The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-19
GOOD WORDS FOR womsN.

GOOD WORDS FOR wOMEN.
If l had been created a women in.
stead of a man. / should hate to be
told, on going to the polls. that | was
on a par with State prison birds and
idiots; and l believe in doing unto
others as l would that others should do
unto me. Geo. r Scott.
A GOOD man, said the other day,
'Oh! keep out of politics. Women
have no business in politics" Sure
enough! But how can they, when
some woman's husband is there every
blessed minute, and if married people
are one. how are you going to elimin-
ate the womene-Woman's News.
The New England Woman Suffrage
Association, having reached the age Of
twenty-one. is no longer in the minor
ity period. and is entitled to the bal
lot and full rights of citizenship gener-
ally. The single of conservatism still
refuses to go over the dam, but the in
evitable is near at hand. Boston
Globe
BISHOP SPALDING. in the Forum, has
no idea that '.our social life' is imper-
lied by polygamy. for the reason that
mo man who has regard for his peace
or comfort would think of having two
wives in a country in which woman has
become so intelligent and independent
that the only sure way of living happily
with even one is to be humble and ODE
dent .
The Law Department of New York
University, at its late commencement.
graduated at least one young man who
had the courage of his opinion on the
question of equal rights for women.
Frederick Henry Paulman took for his
graduating address the sermon:
Ought Women to Desire to Vote?" He
supported the affirmative. All honor
to him,
THOSE Americans who oppose the
equal suffrage of women. must show
that it is Just and wise to tax part Of
the population without giving them
representation. and that governments
may justly exist without the consent Of
the governed. They must also show
that it is reasonable to permit the most
ignorant and drunken men to vote, and
to forbid the most intelligent and
superior women. George William Cur
tbs.
In an address on the Centennial of
Washington's Inauguration as Presi-
dent, before the Single Tax Club, of
Benton, Mo-, DIR. H. S. Chase, of st.
Louis. said. 1.-The ballot must be given
to women. In women are the heart
and conscience of the Republic.
Whether they exercise their right or
not, the ballot in women's hands will
provoke thought on all public ques-
tons of comfort and happiness, and
their influence will be felt in all efforts
to sweep away social wrongs"
PRESIDENT LEvELANDs remark that
woman suffrage is sure to conceive
all recognize that" expresses the atti-
tude of most of the really intelligent
public men of the country, and the
tone of intelligent public sentiment
The long years of toll by woman's
rights workers amid storms OF ridicule.
abuse and SANDER. have broken and
scattered the formerly solid, logged.
violent opposition. To-day the public
sentiment does not demand the abolition
Of woman's disfranchisement. but it is
ready to accept it .E
WOMAN is a fact, and politics and re-
forms are facts, and facts are related.
When woman walks up the broad av-
,nue of civilization with politics and
ler husband, the man will be more
careful in his actions. would like to
see the molding hand OF woman in our
State politics. l want to get some Of
influence. which forms and re-
orms man, into politics which defOrms
nan. Great Britain is a thousand times
,etter off under Victoria than it will be
lnder her son. l would throw wide
,pen the double-barred doors to man
md woman alike.--Rev. q. P. Clifford
DR.. SHRADY, editor of the Medical
Record, and one of the physicians who
attended General Grant in his last ILL
less. is reported as saying in recent
Women are almost always
,luckier than men. They endure pain
much better. Have you ever observed
low irritable a man is who is suffering
rom toothache or neuralgia? but a
Toman will often suffer without a muir
nur. All other things being equal. a
roman will face death with more calm
ess and fortitude than man, which
nay be partly accounted for from the
act that the instinct for life is stronger
0 a man, and his habits and surround
1gs have trained him not to give in so
asily." 80
The Vote is Power.