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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-05-04
THE DIVORCE QUESTION

The New York Herald has been
gathering the opinions of leading
people in this country, male and
female, about marriage and divorce.
Such people as Bishop Whitehead,
Joseph Cook, President De Costa
of the White Cross Society, Frances
f. Willard. and some few others,
are in favor of a National law
regulating divorce. Kate Field
SAYS that Legislators had better
beware how they put a premium
on vice by forging the marital
chain so tight as to make q separa-
ton too difficult" and Annie
Jenness Miller backs MISS Field up
with the demand, "Make the gate
way as wide as possible" Will
lam ). Holman and Congressman
McAdoo assert that no National
law is wanted, as the regulation OF
marriage belongs exclusively to the
field OF State legislation. Marion
Hlrland favors such amendment Of
the law as will forbid either OF the
DIVORCED parties to marry again.
Sarah K. Bolton, "havIng seen
women and little children made
dependent on charity through in
temperance and failure to support,
cannot think that infdelity should
be the only use for divorce"
Take it all in all, the weight OF
public sentiment is strongly in
favor of either a National law reg
ulating divorce, or a uniform law
in all the States, in accordance
with which a woman legally mar
ried in one State would find her
self legally married in every State.
People are getting new ideas
about marriage and divorce. The /
moralists deplore the fact that |
divorces are getting easier every
year. They do not look beneath
the surface of things. No law
should compel people of uncongen-
ial temperments to live together and
people the earth with unwelcome
progeny. People who have made
a careful investigation OF the sub
ject, claim, and we believe that
they have strong grounds for their
claim, that nearly all the crime and
vice in the world can be traced
back to the evil of uncongenial
temperments being linked together
by law which perpetuates the
mistakes made by people who
marry thoughtlessly, and who in
many instances are forced into
matrimonial alliances by misguided
friends, when they would have
made other choice il left to them
selves.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-05-04

The San Francisco Post has
began to illustrate. Its pictures
however, do not seem to be as
high as the type. If the Post
pressman will underlay with a
sheet of 14-pound fat cap, the
pictures will show as we'll as the
type.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-05-04
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The Iola register., 1889-09-06

the storm bowling. '.Now," said
the sailors. now the mother" and
she leaped and was saved. The
boat went to the shore; but before it got
to the shore, the Ian nismen were so impa.
tient to help the suffer .ng people that they
waded clear down into the surf with
blankets and garments. and promises Of
help and succor. SO there are whole fam.
lilies here who are going to be saved and
saved altogether. Give US that child for
Christ, that other child, that other. Give
us that mother. give us the father, the
whole family. They must all come in.
All Heaven wades in to help you. 81
claim this whole audience for God. / pick
not out one man here nor one man there;
l claim you all. There are some of you
who thirty years ago, were consecrated
to Christ by your parents in baptism.
Certainly l am not stepping over
the right bound when l claim you
for Jesus. Then there are many
here who have been seeking God for good
while, and l am not right in claiming you
for Jesus: Then there are some here who
have been further away, and you drink,
and you swear, and you bring your fam.
lilies without any God to take care of them
when you are dead. And claim you, my
brother, claim all of you. You will have
to pray some time; why not begin now,
while all the ripe and purple cluster of di-
vine promise bend over into your cup,
rather than postpone your prayer until
your chance is past, and the night drops,
and the sea washes you out, and the ap.
palling fact shall be announced that not.
withstanding all your magnificent oppor.
tunities, you have become a castaway.
The Iola register., 1889-09-06
New Occupations.

