San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-07-18
Prohibition and Woman Suffrage.

Prohibition and Woman Suffrage.
For the Free Press:
Some weeks ago the Texas Christian Ad-
vocate said editorially; 1.-THE Advocate ia
vors as in the past bipartisan prohibition,
and party or no party is opposed to woman
suffrage. The prohibition party will make
but small gains In the South as long as II
continues TO be woman suffrage party
Now this misleading, to say the least Of II,
and liable to injure good cause. The Ad.
vocate says "as long as 1t continues to be
woman suffrage party"-Now the pro-
hibition party is not never was, and the
probabilities are never will be woman suf-
frage party. Because our noble women for
the protection of themselves, their hus.
bands, brothers, sons and the rising gener-
alton, with more reverence for God In this
cause than thousands of men who make
long prayers to the Lord but vote for the
devil, should advocate and work for prohi-
bition does not make it, woman suffrage
party any more than II makes IL negro or
Mexican party because q few Of those
worked and voted for prohibition. It Is
true that at the convention Of last year o
resolution was passed saying 'each state
has the right to vote on the question Of
woman suffrage. Does any sane man
deny this Do not the states vote upon
all other questions Why not upon this
Now I am not an exponent, neither an ad-
vocate Of woman suffrage, neither did lad
vocate the emancipation of the slaves, nor
the fifteenth amendment, nor the shipping
over Of thousands of anarchists and COM
munists to this country and giving them
the ballot but they came Just tho same.
Now our likes and dislikes or our
opinion of right and wrong are of small
import We live in progressive age, we
move along with the procession or we are
left behind and called old fogies. Whether
progress is for good or evil is not the ques-
ton; the fact remains and nothing Is left
US bu3 to make choice. We may choose
with tnLe n,iuOritv s"on, the .s7';- ~ shot
lit is better to be right than be president"
In the dark ages woman was regarded as
but little better than slave, she was "a
newer of wood and q drawer of water" but
she has gradually advanced with civilization
until she to-day stands mans equal In all
things, save manual labor and his superior
In many. Her mind is capable of as high
and classic education as his. In the store
as saleswoman, or counting room as book
keeper, in telegraph and telephone Office,
in music, art or dentistry, rs teacher, law
yer or physician, she stands side by side
with man, with oil of his virtues and few Of
his faults. Not only in the professions Is
she mans equal, but in the business rela-
tons of life; on the ranch, the farm or the
Of city, she has proved her.
self success. Three cities in one state
being under her control, one of them had O
heavy debt and in two years they paid the
debt and had balance in the treasury. Yet
woman is denied the ballot, while II is CIV
en- to millions of ignorant blacks and vi
cious foreigners who neither know nor care
anything for our laws and institutions, and
are controlled by the commands of their
or communist orders or the be-
hest of the priest-but QUE women, born,
raised and educated in shis country under
her laws are not competent to vote, and
their claim of the right to do so must be
used as a stigma to any party they favor
md cause sufficient for its defeat.
JUSTICE.
San Marcos, July ~, 1889.