The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-01-24

EDITOR DEMOonATl-I read heV,
u. y. Herbruck'a letter in your paper OF
the 18th inst, and have given II time to
digest, but the longer wait the leaH u
agrees with my mind hence | must
throw out q few thoughts, DIR, Naph'
eys says in "Physical Life OF Woman"
aThe mental faculties Of man and wo'
man are unlike, but not unequal, What
her brain lacks In weight ID made up
by finer texture, any argument 10 The
contrary Ii met by the fact that The
most able men are often uuderslzed,
with small heads"
Granted the truth OF Rev lis state
ment that "woman'a moral position Is
In the family" what Is no going TO do
with the Afty thousand women In
Massachusetts alone, for whom there ~
no family possible, because there are no
husbands for themY Shall they BIT
down with folded hands, and eat out
their hearts and waste their brain power
because 40 family ties arc here for
themY Or shall they submit 10 being
pushed about from basement TO attic
In some other persons home, because
they have no home, no husband TO give
them a housef Or II they earn or In
herlt a home for themselves, shall they
tamely submit TO DO taxed and gov
erned by paupers and criminals from
Europe, Asia and Africa, who can't
write their own names or read the
ticket they voter
These stay at home mothers (who
know nothing Of Physiology or Hygiene
and take no time to read donot always
raise the best children. But does II
take more brains TO know how 10 vote
| than TO bring up q voter from his birth
10 his twenty.hrst year9 | believe
with Mrs. Hickman, "lt is unsafe 10
deny the vote to women who constitute
two thirds of the church membership,
and give 10 TO men who furnish nine.
tenths OF the %patronsof our prisons and
saloonB2 ?" She says, "Unleas our C0un'
try Id 10 DO governed by tbs slpms, w0-
man must be allowed TO vote. Their
help Ii needed TO put down oommun'
ism, intemperance and vice" IL Is said,
though not proved, that homo happi.
ness would occasionally be impaired II
women voted; but II In certain that IL "
very often ruined because they don't,
As for the Duchess, thank God we
have none In this country, aud that
butcher with his manly brain and
strong body, ought to'haye known bet
ter than lot 4 woman bemean herself 80.
Very likely no was raised by n stay.at-
| home.mother. Melhinks strong men
ought 10 DO ashamed 10 own TO the
owhirlpool of political passion and out
rage" aud | think II high time that
woman'B refining inflence Ii brought 10
bear, at the poles.
"To be a wife In n Christian home
and the happy mother of children" IL
counted q great blessing by all good
women. But what 10 Rev. IL, going to
do with the thousands OF wives who
must support drunken husbands and
the thousands OF widows, and the thons'
ands Of maldens for whom there aro NO
husbands and this vast army Of homo
less women must earn their own living,
/ think many women are now farming
In tho "west;" and | believe they might
also be- civil engineers and architects
without losing caste. They can't all be
sewing.women, teachers, type writers.
clerks, nor can they all keep boarders,
They have diversity of talents, even ~
men, If they have not the same bulk OF
brains. II they dare not DO doctors
lawyers, preachers, authors, nor have
the right TO vote and hold lucrative Of
lice, what shall they do TO earn them
selves homes and keep out Of the Poor
Housep Let Rev, II. solve this problem
by his theory II he can. q. WIS.
Canton, Jan, 10, 1889.