The ingeniousness of women is prov
ing great aid to those who must be
self-supporters. The alacrity with
which they see an opening and
make business is. well-as quick
as wSmen. The .'seminors" of the city
are good examples OF educa.
ton who post society women on cur
rent topics. literary. political and
scientific. enabling them to converse
intelligently. In London a number OF
women are serving as guides. They
are a wonderful improvement on the
usual parrot-like type. The general
governess is becoming an institution at
summer resorts. She takes the child
rem off the parents hand. by the hour.
and not only makes them happy and
gives the mothers rest, but earns a good
salary by it. too. A clever young girl
with camera picks up points here and
there which the artists and the illus
trated papers buy. Another clever
girl discovers that she can become a
caterer; perhaps she makes only cakes,
perhaps serves whole meals, and thus
earns livelihood. Another who paints
on china buys kiln and fires her own
and her neighbors' wares. The sum
total of the women earning comfortable
incomes in these odd ways is very large.
-Chautauquan.
The Iola register., 1889-09-06

or moral, she has borne q creditablo
part. and given her sympathy and
support to correct theories and sound
purposes There is not single blot
upon her history, not a single point in
her record that needs defense or ex-
cuse. She began with raw prairie, and
in less than half a century has become
an empire of wealth, influence and
general excellence; or, to speak def
nitely, her triumphs have been mainly
achieved within the last thirty years.
This remarkable exhibit is the result
of Republican causes and Republican
endeavors. The Democratic party has
steadily antagonized all the influences
which have operated tc promote the
welfare and reputation of the State in
such superior degree. Iowa owes
every thing she is and every thing she
has to the wisdom and energy of the
party which has so long controlled her
affairs and given drift ard tone to her
public sentiment 1t may be- said with
out exaggeration that the principles
and teachings OF that party have been
the very breath of her life, the source
of her strength and her glory. The Re-
publicans have a right to point with
pride to her greatness as conclusive
demonstration of the virtue which be-
longs to their political faith. 1t is not
necessary to look far In order to SCI
how poorly the effects of Bourbonism
compare with this showing. A short
glance suffices to put the two pictures
side by side; and the lesson of the con-
trast is one that can be read and un-
derstood by the humblest citizen. 1t
is apparent as the sun at MONDAY that
the policy of Republicanism tends con-
stantly to the removal of wrongs and
burdens, whereas that of Bourbonism
enlarges and increases them. A cer-
tain measure of progress is possible, to
be sure. in spite of Bourbon draw
backs; but experience clearly proves
that it is only under Republican aus
pices that a really substantial and sat-
isfactory form of prosperity is to be
attained. This is what the example
of Iowa teaches in facts and figures
that leave no room for controversy.
Her marvellous success in all the re-
spects that signify honor. self-respect
and surprising opportunity is prac-
tical vindication of the methods by
which the Republican party strives
and conquers. And it is at the same
time judgment of utter condemna-
tion against the follies and prejudices
of the Bourbon plan OF regulating the
interests and shaping the destiny Of
State.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Iola register., 1889-09-06
Where's the Difference?

Looked at with a view to fair play
and justice, the right of the women to
vote would be clear, says Lucy Stone.
To illustrate: In one town lives a
man who owns his house and land, and
who has family of children. Next
door to him lives a woman who also
owns her house and land. and who has
family of children. This man and
woman have the same personal and
property rights, and the same family
interests Is it not clear that by right
and fair dealing they should both have
vote on the questions that concern
them alike9
Out on a ranch lives ayoung man
who took up land. He has conformed
to the law. He has proved up" on his
land, owns it, and will make his home
on it. But on another ranch lives a
young woman who took up land. She
has conformed to the law, she has
'.proved up on her land, owns it, and
will make her home on it BY all fair
dealing. the young woman should have
q vote as well as the young man.
Husbands. fathers and widowers have
special interests to protect, and they
will have votes to protect them. Wives,
mothers and widows have special in
terests to protect. In all fair dealing.
they should also have votes to protect
those interests. The men who upheld
slavery are ashamed of it now. The
men who deny equal rights to women
will surely be ashamed of it in the fu-
ture.
The Iola register., 1889-09-06
CURRENT COMMENTS.

