The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-07-24
GOOD WORDS FOR WOMEN.

If L udu Uocu CroduOu q Wohoi Ill
stead of a man. l should hate to be
told, on going to the polls, that l was
on 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 49,
A GOOD man said the other day,
ooh! 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 womenP- 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.
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 VoteP" He
supported the affirmative. All honor
to him!
The Boston Globe makes the follow
ing characteristic comment on the de-
feat of the women's license suffrage
bill: women can't vote this year on
the question of granting liquor licenses
So says the Great and General Court
Well, well, the women may not get this
crust, but they will get the whole loaf
one of these days. They are beginning
to want it, and what they want they
have way Of getting"
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 tho most
ignorant and drunken men to vote, and
to forbid the most intelligent and
superior women. George William Cur
It's. e-.-
In an address on the Centennial Of
Washington's Inauguration as Presi.
dent before the Single Tax Club, Of
Benton, Mo-, DR.. 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 CUES
tons of comfort and happiness, and
their influence will be felt in all effort:
to sweep away social wrongs"
PRESIDENT LEvELAND's remark thai
"woman suffrage is sure to conceive
all recognize that" expresses the atti
tude OF most Of tho really intelligent
public men of the country, and the
tone of intelligent public sentiment
The long years OF toll by woman''
rights workers amid storms Of ridicule
abuse and SANDER, have broken an(
scattered the formerly solid, logged
violent opposition. To-day the public
sentiment does not demand the abolition
of woman's Acknowledgement but it il
ready to accept it. .r..,.
| WOMAN is fact, and politics and re
forms are facts, and facts are related
When woman walks up the broad av
enue OF civilization with politics ant
her husband. the man will be NOR,
careful in his actions. would like t,
see the molding hand OF woman in oul
State politics. l want to get some o
woman's influence, which forms and re
forms man, into politics which deform
man. Great Britain is thousand time
better of under Victoria than it will b,
under her son. would throw wild,
open the double-barred doors to mai
and woman alike. Rev. u P. Clifford