The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-20

f%Bsoandancy These men would let
= In an have the ballot. but forbid her to hold
4 office. Nor is there any objection to offices
which involve no political mowers, Some of
those are now held by women for the benefit
cf Tia publc service, and with o small profit
TO themselves.
There are men who would insist on woman q
disability as to preaching and praying, not
witbstandng st. Pauls direction Of how 1t
should be done
Under law and custom women are In sub
lection. If he wishes to sell the home and
remove to another, she being opposed to 1t
the house is sold If she wishes her boy TO go
to college, and he wishes him to 60 to the
shop-he goes TO the shop. II she wishes for
Eowers In the garden, and he prefers all grass
it must be all grass, unless she can per-
suade him over to her views. ts all this
power Oh the one hand and subsection on the
other ordained by God2 really do not think
husbands need to fear that the enffanehise-
ment of their wives would reverse the case.
and give woman political ascendency over
them because married women will, and do
generally. prefer to stay at home. They
have interests and cares there that require
their attention and hold their affections.
Then If woman should she happen to be
eligible and competent to office, she could
not get 1t without majority of the votes of
her parish or district. and voters would not
be apt to thrust an Office upon q woman who
could not leave her home.
III d woman had abundant leisure and the
requisite ability. her husband might assent
TO her taking some office; he might waive his
objections for his own benefit.
The instances where married women would
give trouble to their husbands In aspiring to
Office would be too few to talk of-too few,
anyhow, to make reason for excluding wo-
man from the right to vote
Now, this dominion of the husband when
you come To the truth of the matter, is only
as TO family matters. It is an absolute power,
but only in Its Jurisdiction. | can tell my
cook to have artichokes for dinner, and she
will be obliged to do SO; but If I say, 'You
must not 60 to mass, but must come and lis
ten to Mr.. Mathews on Sunday" she won't do
1t. would be encroachpg on her liberty Imay
forbid and withhold japan plums from my
little girl, but cannot make her eat rice,
because che does not like that article OF diet.
Should women be admitted to political re-
lations with the government under which she
lives2 She would be responsible as an indi-
vidual, not to her husband, but to her eoun-
try and her God. This would not cause her to
repudiate her duties to her husband or i'm
pair her subsection to his will. The most ex-
acting husbands must recognize that there
are some individual rights which lie beyond
their jurisdiction, and that they are consis-
tent, too. with the ruling power they have
always hitherto enjoyed.
Husband and wife ought to be what they
were as loyers-eGuals. The wife ought not
to think OF entering upon public life. even as
q dressmakef, or school-teaeher, without the
full approval and consent OF her partner. |
Nor should the husband accept an office
which takes him away from home, and inter-
ferea with the support of the family, without
the wife's consent. Her comfort and happi-
ness In the marriage relation is Of just as
much Importance as his. and he has no more
right to get drunk and chew tobacco than she
has to take opium or dip snuff. He has no
better right to spoil the family health and
happiness, by folly and wickedness, than she
has.
think the family relation will never suffer
on account of woman suffrage, but it's happi-
ness and purity will be increased thereby.
ONE OF THE DIsFRANCHIsED.