Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-02-21
SUFFRAGE GlEANlNGS,

SUFFRAGE GLEANlNGS
REMEMBER this-nO man can under
stand a wOman's needs; no politician
cares for an unrepresented party.
We women are born governors by
virtue Of our motherhood. pity the
man, the miserable coward. who says
that woman must not vote because she
can not fight. The whole tendency of
the day is toward peaceful arbitra-
tion.-Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace
The New York Independent in COM
mcnting upon the Boston election says:
The women voted by the thousand
and they were not insulted or unsexed.
They voted in dignified. ladylike way.
and their presence made the polling
places more decent than ever before.
The way they voted was quite as in
telligent as that of their brothers, and
the result cOmmends itself to good citi-
zens.
THE opponents of woman suffrage
are sure that women would not exercise
purifying influence in politics if al
lowed the ballot. However it might
turn out, it is highly probable that they
would try to withdraw from political
parades the indecent carica,ures of
their sex which detract from the dig
nifty of the grandest procession. Women
feel humbled that such burlesques are
tolerated. New England Farmer.
AN Ohio farmer created considerable
CONSERVATION at an institute held at
Marietta by addressing the meeting on
the subject of '.Wife Culture" 1t was
branch of husbandry they had not
been in the habit of considering. He
recommended as essentials in this Guilt
walton the providing of proper labor
saving conveniences for the house as
well as the farm. the refinements of
life. and time spent in its pleasures and
amusements.-Woman's Chronicle.
WOMAN suffrage has been introduced
in various degrees in every territory
but New Mexico and every mainland
province of Canada, every colony of
Australia but one and in over 100
States, territories and provinces of
North America, Europe. Asia and Poly
nesia. beside nearly 1000 widely scat
tered islands. The area of these re-
gions is given as over $4,000. 600 of
square miles and the population as
nearly 800. 900. 600. Washington Post.
Mrs. CRAWFORD. the Paris CORES
pondent of the London Daily News,
testifies to the substantial wrongs which
will be remedied by NJ. Ernest Lefevre's
Bill. now pending in the French Cham
Der of Deputies. to give tradeswomen a
right to vote for Judges of the Tribunal
of Commerce. Mrs Crawford says
that in spite of the low legal status of
women in France, women exercise q
great and wholly irresponsible power
in the political world. ''They are too
well off to realize how bad the law
is" In business circles it is very diff
ferent.
IT is time women entered a protest
against the modern evasive method Of
education by college annexes. Women
are either fit to enter colleges, or they
are not; it is an insult to them, and an
abuse of the faculty, to put them in lit
tie sideshOws, where they may pick up
the crumbs left from college tables.
We have splendidly equipped educa-
tional institutions. all of which should
be as free to girls as boys; if there arc
not enough. have more. but stop tho
annexes. and give the girls, as well a.
the boys, a chance for real work.
The Housewife.
SINCE only the matter of general
representation, and not q certain degree
of intelligence and knowledge of the
care of property is considered in tho
matter of deciding upon public ques-
tons which concern women a. we'll a.
men, l believe that common justics
gives women the right to vote. !.
To theplea that the ignorant vote win
be so greatly increased. I maintain that
women will become educated by the
use and possession of their right much
faster than men have become educated.
and that there will b . larger propoF.
ton of conscientious and nnpartisnn
votes than arc cast now.-Sarah Orr
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