%To be negro is apparently as
much OF crime in Atlanta as it is in
the darkest parts of Mississippi or
Louisiana.-Chicago Tribune.
B1The claim of the Democrats that
they will carry Ohio this fall is tan.a-
mount to the assertion that the voters
OF this State have nos good sense.-
Toledo CO., Blade.
HG-A record is sometimes an en-
barrassii hing, as Senator Reagan
doubtless thought when at Bismarck
the other day. He made some allusion
to the war debt. and one of the dele
gates arose and reminded the Senator
that he was in JEFF Davis Cabinet
when that debt was being made. II
may have been impolite to the visitor
and guest to allude to such things, but
if the record had not been true the
embarrassment would not have oc~
CURED --Dss Moinss (Ia-) RsgistsE.
The Iola register., 1889-09-06
IOWA'S GRAND EXAMPLE.
Tho Forces which Have Made the Hawl
eye state 2ich and Respected.

Tho Forces Which Have Made the Hawk
eye state 4ich and Respected.
The Republican convention just held
In Iowa was typical gathering in
point of intelligence. patriotism and
Progressive impulse. That is to say,
it was truly representative of the
forces which iave made that State
such a splendid example of modern
civilization. TIE story of the growth
and development Of Iowa is a story of
the best means adapted to the best
ends of government by the people and
for the people; and the whole country
has right to rejoice in her success,
since it shows what can be accom-
plished when the right efforts are
made in the interest of true prosperity.
Only one per cent of her population
are unable to read and write Her
tax levy is but 81 mills. She produces
an annual surplus of grain and stock
amounting to hundred millions of
dollars. Her public Improvements
have all been made with strict hon.
esty and economy; and she does not
owe a dollar of interest-bearing
debt. She has given to the Ma
ton some of the best statesmen and
some Of its most distinguished SOL
disRA In every emergency. political
The Iola register., 1889-09-06
WHAT IT MEANS,
The True Significance Of won.n Sud

The True Significance OF Woman Suffrage.
Among the excellent articles called
out on this side of the water by the ac.
ton of the English Remonstrants. was
an editorial in the New York Home
Journal. which paper. after re-affirm-
ing its own steadfast loyalty to the
cause. said:
woman suffrage is not the mere
privilege OF voting. 1t means a social
revolution. a reconstruction Of society
on a higher principle. 1t means-if
you will permit the wOrd-the woman
izing Of society. 1t is not woman who
by her entrance into political life will
take the mold of society as it now is,
but society that will be nodded anew
by woman. She will not lose thereby
her distinctive attribute and charm.
but will infuse into the social state the
warmer sympathies. the disinterested-
ness, the moral enthusiasm and the
profounder sense of justice that are
characteristic of her womanhood.
''In fine, the movement for woman
suffrage is but a part Of the general
drift of modern society toward a higher
principle of organization than that
upon which it now rests, and its great
Importance lies in the fact that it is an
essential step in this revolution-a rev.
olution which only with the aid Of wo-
mans larger sympathies and finer sense
of justice may be peacefully accom-
plished. And not until this profound
revolution has been effected may the
author of Robert Elsmere' and those
who sympathize with her aspirations
for regenerated society hope to have
their dreams realized.
The Church Universal!-that was
no fiction in medi@val times when So
ciety was constructed consistently
throughout on a basis of force. The
Church Universal!-it will cease to be
a fiction of modern times when society
is reconstructed consistently on the
basis OF justice and that fraternity
which justice involves. 1t is to woman
that we look for this reconstruction.
1t is from her heart that the vitalizing
force must proceed. Its by her active
participation alone that the great work
can be achieved"
The Iola register., 1889-09-06
Changed Their Tune.

Referring to the assertion sometimes
sneeringly made by coarse-minded men.
'When my wife goes to the polls and
votes, she can wear the breeches," the
Glenrock (Wy.) Graphic says:
1--WE have known men to make such
q remark, and afterwards. after having
resided in Wyoming few years, and
witnessed woman suffrage in operation;
after observing the quiet and orderly
influence of women's presence at the
polls; after noting the courtesy and re-
spect with which they are treated; after
becoming convinced that a woman is
capable of casting her ballot at least
as intellisently as the average man,
and realizing that a lady may exercise
the right of suffrage and be lady still
after having studied all these things.
We have known these men to regard it
as their duty to see that their wives
were furnished with conveyances that
they might go to the polls and vote"
The Iola register., 1889-09-06
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

