office il she receives 1t
by appointment, but, il it is to come through
election, as the voice Of the people, 1t is sn Of
Tense to the people, and unsexes her and IN
fact she is pronounced incompetent and untitled
for il. And in States where she may he elected
to certain offices, should she venture to throw
ballot, she is liable 10 arrest aud imprson-
msnt.
Thus the good hearted and stupid legislators
go stumbling along, until they will get lcRisla-
tion regarding women iut0 labyrinth OF blum.
ders. A thousand wrongs can never make a
right and by trying to right wrong by in6n-
teSimal asures they only involve themselves
| and the entire cause in the bOgs aud quagmires
| of absurdity. Homeopathic treatment may
answer in medicine, but It will never do in cur
ing the great disease in the body polite. Leg
| isatnrs may bsAt around the bush, but there is
| but one way to remedy, the evIl-absolute and
| entire snfranchlsemeut. Women call for
| dress from unjust laws, and the cry is becom-
| ing more imperative every year. Women have
resisted, and they will resist. Women Tax
| PAYERS Association are being formed, protesting
| against taxation without representation and
| women will repel heshand OF government thrust
out tu seize portion, oftentimss Of their but in
sufficient means. TO support this monster tyran
ny. which in affirming that All just govern
ment derives its power from tha consent Of the
| W
| practically disIvOws; and men, good. conscisn- J.
t1us, and generous, will be panied aud sickened
| more and more by seeing the property OF wome n
| often their sole means Of ivehOod-wrenched
from them, not inch by inch, but in wholly dis
| proportiOnate measures to crafty the rapacity
Of the IA tax-galherer. Outrages will be perpetra-
ted uAder tue cover Of the law, such as were
inflicted on the Misses Smith, OF Glastonbury,
when for the payment Of 800 on their farm
their seven COWS Of chsice breed were seized
worth undoubtedly, at the lowest estimate, $50
each, and probably much more than that as q
means nj income to these ladies. Such outrages
will continue 10 obtrude their fungus growth
an offense to self-respecting people. Men
complain of oppressive taxation, with equa
chances in the choice OF their law aksrs
How musti be with the women, then, who real
ize the full oppression with no hope for escape
, with no voice, therefore no chance for redress
No-these evils are complicated; the Who'll,
system is rotten. The men may try to make
| the oppression easy, and in order to conform Il
the worn-out habit Of the past, compress int'
the fossiized shell the free human agsnt-bu
j its proportions are inadequate-the shell Il
already shSttered-ths process can not go on.
The only straitforwaTd way--the only true
way-the only manly wAy-is TO fully enamel
= pate wamAu. No half-meas surea, will eve
answer no eligibility 10 appointve office
Withholding the franchise-Or eligibility
2 to any Office under the schonl lawss Thi
will do as far a. il goes but il is only mill
and water sop To appease the whining q
child. Let the coast be clear-let the chances
be eveu-let the woman have at least the priTil
eyes under the government that the lrishmen en
> jOys-give them equal chances with TIE negro
perhaps an Elliot may arise Rmo1g them and tn
sovereign people be electrified with the discsV
cry that something Of IN ment may come out @
4; Mar ireth. AT least let the true idea Of Rspub
licansm be developed to its logical conclusion
and the mSrest dullard can but see that Wo
= man Suffrage is its legitimate result.