The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-27
Mark Twain on the woman. Cru.
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Would you consider the conduct of these
crusaders justifable? ] do--thoroughly
jus''tiablc. They find themselves voiceless
in tie making of laws and the election of
officers to execute them; born with brains.
born in the country, educated, having large
interests at stake, they had their tongues
tied, and their hands fettered, while every
Ignorant, Whisky-drinking. foreign-born
savage in the land may hold Office. help to
make the laws, degrade the dignity of the
former and break the latter at his own
sweet VIII. They see their fathers. hus-
bands and brothers sit namely at home
and allow the scum of the country TO as
semble at the primaries, name the candi-
dates for office from their own vile ranks.
and. unrebuked, elect them. They live in
the midst of II country where there is no
end to the laws and no beginning to the
execution of them. And when the laws
intended to protect their sons from de-
struction by intemperancc lie torpid and
without sign of lile year after year. they
recognize that here is n matter that inter
cs's them personally, matter which comes
straight home to them. And since they are
allowed to lift no legal voice against the
outrages state of things they suffer under
in this regard. think it is no wonder that
their patience has broken down, at last.
and they have tried to persuade themselves
that they are justiiiable in breaking the
law of tresspass when the laws that
should make the trespass needless are al
lowed by the voters TO lie dead and mop
erativc.
The present crusade. will, doubtless, do
but little work against intemperance that
will be really permanent, but it will do
lIiaff Jnv"drolr vhav n ~ or,Ivtr -ru,.a ,O,e
they would vote on the side of morality,
even if they did vote and speak rather
furiously, and it will also suggest that
when the women once made up their minds
that it was not good to have the all power
full primaries" in the hands of loafers,
thieves, and perniclOus little politicians,
would not indOlently stay at home as their
husbands and brothers do now, but would
hoist their praying banners, take the field
in force, pray the assembled political scum
back to the holes and slums where they be
long, and set up some candidates fit for
decent human beings to vote for. ! dearly
want the women to he raised to the polti-
cal attitude of the negro, the imported
savage and the pardoned thief, and allowed
to vote. 1t is our last chance, think.
The women will be voting before long, and
then if b. F. Batter can still continue to
lord in congress; il another congress, like
the 42d consisting of Is honest men and
266 of the other kind can once more be
created. it will at last be time, | fear, to
give over trying to save the country by hu-
man means, and appeal to Providence
| Both the great parties have failed. wish
we might have "A wOman's party now, and
see how that would work. feel persua-
ded that, in extending the suffrage to wo-
men. this country could lose absolutely
nothing and might gain Il great deal For
thirty centuries history has been lterating
and reiteratlng that in moral fight woman
is simply dauntless and we all know, even
with our eyes shut upon congress and our
voters, that, from the day that Adam ate
of the apple and told on Eve down to the
present day, man. in moral fight, has
pretty uniformly shown himself TO he an
arrant coward.