The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-03-14

lief in the woman's Rights doctrine.
Sometimes belief In Woman's Rights
goes before Intidclity, but in most in
stances person becomes an Iniidcl be-
fore he or she becomes IN advocate of
Woman's Rights. The Woman's Rights
doctrine does not therefore load to lnfi-
deity: but we canno. deny. and no lnii-
del wishes to deny. that Inlidelity leads
TO advocacy Of woman's Rights. u
3. The third question of "Ignorant
Sister requires no answer. 1t implies "a
misstatement OF the position OF the Wo-
mans Fighters, ~ a. 2
1. Women have been most prominent
in disturbed periods Of history for the
same reason that certain men
have been most prominent in
In such periods. War---foreign or donics-
tic-always brings to the surface notable
men and women, aud in such periods cor
ruption always reigns supreme. But
corruption is not the result Of the prom
thence OF women in such periods. and
Ignorant Sister, must indeed be ignor-
ant II she believes that her question i'm
plies she does.
>. Women are not rioieot, agitators for
the ballot. Mrs. Cady Stanton, Mrs. I.iv-
ermore, Miss Dickinson, Miss Anthony
and Others are the principal agitators for
the ballot for women, and they are not vio-
lent. They agitate for a hundred or two
dollars night, without violence. but will,
much ability.
o. The elective franchise in the hand
of the woman, man would be elevated
thereby. Woman would be lowered
somewhat from her present pedestal, ON
which she stands the ornament of society
rather than minister to It, advancement:
aud in this degradation IL i mot proba-
BILE the world would suffer much.
4. "lgnorant's" seventh question is an,
insult to woman kind
s. Because a laborer votes tits no Trca-
son why he should be a lawyer or a mcr.
chant, and ifa woman should vote that
would be no reason why she should be a
lawyer, merchant or a doctor. Wo-
men do not vote now, but women are
lawyers, doctors, merchants, &c.
Does this condition of affairs
create much trouble in tamil
ies:-docs it raise the question. (which
shall attend the household. the husband
or the wife," The ballot in the hands of
woman would not change the social rela-
tons of man and woman. any more than
the fact that woman has become the legal
and business equal of man IN Iilinoi. has
changed those relations.
o. why are women who have the
fcwest or no family cares the most zeal
GUS in this matter OF equalityf'' This
may he answered by another question.
''Why are the men who have the fewest
or no business cares, the most active pol
iticians, or most diligent loafers?' Wo-
men who have few home cares have more
time than those who have many TO give
attention to this subject. But in fact, n
great majority of the women who have
no home cares are not Jealous in this
matter of equality or any other matter.
They are, because of their education, fc-
male loafers, too lazy to work end with
too little intellect to think for themselves.
10. Our stion the tenth is conundrum
no fellow can find out.
The Woman Question must be handled
with care. Woman has been lifted up
from legal and marital slavery, and every
effort to elevate her has been met by the
cry that in it, success would result the
corruption of society and the degradation
of the sex. The past tells of the future
Every step on the path of progress will
be met by cutlery, but the step must be
taken. 1t should not be taken prelna-
turely, but when events are ripe for it,.
To labor and to wait, Is the lesson
the reformer should learn; and it is the
lesson the Woman's Fighters must learn.
They must not crowd the mourrers who
are wailing around the affairs of the false
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