The Red Cloud chief., 1882-09-01

and YOU value your state Just - Tar M It's
m aggregate Of persons Possessing these
Qualities. and just go far rs II 10 the means
~ promote and increase them. IL Is
woman on whom We depend 10 educate
and foster the moral qualities of children,
and who Possesses the faculty of fostering
and Educating children so largely that u 10
admitted that it il rarely that a child who
loses il mother In early life, grows up
possessing them. Will anybody deny that
I she 10 equally capable with the husband
and father in determining what measures
and what policy in the state will result In
the increase and promotion OF these
qualities ia the aggregate Of families ana
individuals that 80 10 make up the repub-
lic7"
Tho capacity TO Judge Of character 10
peculiar u woman. Senator Hoar says:
allow often does il happen that the hus-
band receives his word of waning from
the wife, or a brother from u sister, IN r-
gard 10 the character of n person IN whom
he il likely 10 place undue confidence.
And, says Rufus Choate, one OF the closest
observers Of our time: "Men talk and
think Of measures; Of cresds in politics;
! u availability; of strength 10 carry the
! vote Of this or that state. Through all
I this woman's eve seeks the moral. pruden-
tiaI, social and tai character Of the
man himself-and she finds it,"
"The eternal and inersdicnble distinc-
ton % SEX" says n. Is. Blackwell, lis
one principal reason why women, IN "A rep
rcsentatiys government, should be directly
represented, since they constitute one en-
tire half Of the body polite. IL LAWYERS
| alone can not safely be trusted 10 make
law. for mechanics, IL merchants alone can
not legislate justly for farmers, If white
men alone can not do justice 90 the ne
eroes, If every well defined class in society
Is entitled 10 its own authoritative cx-
, pression-surely women, /who are the
wives and sisters and mothers Of men,
should give expression 10 the domestic
Interests from the feminine point of view.
Ii mere differences of education, habit,
race and interest make class Legislation
dangerous, how much more partial and
imperfect must be the legislation of one
! half the community, where the other half,
in addition To such differences, differs or
ganically also"
War 10 the great scourge that afhicts
humanity. 1t WAS 10 prevent private war
I that government was first instituted. SO
long AS suffrage wa. exercised only BY
lighting MN, war was the rule and peace
the exception. And ~ long rs mon alone
| vote, the belligerent element will continue
10 preponderate. Fourteen out of every
fifteen dollars Of the duties and taxes col
iec,ed by the general government are
! spent in ~defraying past and present war
expenses. When men and women vote
all citizas will be represented, and the
true balance of human nature will be re-
! stored. Woman suffrage means perma-
nsnt peace between individuals and nations.
Intemperance and RIGHTEOUSNESS are,
usxt To war, the chief curses Of civilized
society. But, Bishop Simpson has well
said that the vices Of our great cities can
, never be controlled until women vote.
| Temperance statistics assert that n half
of all men occasionally use Intoxicating
liquor rs a beverage, but that only one
woman in forty uses liquor. The worst
evils of incompetence fall upon the wives
andschildren OF inebriates. The drunk
! ards wife will not vote with the drunkard.
Woman suffrage may not mean prohibi-
! ton, but it certainly does mean . higher
respect Cor temperance and sobriety.
Wolnen are vitality interested in the per.
manence and sanctitv Of marriage. Unless
utterly abandoned they recoil from sen
sualitv. The women Of st. Louis, after a
long and arduous struggle have procured
the repeal Of the infamous city ordinance
enacted by men alone, which licensed
houses of prostitution. When women
vote these dens of infamy will everywhere
be broken up. Woman suffrage means
social purity.
Being inferior 20 men In muscular
strength, women 6nd it more difficult to
earn money. They are, therefore, neces-
sxrily more economical In their expendi-
lures. The low wages Of women are the
result Of unjust legislation, but voting
will not wholly do away with this disp&r.
ity of earnings, or with woman's conss-
Quent habit of economy. Therefore 10
man suffrage means financial retrench
ment and q more economical scale Of state
and national expenditures.
Women are more Influenced BY moral
and religious confederation than are men.
In the state prison of Nebraska there are
265 male convicts; no female con-
victs. Even the comparatively few crimes
committed by women are usually such Is
affect themselves most directly those COM
United by men are usually crimes Of yio-
lence, which most directly affect the lives
and property of others. More thar two
thirds of all the church members of
America are women. This higher aver
age standard of religion and morals is pre-
cisely what is needed in politics.
We are told that politics are filthy and
degrading. What are politics. Webster
defines rs the '~science of government:
that rsrt of ethics which has 70 do with
the regulation and government of . nation
or state, the preservation Of its safety,
peace and prosperity: the defense of It's
existence and rights against foreign con-
troll or conquest the augmentation of its
strength aud resources, and the protection
of its citizens in their rights, with the
preservation and improvement, of their
morals" Surely nothing filthy or decrsd-
ing about all this. On the contrary. VIVA,
should be more cleanly and eleys,inc,
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