Osage Valley banner., 1880-04-08
WOnaa'a RIghIa and Wonan'a pnLIeg
Isl, Louis Posi

st, Louis Poet.
Woman must be persuaded that she wants
to vote and be brought to deman tho ballot.
But were it not better IN the Interests OF
true womsuhood to avoid the persuasion and
not encourage the demsndl We Remember
indetd d, have now before us--sn exhaustive
article addressed to the editor Of the Golden
Age by the late Horace Greeley, in which
the female folles and foibles that mark this
latter halt OF the nineteenth century were
tren hRntly dealt with. We do uot prep, So
to follow tne PHILOSOPHERS of tho writer
through the womsn question IN detail--mar.
riAge, iradelity, div0ee, suffrage ard so forth
but there is one passage which 10 our mind
gives in little and within easy grasp the
whole gist of the principles involved:
have but two lett of seven children, and
these are both daughter, would gladly fit
them for liyes Of usefulness and honJr--4s
beloved and loving wives OF Yirtuous, up-
right, noble men, and mothtrs, IL it shall
please God, Of good, healthy, hspPy children,
II it be decrei thstthey are 10 be not such
women rs have most admired ard reverence
eJ, but men With female physiqae, power
iul in ward csucuses aud nominating con-
ven, ions, vehOment in Senate and on the
stump, and effective before jufies in actions
Tor Grim. con. ] pray that my career on this
globe shall close before theirs is fairly begun.
Wnsn and where laey shaii thus shine Il will
not be pleasant for me to stay.
So wrote the father and the man; and such
writing will fad approval in every well.
ordered household in the land. Now, that
the time will ever come in which the social
position oil the two sexes will be inverted,
In which men will cease TO be mester-hard
word2 oh ye strong mindsCi-yr totally ab.
dicets the authority which God and uature
bestowed upon him for the good OF all, and
suffer il to fall by necessity into the weaker
hand Of woman, is whist we see no ground
for believing; and Mr.. Gteeey's career on
the globe, lsmeniahly short for The public
good, was not shortened BY any prayer utter
d under the Influence Of any cause such a.
be depicted.
Woman cannot be deceived by the vain
promise OF perfect equOlty. There nsysr
existed a society, large or small, in which
power was not ySlted somewhere by the vsrt
compulsion Of circumstances. Az In -
state, so 10 the household, there must BE- -
acknowledged head; and however initiate IT
vaIied may be The conditions of human yey
ernment the relations OF the sekes mast re
main essentially the same. Wherever ma.
and women abide together to constitute lhs
members of family the necessity OF th,ir
daily intercourse will Involve both rights ana
duties; aud though mutual courtesy and nff,,r-
hiDn LuhJ ApA AAN iAihaf B1Ah supply lNe ulNnE
Of all positive Law, there will YET arise essss
in which the determination must rest win
one OF ihem--in which the right 10 corn
nland must be absolut and the duty implicit.
And this brings us 10 most erroneous stAto.
msnt broadly proclaimed from womsn's
rights platforms. 1t Is that something of
dfgrace or degradation belongs 10 sub6rdi
nsls social potition--a false and fatal doctrine
leading TO the dissolution OF all society
Our wives and daughters have vet 10 eafn
That there1 anything mean or disgracoful in
submission 70 their natural positions, Tns
Pames OF 'Lnsstet Of the house" father az
q family are still used as high and bonors.
bic tltes. which most women are the mora
willing 70 recognz', ms in them they sac
security for the maintenance OF domestic
peace ~ well rs for their own claims tO tbe
respect and obedience OF their children. II
is the very essence Of their character this 10
think and feel, and al the aue theory mon.
gers OF the world will never mako them
ashamed Of such subordinalon.
We believe that man has hitherto retained
his authority, not 80 much by corpOreal as
by mebtsl energy We speak not Of irtel
icctual exeflion, Tor in that respect woman.
from the circumstances OF her education msy
never yet. perhspJ, have had a fair trial,
though II seems strange that IN no one
branch of art, science or literature a female
name should by any accident have attained
the hgreat rank. But we speak OF strength
OF will and power Of desling with the rough
business Of lile-~ihe viitus of old times
which, call it by what name you please, we
sun thlak % essential 70 tha character of
a man, that its absence, Ike the want OF
chastity ih woman, is felt to be disgrace
II is this which .eOnfers the right,
because Il gives the ability to eondue. pub.
lie biairs aud rule over tho national or do
mtslie ststsi i ia this that mai es mer--ln the
language OF Mr. Greeley - powerful In ward
eaueusses snd nomln sting conventions"
And When We zee this qaality bestowed in
full measure upon men, while il Il dealt out
ipAringly 70 women, We eobolld that nature
bias drawn tho line which separates the two
sexes, aud has placed both sword and seepser
n tue hands thai the most Atted 70
sitl1 lhem,