Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-07-11
MAKES NO PROG RESS.

Eo,ty-one years ago the first womahs
rights convention was held at Seneca
Falls, N. Y. Today in Wyoming alone
women are permitted to vote on all
questions 90 equal terms wish men In
Washington Territory the law granting
them the suffrage was set aside by the
supreme court in 1887. In Utah the
Eamuuds law excludes women from the
suffrage they once enjoyed there. In
fourteen states they can vvts tor school
officers, but whenever amendments to
the Federal or state constitutions have
been proposed granting women complete
suffrage they have been decis'vely
defeated. The same result is visible IN
England, where two bills were recently
introduced, one admitting only married
women to the suffrage, and the other
putting men aud women on an entire
equality, as to the elective franchise
The women Of England, like the women
Of America, have risen up to protest
against this legislation on the ground
that they do not want the suffrage, and
many have peti,ioned against it saying
that "tbe proposed extension of the
parliamentary franchise to women would
be q measure distasteful to the great
majority Of the women Of the country,
unnecessary aud mischievous both to
themselves and the state"
The last number of the Nineteenth
Century contains "An Appeal Against
Female Suffrage" signed by about sixty
women Of distinction, including a brill,
liant American woman. Lady Randolph
Churchill, the daughter Of the late
Lawrence Jerome, of New York. The
signers Of this appeal say that "the hard
work Of governing and defending the
state must naturally depend on men, and
that women cannot undertake it success
fully, because of tho disabilities Of thei1
sex; that they are satisfied with thu
powerful, though indirect, iuauenc
which they already have as social factors
and that to force them into competition
with men in the actual business 0
government would be to weaken, if not t
destroy, that influence, and to subjec
them to hardships which they are un
fitted to bear that the emancipatip
process has now reached the limits fixe
by the physical constitution Of ~ome'
and by the fundamental difference wEic
must always exist between their occup'
,ions and those Of men; that If wome
we're admitted to tho suffrage the
natural cagerness and quickness
temper would probably make the
hotter partisans than men, and the who
nation would suffer in consequence ; Il
risks Of politics would be enormous
increased, and what is now nation
blessing might easily become nation
calamity, while political life would tel
to blum, the special moral qualities
womer, aud SO to lessen tue nation
serves of moral force"
The force Of this argument is confirm
BY our experience in Boston and
Brunswick, N. j, where the WON
neglected to exercise their right Of voti
for school officers until bigoted app
was made to their religious partisanst
and prejudices. Last year the VIII
vote cast at the New Brunswick SCH
elections was less than 800 and includ
but very few women, but at the rece
election the number Of women vot
alone was 1863, thus electiug the citize
ticket over the regular ticket BY la'
msjolity. The ludicrous part Of
affair is that Mr.. Woods, the candid
on the regular ticket, who was accu'
Of a disposition to favor Roman Cathol
as teacher at the expense Of Protestar
is himself strict Presbyterian while
the sixty teachers in the New Bruusw
schools only six are Roman Cathol
and no teacher, Catholic or Protests
has any opportunity to inculcatc religi
doctrines, for the schools are who
secular regonian.
PEACHES ON SAGEBRUsH.-We
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