Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-01-13
\ AllegOry OH Winners Rights.
" Wimmen haint no business with

Wimmen haint no business will
the laws of the country"
"If they haint no business with tn
the law, the law haint no busines
with them," says l warmly. "Of tn
three classes that haint no busines.
with the law-lunatics, idiots ant
wimmen-the lunatics have the bes
time OF it," says |, with great rusl
of IDEAS in my brain that almost lifted
up the border of my head-dress. Z" Le
a idiot kill man; What OF it p
says the law. Let luny steal a
sheep; again the law murmurs in 6
calm and gentle tone, What of it
They haint no business with the law
and the law haint no business with
them But let one of the third class
let woman steal a sheep, does the
law soothe her in these comfortin'
tones No, it thunders to her, in aw-
full accents, You haint no business
with the law, but the law has good
deal of business with you, vile female,
start for States prison. You haint
nothin' at all to do with the law, only
to pay all the taxes it tells you to
embrace a license bill that is ruinin
to yourhusband-give up your inno-
cent little children to a wicked father
if it tells you to-and few other lit
tie things, such as bein' dragged off to
prison by it, chained up for life, and
hung, and ct cetery"
'Methought l once heard the
words sighs the female, True gov
ernment consists in the consent of the
governed Did l dream them, or did
the voice of luny pour them into my
ear?
"'Haint told you,' frowns the law
on her, that don't mean wimmen :?
Have l got to explain to your weaken
ed female comprehension again the
great fundamental truth that wimmen
haint included and mingled in the
law books and statutes of the country
only in condemnin' and punishin'
sense, as it were Though feel it to
be bendin' down my powerful manly
dignity to elucidate the subject further,
l. will consent to remind you of the
consolin fact that, though you VIM
men are, from the tender sOftness of
your natures and the illogical weak
ness of your minds, unfit from havin'
any voice in maxim the laws that
govern you, you have the right, and
nobody can ever deprive you of it, to
be punished in future world jest as
hard as a man of the strongest intellect
and to be hung in this world Jest
as dead as dead man; and what
more can you ask for, you I'M
reasonable female woman you ?"
"Then groans the woman as the
great funGymental truth rushes upon
her: Il can be hung by the political
rope, but / can't help twist it,
"' Jest So says the law.
"' Alas! sithes the woman to her.
self, would that / had the sweet
rights of my wild and foolish COM
panions, the idots and lunys! But
says she, venturing, with beating
heart, the timid and bashful inquiry,
are the laws always just, that should
obey them thus implicitly.
"' Idiots! lunatics! and wimmin!
are they goin' to speakY thunders the
law. Can l believe my noble right
ear? Can !, bein' blindfolded, trust
my seventeen senses? I'll have you
understand that it haint no woman's
business whether the laws are Just or
unjust, all you have got to do is jest to
obey 'em, SO start off for prison, my
young woman
{" But my housework,' pleads the
woman. 'Woman's place is home; it
is her duty to remain at all hazards
within its holy and protectin' pre-
cincts. How can / leave its sacred
retirement to moulder in States
prison?'
"' Housework and the law fairly
yells the words, he. is filled with con-
tempt at the idee. Housework! Jest
as if housework is goin' to stand in
the way of the noble administration
of the law! l admit the recklessness
and immortality of her leavin' that
holy haven long enough to vote; but
l guess she can leave her housework
long enough to be condemned, and
hung and SO forth
"' But / have got a infant says the
woman, of tender days. How can 1
go?'
"'T That is nothin' to the case,' says
the law in stern tones. The pecu-
liar conditions of motherhood only
units female woman from ridin' to
town with her husband, in covered
carriage, once Il year, and layin' her
vote on pole. I'll have you under
stand it's no hindrance to her at all in
cold and naked cell, or in a public
courtroom crowded with men,
GAS the young woman totters along
to prison, is it any wonder that she
sithes to herself:
"' Would that l were idiot! Alas
is it not possible that may become
even now luny? Then l should be
respected '"-Josiah Aliens Wife.
A SINGLE foggy day in London