The Osceola times., 1888-06-16
W0MAN'S DEPARTMENT.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
Testimony and Opinions Of the Clergy on
the Question of Woman Suffrage.

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tracts from the speeches and writings
of ministers and clergymen of various
denominations, taken from a late issue
OF the Woman's Journal, goes to show
somewhat of the progress of the move
ment in this country:
lmost thoroughly and heartily bacl,
the woman suffrage movement; ALWAYS
did. and hope always shall.-Rep.
Robert Coliyer
We are but half enfranchised as men;
we are binding one of our four hands
behind our backs so long as we do not
wholly enfranchise women. -Rer. C..
A. Batol
The mother is the cornerstone which
our national builders have rejected. II
men hold all the offices, women ought
to do all the voting. -ReU a. j. Brock.
UdU
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
thcmselvcsP-Reu. Wm. Claiming.
| Americas salvation lies, under God,
IN Americas women. 1t is precisely
because desire to conserve the glori.
ous past, that | plant myself on the
platform of woman suffrage. Rec.
Geo. W. BOdrdndn.
The women make just as good wives.
mothers, sisters and dnught RS ms be-
fore, and ms good voters as the men.
No unpleasantness is caused in fami-
lies by their voting, that | know of.
Cheyenne, Wy)-ReU. W. a. Moore.
This suffrage movement seems to me
10 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-
tion, it increases the power of those
things that make for righteousness. -
Rec Charles y. 1hWing
Womanhood and motherhood will
yet be arguments for voting, as man.
hood and fatherhood are to-day, and
the scorn will be for those whose "re-
fnement' shirks the duty, and for the
mannishncss which would bar out n
woman, as "woman, from the right
Rcr Wm. C. Gannet
regard this movement as the sum
and crown of all our moral enter
prises; as a proclamation of entire So
cial freedom, never possible till now.
And especially do ! rejoice that
we are compelled at last to learn that
Justice to woman is simply mercy to
ourselves. -ReU. Samuel Johnson
There Is also the question of woman
suffrage Tho experiment will be
made, whatever our theories and pre-
iudices 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 Spalding.
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
lfo men and women made from the
first to be co-matcs and partners,
should stand side by side, and work
hand in hand.-Rev. Samuel LongteI-
loD.
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
conditions. In little monarchies Of the
Old World, in broad new Territories Of
this Republic, wherever it has been
tried, it has been proved pre-cminently
success. -Ber. James A. 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 Rec. D. f. Crary.
1t is right of woman where she is
taxed. 1t is an ailront 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 moro than any preach
mcnts to put an end to gossip and the
idle business of society. by enlisting
women in great aiiairs.-Rer He0e''
Net0tOn
If woman is n person, she must have
not only rights but responsibilities.
You can not claim single right for a
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. -
Rer. Dr. Duryea,
There is the great phrase of Lincoln's,
which was first Theodore Parker 5;
Government of the people, for the
people, by the people" 1t will hardly
be denied that women are people,
equally with men, and If they are, we
have not government by the people
until they obtain the franchise. But
believe that there is higher ground
than this for the enfranchisemcnt OF
women. 1t is that the exercise of po-
litical privileges is itself an education.
-Rer John W. CddWicb.
No one will say that woman suffrage
has had any bad effect in our Terri