The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16

President she said, "many a w1aaan
has sacrificed all the grand possibilities
of her own life to help her husband
climb the ladder of fame-literally sac
riiced all that she herself might have
attained to for the advancement Of an
other, and never received so much as a
thank you for it. I take it that one
human being is as good as another, and
when men ask women to merge them
selves into their husbands to make them
great, while they themselves must be
content to be nObodies, it is asking a
little too much. Men talk about the
beauty of self-sacrifice, but it is one of
the virtues they wish should always re-
main purely feminine. Whoever heard
of man sitting his own aspirations
and longings for the sake of wife who
wanted to be celebrity? And who
would think any better of him for it?
1t is poor rule that will not work both
ways"
Then she fairly scathed the gentle
man over his assertion that the country
would go to ruin if women were alLoaUed
to do as men do. She proved clearly
that there were never any laws or en-
actments to prevent women from in
dulging as freely in all the vices as men
do, and that they are only interdicted
from sharing in what men considered
their greatest blessings. "And why?
Because they are afraid those blessings
will corrupt them Men are even afraid
to let women help spread the gospel lest
it cause them to sin ~
Tom followed by saying that politics
is filthy pool and, of course, he didn't
want his wife in such mess, though
she, in her innocency, thought that was
just what she wanted. She was like q
child crying for the moon.
didn't wait for my turn to speak,
but retorted that if politics was filthy
pool, my desire for the well-being OF
my husband was so strong that should
henceforth use my utmost power to pre-
vent him from getting into such mess.
Another gentleman argued at length
that eff women were allowed any more
privileges, it would break up family
ties, which were at the foundation oI
government and society" To which il
was replied that "he did not know such
would be the case, because he had moi
seen it tried, and that good argument:
could only be founded on established
facts"
The next argument against US wa'
that only the head of family needed
political rights, for if the head had sucl
rights, it was plain to be seen that h,
would look we'll to the interests of hi
loved ones, etc., etc.
To this lady replied that sometime
in some places the heads of familie
were outnumbered by bachelors, pau
pers, tramps, and street beggars, and
franchise were limited to heads of fami
lies, numbers of women would vote, no
only widows, but all those women VIII
, lead their liege lords around by thei
noses, while hosts of men would be dis
franchised and Tilden be ineligible t
office, even if elected! Besides" sh
said, sit was against the Constitution t
. debar women from any privilege, for a
f the majority, it says, must rule, hoy
, can any man say women shall not whe
I they are in the majority ?"
One gentleman said no woman tina
] was anything to him "should ever di;
2 grace herself by voting" and some on
D asked him why he persisted himself i
doing that which is disgracefuI! The
D another opponent of equal rights d.
| clared that if women were allowed [
, vote and his wife should do so, he woul
leave her, because he "would know thu
she was lost to every sense of delIcacy.
o My time now came, and after lashin
s the gentleman for saying he woul
d leave his wife for so trivial thing {
V her giving expression to her opinion @
any of the questions before the countr,
Y 1 picked a manuscript out of my pock,
d and read it for the benefit of the judge
!, [ had condensed all the arguments use
Il by our brightest minds in favor of gil
IS ing women more privileges, but wou
= you believe it, the judges decided thi
II the affirmative had won.
had the satisfaction of saying und
+ my breath to Mrs. c., so the Judges cou
,. hear, that it was a fine thing that ii
h much talked of but never to be seen pc
d sonage, the fool-catcher, had not con
r. around yet, or we wouldn't have had
r judge present.
n have been so out of patience sin
10 that evening that have resolved not
/ argue the case till am sure the peop
Is talk to have understanding.
n MADGE BRIGHT.
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