The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-07

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We are perplexed whethar he is Mis-
ter Dozier or Doctor Dozier. In this
old fashioned part of the country,
where women are wonderland the
most justly worshippd, loving love
able and blessed OF created things
and where men are men, we some-
times speak of a physicians wife as
Mrs. Doctor -" But whether
the male Dozier is Mr.. Doctor Dozier
Or what the proper form is in the en-
! lightened neighborhoods where such
things be: We do not know.
Whoever or whatever Mrs. Dozier
is, she evidently thinks that the ele-
ments composing the eve" used in
the editorial columns Of the News
likewise and simultaneously COM
pose a sardine-or, in other words,
that we are a sardine-a little, salty
bob tailed American sardine packed
in cotton seed oil and box with
French label and sold on the busy
marts of trade at twenty for ten
cents She sends us a communica-
ton marked "personal" and addresses
US as, Good Friend" whereas we
are prepared to make affidavit that
we never saw the person and hold no
frien dship for her. After the ap-
pearance Of this we will further be
prepared to make an additional aft
davit that we have no yearning to
see her. In fact, we don't want 70
see her now, for she is obviously
mad, and mad woman with a han
die to her name is, we Judge, seve-
raj hundred degrees worse than a
thoroughly mad woman without the
handle.
Mrs. Dozier is mad because Sen
ator Edmunds wants to take the
vote away from the women of Utah.
She has sent Mr.. Edmunds a letter
fall Of strong language and weak
sarcasm which would make two col.
umns in the News, and asks US to
kindly print it with comments and to
write to Hon. J. Randolph Tucker,
chairman Of the house sejudiciary com.
mittee, a2d'to our representative in
Congress asking them to use their
influence to prevent the disfranchise-
ment of the Utah women. She
must think we are not only sard;ne
but a Mormon sardine. -s
No, Mrs. Dozier,esTne represen-
tative from this district is bache,
lor in goos standing and has no
wifete give him her opinion from a
Iswenanly point of view of female
suffrage. But he knows well enough
that the real women OF this district
run it, and that if he should use his
utmost influence to give women
votes he would never, never go back
to Congress any more. For that
reason and because be has sense and
is mana real, sure enough man
with short hair and a beard and
manly ideas and purposes-we hard
ly think it would be worth while to
write him on the subject you men,
ton,
We will not print your letter to
Mr.. Edmunds, Mrs. Dozier, but we
don't mind obeying one of your re-
quests and commenting on it. You
speak of the senator and his lack
of "chivalry.' What is there about
an unsexed, abusive, masquerading
female, blatant with vulgar threats
of what her political Influence will
do, to appeal to any mans chivalry ?
The one trace of femininity we see
in your letter is its innocence of
logic. You can not rid yourself of
the weakness of your sex, but you
can and do leave behind you all that
makes that weakness strong. And
that is just what you are trying to
lead all the women of the country
into, Mrs. Dozier. You are trying
to make them abdicate the soyer-
eighty they hold and use so we'll at
the hearthstone and in the drawing
room and descend to fight and jostle
in unequal contest at the polls and
in the court rooms-to have their
physical weakness, their sensibilities,
their emotions and their instincts
made the playthlngs and tools of
vulgar and bad men with vulgar and
bad purpoposes. You are trying to
reverse the manifest purposes of God
and make men and women equals in
all things, taking each sex from the
sphere fixed for it by the Almighty
and marked by Him. You may
think you know more than the Crea.
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