The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-02-16

Democratic or Prohibition. Those fami-
lies all voting would make more votes
but no 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 thousands. The more
voters the more opportunity for political
corruption. We have several million
more voters now than are for public good.
| We are told that female suffrage would
correct two erils-the rum business and
| the insufficiency 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 res
traurants so overpOwered with wine and
beer that they can hardly sit up, while
there are many so-called respectable reg
| taurants where they can go and take
their champagne and hot toddy all alone
Mighty temperance voters these women
would makei Besides that, the wives of
the rum sellers would have to vote in the
interest of their husbands business, or
have time the inverse of felicitous.
Besides that, millions of respectable and
refined women in America would prob
ably not vote at all, because they do not
want to go to the polls, and, on the other
hand. womanly roughs would all go to
the polls, and that might make woman's S
vote on the wrong side. There is not in
my mind much prospect of the expulsion
of drunkenness by female suffrage.
AS TO woman's wages to be corrected
by woman's 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, fear, will never get
righteous wages through woman's vote;
and as to unfortunate womanhood,
women are far more cruel and unforgiv-
ing than men are. After 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 catapult clear out and off and
down and under.
l have not much faith that woman will
ever get merciful consideration and JUS
tice through woman suffrage, yet I like
experiments, and some Of my friends In
whose judgment have confidence are
SO certain that alleviation would come
by such process that would, if I had
the power, put in every woman's hand
the vote. cannot see what right you
have to make 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 sanctified wifely ambition for good
approximating the infinite.
No one can SO inspire man to noble
purposes as noble woman, and no one
SO thoroughly degrade man as a 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 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
inian, the Roman emperor, confesses
i that his wise laws were the suggestion
/ of his wife Theodore. Andrew
Jackson, tho warrior and president
had his nightiest 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 chair
holding the miniature likeness of hel
who had been his greatest inspiration
whether among the SHOWS at Valley
Forge or amid the honors Of the presi
through all its poetic and historical do
minions by his wife Calpurnia, who sang
his stanzas to the sound of the flute, ant
sat among audiences enraptured at hel
husbands genius, herself the most en-
raptured. Pericles said he got all hi
eloquence and craftsmanship from hil
wife. When the wife of Grotiul
rescued him from long imprisonment
at Lovestein by means of a bookcase
that went in and out, carrying his book
to and fro, he one day transported, hid
den amid the folios, and the women o.
besieged Weinsberg. getting permission
from the victorious army to take will
them so much of their valuables as they
could carry, under cover of the promise
shouldered and took with them as ths
most important valuables their husband
both achievements in a literal way
illustrated what thousands of times hal
been done in a fgurative way, tina
wifely ambition has been the salvation o
men.
De Tocqueville, whose writings will b.
potential and quoted while the worlt
lasts, ascribes his successes to his wife
and says: "Of all the blessings whicl
God has given to me the greatest of al
in my eyes is to have lighted on Mari,
Motley" Martin Luther says of his wife
Il would not exchange my poverty will
her for all the riches of Croesus withou
her," Isabella of Spain, by her superior
faith in Columbus, put into the hand O
Ferdinand, her husband, America. JOIN
Adams, resident of the United States
SttitA VI WIG. khC ACtCi DJ "Ok0 w.
look discouraged me from running al
hazards for the salvation of my country
liberties. Thomas Carlyle spent the las
twenty years of his life in trying by hi
pen to atone for the fact that during hi
wife's life he never appreciated her in
fluence on his career and destiny. Alas
that, having taken her from q beautiful
home and brilliant career, he shoul,
have buried her in the home of a reclus
and scolded her in such language as onl,
a dyspeptic genius could manage, unit
one day while in her invalidism, ridin
in Hyde park, her pet dog got run over
and under the excitement the coachmal
found her dead Then the literary gian
woke from his conjugal injustice an
wrote the lamentations of Craigen-Put
took and Cheyne row. The elegant and ful
some epitaphs that husbands put upo
their wives tombstones are often an al
tempt TO make up for the lack of appre
ciato words that should have been vi
tered in the ears of the living. A Who'll