The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-17

Australian system; compulsory education;
high license and local option; the nGtionali-
zation Of nationalisms; equal wages for
equal work for both sexes; the ballot
for both sexes and compulsory voting.
1 believe that every one who IS entitled
to the suffrage should be compelled
use it, and in this way respectable psople.
who now stay away from the primaries and
the polls, leaving the whole machinery to
the control Of the politicians, would be
made to take m active interest in elections
Their indifference has helped 10 make politics
corrupt Tammany is an illustration of the
corruption Of Il system that has been
allowed to undermine our politics. don't
think very much of either Of the present
parties; one is just as bad as the other.
Some people affect to sneer at omen
who take an interest IN politics and honest
government; but all the facts go to prove
that our sex is just as capable Of admins
tering business affairs as men are. Women
are daily showing more and more business
qualities. They can manage big estates,
postofhces, banks, and, quite lately, l
read of one lady who was the presi-
dent of a surface railroad When l saw
that, down in Kansas, there were several
towns entirely differed by women, and
thatein these towns, owing 10 the rigid
economy and honesty of the local admins
tration, no taxes have been levied this
year, the surplus revenue of last year being
sufficient TO meet all expenses, 1 asked
myself whether the vast am unit Of money
annually raised il Brooklyn as taxes was
really all needed. Idon't believe it is. If l
had been choien mayor, | would have seen
TO it that the city's affairs were managed
so as TO bring anout the best result at the
lowest cost. | would have matrons
in the police stations several
women police justices, for women alone can
try women properly; women TO sweep the
street, for they can do it better than the
laborers ever do, and it is no more degrad-
ing than cleaning out offices and securing
saloon floors, but it is better pay. | think,
too, that one-half of the aldermen should be
women. There is the seat of all municipal
corruption. The presence of women in the
board would make bribery, corruption and
vicious legislation next to impossible There
should be women on the Park board, too,
for women have finer eye for beauty than
men, and would be better able to deal intel
igently with the decor ttion and improve
ment of our public parks.
No candidate was ever more kindly, OF
even CALAMITY, treated than have been |
was surprised by the number of congratu-
lations received. Then the newspapers
spoke SO kindly. OF course some little
levity was INDUCED in, as, for instance.
where an editor loosely suggested that my
ballots be printed on primrose pink paper,
or where another addressed me as "Whoa,
Emma", which exclamation, | must CON
fess, has the same effect on me as the men
ton OF a white horse would have on a red
haired girl. But took it all philosopai-
caliy, shutting my eyes and ears to every
thing. Incidentally, | may say that a
source of considerable amusement has been
the alleged portraits of myself printed in
the different newspapers, all of which were
unrecognlZable
This is progressive world, and a more
than progressive age. We all learn by ex-
perience, and have learned much in my
late campaign that will be valuable to me
should my friends carry out their purpose
of organizing OH an extensive scale, and
making another effort two years hence,
under a woman's leadership, to scale the
parapet of municipal extravagauce and
corruption, and make a fight to give our
city better government, and its women,
at least, some Of the rights they are now
denied. EMMA BECKwITu.