, 1878-06-15
Woman Suffrage.

EDITOR STATESMAN: While 1 deeply appreciate
your courteous offer OF valuable for srtice
from my pen under :hs Above caption, I realize my
inability To do the subj ct justice In the limits
sarIaly prescribed for its cOnsI ierstIon.
But To cune to the point ithout further preiimn-
sry. advocate the enfrunchisemenL Of woman ::
firstly, because b-lieve in the Fundamental princi-
Pies of Republican Democracy as set forth in the
Declaration OF Independents, and QIsrani,e1 by
the Constitution If the United States and secondly.
b-cause It Is II law Of nature ihst everything must
possess n dual existence, governments included, III
order to at all approximate perfection, perIetuitv
We can M more rightfully or rstiotaly expect -
perfect government, composed of men alone, than
We ran expect Perfect hoIie circle school, sUcrsl
religious circle, CONFUSED exclusively @! either
women
l advocate the enfranchisement of women. also.
becasc they being udividuaS must h. either serfs
sovereisns If serfs they not. because a; their
subjective position, capable oi endow ng thar
or daughters with the true sprit of liberty. Child
rem hecesssrlily inEeri; her Iaental and rt!
status from their muth-rs and mothers whsn de-
riivei through successive generations OF that nt.i
cisl independence, which IL only to be secured
through personal law making power, become necssa-
iisly prosenitors Of petty tyrants like unto them.
selves. As the maternal function Is the most
ponsible and important Of all natural functions of
humanity. so the largest possible liberty and reslon-
sbility Necessary for women that they may be en-
pab'e Of transmitting the hest possible conditions
mental, moral and physical. To tlieir children.
Mothers. whom nature his endowed With 0GIihle
ed AZ many OF them must b- through constant toll
without reconpense, unconscously rn,tamp undue
acquisitiveness upon the brains of their sons These
IN turn. become law makers; and the petty narrow
lives their mothers led. under a cumpulSion the
nature OF which they did not probably understand,
brings forth fruit IN the sons, sixty hundred aud
Il Thousand fold And we reap the frni: at last, in
governmental high places in Credit Mobilier swndic>
Pacific Mail contracts and hack salary grabs. The
mother who slips quarter Of dollar to get her
self paper of pins does not Imagine that she is lay
ing the foundation that will make her q rascal
but it il the TRUTH nevertheless ard the custom that
sanctions the life Of sarvitude without wages icL
~ the heritage OF most mJE ~ avenes i.self feal
fnl!T npon the SONS Of women, who thus reap the
whirlwn! when men had only the wind
When women become voters they viii speedily te-
law makers and when they ARE law 'nakers
the: VIII soon have equs: property .ishts with mcr.
Not until women themselves car they hope
to e mothers OK the highest types Of freedom whether
men women.
The leading minds among Washington Territory's
women are hoping and looking for decided act
favor OF TIER en.ranchi. :Icnt - the coming. state
constitution. and a large number Of them have
Commissioned their s'apisrd ,'e.rer for equal
rights Ia presenL moral before ;:s Convention
which memorial VIII reappeir in pn lie print after it
las been submitted will not tresSpiss further
upon your time or patience. Suffice IL 10 say We
confidently look for success, and 5elisvc and hope
that Washington will he the hrss the Union
ta Wheel into s proper orbit with Gll its people free
Mrs. A j. DuNIwAv.