Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-23
WOMAN'sS REALM.

NNOMAN'S REALM.
By MRs, !. II. ng-Ak,<. ASSOCIATE Eorron.
WHAT THEY SAY
Justics is on the side of woman suf
frage.--Wm. Fl. Seward
In the pragi ess Of civilization, won.
an suffrage is sure to come.-Charlcs
Sumner.
Woman suffrage is undoubtedly COM
ing, and for one expect a great deaf
OF good to result FROM it.--IIenrv ".
Longfellow.
!. go for ali sharing the privileges OF
the government who assist in bearing
its bnrdens, BY no means excluding
women.-Abraham Lincoln.
there Wlll be no end to the good
that will come by woman suffrage, on
the elected, on elections, on govern
ment, and on woman herself.
For oyer forty years / have not hvsi.
tated to declare my conviction that ius.
tlce and fair dealing, and the democrat
ic principles of our government. de-
mand equal rights and privileges Of
citizenship. irrespective OF sex. have
not been able to see any good reasons
fer denying the ballotto woman.- G.
Whittier
Women have quite as much interest
in good government as men, and have
never heard any satisfactory reasons
for excluding them from the ballot box.
-George William Curtis.
The first strike in America of which
any record can befound occurred among
factory girls at Dover, n. H., in 1927
Some oppressive exactions aroused, the
girls, and they struck, and paradeG the
streets with Il band and an American
flag. The mill authorities came quick
ly to terms.
The voters Of Parker, Oak, signed .
petition asking the ladies of the Park.
er w. G. 7. U. to name the candidates
for a city ticket to be supported in the
late election. The ladies named the
ticket, and the men gallantly elected it
The voters OF Parker showed a com
mendable wish to atone to the women
of their town, so far as they could, tor
Gov. Plerce's veto to the woman suf-
frage bill. But the privilege Of nomi.
mating the city ticket oreein a while is
not to be compared with the right to
help nominate and elect it every year
We clip the following items from the
Woman's journal, of Boston Mass:
Nine. Patti has been offered $1,000
q night to sing at concerts in South
America.
Mrs. Talmage, wife Of the Brooklyn
preacher, lectures every Sunday to a
class of 900 women
Three weekly newspapers in Georgia
are edited by women.
4 San Jose, Cal. woman owns anG
manages fruit farm Of about twelve
acres. from which she yearly reaps :,
harvest valued at $4,000.
One of the suffrage lecturers tells or
a farmers wife who came to cast her
first vote for school committee. AZ
soon as she appeared inside the door, 6
local politician rushed up to her saying
"Can [ assist you madame?" with an
air of gallantry and solicitu$le which
showed that he thoughtshe must be nj
most crushed beneath the burden Of
her political duties. The woman looked
at him and answered: "If YOU had been
around this morning about FIVE o'clock
when was bringing in the water and
building the fires, and getting break
fast, might have been glad Of some
help; but if it is only about dropping
my vote into the box that you want to
assist me, thiuk can do that my
SELF" and she did
Mrs Late p Hardwick, Of Boston,
sister Of Mrs. Harriet Putnam Newell,
Of New York, has, during several yov-
ages. kepta meteorological record for
the United States government. while
in the China Seas and Indian Ocean.
She has received many letters of thanks