Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-28
WOMAN's DEPARTMENT.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

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of ministers and clergymen OF various
denominations, taken from late issue
of the Woman's Journal, goes to show
somewhat of the progress OF the move
ment in this country:
Imost thoroughly and heartily back
the woman suffrage movement; always
did. and hope l always shalL-Rev.
Robert Collyer.
We are but half enfranchised as men;
we are binding one of our four hands
behind our backs SO long rs we do not
wholly enfnnchise women.-Ren G.
H. Bartol.
The mother is the cornerstone which
our national builders have rejected. Ii
men hold all the offices, women ought
to do all the voting. Req. d. d. Brock
1Oay.
On what ground. except the right of
might, do men. claiming to be Chris
tians. deny to woman privileges which
they would die to gain and keep for
themselves?-Rer Hm. Claiming.
Americas salvation lies. under God.
in Americas women. 1t is precisely
because | desire to conserve the glorl-
Gus past, that | plant myself on the
platform of woman suffrage.
Geo W. Eoardn1an.
The women make just as good wives.
mothers, sisters and daugat rs as be-
fore. and as good voters as the men.
No unpleasanLness is caused in fami-
lies by their voting. that l know of.
Cheyenne. Wy.)-Reu. w. d. Moore.
This suffrage movement seems to me
to be right. not so much for what it is
in itself as for what it effects; it is in
the line of the general elevation of the
race; it represents higher civiliza-
ton. it increases the power of those
things that make for righteousness. =
Req Charles +. IHwing.
Womanhood and motherhood will
yet be arguments for voting. rs man
hood and fatherhood are to-day. and
the scorn will be for those whose ire
finement' shirks the duty. and for the
manniShness which would bar out a
woman. asa woman" from the right.
Zee. VIM. c. Cannot
Iregard this movement as the sum
and crown of all our moral enter
prises; as Il proclamation of entire So
,cial freedom, never possible till now.
And especially do rejoice that
we are compelled 1T last to learn that
justice to woman is simply mercy to
ourselves -Rec. Samuel johnson.
There is also the question of woman
suffrage. The experiment will be
made. whatever our theories and pre-
judices may be. Women are the most
religious, the most moral, and the
most sober portion of the American
people, and it is not easy to UNDER
stand why their influence in public life
is dreaded. Bishop Spafding.
/ The simple proposition which. it
seems to me, includes the whole of this
matter, is what should call self-evi-
dent truth, that in all departments of
life men and women made from the
first to be co-mates and partners.
should stand side by side, and work
hand in hand. Req. Samuel Longfel-
loW
This woman suffrage question is one
of the great living question of the
time. 1t is no longer theory merely.
1t has been tested under most diverse
con iitions. In little monarchies of the
Old World, in broad new Territories of
this Republic. wherever it has been
tried. it has been proved pre-emnentiy
a success. Req. James Il. Applebee.
The very best ladies of Wyoming
Territory vote. and as they generally
vote on the right side of all questions,
the lies told to their detriment origi-
nate with men of the baser sort, with
defeated demagogues, disappointed
strikers and the meanest kind of poll
ticians, who hate the majority of the
women because of their pure lives and
independent ballots. Req. b. f. Crazy.
1t is a right of woman where she is
taxed. 1t is an affront to intelligent
womanhood to refuse to the sex the
most powerful agency of a republic
while giving it to every stupid, igno-
rant man. 1t would educate woman
herself. and do more than any preach
ments to put an end to gossip and the
idle business of society, by enlisting
women in great affairs. Rev. Reber
Ne,cton.
If woman is person. she must have
not only rights but responsibilities.
You can not claim a single right for
man that You do not yield to a woman.
We vote in order to choose our rulers.
thinking that if we choose them we
shall get rulers who will respect our
rights and principles And woman.
being person and having rights. has
a right to take care of her rights
Reu. Dr. Daryea.
There is the great phrase of Lincoln's.
which was first Theodore Parker's:
Government of the people, for the
people. by the people" 1t will hardly
be denied that women are people,