Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1885-04-02
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
RED CLOUDS REJoINpER.

Some years ago took some pleasure In
missing poultry Aside from. the accidents
diseases incident to the business, there
was a serious and comic side TO it. 1t was
always serious matter TO have an ire
pressible old hen that would persist in
sitting upon every nest in the hennery
Just long enough to adele the eggs, and
then try some thing new
II was amusing to me, when child, to
see hen running about the barn yard
with her feathers all turned the wrong
way. have never considered II an i'm
provsment. Another amusing thing was
the first effort of a young pullet to be-
come produ ling member of the barn
yard community. At first she is "too
fall for utterance;' she sits quietly think
ing how she will break the news to the
create when she makes the announcement.
Then she steps with a proud conscious
ness from her nest, mounts upon the
fence. first cackles and then tries to crow,
IOOh dO"u ~ ncI lStt thi Jhiu3
how great m stake il was that she Was
not hatched with pair of steel gsffs on
her heels.
Pardon me. old people will indulge in
retrsspections; but do not suppose for a
moment that this has any reference to an
allusion.' Perhaps / may be permitted
to indulge in this brief moral: frizzled
hcns and conceited puIlets are not always
found in the barn yard.
Your fair correspondent, ANNA STONE
WHITE, is much exercised because do not
use my proper name. My apology Gf it
needs one) is, that RED CLOUD is the
non dc plume over which / have written
for the public press Except when writing
editorially) for the past fifteen years, and
do not see fit to change it. The Atlantic
portion OF the Miller community know
Just ~ we'll who Red Cloud is, as if /
signed my proper name, and think any
or all of them will testify that / am not
accustomed to skulk from any response
bility. But pray let me ask, while your
correspondent is loaded to the muzzle
with paper wads from Wyoming and
Washington. why she Is SO silent as to
Utah. Female suffrage has acted a far
more,prcminsnt part in the politics of Utah
than in either Of the others. Indeed ii is
the only place where you eau put your
finger upon n tangible result OF woman
suffrage. Poligamy rsigns supreme to-day
despite of all federal enactments, by
woman Suffrage
Inm neither ''sore ead" nor a dis
appointed politician. have never been
candidate for any Office, and never held
one tcivilly) except once, and that by APP
pointive of Gov. Campbell. of Wyoming.
the father Of woman suffrage in Wyoming,
in asmuch as his signature gave validity
to the law.
have read the the uttemnce of Gov.
Campbell, Gov. Thayer and Gov. Hoyt,
all OF Wyoming, upon the effects uf
woman suffrage, and think that / know
the snimus of every one of them, ] shall
lake occasion in future article to speak
upon that point. i shall then show the
law from Its first inceptiop. and notice
some of its effects in detail. We shall
then see where the "falshood" is.
But to return from this depression
shall not say that your correspondents
article is weak and hardly worth answering
for that is the cover under which those
take refuge who are conscio 8 of their
own weakness. Besides it is an insult to
tAeintelligence of the reader who ought
to be supposed capable of judging
whether such is the case or not. II / do
not prove the weakness of your corre-
spondent, shall certainly not assert 1t
IN advance.
lnanswer to my argument to prove th"t
sunrageis not natural right your ceres
pondent asks: where de governments
get the power TO bestow such rightY'
answer, as / before asserted, il it be a
Natural right, governments have no power
10 bestow it. is conferred by a higher
power. Is that plain enough?
Pray, when does any business firm,
~'AnAuB VI IuilEotu coipoiuti III, set is
Power to say who may or may not become |
member of it's firm or corporation, or
be admitted to the exercises of it's fran
chlse? When your correspondent has an.
swered this question she will perhaps |
have obtained light enough to answer the
other.
Again, am confronted with the declar-
alton of our National Bill of Rights, 'All |
men are created equal. and endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable
rights, among which are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. Did it not
occur TO your correspondent that the best
Interpreters Of the meaning Of the Declar-
ton are the trainers of that document2
And when the same men afterward met
In the constitutional convention. md said:
I'VE the people &c did they intend these
expressions az universal2
How strange that with such view. there
should not have been single woman in
either convention, and tho question of
womaa suffrage should never have been
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