Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-07-04
THE BALLOT FOR WOMEN.
They VIII be Independent in Politics
Qualified by Education to vote-Numer-
Gus Objections Answered.

Qualified by Education to vote-Numer-
Gus Objections Answered.
In public meeting in the interests
of woman suffrage held recently in |
Portland, Me-. Mrs. Livermore spoke |
as follows:
If the experience of the Maine Wo-
man Suffrage Association should be like
that of the Massachusetts, Woman Suf-
frage Association, you will by and by
hail the day when the remonstraDts
entered the work as one of the most
fortunate days in the history of the
work. Let us have fight. Then we
are aroused, and If we believe in our
cause, we go to work in earnest The
remonstrants of Massachusetts have
given us power. Now they have re-
treated. They could not afford to help
us.
/ read the remonstrance in the pa
pers this morning. read all the
names, and read between the lines
talked with one of the remonstrants.
and she told me her objections to wo-
mans suffrage. She told that her OBJ
jections were the same as those OF Mrs.
Kate Gannett Wells, who headed the
list OF remonstrants in Massachusetts.
Now Mrs. Wells is persona friend OF
mine; We have worked together in
other matters, and | regard her as
large-hearted, noble woman. l. do not
desire to say any thing against her,
but will answer the objections that
she makes to woman suffrage. What
are her objections? Women do not know
enough to vote. Does she not exagger-
ate the amount of knowledge necessary
to votep The temperance question is
up. Don't women know enough to vote
on that question: They have made
the temperance sentiment in this coun-
try. They are called fanatics, they are
called cranks, they are called lunatics
If SO, George Washington was fanatic,
Abraham Lincoln was fanatic, the
apostles were fanatics, William Lloyd
Garrison was fanatic, and, be 1t rev.
erently spoken, the Lord Jesus Christ
was fanatic. Grant the women of
this land suffrage, and they will vote
overwhelmingly in favor of an amend
ment to the constitution that shall pre-
vent the manufacture OF liquor.
What are some of the other questions
that come up? The terrible increase
OF emigration. Never have emigrants
come here in such numbers as now.
Never have such class OF emigrants
come here as now Shut down the
doors on all the sweopings of the old
world. America is not to be made a
penal colony. Look at New York City
under the control OF the worst sort OF
foreigners Boston was under their
control until the women roso up and
helped the men to dislodge them.
Look at Chicago under the control Of
foreigners. Do not women know
enough about these things to know how
to vote?
Can not women DO trusted with the
ballot? Carol ID. Wright, chief OF the
National Bureau Of Statistics, is author
ity for the statement that there are
more Protestant women in New Yorl
than Catholic; that in the entire Soutf
there arc more white women than black
women and black men combined. w,
need not fear that II the women were
given the ballot the foreigners woult
: overpower us.
> Women do not know enough to vote
Why, my dear friends, the average
: woman is better educated than tn,
average man. The girls stay longer Ii
a school than the boys do. More girl
graduate at our high schools than boys
Thcn, after girls leave school, they joil
: clubs, and seek for more enlighten
ment There is network of woman
clubs all over the country. So Their
are mems clubs, you may say. Yes
but l don't know a woman's club wher
: there is bar. II we do not kno,
enough to vote, there is an inferenc
> on the other side that will leave yo
to draw.
4, Mrs. Wells says that II the wome
arc allowed to vote, all the bad wome
:, will vote. Massachusetts, has 1000
more women than men. In her jail
and penitentiaries are 1885 mon an
7S5 women. In a State where Their
;, are 20. 600 more women than men, Their
= ought to be more women in the prison
than men. II the bad women were a
lowed to vote, they could not overpov
er the men. Women are not given I
;, the deeds that send men to State pri:
70 on. or the women at the Massachr
u sets Reformatory prison, 81 per CEN
a were sent there for crimes committe
Ii while drunk. Shut up the grog-shop'
and 81 out of every 100 OF these wome
g will not go there. So you see 20
3 need not fear the bad women.
IS What will the ballot do for women
a 1t will do vast deal 1t will lift thel
s. up moro than anything else to pla
form of equality with mon. Do yo
q expect all manner of dire result frol
/ itP Do you expect they will simpl
+" duplicate mems votes? have been
% Kansas since the women were above
4 to vote, and they told me women wei
s the most independent voters in Kansa
They will not duplicate the men
l. votes My husband voted the Republ
;" can ticket II i could have voted.
a should have voted for Fisk. My hu
d, band voted for protection. shou
n have voted for free trade. Still, v
er did not quarrel about it II woms
don't vote as their husbands do. the
$, will be trouble in the family, it Is sal
Dr. Well, perhaps But l am inclined
oil believe that il such will be the cas-
there has been trouble in that fami