The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-22
DIR, TALMaGE ON VOTING.

DIR. TALMAGE ON VOTING.
He Thinks it Wouldn't. be Much Use fol-
Women to vote--The Question of Taxing
Woman's Property.
81 would like to see all women vote,
and watch the result" said the Rev. DIR.
Talmage Sunday, in his sixth sermon to
the women of America. His subject was
|ttWifely Ambition, Good and Bad" and
great crowd OF people listened atten-
lively to the discourse.
81 do not know that it would change
anything for the BETTER" continued the
preacher. "NIost wives and daughters
and sisters would vote as their husbands
and fathers and brothers voted. Nearly
all the families that I know are soidly
Republican or Democratic or Prohlbl-
ton. Those families all voting would
make more votes but 20 difference IN the
result. Besides that, as now at the polls
men are bought up by the thousands,
women would be bought up by the thou
sands. The more voters tie more op-
portunity for corruption. We have
several million more voters now than are
for the public good.
"We are told that female suffrage
would correct two evils-the rum busl
ness and the insuficiency Of woman's
wages. About the rum business have
to say that multitudes Of women drink,
and it is no unusual thing to see them IN
the restaurants so overpowered with
wine and beer that they can hardly sit
up, while there are many so-called re-
spectacle restaurants where they can go
and take their champagne and hot toddy
all alone. Mighty temperance voters
those women would make! Besides that,
tie wives of the rumsellers would have
to vote in the interest of their husbands
business, or have a time the inverse Of
felicitous. Besides that, millions OF re-
spectacle and refined women in America
would probably not vote at al, because
they do not want to go to the polls, and,
on the other hand, womanly roughs
would all 60 to the polls, and that might
make woman's vote on the wrong side.
There is not in my mind much prospect
of the expulsion of drunkenness by
female suffrage.
Gas to woman's wages to be corrected
by woman's vote, I have not much faith
in that. Women are harder on women
than men are. Masculine employers are
mean enough in their treatment Of women,
but if you want to hear beating down of
prices and wages IN perfection listen how
some women treat washer women, and
dressmakers, and female servants. Mrs.
Shylock is more merciless than Mr.. Shy
lock. Women, I fear, will never get
righteous wages through woman's vote,
and as to unfortunate womanhood, wo-
men are far more cruel and unforgivlng
than men are. After woman has made
shipwreck of her character men genera :
ly drop her, but women do not SO much
drop her as hurl her with the force of
catapult clear out, and of, and down,
and under.
81 cannot see what right you have to
make woman pay taxes on her proper
ty to help support city, State and nation
al government, and yet deny her the
Of helping decide who shall
be Mayor, Governor or President.
els the wife's ambition the political
preferment of her husband? Then that
will probably direct him. What a God
forsaken realm is American politics those
best know who have dabbled III them.
After they have assessed q man who is a
candidate for Office which be does not
get, or assessed him for some office at
tanned, and he has been whirled round
and round and round and round among
the drinking, smoking, swearing crowd
who often get control OF public affairs,
all that is LETT of his self-respect or moral
stamina would find plenty of room on
geometrical point which is said to have
neither length, breadth or thickness.
Many a wife has not been satisfied till
her husband went into politics, but
would afterward have given all she pos
sessed to get him out.
s'Some of us could tell OF what indu-
ence upon us has been wifely ambition
consecrated to righteousness. As my
wife is out of town and will not shake
her head because say it in public, |
will state that in my own professional
life have often been called of God, as l
thought, to run into the very teeth Of
public opinion, and all outsiders with
whom I advised told me I had better
not; it would ruin me and my church,
and at the same time I was receiving
nice little letters threatening me with
dirk and pistol and poison if l persisted
in attacking certain evils of the day,
until the Commissioner of Police con-
sidered it his duty to take his place in
our Sabbath services with forty officers
scattered through the house for the pre-
servation of order. But in my home
there has always been one voice to say:
60 ahead and diverge not an inch from
the straight line. Who cares if only
God is on our side?' And though some
times it seemed as if I was going out
against nine hundred iron chariots, l
went ahead cheered by the domestic
voice: up, for this is the day in which
the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
hands.
Remarkably Free from Crime.
The World asserts that ''for a great