Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-07-11
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE SLIPS.

EVERY year gives me greater faith In
woman suffrage, greater hope OF its
success, and more earnest wish to use
what influence possess for its advance
ment. Louisa M. Alcott.
The Fayette (Ky) Equal Rights AS
ISOLATION, always active in good works,
is trying to secure the appointment OF
an assistant woman physician in each
of the asylums for the insane.
CINCINNATI, the Queen City," is
awakening to her needs. This centen-
NAL summer she is making history. A
woman suffrage club, woman press
club, woman's paper are all making
their appearance.
In 1888, Angelina Grimke wrote
that some Boston women, including
Maria w. Chapman and l.. Maria Child,
were talking of starting woman's
rights paper. During that year Sarah
Grimke wrote series OF letters on
THE Equality of the Sexes" after
wards published in a small volume. ad-
dressed to Mary L. Parker, president
of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery So
ciety.
REV. F. II. PALMER, in the Christian
Union, takes exception to the doctrine
of the wife's subjugation, and says: lis
there any room in Christian homo OF
the nineteenth century for the idea OF
subjectionP Is there any possibility OF
such home becoming 'despotism?
Is obedience proper word, or the issu-
ing of command proper thing be-
tween husband and wife, the two per-
sonalities whose union unto one makes
the unit of the family? We answer,
Mo- thousand times, MOI"
NEAL Dow. in answer to the ques.
ton, ''How do you stand on the equal
suffrage question:" in the Chautauquan
said; "Once l laughed at it. because
had not thought about it seriously, and
was in bondage to old customs; but al
my two sons and two daughters grew
up, and the former voted when they
passed a certain arbitrary line called
twenty-one, l saw the absurdity o
holding back my daughters, equal!
patriotic and intelligent equally amen
able to law and its penalties and to tax
alton, though debarred from the RICH
of representation"
The recent vote on the municipal
woman suffrage bill in the Obi,
House OF Representatives stood thir
ty-six to thirty-six. and the bill
was lost But to get tie vote in tn
Legislature of Ohio, which has hithert
been exceedingly conservative on tn
suffrage question, is almost a victor,
in ITSELF The convention held at Co
lumbus the day before by the Ohio w
S A. undoubtedly had much to do wit
this result One member of the Legs
lature. who was converted at this NEE,
ing by the address OF Rev. Annie h
Shaw, proved himself an able and er
| thusiastic champion OF the wome
, in the Legislative debate the mex
day.
, ADyIcEs from England state this
| about two million women were res
| istered and voted at tho late election
: England, Scotland and Wales for men
bers OF the new clay councils. III
Countess of Aberdeen Is at the head {
large organization Of wealthy. title
: and influential ladies who have unite
: to enforce the rights of their sex to $
r as members of the councils and to r
{ sist any attempts to deprive Lady SAM
t hurst. Miss Golden daughter of Ricl
ard Cobden) and the other ladies WI
. have been elected to the councils
: their places therein. on any legal pr
$ text The report that Lady Sandhur
l | will be made member of the LondC
E board OF aldermen seems to have goo
b foundation