Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-27
AN ISSUE OF TODAY.
Editors of the TRANSCRIPT.

Mr.. Hutchlns, entitled An issue
OF too day" and also the article of Feb.
20. would like to say few words, as
1t IS viewed from woman's stand point.
God created man and he saw it was OF
good for him to be alone, SO he made an
help meet tor him and Adam called her,
woman. God placed Adam and Eve, in
the garden OF Eden and gave them per
mission to eat of all the fruit but of one
tree, and if they ate therof, they should
surely die. Now the serpent was more
subtitle than any beast of the field, and
told her, the woman, she should not die,
if she did eat of the tree of knowledge of
good and evil. The woman being deceiv-
eel, saw that the tree was good for food
and pleasant to the eye, and she did eat
and offered it to her husband and he did
eat, God called Adam, and he said "the
woman thou gavest me, she gave me of
the tree, and I did eat" Don't you think
1t would have looked little better, if
Adam had taken his full share of the
blame and not laid it all on his wife
(She being the weaker vessel, of course
she could stand it better) AS in Adam
all haye sinned, so shall all be made alive
in Christ Jesus, if we believe on his name.
Are ali women married and happy?
Are there not many unequally yoked to-
gethel? think God must have made a
mistake, when he created US, and endow-
ed US with reasoning faculties. Because
l am wife, am no less an individual
and supposed to have opinions of my
| own and know the difference between
right and wrong: and no man has a right
to tell me what to do, contrary to my
own ideas of right. Whatever IS for the
best interest of the home, the husband
and wife should be equally interested in.
If my husband was sick, should con-
slider it no disgrace to help out of DOORS
all was able to, and if I needed help in
the house, he would not consider it be-
meath him, to wash dishes or tend the
children. Oft-times there is something
lacking IN the character of either one or
the other. the husband or wife, that has
to be made up somehow.
We inherit from our parents, peculiar
traits and characteristics, and very often
it lNis the case, that the wife is the bet
ter man Of the two; and she is obliged
by the forge Of circumstances to do a
great deaf towards supporting the family
and directing affairs. A very large pro-
portion OF our churches to-day, are COM
posed OF women. What shall we do?
Sit down in silence and fold our hands.
or up and at work, doing what we can to
save souls and bring others into the fold.
There are hundreds and thousands of
unmarried women and widows, who are
compelled to earn their own livelihood.
The Att orney General, of Dakota, says a
woman is not citizen; every Negro or
foreigner, who takes out his naturaliza-
ton papers, is of course, citizen. Are
not women and children the greatest suf-
1erers from intemperance? Do you think
II our Ie gislators had the petition for
constitutional Prohibition two miles
long 1t would make any difference. How
long o-you think, would the saloons be
In existence, if we had chance to vote
on 1t; you take bad men into your homes
(provldMg they have money! but you re-
qulre twoman to be higher than the
angels themselves, What do you give
US, gentlemen, for our falthfulness? The
privilege OF taking a mans name "a poor
one at that, oft times) and our board and
clothes providing we help earn them.)
In almost every paper we take up, we
read acknowledgements and fraud; hus
bands deserting their wives and little
ones, and leaving them destitute to battle
with the world: or men cruelty using
their families. Do you think it would be
worse to let US vote, to correct existing
abuses, or would it be trampllng on the
rights Of our weak brothers?' How is it
in school matters? Has society been any
worse for women taking part in electing
school f6ocers. or is it perfectly proper
! for us, when votes are scarce, to step in
and help elect them; if proper in school
matters, why not in other things that
most concern our welfare, and the good
of our homes. An overweening anxiety
to possess this worlds goods, is shown in
the combinations that are formed to raise
the price Of the necessaMes,. of life-any
way to get money, by fair means or foul:
The love Of notorlety, enviousness,;
drunkenness and vice, are sapping the
life blood of the nation. Murders are
committed almost at our doors. Will
you, gentlemen, do what you can to stem
the tide and roll back the billows that
threaten TO engulf us, or will it be step
ping out of our proper sphere, for us to
help. 1have no particular desire to vote,
but if the men wont do the fair thing,
then, in the name of suffering humanity,
give US a5schance.
|#5@ u A WOMAN.
(The article in this column last week,
signed CD. B., was not written by G.