The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-21
WIVES AND WoMANs' SUFFRAGE.
The Prospective Results In W""h-
ingIOn and wyoming.

The Prospective Results la WHNI-
ington and wyoming.
Wyoming and Washington have be-
come notorious by their woman sui
frage laws and their practice OF having
mixed juriCs of men and women, on
some occasions locked mp together over
night. 1t is pretty well understood
that woman suffrage was started by
Free Lovers as an indirect way OF at
tanning their ends, the chief of which is
that oil making promiscuIty respectable,
though some good people have been
hoodwinked into following alter the
woman suffrage movement.
The chief difficulty the CrankS have
had to encounter is the refusal Of wOm-
anKind TO want the voting privilege.
But though this is true we think they
" ill find IL class that will appreciate
the value of IL vote, more particularly
its money value, and the newly enfran-
Chiscd will war; to Wyoming and
especially to Washington in astonishing
| numbers.
The Wyoming and Washington
cranks will, by adopting wona sui
frage constitutions, not only attract the
free love cranks all over the north and
east, but they will open up a field for
the negro women of the south. The
negro women of the south will be
suited with the mild climate of eastern
Washington and an exodus OF them
exceeding any Kansas exodus will
take place. Not only will they find
situations as house servants but the
perquisites in the way OF vOte-selling
and jury fees will be no inconsiderabIe
adjunct to their regular wages. No
one in the world will better appreciate
the advantage of drawing a salary as
a cook and serving on a jury for pay at
the same time than a negro woman
Many persons believe that it would
be better for both white and colored
that the negroes OF the south scatter
out through the whole country instead
of remaining in the south. But a peo-
pie will o get up and leave their old
surroundings without special induce
ments. Woman suffrage and mixed
~iuries Of men and women locked up
e night together, will be less objec-
tionable TO women of the African race
than TO the majority of the women OF
the white race. We may therefore ex-
pect a steady movement of colored
women towards Washington and Wy
oming when these advantages are
accorded them aud fixed by constitu-
tional enactment.
The greatest need of the remote
territories has been that of wives for
the hardy and enterprising men who
go out alone to carry civilization with
them. The scarcity of omen there
hts caused numerous marriages be-
tween white men and Indian
They even find the latter more suitable
for wives for frOntiersinen Than white
women. In a few generations it is
hard TO tell that the descendants are
not pure white. The exodus of negro
women from the other states to wy
Oming and Washington will be a YER.
liable godsend to the wifeless settlers
there.
These negro women are nearly all
good house keepers, strong, hardy,
healthy and exactly suited for the
rough stage of society now existing IN
Wyoming and Washington. There is
no prejudice against them there on
account of their color and in a few gen
erations they Will have become entirely
assimilated by the white race. The
better looking muiattOes, quadro0us
and OCtor00ns of the south will find
advantages in the matrimonial line
among the hardy white settlers of
Washington and Wyoming that no
other part of the country presents.
Adopt your woman suffrage constitu-
tons and we will guarantee you all the
wives needed.
One of the greatest men of this age
has nnIntn1 nnt tho fact thot mon,-
laws have other effects than those in
tended by the law makers, and so it is
likely TO be when Washington and
Wyoming adopt constitutions per-
hitting women TO vote. They have no
thought of the millions of negro women
in the sOnth and elsewhere in adopting
woman suffrage but they are the only
women who as a class will take advan-
tage of it. As soon as they learn of il
they will take a bee line tor Wyoming
and Washington and settle as numer-
ously there as they have done i'll
Kansas.
Kansas has already cried "Hold,
e%nough;' but this VIII not be the case
with Wyoming and Washington. The
scarcity of white women there will be
increased by woman suffrage constitu
tions, and the demand for wives will
be in the key of "anybody, Lord" and
thus the negro women of the south can
fill the want. The negro mel who go
there will be about the only men in the
world brave enough TO marry the white
suffrage -shriekiug spinsters and grass
widows,
Thus, starting out only with the ex.
pectation of making a little promiscnlty
paradise tor themselves in remote cor
ners of the %nnion, the people of Wyo-
ming and Washington will build better
than they know. They will get just
the kind of wives suited for them ana
will do much TO settle the vexed Grace
problem" -