Litchfield enquirer., 1879-06-12

was ueau, T6lunQeu me the money Oy lnSCdl- ments; pledging me to secrecy, as he did not wish It known even that he was in existence. So kept the secret, because promised him I would. One week ago I received news of his death."
 Ana &C.," cloncluded my wife," 1 asked her forgiveness for our unjust suspicious and I-I-tell you John, she is an angel"
 1 had no doubt Of it. But how did that money get in my old granny's cap-box. From that day to this have never learned, and it will probably always remain mystery.
 [From the Rochester Express.l
 TEST OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
 REPLY TO JUSTICE TRUE's ARTICLE ON THE
 WYOMING EXPERIMENT.
 The article In the Rochester Express of the 25th ut. on the above subject has been read with much interest While presenting nothing particularly new, it yet has some peculiar fea- lures. With some of the witnesses who there testify, the writer of this article is personally acquainted, and nearly all of them he has either seen or heard. No doubt most, if not all of them, are sincere, and honestly suppose that they are bearing true testimony (so far as it goes) on the subject. And it is with no desire to impugn their motives or call in ques- tion their veracity, that he takes issue with some of the points presented. Very worthy people are sometimes mistaken, and sometimes live long enough to see and acknowledge their errors and spend the rest of their days in seeking to counteract the mischief they have done. We already know of some witnesses of this character bearing on this very subject be- fore us, and we expect to know many more! But without further preliminary remarks, it may be observed at the outset that had the writer of the article here referred to read with care the three articles in the Congregationalist on this subject, he would have seen that very much which is here brought forward is entire ly irrelevant and out of place. The question, for example, here raised, Do good women vote in Wyoming? ?" is answered with long array of testimony, quite unnecessary for the reason that the writer ili the Congregationalist never denied that at one time many good women voted He did state on the best authority, which has since been renewed, That at most of the elections there, not half the women of tho better class voted, and some- times not third of them. But the lower class-the scum, and particularly the prosti- tutes, were always on hand" He did state, also, on the authority of an ex--layer of one of the largest towns, ''that of the one hundred and twenty six women who voted at one of
 
 prostitutes" And he further added that ''every honest and intelligent citizen there is obliged to confess that the same thing is kept up to this day." But, strange to say, none of the witnesses cited in the article of the 25th ut. makes any reference to this aspect of the case. Perhaps they regard this, too, as "a relic of barbarism." But it is a fact, never theless and terrible fact, too, which is as ''rottenness in the bones" of any people, and when pampered and publicly encouraged. has proved, as all history shows, the destruction of more nations and the extermination of more tribes and races than allother causes combined; :; and professed statesmanship or philanthropy which ignores this fact is as shallow and spu- rious as it IS possible to imagine. We know of no intelligent witness who pretends to say no women vote in Wyoming except those of the baser sort ;" and all that Presiding Elder Cra- ry and others have to say on this point is simp- ly fighting phantom" This setting up cob houses and men of straw in order to make some weak people believe that you have &C., complished q wonderful feat in knocking them over is altogether ''too thin" and childish a business for such stalwart reformers and mar tyrs to engage in. We notice, in passing, that most of the witnesses called on the stand in the article of the 25th ult are eithervisitors from abroad or United States Government ePPoAh1~So' parent ObliVlOusness to some of the facts above referred to- Perhaps they are so innocent and childlike' that they do not know how things are dene-and perhaps they do and if they do, why do they not present both sides of the question and ''tell the whole truth" in matter of so great importance as this? It is very easy to deal in 'glittering and sounding generalities" about the success of woman's suffrage" and tell what great things it is go- ing to do sometime :! But, gentlemen, if with fair play and open field for ten years you can point to no real success in all this time, pray tell us what assurance we can have in any of your promises for the future? You say that carriages take the voters so quietly to the polls, &c. Yes, gentlemen, and you know who are the owners of some of those carriages-and who pay fer others-and you probably know, too-1f you would testify-that in some States this kind of proceeding is regarded as SO per- nicious and corrupting as to be prohibited by law-and the writer has known persons to be arrested for so doing You say that it twill not be long" before bad men cannot be elected to office, &c. This gentlemen, is only your prophecy, which ten years of experience does not warrant you in making, for only at the last election, we know that some of the best men of the territory who ran for office were defeated; and furthermore, you know very well, gentlemen, that you cannot lay your finger upon enc single reform which you have carried in all these years. We have yet to hear that there is one grog-shop the less, or one gambling hell the less, or one house of prostitution the less, in all the territory of Wyoming, after ten years experience with this much vaunted fright and reformatory power of woman's suffrage" and the reason for this is very plain, as leading metropeli- tan paper declared not long since: "Every liquor saloon is political power," so every gambling hell is political power; and every brothel in Wyoming and Utah has become a political power-and of three- fold influence at that-as it is estimated that every prostitute can carry three votes at the ballot box where virtuous woman can carry but one. Here is the reason why politicians are not disposed to reform these things With them It is ques- tion of votes, and to people of ordinary dis cernment it is plain as the day. The combi- with all the help they can buy or bribe-can carry almost anything they please and there is hardly city in the land where the same thing, S1 Este circumstances, could not be done to-day. And yet these gentlemen have the to tell us that ''woman's suffrage in Wyoming has been complete success" and this is repeated over and over again, when it has accomplished, in fact, TO qeaz good When it has carried not one genuine reform; and when it has fulfl He'd not one of all it's many promises which have been reiterated SO many times before the public at large for more than 30 years! 70, lame and impotent conclusion!' Q, burlesque on the sacred name of Reform But if this be the state of things in towns of from one to four thousand peopln, what would be in the great cities of the Empire State be- ginning with New York and Brooklyn? Is it not bad enough already without introducing into politics this last and worst element of corruption and utter demoralization? Does not the philanthropist of the court house find about enough to do now. in keeping things de- gently respectable in political matters? And if one keeper of "Yile house. in little town