Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-03
"This world is full of beauty
As other worlds above,
And If we did our duty
1t might be full of love-"

sef-support, and although they are not nor ever
viii be paid what men are, until their votes count
for just as much as their brothers., many of them
are commanding large salaries and not only sup
porting themselves, but oftentimes their families.
1t is no longer considered out of place for woman
to occupy her time in some honorable profession
instead of frittering or wasting it away as so many
once did,
One lovely woman who heartily believes in the
justice of giving woman the ballot, is already so
overburdened she looks at it as an added care
1t is to lessen this care that we ask for the ballot
in behalf of women. Look at the different So
cieties that women belong to already, simply be-
cause they want to do something to uplft human
ity. Ours has been one-sided government and
many of our ablest and best men, seing the injus-
tice of it and realizing that it has never been
success, are just as earnest in advocating equal
political rights as our women are. Would they
ask for this if they thought it would make matters
worse as the croakers say?
The ballot will secure for woman justice that in
no other way can be obtained it will secure
better government for the people, single standard
of morality for man and woman, the highest type
of respect from man, and it will help to solve the
liquor problem.
1t is woman's right and privilege to enter the
political world, that has hitherto been sacred to
man, and to restore it to its pristine purity and
cleanliness.
Has she not purified the home, church, literature
and every other field that she has ever entered 1t
is true that many women shrink from the task, but
for the sake of suffering humanity they will gladly
take it up For woman's sake alone, if for no
other, should she be willing to rouse herself to
ootn Nv cic nan w M
time there is, devote yourselves to society or sit
idly down, when the public sentiment and laws of
our country are such that thousands of girls just
as innocent and lovely as your daughters were once,
are permitted to become the prey of the evil men,
who afterward cast them off and 60 slaughtering
more? Where is the justice of it., that girl who
has made mistake must be dragged down to per-
dition, with no one to offer her helping hand but
the man can 90 on his way respected and honored
Ct might almost say the more for his wrong dolng,)
as before.
@, We women of our land it is to many of you
in fashionable society that we owe this evil. You
who would scorn to take the poor misguided girl
by the hand and help her to regain her footing In
the world once more, do not hesitate to tete, honor
and entertain in your beautiful homes the betrayer
of this poor girl-and some of you 60 still further,
and allow your pure, beautiful daughters to marry
him, because he has wealth and position. What if
he has; will they compensate for virtue? Do not
wonder in the years to come if your grandchi-
dren are incorporate or immoral why they are
When shall we create another public opinion that
instead of crushing the wronged girl and uphold
ing her male companion, we shall treat them ex-
actly alike and try to point them to truer purer
and better way of living?
1t is better and wiser to look this great social
question quarely in the face than to avoid it or pass
it by, for by so doing we can at least see how to
remedy it. When all women take the decided stand
for social purity that the brave White Ribboners
have taken then men will not dare to come into
womans presence ''with evil purposes in his heart
or evil deeds upon his hands, MAYRIoN,
ROCKFORD, ILL, oct 2e 1885,