The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-10-23
Injustice EXemplifed.

Ellen S. Tupper, of Des Moines, Iowa,
Is sperhaps the most successful bee-raiser
OF any person in America; she publishes
periodical devoted to bee culture, and
Is largely engaged in the bee business,
shipping them successfully to all parts
of the Union. Col. r. w. Higginson,
IN an article in the WOBldR's Journal
alluding to this fact, makes the follow
ing comments, which are q forcible il
lustration of the inconsistency of de-
priving women of the right of suffrage
Here is Ellen 5. Upper, for instance.
Her business is bee-raising. AS she
has had "much experience in shipping
bees" and advertises in a newspaper so
far from her home as Denver, Colorado,
it may be inferred that she has some
business enterprise, and that her circle
of customers is widely spread. That is
to say, she has already committed her.
self to the laws of trade and the prinei-
piles Of political economy. Once having
done this, she is like one that has be-
come entangled in the machinery of the
mill, and can only get out by having
the machinery stopped. The machinery
makes little discrimination of sex, and
the laws of trade make quite as little.
All the questions of capital and labor,
all the points in the relation between
debtor and creditor present themselves
to Ellen S. Upper precisely as if she
were q man. She must make contracts
and fulfill them, collect debts and dis
charge them, pay her taxes and see
them spent, entirely apart from all con-
siderations of sex. If she prOspers, she
will probably make further investments;
if she fails, she will go into bankruptcy;
acting, in each case, as the laws pre-
scribe. Up to this point the laws recog-
niVn an1 hars
if she is single, they ask no questions as
to sex, as to physiology; she is simply
Ellen S. Tupper, lawful trader in bees.
Now, if Ellen ;. Tupper were man
and a voter, she would attend countless
public meetings every year, at which
she would be told that the security of
every business man must lie largely in
his possessing vote. She would be as
sured that every mans investments
were safer, his debts more likely to be
collected, his wrongs more sure to be
righted, his position in every respect
better, for having this priceless treasure
of a vote. To have 4 voice in making
the laws that govern him, in the dis
I tribution of the taxes he pays-this,
every Que would tell her, is an essential
part of a freeman's privilege These
/ things would be said to her if she were
a man and a voter. And though she
Z happens to be a woman and a nOn-vOter,
that does not invalidate the truth of
these great principles, it they are true at
all.
If they are true, and if the ballot is
thus reasonably priced by every busi-
ness man, that fact may not be alone
sufficient to demonstrate Woman Suf-
frage. BIT il certainly shows either
one thing or the other; either that the
community should absolutely pruhi I
Ellen =. TuPper, being a woman, from
going into brr-hu~iue>-; or eiSe that
when allowing her 10 dn thi-, il should
give her the same advantages in all re-
Spects that ii affords to her n-ighhOrs.
Ii she lived in IA harem 1ra nun tpry-if,
in short, she were immurei like "A queen
bee and fed with honey, the case might
be very different. But inasmuch as the
laws have already permitted her to be-
come working-bee, aud even tu nave
had "much experience in shipping
bees" she certainly ought to have all
the privileges demanded by other hu-
man workers, aud in particular 10 have
the ballot for self-prOtection.