Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-13

than are for public good.
We are told that female suffrage would
correct two evils-the rum business and
the insult ;iency of womkn's wages.
About the run business have to say
that
MULTITUDEs OF WOMEN
drink, and 1t is no unusual thing to see
them in the restaurants so overpowered
with wine and beer that they can hardly
sit up, while there are many so-cslled
respectable restaurants where they CAP
go and taketheir champagne an hot!toddy
all alone. Mighty temperance voters
those women would make. Besides that,
the wives CT 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 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 roughs
would all 60 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.
As to womSn's WSges to be corrected
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 ana
dressmskers and female servants. Mrs
Shylock is more merciless than Mr.. Shy
lock Women, l fear, will never get
V.in
and as to unfortunate Womanhood, women
are far more cruel and unforgiving than
men are. After q woman has made ship
wreck Of her character men generally
drop her, but women do not SO much
drop her as hurl her with the forces of
a catapult clear out and of and down
and under.
have not much faith that woman will
ever get merciful consideration snd JUS
tice through woman suffrage, yet l like
experiments, and some of my
friends in whose judgment L have
confidence sre so certain that allie
Walton would come by such process
that l would, If had the power, put in
every womAn's hand the vote. can not
see what right you have to make g
woman pay taxes on her property 10 help
support city, state, and national govern.
ment, and yet deny her the opportunity Of
helping to decide who shall be mayor,
governor or president. But let every
wife, not waiting for the vote she msy
neVerget, or getting il fad it outbalanced
by some other vote not fit to be cast,
arise now in the might OF the eternal
God and WELD the power OF ssnctitied,
wifely ambition for good approximating
the infinite.
NJ one can Sc inspire man TO nooler
purposes IS noble woman, and no one
SO thoroughly degrades man as wife
of unworthy tendencies. While in my
text we have Illustration Of wifely ambi-
ton employed in tee wrong direction,
SOCIETY AND HISTORY
are full OF instances of wifely
ambition gloriousIy triumphant in right
All that was worth admir.ng
in the character OF Henry VI was re-
faction OF the heroics of his wife Msrga-
ret. William, prince OF Orange, was re-
stored to the right path by the grand
qualities of his wife Mary. Justinian,
the Rlman emperor, coDfesses that his
wise laws were the suggestion Of his
wife Theodore. Andrew Jackson, the
warrior and President, had his mightiest
in his plain wife, whose
inartistic attire was the amusement of
the elegant circles in which she was in
vited. Washington, who broke the chain
that held America in foreign vassaiage,
wore for forty years chain around his
own neck, that chain holding the miniature
likeness of her who had been his greatest
whether among the SHOWS at
al mir "a hnnnrc Of ha
Presidential chair. Pliny's pen WAS driv-
en- through all it, poetic and historical
dominions by his wife CsIpurnis, who
sang his steDZas to the sound Of flute and
sat among audiences enraptured at her
husbands genius, herself the most en-
raptured. Pericles said he got all his
eloquence and craftsmanship from his
wife. When the wife Of Grotius rescued
him from long imprisonment at LoVestein
by means of q BOOKCASE that went in and
out, carrying his books to and fro, he one
day transported, hidden amid the folios,
and the women Of besieged Weinsberg,
getting permission from the victorious
army to take with them so much of their
valusbles as they could carry, under
cover of the promise shouldered snd
took with them as the most important
NSluhUlGs huSlE uusU5DuS-UOlu achieve
ments in literal way illustrated what
thousands of times has been done in 8 fig
urstive WSy, that Wifely ambition has
been the salvation Of men.
De Tocqueville, whose writings will be
potential snd quoted while the world
lasts, ascribes his successes to his wife
and says: "Of all the blessings which
God has given to me the greatest of all in
my eyes is to have lighted on Maria Mot
ley" Martin Luther says OF his wife:
81 would not
EXCHANGE MY POVERTY
with her for all the riches of Cfoesus
without her." Isabella Of Spain by her
superior faith in Columbus put into the |
hand of Ferdinand, her husband, |
America. John Adams, President of the |
United States, said Of his wife; "She |
never by word or look discouraged me |
from running all hazards for the salva-
ton OF my country's liberties" Thomas |
Carlyle spent the last twenty years of his |
life in trying by his pen to atone for the |
fact that during his wife's life he never |
her influence on his career
and destiny. Aas, that having taken her |
from beautiful home and d brilliant |
career he should have buried her in the |
home OF recluse and scolded |
her in such language as only 8 dyspeptc |
genius could manage, until one day while |
in her iDvsIidism riding in Hyde Park her |
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