St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-17
4 Won,rH's Tietr of IT.
To the Editor of the Globe

TOT Editor of the GLOBE:
saw by Wednesdays GLOBE that Senator
Bilson had introduced memorial to con-
gress asking that measures be taken to so
amend the federal constitution as to grant to
women the exercise Of the right of self
government
l noticed, TOO, in the same issue, that in
the Dakota legislature woman suffrage bill
had just passed the bly, aud that after
careful canvass of the council it was con-
sidered more than probable it would pass that
body also, and thus become a law.
Nor is this all. In the same number Of
the GLOBE there appeared lengthy editorial
on "Woman Suffrage in Congress, 'in which
was recorded the fact that in ''Our Free Re
public'' most noble wise, and eminent sena-
tor had made himself the butt of ridicue for
yea rs to come by arising in his seat and
gravely advocating the expediency
and justice OF allowing more than half
the people of the Republic to exercise the
right Of selt-gOvernment.
As the items. and another TO which l have
alluded, all appeared within the columns Of
one and the same issue of a somewhat con-
servatige journal, in a conservative state,
for q moment l could not help thinking that
possibly some extraneous and dangerous i'm
petus outside the natural growth of society
had been given to this question; and that,
By its hasty and iuiudicious influence, mis-
chief might befall the already budding germs
of higher civilization.
Intellect is OF slow growth and the ques-
ton Of Woman's right as To self-gOvern
meut, involving as it does the development
II the higher faculties and the consequent
decay OF the animal instincts, is not one that
can be met with argument, neither is IL one
to be iuludcously fastened. Prejudice and
the predomiuaucc OF the lower nature are to
be outgrown, and women ought TO understand
that they have simply 10 bide their time until
those conditions which have determined
their present status no longer exist.
In tine article TO which | have alluded
noticed the following:
1t makes 10 difIetence how much merit Sene-
tor PalIDers proposition 10 bestow suffrage npon
the female community may possess, the fact re-
mains that men have not progressed far enough
beyond the ar1aric ages 10 re entirely Invested
OF the prejudice against admitting women to
full and perfec: equa ity with themselves pre-
JUDGE that marked the ruder ages Of The world.
Indeed, woman herself with exceptional in
stances, has not yet attained such a full appre-
ciafon OF her mental strength as TO desire to as
sert her equality with man.
Through the different iatioD Of sex, and the
cOnseG ucnt division OF functions, 1t has been
possible, in the past, for woman to become
enslaved. and as all the machinery Of lnascu-
line invention, aided and allotted by the ''di-
vine will" has been employed to retain her
iu a state of tutelage, It is not, perhaps, re-
markable that she has not yet attained "sucb
a full appreciation Of her mental strength as
to desire to assert the rights of intelligent
womanbOod.
Thus far in the development Of the race
only physical force has been required; and,
10 the struggle for existence, man has de-
veloped degree OF muscular strength which
well fits him for the activities which fall
within ;he domain OF his proper sphere. By
him the physical world has been prepared for
the action Of those higher forces which have
been specially conserved IN woman, and.
Notwithstanding the restrictions which have
been placed on their liberties. science is to-
dsy pointing 10 the fact that women are well
equipped TO act well their part In the new
era which Is dawniug. Their finer and
more com Dlex organization. indicating
higher Development, their superior powers Of
endurance, their mparative freedom from
the thralldom Of debasiug appetites, and
their iutuitions, which 10 reality amount 10
undevcioped genius, point unrrringly To the
fact that, IN the future, In sharing With men
the uobler work Of the world, tbey VIII not
com pete in vain for the prizes offered.
ELIZA B. GAMBLE.
St. Paul, Feb. II.
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