The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-02-23
DIR. TALMAGE ON VOTING.
Ho Thinks il Wouldn't be rTuch Use for
Women to Note--The Question of Taxing
WOman's Property.

| Woman's Property.
81 would like to see all women vote,
and watch the result" said the Rev. DIR.
Talmage Sunday, in his sixth sermon to
the women of America. His subject WAS
| "Wifcly Ambition, Good and Bad" and
o great crowd of people listened atten-
lively to tho discourse.
81 do not know that it would change
anything for tho bcttcr," continued the
preacher. "NIost wives and daughters
and sisters would vote as their husbands
and fathers and brothers voted. Nearly
all the families that [ know arc solidly
Republican or Democratic or Prohibi-
ton. Those families all voting would
make more votes but no difference in the
result Besides that, as now ut the polls
men are bought up by the thousands,
women would be bought up by the thou
sands. The more voters the moro OPP
portunity for corruption. Wo have
several million more voters now than arc
for the public good.
"Wo arc told that female suffrage
would correct two evils-thc rum bust.
ness and the insuilicioncy of woman's
wages. About the rum business | have
to say that multitudcs of women drink,
and 1t is no unusual thing to sec them i'll
the restaurants SO ovcrpOwcrCd with
wine and beer that they can hardly sit
up, while there are many so-callcd re-
spectacle restaurants where they can go
and take their champagne and hot toddy
all alone. Mighty temperance voters
those women would make! Besides that,
tho wives Of the rumscllcrs would have
ito vote i'll the interest Of their husbands
business, or lave time the inverse Of
fcllcitOuS. Besides that, millions of re-
spectacle and refined women in America
would probably not vote at all, because
they do not want to go to the polls, and,
on the other hand, womanly rOuShS
would all go to the polls, and that might
make woman's vote on the wrong side.
There Is not in my mind much prospect
of the expulsion Of drunkenness by
female suffrage.
cas- to wOman's $ wages to be corrected
by wOman's vote, ] have not much faith
in that. Women arc harder on women
than mon are. Masculine employers are
mean enough in their treatment OF women,
but IL you want to hear beating down OF
prices and wages i'll perfection listen how
some women treat washer women, ana
dressmakers, and female servants. Mrs
Shylock is more mercilcsS than Mr.. Shy
lock. Women, L fear, will never get
righteous wages through woman's vote,
and rs to unfortunate WOmanhOOd, wO-
men are far moro cruel and unforgiving
B than men are. Alter II woman has mnae
( tshipwrcck of her character men genera =
ly drop her, but women do not so much
Bdrop her rs hurl her with the force Of n
Ecatapult clear out, aud of, and down,
Fnnd under.
{ 81 cannot SEQ what right you have to
make Il woman pay taxes on her proper
5ty to help support city, State and nutlun
al government, and yet deny her Tn,
opportunity of helping decide who shal
be Mayor, Governor or President.
'Is tho wife's ambition the politica
prefermcnt of her husband? Then that
s will probably direct him. What God
. forsakcn realm is American politics those
/ best know who have dabbicd in them
After they have sslsscd q man who is q
candidate for Office which he does not
get or assessed him for some Office at.
tanned, and he has been whirled round
4 and round and round and round among
. the drinking, smoking, swearing crowd
4 who often get control Of public affairs
1 all that is left of his sclf-rusprct or mora
stamina would find plenty Of room on q
7 Hgeometricnl point which is said to have
neither length, breadth or thickness
Many wife has not been satisfied til
her husband went into politics, bu
would aftcrwNrd have given all she pos
scsscd to got him out.
"Some Of us cOnld tell Of what inilu
ence upon us has been II wifcly ambition
consccratcd to righteousness. As my
wife is out Of town and will not bhak,
her head because | say it in public,
will state that III my own proicsSiona
life ! have often been called Of God, ns
thought, to run into the very teeth d
public opinion, and all outsiders witt
whom ] advised told me had hcttcl
not; it would ruin me und my church,
and ut the same time | was receiving
nice little letters threatening me Will
dirk and pistol and poison il l. persisted
in attacking certain evils of tho day,
until the Commissioner of Police con
sidered it his duty to take his place in
our Sabbath services with forty officers
scattered through the house for the pre-
scrvation Of order. But in my home
there has always been one voice to say
Go ahead and diVcrgc not IN inch from
the straight line. Who cares if only
God is on our sidc?' And though some
times it seemed as if ] was going out
against nine hundred iron chariOts, |
went ahead checrcd by the domestic
voice: up for this is the day in which
tho Lord hath delivered Siscra into thine
! bon6q "