The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-11-14
EUGY STONE.
LCincinnati Gazette.l


is still hale aud hearty woman, aud
expects to live to see the main object
of her life, partially accomplished
When friendly view was proposed
for publication, she readily assented,
though this method Of putting people
in the papers was something new to
her. l was one thing to ask questions,
and quite another to answer them, and
she supposed she could exercise the
right of children at school, of not an
sweriug such as were too hard for her.
Q-Is the cause Of woman suffrage
making decided progress in the public
mIudr
Mrs. ST. think it is making decid.
ed progress. 1t is shown in the OPEN
ing of the London University, the
Massachusetts, Medical Society, aud
the giving of women the ballot on the
school questions in every State.
Q-ls it gaining the interest Of the
women?
Mrs. S. Most assuredly it Is; but
they are slow to comeout aud say so
in public
Q-Do you expect it to be sustains
ed in Wyoming when they make their
State constitution?
Mrs. s. Certainly; the present
Governor, and each Governor of the
State, Judge Kiugman, aud the presi-
ding elder in the Methodist church ia
the territory, agree in saying thar no
party or sect in the Territory would
De willing to have it left out;
. DO you expect to gain soon any
other State or Territory.
Mrs. S We don't expect anything,
but we hope everything.
z. Are the sutfragists directing
their efforts to the Territories and the
States, or to amending the national
constitution?
Mrs. S. They are doing both; but
the organization TO which l belong see
that the amendment cannot be carried
Will the States capnot be carried. Con-
sequeutly we devote most Of our effort
to the carrying of some State, know
ing that when State is carried its
Representatives and Senators can af
ford to vote for it in Congress.
Q. How do you expect to carry
two thirds of each house in Congress.
and three fourlhs of the States, for a
woman's suffrage amendment if you
cannot carry one or more States?
Mrs 5. do not. l don't expect
it. and therefore think it better to work
on the States than on the 10th amend
ment But each woman suffrage par.
ty helps the others We cannot get
that amendment l am satisfied, until
the Senators aud Representatives of a
majority of the States have carried the
same measures in those States.
Q What has woman suffrage done
Tor woman or for politics in Wyoming?
Mrs. 5. In the first place there are
40 drinking places within a mile of
the voting places Next, the influence
Of woman into every question that
concerns the State, in the execution Of
the laws, aud the purity Of the laws.
\ marked influence is exerted on the
candidates that each party nominates.
Politicians have found that in order to
secure the votes Of women their can
didates must De men who command re-
spect Hence, better men are 10 Office
in Wyoming than most other States
and Territories. BY giving women
this expression of their preferences
they have become interested in public
questions.
Q. Are female jurors in that coun-
try more lenient than male to female
offenders.
/ Mrs 5. At present there are no
female jurors in Wyoming, for the
reason that the officials appointed By
the United are opposed to it, wishing
to keep such positions for the men.
But when there we're women jurors the
/ execution of the law was more prompt.
The first murderer found guilty was
from a jury composed par,ly of wo.
men.
/ Q. What do you think of the wos
men Of Massachusetts, who are per-
mitted in school elections on the same
conditions as men, and yet only about
I 1000 voted at the last election.
Mrs.-The election has not been
held yet in which women are permit
ted to vote; but several thousand have
been registered for voting, and more
will register for the election to be held
in March and April The law, how.
ever is unequal, aud many women have
resented it as unjust. They are re-
quired to pay poll tax for the prlvi.
lege of voting on single question
while the men pay no more and vote
at all elections and on all questions Of
public interest. Another thing that
has hindered registration is that the
assessors require them to give in a
statement of all the property whether
it is taxable or not. This the women
refuse to do, knowing that the law
will be changed, to relieve them of the
necessity of doing so.
Q-Do you think that wives would
be free voters?
Mrs. S.-If they should not, it i:
time their husbands were required tc
recognize the rights of their wives to
the use of their minds untrammelled
Men who are tyrants now would be
tyrants over the voting of their wives
Men who respect themselves ought to
aud will soon learn to respect theil
wives. Aud the sooner women get tC
respecting their own rights, the sooner
will their husbands respect them.
Q.-We see that in a party govern
ment party divisions are acrimonious
could a wife vote for party in oppo.
sition to the mans without disturbing
the conjugal peace? And in such dis
turbances is not the wife generally the
sufferer?
Mrs. 81 would say it would rath-
er tend to peace. When woman now
wants to vote for certain measure OF
man, and cannot, it creates feeling ol
bitterness that she cannot do so, while
her husband exercises his right to vote
against her views. This feeling would
not exist if she also could vote II
neace Is kent in the house only bv the