The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
SUFFRAGE GlEANINGS.

REMEMBER this-nO man can under
stand 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
menting upon the Boston election says:
1.-The women voted by the thousand
and they were not insulted or unsexed.
They voted in dignifed. 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.
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 culti-
walton the providing of proper labor
saving conveniences for the house as
well as the farm. the refnements of
life, and time spent in its pleasures and
amusements.- 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, 900 of
square miles and the population as
nearly 800, OOO, 600 Washington Post.
Mrs. CRAWFORD, the Paris CORES
pondent of the London Daily News,
testifes to the substantial wrongs which
will be remedied by M. 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 a
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 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 are
not enough, have more, but stop the
annexes. and give the girls, as well as
the bows, a chance for real work
The Housewife.
SINCE only the matter OF general
representation, and not certain degree
of intelligence and knowledge of the
care of property is considered in the
matter of deciding upon public cues
lions which concern women as well as
men, / believe that common justice
gives women the right to vote. . {.
To the plea that the ignorant vote will
be so greatly increased, / 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 be a larger proper
ton of conscientious and bipartisan
votes than are cast now.-Sarah Orne
Jewett