TwENTY-oNE trustees have been
chosen for the Columbia Annex, OF
whom thirteen are women.
THE Utah women are organized to
regain the suffrage which they had for
seventeen years and which they were
deprived of by the Edmunds law.
The officers of the Alumna AssOcia-
tion of the Harvard Annex for the
coming year are: President Miss Annie
L. Barber. of Meadville. Pa, vice.
president. Miss Edith Stearns Cushing.
of Cambridge. Mass; secretary and
treasurer. Miss Mary Goes. Of Wor-
cester, Mass.
THE Primrose League, enrolling over
80. 900 ladies. and the more recently Or
ganized Women's Liberal Federation.
now numbering $4,000, are organiza-
tions Of no little force in the politics OF
England, the Primroses being intense
ly Tory. and the Federation as in
tensely Liberal
CERTAIN property-owning women in
Vermont-the Legislature having re-
fused women the righ. to vote in mu-
nicipal elections-have sent in a petit
tion declaring that taxation without
representation is tyranny" and asking
to have all taxes removed from prop
erty owned by women.
Miss MARY A. BRIGHAM has been
chosen president of Mt Holyoke Sem
mary and College. She was educated
at Mt. Holyoke, has been for twenty
seven years associate principal Of Prof
Vests Brooklyn Heights Seminary,
and has twice been offered the presi-
dency Of Wellesley College.
THE city editor of the Muncie (Ind.)
Evening Herald is a woman-Miss
Minnie McKillip. She is an energetic
newsgatherer. meet trains. getting inter-
views at the hotels and furnishing the
printers with more copy than any
one else on the paper. Miss McKillip
is eighteen years old. petite in figure.
and is said to be quite pretty.
THERE are in this country forty-eight
national societies of women, with a d.
rect membership of five hundred thou
sand. The largest is the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. with
100000. Then follow the missionary.
peace, suffrage, philanthropic and ed
ucational organizations. Twelve of
these have joined with the National
Council. formed to unite all the women
societies into one great league.
The Iola register., 1889-09-06
THE BODY PoLITlc.
4 Diseased System That Needs Docto
in1

4 Diseased system That Needs Doctor.
ing.
1t is said that women should not vote,
because they have avenues enough now
to serve humanity, in the various
philanthropies, ETC., etc, writes Mrs.
Helen p jenkins, in Woman's Journal.
The work that women are doing for the
poor, the miserable, the sinful, the Grim.
inal, is noble work; but these efforts do
not reach the sources of wretchedness
and poverty and crime, and thus diminish
them. Good as they are. much needed
as these efforts are, they are but sooth-
ing applications to the sores of a dis
eased system. Would it not be well to
doctor the system and have less of the
disagreeable dressing of the sores to
do? To care for the wife and children
good service as to make it possible for
that husband to take care Of them him.
self. To nurse a girl who has gone
astray is good work; but still better
will make inlquity less frequent l
think women would make excellent
doctors of the body polite as well as
of the individual body.
The women who are working for
woman suffrage see they think they
are not mistaken) that with the ballot
they may be able to strike at the roots
of much of the wickedness and wretch
edness and poverty in the world. There
are signs of such things already on the
earth. For instances:
In Oskaloosa, Kan, one year ago,
women were elected to all the city
offices. Those women did not seek
those offices; they shrank at first from
filling them. Men nominated them
and helped to elect them; then they
bravely consented to take the burdens
of Office. One year of service has
proved so satisfactory that this year
they have all been reelected. The
Jail, which formerly had many occu-
pants, has none The debt, which
has hung over Oskaloosa ever since
the war, has been paid off, and the city
treasury, which was empty. has now a
surplus of one hundred dollars; and
meantime those women have not
neglected their homes. Is there any
significance in this? 1t seems to me
there is something we'll worth the
study of our people-and our legisla-
tors-in this simple but significant
story. This ballot for women" is not
a question of whether we women want
more responsibility or not; it is ques-
tion OF duty, religious duty, national
duty. We have a nation to save and
not our own comfort to consult. We
have a race to rescue, and fine-ladyism
must not restrain us from doing our
work.
The spirit which prompts some wo-
men to engage in the various philan-
thropies in order to help their fellow
beings is the same which encourages
others to work against all obstacles
and obloquy for woman's power in the
State; and all things shall work to-
gether for good.
The Iola register., 1889-09-06
A GOOD APPOINTMENT.
Republican Protest Against Democratic
Methods of Industry.

