The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22
INTERROGATION POINTS.

Fair Questions for Honest Remonstrants
Against Woman Suffrage to Answer.
Suppose there were two candidates
for the Legislature, one of whom ia
vored the present law which allows a
widow to remain in the house of her
deceased husband only forty days with
out paying rent; the other would vote
to change the law so that widow and
her children may remain in the house
as long and ON the same terms as a
widower may do-would remonstrants
pray that the burden might not be
thrust upon them of voting for the can
didate who would be just to the widow?
A WOMAN has money earned by her.
self, or given her by her father, or in
any way held as her own. Under the
present law a husband may borrow the
money. give his promise and his note
to pay. But neither the note nor the
promise has any legal validity. The
wife has no possible way to recover her
money if the husbands sense of justice
and honor does not compel him to pay
her. as it very often does not. Would
remonstrants pray to be relieved of the
burden of voting for the one of two
candidates for the Legislature who
would urge the passage of law that
would make contracts between husband
and wife valid. as they are not now?
The law now gives the father the sole
legal right to the children, so that he
may send them to serve in grog-shops,
or apprentice them under evil condi-.
tions. or dispose of them as he pleases.
and the wife has no legal power or
right over the child so long as she
lives with her husband. Would re-
monstrants pray that the burden might
not be throwpupon them of voting for
a legislator who would endeavor to So
cure law to make the legal right of
the mother in the children equal to that
of the father?
The law for the protection of the per-
son of little girls is only seven years in
Delaware. The repeated petitions of
women have not been able to increase
it. In no State is the person of little
girls protected to an age equal that at
which their property is protected.
Would remonstrants pray that the bur-
den might not be thrust upon them of
voting for the one of two legislators
who would strive for law to protect
the persons of little girls as fully as
their property is protected?
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can will only one-half of her. property
without her husbands written consent
on the will, unless she have given the
whole to him. in which case it is as
sumed that his consent would not be
wanting. But the husband has no such
restriction on his right to make will.
The consent of his wife is not required
TO make his will valid. Would remon-
strants pray to be relieved of the bur-
den of voting for the one of two candi-
dates for the Legislature who would
favor a law for wills that should he
equal for husband and wife?
Under the common law husband is
entitled Gf there has been a child born
alive) to the use of the whole of his
wife's real estate as long as he lives.
The wife may be dead and the man
married again. The children of the
first wife may need the property of
their dead mother, but the use of it
may all go to the children of the Sec
ond wife if the father so please. While
husband has the use of the whole of
his wife's real estate as long as he lives,
a wife has only the use of one-third of
the real estate of her husband after his
death. If he eutlives her she gets no
use of the third of his real estate. and
during her married life is entitled
legally to only her food, clothes and
medicine, just the allowance of town
paupers. The husbands right to his
wife's property is called 1.-The estate by
the courtesy" This is a pleasant
name. The wife's right to the use of
her thirds" is called 1.-The widows in
cumbrance," which is not so pleasant a
name, and the fact is not so pleasant.
Would remonstrants pray not to have
the duty thrust upon them of voting
for one of two legislators who would
endeavor to secure law to make the
right of the husband and wife equal in
this case?
In the early settlement of Wyoming
Territory, the necessity to secure shell
ter and places in which to live, COM
PEELED men to work on Sundays as well
as other days. When houses were
built, the habit of everyday work with
open shops and business all the time
continued, when there was no longer
any need of it. Many men desire
quiet Sunday. But they could not elect
a city government in Cheyenne which
would not permit business on that day
unless the women, who all wanted
quiet Sunday, should vote with the men
who wanted an orderly Sunday The
women voted, and their votes. added to
those of the men, secured the right city
government. After Wyoming wome2
proved what they could do by their
votes, they have never since been
afraid to vote. Would the remon-
strants have prayed not to have the
duty thrust upon them of helping their
men save the children from the evil
example of open bars, shops, saloons,
gambling-houses and no rest day on
Sunday?
In a certain town at the West. where
New England men and women had