St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-19
THE LADIES SLIGHTED.
And One of Them Enters an Indignant
Protest.

To the Editor of the GLOBE:
1t has become quite good form to glorify
the Jews, just as it is quite good form for
Irish American Catholics to vote the Republi-
can ticket. for one would be glad TO see
some Jewish customs adopted, if only as a
pleasing innovation, once in a while. For
instance the other evening when our He
brew citizens celebrated the centennial of
the noble Israelite Sir Moses Montefore.
women were guests at the banquet as well as
men. Now when the fifteenth anniversary
of Gen. Sibley's Minnesota life is commem-
GRATED, women who cherished his unsullied
name, who are grateful for his example for
their sons, who feel the distinction his career
has given the state, they can only send
flowers, (well they would send them anyway,
and they can read about the banquet in the
papers, and be grateful as they read that
there is no interdict upon their reading
newspapers at least-there is so much that is
not becoming for women to do-the dear
deprived creatures.
Some of them have read the newspapers
to excellent purpose, aud some of them have
long held the belief which George William
Curtis so grandly voiced at the Brooklyn
Rink, October 80, 1884:
Loyalty to party cannot excuse disloyalty
to conscience, nor connivances at national
disgrace Now then
tell me, Republicans, tell me, Americans.
what is the immediate jewel of this govern
ment of ours if it be not infexible integrity,
and who shall justify himself 10 his con-
science II be barter away that jewel to secure
a mere party success
We all know that ''infexible integrity was
bartered away to secure party success when
William D. Washburn was preferred To
Henry H. Sibley in a congressional run.
Integrity is nice sort of element TO have in
a community-even if it is generally barren
of substantial results, and the other fellow
gets away with the prizes Of the world. 1t is
beautiful survival of dim pioneer-and, it
must be written Democratic days.
1t was handy to have had a man in that
early halcyon time who didn't give his world
any uneasiness when it was question of
public trusts and public honor.
Finally, and above all integrity, is a lovely
sentiment in reminiscences-at banuuets
when it isn't up for anything but talk, and
it is fine and expansive TO be on speaking
terms with it, Yet as sighted woman,
am Ill natured at the exclusion of women
from acommemoration which meant so much
to the state as closing the cycle of an indi-
vidual history beyond parallel among its
settlers.
And yet among that severe people the
Jews in their conduct toward women they
can admit, permit and submit in the mat
ter OF their presence at that Monteiore
banquet l thank the Jews for teaching US
that word of concession.
Goodness knows il isn't often that women
have the desire to attend these feasts. for it
isn't tiresomely frequent that a man is such
a refulgent electric light above his fellows as
to call for the demonstration. And so as
spiteful dab at that banquet cannot help
saying that when all this official fitness (fully
tested and all this supreme integrity was up
for congressional honor in these later days
1t got left-and that is where women endorse
the ''crotched editor,'' as the GLOBE
meanly calls the most intellectual and cult
waited Independent Republican in the last
campaign, whose words are already quoted
in this letter. Moreover it was lucky des-
tiny that gave integrity, honor and mental
fitness its pioneer scope and official eleva-
ton, or they would have had a slim show
later on, except-here the woman breaks in