A Republican Protest Against Democratic
Methods of Industry.
An illustration of poetical and po.
litical justice has recently occurred at
Hazlehurst, Miss. This locality. be-
fore unknown to fame, in 1888 sud-
denly acquired National reputation.
1t was a negrO-hating and negro-hunt-
ing place. Having reduced the blacks
to subsection by the well-known
Mississippi methods, it next turned
its attention to the few white men who
had courage enough to vote the Re-
publican ticket. There was an elec-
tion pending in 1888, and in the cam
paign meetings of the Democrats
| arrangements were made to suppress
.he Republican vote by notifying tho
voters that they would be killed if they
attempted to exercise the right of
suffrage. One Prent Matthews, a
white man and Southerner of CON-
siderable local prominence, was the
conspicuous object of their malice,
and. as he had avowed his determi-
nation to vote, his murderer, E. B.
Wheeler. was selected by lot to kill
him if he attempted to do so, and an
official warning was sent to him.
Election day came and Matthews, true
to his word. presented himself at the
polls. voted his ticket, and as he
turned away was shot dead by
Wheeler A public meeting of Demo-
Gratis was held at which j. l.. Meade.
who had been conspicuous in the
earlier meetings, presided. Resolu-
tiOns were passed justifying
the brutal deed of Wheeler
and defying the law. The courts
were given to understand that they
must take no cognizance OF the affair.
The coroner of the county. evidently
wanting his fee, presumed to hold an
inquest, but was deferred by Wheeler
himself, who sent him word: There
is no need Of an inquest on Matthews.
i shot him." No inquest was held.
No arrest was made. Wheeler went
unpunished and became the hero Of
Hazlehurst. Meade, who had been
particeps crim,nis. received his reward
at the hands of President Cleveland,
who appointed him postmaster. The
wave OF indignation which swept
over the country, however. caused a
revocation OF the appointment. and a
less Objectionable man was given the
place.
Six years have elapsed, and mean
while the family of Matthews has suf-
fered, but now Miss Clara {. Mat
thews. the daughter of the murdered
man. has been appointed postmistress
at Hazlehurst, and to that extent the
memory of her father has been vindi-
Gated by a Republican administration,
and the right of every man under the
constitution and laws to exercise the
right of suffrage has been affirmed
If exact justice were done Aiss Mat
thews would never be disturbed in her
position and always remain there as a
living protest against Mississippi in
justice and the cruel. brutal methods
of Mississippi Democratic politicians
Tribune
The Iola register., 1889-09-06
"A young man who had recently

"A young man who had recently
commenced the use OF the gymnasium.
and who was carefully reading up all
he could find on the line of physical de-
velopment, put on his call card at a
library Beecher's Morning and Even
ing Exercises" Another. while pre-
pairing for vacation on the banks OF
Schroon Lake. asked for Under Cam
vas" a book which sets forth the evan
gelical work which the author carried
on during several summers in a tent
known as The Muslin Church. ~
Library Journal
The Iola register., 1889-09-06
No Vote No Tax.

Miss Anna Smyer. who took up q
homestead claim in Dakota FIVE years
ago. was warned recently by county
official to pay her poll-tax. which drew
forth the reply: Il have just found
out that last years assessor has charged
me with poll-tax. think it is funny,
and If you want to mention the fact that
! object to working out poll-tax unless
! have the privilege of voting at the
next election you may. don't know
whether the man did it through spite
or through ignorance. If it was ig-
norance some one else may learn from
it l am past twenty-one, and don't
deny it. but l want the privilege of
voting as well as working. Dress this
up to suit yourself, and send me map
of our blessed Dakota"
The Iola register., 1889-09-06

BosToS UNIVERSITY has graduated
AS doctors of medicine, nearly one-half
Of whom are women