The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-02-22
DIR. TALnIAGE ON VOTING,
He Thinks 1t Wouldn't be Much Use fo
Women to Votc--The Question of Taxinl
WOman's Property.

He Thinks 1t Wouldn't be Much Use for
Women to Yote--The Question of Taxing
Woman's Property.
"I would like to see all women vote,
and watch the result" said the Rev. Dr.
Talmage Sunday, in his sixth sermon to
the women of America. His subject was
"Wifcly Ambition, Good and Bad" and
a great crowd of people listened atten-
lively to the discourse.
81 do not know that it would change
anything for the BETTER" continued the
preacher. "Alost 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-
tion. Those families 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 thou
sands. The moro voters the more OPP
portunity for corruption NYo have
several million more voters now than arc
for the public good
"We are told that female suffrage
would correct two evils-thc rum bus.
ness and the insutlicicncy Of womau's
wages About the rum business | have
to say that multitudes of women drink,
and 1t IS no unusual thing to sec them in
the restaurants 50 ovcrpowercd with
VINE and beer that they can hardly sit
up, whllc there are many So.calltd re-
spectacle restaurants where they can go
and take their champagne and hot toddy
all alone. Mighty temperance voters
those women would makel Besides that,
the wives of the rumselcrs would have
N mi Of 4
business, or have time the inverse Of
felicitous. Besides that, millions of ro.
spectacle and refined women III America
would probably not vote at all, because
they do not want to go to the polls, aud,
on the other hand, womunly roughs
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 10y
female suffrage.
''As to womun's wages to be corrected
by woman's vote, | have not much faith
III that. Women are harder on women
than men are. Masculine employers are
mean enough in their treatment oF women,
but If you want to hear beating down OF
prices and wages III perfection listen how
some women treat washer women, ana
dressmakers, and female servants Mrs.
Shylock is more mcrcilcss than Mr.. Shy
lock. Women, ] fear, will never get
righteous wages through woman's vote,
and rs to unfortunate womanhood, wC-
men are far more cruel and uuforgiving
than men are. After woman has made
shipwrcck of her character mon genera
ly drop her, but women do not SO much
drop her as hurl her with the force OF a
catapult clear out, and oil, and down,
and under.
81 cannot see what right you have to
make woman pay taxes on her proper
ty to help support city, State and nation
nj government, and yet deny Lc.' the
opportunity of helping decide who shall
be Mayor, Governor or President
els the wifc's ambition the political
prefermcnt of her husband? Then that
will probably direct linn. What IL God
forsaken realm is American politics those
best know who have dabblcd in them.
After they have assessed IA man who j. IA
candidate for Office which he does not
get, or assessed him for some Office at
tanned, and he has been whirlcd round
and round and round and round among
the drinking, smoking, swearing crowd
who often get control OF public affairs,
oil that is left OF his self-rcSpoct or moral
stamina would find plenty OF rooro on a
geomctrical point which Is said to have
neither length, breadth or thickness.
Many n wife has not been satisfied till
her husband went into politics, but
would afterward have given ali she pos.
sesscd to get him out.
'Some of lis could tell of what infiu-
ence upon us has been IA wfcly ambition
consccratcd to righteousness. AS my
wife is out of town and will not shake
her head because | say it in public, |
will state that III my own professional
life have often been called Of God as |
thought, to run into the very teeth of
public opinion, and all outsiders With
whom | advised told me | hnd better
not; it would ruin me and my church,
and at the same time | was receiving
nice little letters threatening me with
dirk and pistol and poison if | persisted
III attacking certain evils Of the day,
until the Commissioner of Police con
sidcred 1T his duty to take his place in
our Sabbath services with forty officers
scattered through the house for the pre-
servation of order. But in my home
there has always been one voice to say
Go ahead and diverge not an inch from
the straight line. Who cares if only
God is on our side?' And though some
times it seemed as if 1 was going out
against nine hundred iron chariots, /
went ahead cheered by the domestic
voice: up, for this is the day in which
the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
hands.
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