The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-01-25
CORRESPONDENCE.
A General Discussion on all Sub
jeOtS, Regardless Of the Feel
ingS Of the DEMOCRAT.
Politics aud fNews, from Home
and Abroad.
srRISo HILL, On, Jan. 0, 1884.

STRING HILL, On, Jan. 0, 1884.
Editors Democrat:
As woman's rights seem to be the
order Of the day and Is exciting much |
discussion, desire to give the readers
OF your valuable paper tho benefit Of
my experience, feeling assured that 1t
is only what will befall many othor
fond wives and affectionate mothers II
the measure becomes . law. l have
been married nc~ over thirty Years and
my husband has ever been kind and
affectionate to me, aud . loving indul-
gent parent, always attentive TO his
family and seeming TO find bis chief
pleasures at home with us. But the
hand of satan, in the hydra headed form
Of woman suffrage has been rudely
thrust among us and our domestic
happiness is ruined forever. When the
first woman suffrage paper was brought
to our home all was peace and joy, but
from that day peace left US to return no
more. Ny husband was changed in .
short while, from the loving husband
and kind father 10 -. / will not
say the word, but state the facts and
leave your readers TO judge for them-
selves. Before he became converted 10
the woman's rights doctrine, he was .
consistent christian and firm believer
in the sanctity of womanhood, holding
that marriage laws were the most
sacred given us Of God, and that mar
riage as an institution is tho pnrsst
known to man and that perfect love and
trust should exist between man and
wife. He now believes and advocates
the doctrine OF ''fIee love, holding that
there is nothing binding or sacred in
the auptial state, and that men and
woman may live together when they
please, without the sanctity Of . mar
riage ceremony, and that the union can
be abandoned by sithsr the man OF
women at pleasure, with no form ol
divorce. In other words, that . man
may live with one woman as his wife,
excuse me, not his wife, but his mis-
tress, lthis week, another the next week,
and no on till he has had hundred In
. ons year if he 30 desires. Nor Ia this
J Fright" of choosing mates at pleasure
to DO confined TO the "I,ords Of ersa-
tion," the women are TO have the same
} "God given right" and may choose Al
many lovers as they desire. All this,
be says, will be the rule when women
come into their "rights." Heaven save
US from such "rights." Two short
months ago no power on earth could
have convinced me that my once loving
husband would ever advocate such
abominable doctrines. From tho frat
day he came home with womans rights
paper, l could see q change in him, and
ne has since then rapidly grown from
bad TO worse till living with him is
almost unboarable. He is cross, grabbed
and quarrelsome, telling me when !
complain of tho change in him that
when this measure becomes law he
viii do as he pleases and / can help
myselfif l can. ALI this,a more too,
has befallen me and all on account of
this woman's rights business, but l will
not consume more of your valuable
space, and will simply add that mine
will be the fate Of all true wives and
mothers, il the so called woman's rights
is carried at the polls. Oh wives II
you love your husbands, abjure you
to use your influence 10 keep them from
thwwhirl pool of hopeless ruin. Oh
daughters, if you love your fathers, keep
them from, :he befouling contact Of
woman's rights, for, unless you do,your
peace of miud viii be gone forever.
Respt.,
Mas. P. FL. b.