Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-03-29

ing performance OF their part OF II.
Defeated, but net Cast Down.
The Massachusetts remonstrants against
the extension of suffrage to women have
issued a circular in which they record the
defeats experienced by woman suffrage the
present year The worst defeat was in
Vermont, where the vote stood yeas 80,
nays 1872. Massachusetts, sets the attempt
off with the least rebuke, having a vote of
IS yeas to l27 nays The other states in
which heavier or lighter rebuffs have been
encountered are Maine, New Hampshire
Ohio, Nebraska, Nevada, and Connecticut,
with the territory of Dakota.
In her address at the last annual meeting
of the Vermont woman's suffrage associa
ton the president, Mrs. Mary E. Tucker,
made a scathing arrangement Of the legis-
latOrs whose action resulted in the defeat
of the bill giving women the right of NUM-
cipal suffrage, which came before the last
legislature. At the same time she spoke
most appreciatively of the efforts of those
who, like Mr.. Mann and Col Clarke, gave
such effective aid to the bill, and babe her
hearers to fight it out on this line, 50 despite
obstacles and discouragements, being as
sured that in the end victory would crown
their efforts. We have no cause for
shame, the speaker said, when we com
pare the intellectual and moral forces in
line, fighting for justice TO women, with the
oil MT of al 49,.
ton lies in the fact that the law-pey So
regards women as ineligible to the ballot
We must keep on along the same line as
heretofore, answering argument with srgu
ment, fact with fact. Gather up all the sta
tistics of women who are engaged in the
various pursuits commonly filled by men
Prove by the line upon line and precept
upon precept method that woman will new
er lose or forget her womanhood anywhere.
if she has its graces and elements within
her. And if she be all this-if she stands
behind her own counter, she will not be as
open to insult from coarse men as if she
clerks for another if she must visit banks.
lawyers Offices, the court ROOM the huspi-
tai, or meet with school boards, her ability
and womanhood will always command re
spect. If she is the unfortunate wife of a
victim to disease or appetite, and she as
sumes the support of her family and re-
mains faithful unto death, even though she
sews and scrubs, ploughs the field, gathers
the harvests, and fills the place of both
father and mother, she is a woman-aud
"obie one-the world says Then shall she
lose her womanliness if she speaks by that
little white ballot against the saloon that
has ruined her home and defrauded her life
of its sweetness Shall not the brave cap
tain's wife, who in times of emergency as
sumes control of her husbands ship and
safely sails into harbor, have voice as to
whether her sailor boys, endeared 10 her
by the sharing of common danger of the
elements shall be protected against human
pitfalls spread for their sea going feet the
moment they swing clear of the deck
Brave, womanly, men call the first but,
alas they, and women, too, denominate
the last immodest, out of her sphere.
Women will be moved by their feelings
too much, if we allow them to vote, say the
sages. God hasten the day when feelings,
sentiments, convictions, in place of partisan
ship and the saloon, shall find a voice in
government We have a recruiting
station in every school house in the land.
Men or parties can no longer persuade the
intellect or move the heart of woman TO be-
lieve that to stay at home is her only sphere.
Too well she has learned that she must oft
en- be home-protectOr as well as home
keeper. The romantic halo of the altar has
too often become the sad midnight torch of
a devastated home.
Think for moment of what women are
already doing in this country Consider
the protective and helpful societies organic
ed by and for women-the educational and
industrial unions and women's exchanges,
already reaching such magnitude of growth
aud benefcent results that we hardly grasp
their entity. Who but our own Mary Liv-
ermore conceived and launched the sanitary
commission during the civil war, which did
measureless deeds of love and saving What
besides woman's rare mind could set in
motion and keep its delicate machinery
moving to spiritual behests, an organization
like the Kings Daughters The same love
ly spirit of comradeship that shed its kindly
light DER the Crimean slaughter ground,
now belts the world in the Red Cross socie-
ties, guided by the white hand and stout
heartedness of Clara Barton. The WON.
ans Relief corps, its conception and execu-
ton all due TO the loving heart of woman,
her ability TO organize, her quick discern
ment of needs, is doing a work peculiarly
its own, and great beyond estimate. The
spiritual uprising of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union of this last quarter of
our century, with its masterfu leadership
and complex machinery, now embracing
forty departments, leading women outward
and upward into all classes and phases of
life furnishes another and conspic,