The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-06-05
FEMALE SUFFRAGE iS THE L. 5. sen.
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sield day" in the United States
Senate last week, and the result is
certainly not diseouraging 10 the
friends Of she measure
The recent temperance movement
inaugurated and carried on by the
noble, self-saerificing women OF
some of the eastern states, has had
the effect TO draw public atteE ton
10 the matter of female suffrage
with more directness and form
than il has ever before received.
Christian women upon their knees
in the streets have great power,
and thousands of saloons have been
closed, and hundreds of men have
been turned from the disrepntable
business of dealing out whisky, to
something more useful and honora-
BILE. The whisky business has been
badly damaged. 1t was stated to
us by an intelligent citizen of Gin
cinnati few weeks ago, that the
sales of liquor in that city had fall
en- of $20,000,000. Tue logic of all
this is, If the women can accomplish
so much by prayer alone, what can
they not do, il they are armed with
the ballot? With that in their
hands, backed by the strong tenn
perance sentiment already existing
throughout the country, the COM
plete prohibition of the manufac-
ture, importation and sale of liquor
| is within easy reach. Reasoning
thus, thousands of men who have
heretofore opposed placing the bal
lotin the hands of the women are
now strong advocates of the meas
ure. These new friends of the meas
ure are not of the "short-hai-eG
women and long haired men" stripe
who perambulate the country rail
ing at everybody who dares to di1e
with them in sentiment. They conn
from the great middle class of so
ciety-the thinking, moral and re
ligious elements, who save societ,
from all sorts of ridiculous ant
, pernicious isms. Without them N
measure can have success, aud the,
; must be fully persuaded it is RICH
and the best thing for the ceuntr,
before they favor it. When the
f move the world goes with them
| 1t looks very much as though the
3 were rapidly arranging themselve
I on the side of this reform.
$ But we started out more particu
. larly to notice what we believe to b
the first test vote on the question c
: female suffrage in The United State
Senate. Notwithstanding many e.
a forts have been made to get th
matter before that body; we bt
i, lieve they have all failed. On th
9th of May the bill for the esta(
lishment of the territory of Pemb
j, ma, and to provide for temporar
| government therefor, was calle
1 up. Mr.. Sargent moved % amen
/ the bill so that the right to vote {
5 hold Office in the territory Shout
i not be restricted on account {
G race, color or sea. He supportc
e the motion with we'll time
q speech. Stewart of Neyada, Mo
: ton, of Indiana, Flanagan, of Texa
il Carpenter, of Wisconsin, and othe
Y favored the amendment. The pos
o ton of Morton, the shrewd and alb
J, politician may be regarded as sis
n niflcant. Stewart predicted that
II ten years from now there would NJ
If be an anti-femaie suffrage man
i the Senate. The proposition r.
l. ceived the votes of some of the be
e men in that body. The vote f
e tie amendment stood yeas, Il
3. nays, 27-as follows:
n Yeas-Anthony, Chandler, Ca
V penter, Conover, Ferry, of Micl
RI Flanagan, Gilbert, Harvey, Mitcl
It ell, Morton, Patterson, Pratt, Sa
r. gent, Sprague, Stewart, Tipto
Washburn, West, Window.
T. Nays-Allison, Bayard, Bowar
Boutwell,, buckingham, Clayto
5 Conkling, Cooper, Davis, Edmund
r Frelinghuysen, .Hagar, Hamilto
Hitchcock, Jones, Kelly, McCreer
n MerIimon, Morrill,, of VT, No
II wood, Ramsey, Ransom, Saul
y bury, Scott, Sherman. Wadleie
. and Wright
e Dorsey, Spencer aud Logan, vi
d would have voted for the ament
u ment, were paired with Bog
= Johnston and Morrill,, of Me-, wi
(. would have voted against it.
y We do not believe that two yea
e ago such a proposition would hay
y received over half dozen vote
Y We look upon this vote as very Ell
/. couraging TO the friends of womq
l. suffrage, and rather discouragir
to the whisky interests. Wome
suffrage certainly means death {
rum in this country, if 1t meal
anything. The people who hay
a. mobbed and insulted the womC
IS who have undertaken the gre
d work of fighting whisky are on
81 driving the nails i'm the coffin of Il
, whisky interest.