The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-06-17

An Argument
AbrAham Lincoln, in 1853, struck
the manacles from tour million slaves
sud the Fourseenth Ansndmsnt CON-
pIeled their freedom By giving them
the rights Of suRragea few years later.
The rece had been degraded, insulted
and Wrongsd for many centuries.
They had been sold on the auction
block Ike 90 many cattle. Every
wind sWeeping oyer the South had
caught up the signs d broken ahd
bleedlng hearts, WFung out by the
lsngs Of separation from kindred and
country. Their heavy jaws, project
ing teeth and lips with low receding
forshsads, showed mental infeEloFity
and neglect. To such . race and such
q people, q christian nation gave the
rights Of suffrage. In the exercise Of
these rights, they have made rapid
progress, and ceased 20 be plant tools
In the hands Of the white politicians
~ they were In days Of yOre-
We do not wish 10 insult the digni-
~ and intelligence Of twenty-five
million Of white females by drawing
= line Of comparison between them
and the former slaves, who, les than
. century ago, eringed under the
white mans lash, and yet, the late
slaves IN whom ignorance and the
brutal instincts still predOminate, en-
Joy the rights Of suffrage, while our
ladies, queens Of the white mans
country, mistFesses Of our homes and
mothers Of our children do not. The
reason Is obvious. Tue ruling prin-
eipie Of the world, has ever been
seIishHess. There are many crimes
90 this country IS dear 20 man IS the
apple Of his eye crimes affecting do
nestle and social relations; crimes
that men foster, encourage and sup
port, and that ladies condemn and
despise crimes from the effect Of
which innocent women and children
are the principal sufferers. With the
ballots la the hands Of women, a re-
lentless war Of determination against
these evils will commence. We are
not q pessimist believing the world is
going 20 wreck and ruin. In refer
encs 70 the fall Of man we believe he
did fall, and
Ever since 81 HEdsuh bonnie yard
The youthful lOVen frEi were paired
he has been falling, but GO you will
pardon the paradox, we believe he
has been filling upward, that the
world has been growing wiser and
better and, that the genus homo will
continue 10 fall in this same Erection
until equal, impartial and universal
suffrage will be q principal Of the
world as fixed and immutable as the
laws that govern our being. ID.
Gov, Steadman, Of California, must
feel considerable disappointment In
his prOtsge, the millionaire Senator
Hearst. FirEt, SenatOr Hearst voted
to disfranehise the women Of Wash
ingtOn Territory. Gov. SteadmAn lie
brother 70 Miss Kate Steadman, Of
New York, who has been such an in
dsfstigable labOrer 10 the suffrage
vineyard OF that State, and who ls the
frst lady admitted % the New
York bar. Finding the laws
would exclude her, she and
her friends, and q sense Of justice, We
presume, moved the Legislature to
amend the law 90 as 10 admit women
lawyers 10 the New York bar. We
understand Gov. Steadman was proud
Ofhis plueky sister and warmly sym.
pathiEed with her, and we suppose
for this reason he could hardly en-
dOFse Senator Hearst's position on the
suffrage question. Now. Senator
Hearst gets drunk and disgraoes him.
self, the Senate, and the occasion.
Some people think he ought 10 have
sympathy because he was trying 90 /
brace himself up for q trying ordeal
and took too much but there are /
few sensible people who will waste |
any tenderness on this mans fall /
from grace. When men know 4
enough 70 make laws for q great ma
tiOn, most people expect them % know |
enough about the human body and /
the effect Of alcohol, and the pOisOns
alcohol h combined with On whisky,
beer, &c, upon the human organism,
10 let drinking severely alone. This
mans ruin by the drink habit came
sooner than be or his friends expect
ed. bat ruin comes sooner or later
upon nearly all who are addicted TO
alcoholic drink. Sometimes we find
an exceptional case. Some men
seem never 10 get drunk, though they i
drink more than most others; but II
they escape q drunkard's grave their
children do not escape. This Il one
OF the sins Of the fathers for which
children must suffer even 10 the third
and fourth generation. II the middle
aged men Of Saline, the men Of talent,
solid business men, men trusted and
respected, could hear themselves
quoted by younger men and boys IS
examples Of the "no harm" that the
drink habit does, they would be ap-
palled ct the weight and kind Of in
fiuenCe they are involuntarily exert
ing. Ifthey could know that moth
ers, sisters and wives enter their
places Of business and say 10 them
selves, ''it was IN the cellar % this
place that my brother, or son, OF hus-
Oand got his beer when be Was drunk
on that OF the other OCCASION these
otherwise excellent men would ree0ll
from their practices. In view Of the
magnitude Of the drink evil only
faith in the ultimate triumph Of good
can give strength enough % temper