The Dawson journal., 1884-12-11
NO. 81.
BILL NYE
To a Giddy Young Thing.

suffrage, and you desire to know
how it works in the far west where
it has been tried. l answer that
it works all right enough, but it
doesn't tear up the political
greensward and puryfy the bal
lot as you might think it would
If you will come here, however,
and sit near me, and look up into
my deep, earnest violet eyes,
while the other people are engag-
ed in discussing our young men
and our boys, while the great
world, too, has its eyes ON every
thing else except the gentle ga.
zelle with the ia il pointed at who
is to be the mother of future con-
gressmen, it will be a good time
for me to buzz in your pinkest
ear.
Female suffrage isn't what we
need to raise the price of wheat
so much as some other things.
In this land Of the home of
the brave and our free,
own native land, if
you please, each name represents
the labors, the trials and ictories
of lifetime.
America permits every child
born under the star spangled
banner-long may it wave-to
begin the work of making himself,
as the case may be, something or
nothing. Is not that true, Ethel?
Blood and high lineage don't count
much Ethel. I'd rather have good,
vigorous plebian blood in Ameri-
ca, Ethel, than to have royal blood
with trichin@a in it. With a
pure heart and liver that will not
shirk any responsibility, we may
accomplish much. So it is not,
after all, the pedigree on the pre-
rogative which is to make Rome
howl, fair maid
There are men in this great
land, Ethel, who swing their hats
and howl and get drunk, and vote,
who do not know SO much all
their lives as you forget when you
are asleep. So it's not a ques-
ton of qualification, you see, but
let us step into the conservatory
a moment while murmer into your
ear a thought which came to me
several years ago. Which would
you prefer, Ethel, to run the gcv-
ernment, or to run the man who
runs the government.
l seo by the tell tale color that
come and goes in your cheeks,
and by the manner Ill which you
struggle to swallow your fan and
twig.
Mind you, | do not say that the
obiect of joyous being like your
self should be to marry a man
and run him; but l say this with
out fear Of successful contra
diction, that the overwhelming
percentage of my own sex enters
the marriage state during life.
Continuing the argument from
this premise, [ am left to say, and
still without fear of successful
contradiction, that in each case
where / have looked up the data,
| have found that these men have
married one of your sex.
This leads me to say that while
marriage may not be an object to-
ward which we should struggle
it is a condition of things which
is certainly alarmingly prevalent.
And that is why 1 say that female
suffrage need not rack your gentle
ninl. Let the job out. 30 til c
natural, noble unreason able, iris.
tible, hilarious, fearful comfortable.
sunny package of strawberry and
cream contradiction that you are
now, only try to be sensible and
useful, and you will be solid with
the masses, Ethel, you will be sol.
id with the masses.
So live that when thy summons
comes to join the matrimonial Ca
ravan that moves toward the con
unbial goal, thou go not like tht
half paid hired man, begging po.
tatoes, bat, sustained and soothet
by common sense, approach tn,
doom like one who wraps the eel
} lar door about him aud lies dow
= to pleasant dreams.
This ought to be season Of re
Cancellation. Let the marrie
man forget his wrongs and invit