The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-08-13

Wcmen % citizens.
We give below q few quotations
from Senator HOar's very abIe All
dress delivered 1t recent meeting OF
the New England WOmsn Suffrage
Association:
What D. g that fits you or me "a
take our share in the government? Il
is this:
A stake In the country.
Love Of country.
Capacity 10 Judge OF the measures
which are for the public good.
Capacity TO judge Of the character
Of persons proposed for public Office.
Can yUu think OF any thing else
than these four? Does not women
pOssess each Of them? Il she behind
as 60 eithe.2 il there any ttake In the
country like n mothers interest la
her children? Can any man suffer
from crime 81 she frOm crimes against
her? Who L. interested In the school
la the law which defends person and
property. in the great institutions OF
educatiOn and charity, Ia the pOlieier
which affect wages and diminish
taxes, la the legislation for temper
ance and virtue, " she be not?
Will she Eail, has she failed in any
land or Ia any age In the love OF conn
try? Does any man claim, la what
ever other respect he may excel wO-
KAN, that In the capacity Of affection
she Is not his superior? Man valuer
the objects Of his affection for the
comfort and dignity and benefit they
bestOw upon MIN. Woman values
herself for the comfort she can be IN
the objects Of her affection. The love
Of country, the supTsmest human pas
sion, will ever find In wOman's bosom
its most cOngenial home.
The persOns who take the field
against woman su flrage are chiefly
persOns who have very little respect
for manhood suffrage. Some OF them
are eminent in letters and In personal
character. Hut we can not spend our
days debating with them what Oui
grandfathers settled. We must con.
slider that matter decided.
WE CAN NOT PULL DOwN OUR HOUSE
20 zee whether the foundation IL safe
The really formidable difficulty Is the
fear that the ballot will In some way
change far the worse the character
and Employment Of woman. They
say that her life Is demanded for the
dHtlss % maternity and Of the house
hOld, aud that her strength and
nerves cOuld not bear tue imposition
Of this new burden 81 responsibility.
They say the functions Of active ciii
zeQship will deiile aud degrade tine
dellcacy Of her nature. They say
there are many questions of state
which she Is not mentally fitted Co
decide, aud many offices which she l.
not physically qualified 90 discharge
They say that the processes of our
elections are unfit for woman.
think our friends do not consider
Co how little that IL really involved
Ia government these objections apply.
They hardly apply az all To what
ought tD la involved la what we call
politics. Politics considered a.
mere scuffie for power / cOncede
would be degrading 10 women. II Is
equally degrading 10 men. But poll
ties considered ~ 4 means OF accom-
pllshing public results for which the
forces OF government are needed have
nothing degrading to either. We
would not buy the success Of our
cause by furnishing by the slightest
shade
THE UNsULLIED DELICACY AND PU-
RITY
Of the WOmsnhOOd Of Massachusetts
But what Is government What Il
politics? In Massachusetts, more
than nine-tenths In importance and
responsibility IL the care Of her
Of her Alms-hOuses and asy-
lums, OF her rOads and bridges and
railroads, her legislation against in
Temperance and immortality, and the
Ofjudges aud admins
lratiOn Of Justice. Which Of these
things tend TO degrade woman? In
which OF them is she unfit 70 have q
share?
Some dozen years sgo, an admira- |
BILE lady headed q FemOnstrunce FROM |
the town Of Lancaster against giving |
woman the ballot. A few weeks ls- /
ter she came into my Office 10 take /
STEPS for q public meeting 20 promote |
the establishment Of 3 sepafate prison /
for women, since, by her efforts, sue
In operation at BheTbOrn. i
She knew ali about it. She had /
studied like experiments In Ireland,
think, and ia Prussia, or elsewhere.
She told the that girls, after q first
apse from honesty or virtue, might
lften be reclaimed by the care and
Of q wise'and tender ma
ron. But when under the existing |
lystem they were thrust into the
anne prison with men, sometimes
IuhIected tO the control Of coarse and
brutal turkeys, they became sullen
lnd hardened, and 81 the chance Of
heir reformation was gone. / said
O her: well, madam, what does
he coarse and brutal turnkey think
u 20 ~ 81 SUPPOSE he thinks il all
light ns Il h.. =" ] said tO her: "Well
4 course his opinion ought tO be
AIKEN aud not yours" She looked
8 you will believe,
A GOOD DEAL AsTONIsIED.
I said To her: "This Is question
{ government, and yet you art labor
ng tO prevent your voice from being
Ounted on this question, while that
{ the turnkey IN tO have its full aud
quail weight"
Hrs. Leonard On the Slate Board OF
Mrs. Ware prOInOting the
rtsnn for women, Clara Barton, or
anlEing the hospital service for the c
rtny, or ~ the head Of the insli.u-
IOn nt SherbOrn, or, later, bringing
n nations into the convention OF the 4
led CrOss League, Miss FFeelliHB pr !
ding over the college at Wellesley,
- Ouiutuu la the Indian Rtuhfs | .