The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-02-16

want 10 90 II tho i},tl.S, and, on the other
hand woil&1i!v rarG:s would all go to
the polls and that might make woman's
vote On the wrong side. There is not i'll
my mind much prospect of the expulsion
of drunkenness by female suffrage.
As to woln;.n's wages to be corrected
BIZ womans vote, have not much faith
in that Women are harder on women
than men are. Masculine employers are
mean enough in treatment of women,
but if you want to hear beating down of
prices and wages in perfection, listen
how some women treat washerwomen
and dressmakers and female servants.
Mrs Shylock is more merciless than Mr..
Shylock. Women, I fear, will never get
righteous wages through wonlan's vote;
and as to unfortunate womanhoOd,
women are far more cruel and unforgiv-
ing than men are. After q woman has
made shipwreck Of her character men
generally drop her. but women do not SO
much drop her as hurl her with the
force Of a catapult clear out and off and
down and under.
I have not much faith that woman will
ever get Inerciful consideration and JUS
tee through woman suffrage, yet like
experiments, and some of my friends in
whose Judgment 1 have confidence are
SO eeEtsiI, that alienation would coma
by st1ch process that I would, if I had
the power, put in every wOman's hand
the vote. l cannot see what right you
havs to make a woman pay taxes on her
property to help support city, state and
national government. and yet deny her
the opportunity of helping decide who
shall be mayor, governor or president.
But let every wife, not waiting for the
vote she may never get, or, getting it,
find it unbalanced by some other vote
not fit to be cast, arise now in the might
of the eternal God and WELD the power
of a sanctifed wifely ambition for good
approximating the infinite.
No one can SO inspire man to noble
purposes as a noble woman, and no one
SO thoroughly degrade man as wife
of unworthy tendencies. While in my
text we have illustration of wifely ambi-
ton employed in the wrong direction,
society and history are full Of instances
Of wifely ambition gloriously triumphant
in right directions. All that was worth
admiration in the character of Henry VI
was a reflection of the heroics of his wife
Margaret William, Prince of Orange,
was restored to the right path by the
grand qualities of his wife Mary. Just
imam, the Roman emperor, confesses
that his wise laws were the suggestion
of his wife Theodore Andrew
Jackson, the warrior and president,
had his mightiest reinforcement in his
| plain wife, whose inartistic attire was
the amusement of the elegant circles in
which she was invited. Washington,
who broke the chain that held America
in foreign vassalage, wore for forty years
chain around his own neck, that chain
| holding the miniature likeness of her
|
| whether among the SHOWS at Valley
| Forge or amid the honors of the presi-
| dental chair. Phny's pen was driven
| through all its poetic and historical do
minions by his wife Calpurnia, who sang
| his stanzas to the sound of the flute, and
sat among audiences enraptured at her
husbands genius, herself the most en-
rapturcd. Pericles said he got all his
eloquence and craftsmanship from his
wye Whea the wife Of GrotstB
rescued him from long imprfsonmeHt
at Lovestein by means of bookcase
that went in and out, carrying his books
| to and fro, he one day transported, hid
den amid the folios, and the women of
besieged Weinsberg, getting permission
from the victorious army to take with
| them so much OF their valuables as they
could carry, under cover of the promise
|
most important valuables their husbands
both achievements in literal way
| illustrated what thousands OF times has
been done in figurative way, that
wifely ambition has been the salvation of
men.
De Tocqueville, whose writings will be
| potential and quoted while the world
| lasts, asCribeS his successes to his wife,
| and says: "Of all the blessings which
God has given to me the greatest Of all
| in my eyes is to have lighted on Maria
| Motley" Martin Luther says Of his wife:
II would not exchange my poverty with
her for all the riches of Croesus without
her." Isabella of Spain, by her superior
faith in Columbus, put into the hand Of
Ferdinand, her husband America. John
[ Adams, president Of the United States,
said of his wife: ''She never by word or
look discouraged me from running all
hazards for the salvation Of my country s
! liberties. Thomas Carlyle spent the last
twenty years of his life in trying by his
| pen to atone for the fact that during his
wife's life he never appreciated her in
fiuence on his career and destiny. Alasl
that having taken her from a beautiful
home and brilliant career, he should
have buried her i'll the home of recluse
and scolded her IN such language as only
q dyspeptic genius could manage, until
one day while in her invahdism, riding
in Hyde park, her pet dog got run over,
and under the excitement the coachman
found her dead. Then the literary giant
woke from his conjugal injustice and
wrote the lamentations of Craigen-Put-
took and Cheyne row. The elegant and full
some epitapls that husbands put upon
| their wives tolnbstones are eften an at.
tanapt-to make up for the lack of appre-
ssN4e WORDS that should have been NJ
&sfsd Ia tiie ears of tho living. A wlfssi
Greenwood of monumental inscription.
will not do Il wife so much good after
she has quiet the world, as one plain SEN
tencc like that which Tom Hood wrote
to his living wife, when he said: "a
never was anything till knew you"
Oh, woman, what is your wifelv am.
bition. noble or ignohle? Is it high socia
position? That will then probably direct
your husband, and he will climb anc
scramble and slip and fall and rise and
ttrnble, and on what level or in what
depth or on what height he will after {
while be found cannot even guess. The
contest for social position is the most I'm
satisfactory contest in all the world, be
cause it is SO uncertain about your getting
1t, and SO insecure a possession after yor
have obtained it, and so unsatisfactory
even if you keep it. The whisk of {
lady's fan may blow it out. The grow
Of one bear or the believing of one bud
on Wall street may scatter it.
Is the wife's ambition the political pre-
ferment of her husband2 Then that vii
probably direct him. What God for
safSen realm is American politics thos'
best know who have dabbled in them
| After they have assessed q man who is