The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-30


YEMALK TKKOcIry.
Ttis proverbiaI that the tigress il more
ferocious and implacable than is her mate:
likewise the Is0ness: likewise she OF the
urssns persuasion Why should not these
anaiogies hold good when applied 70 > sex-
ual comparison OF The genus homoy And
why did not Mr.. Christopher Manner, In
tesnaI Revenue Collector II Chicago. Ilii-
nois, ask himself that question. and dill
gently seek for . correct answer thereto,
heretofore and aforetimey such. doubt
less. he has had occasion TO perceive, would
have been the safer and more sagacious
course
Some time ago. the Illinois Senators and
numerous Chicago petitioners in behalf OF
another person to the contrary ncswith-
standing. Mr.. Manner was appointed TO
and confirmed in the Office Aforesaid Mr..
Manner is one Of those patriots to whom, in
the language Of ex-President Cleveland, -
public Office Is . public trust" but Mr..
Manner thinks what Mr.. Cleveland has
not avowed. that one OF the implied
trusts" Is to 50 use the Office rs to
strengthen the party by whose favor it is
held by "the present incumbent" Mt.
Manner Is party man and worker. HIS
experience has impressed him that votes
are essential to . party's success, and theo-
retically that the existence Of . voter Is
essential to the casting of vote. In other
words, it Is theory, ut which Southern
communities would smile, that no votes
can be counted unless cast by qualified
voters.
On taking his Office, imbued with this
idea. Mr.. Manner found divers and sundry
interesting ladies employed therein in
divers and sundry capacities In Illinois
woman suffrage has not been adopted.
These lady employees could not vote. Mr..
Manner conceived It to be one of the OBJ
legations of his public trust" TO supplant
those lady non-voters with masculine
voters. And forthwith. suiting the action
to the word. he made clean sweep of the
female incumbents and supplied their
places with ballot-wielders-
That these latter were not worthy and
qualified does not appear as part OF the
record. But that cuts no figure. Har-
mony took wings and flew away from
Chicago and her environs. Trouble pre-
vaileth throughout the lake city and her
numerous suburbs The fair expeIlees by
one common impulse put their feet down.
ST. Louis can require no assurance that the
earth trembled. Mr.. Manner was aroused
10 a realizing sense that il was better for
him that he had devoted himself from
earliest boyhood upward to the robbing Of
beehives and the destruction OF hornets
nests.
Not the discharged lady employees only,
but the Woman's Club (weIl namely took
the matter up. Treating Mr. Manner with
sovereign contempt. they sent delegation
direct to Washington, where they secured
an audience with the President, and into
his dszed auriculars poured out their
grievances. This Is part, and it must be
confessed that 1t Is not ineloquent, of their
appeal:
Since the close of the civil war women have
been employed in various Offices. and have done
their work 90 we'll that neither political party
has ever thought OF denying them the right to
such positions as they were qualified to flil
Given such places at first q q debt OF gratitude
30 women who had worked faithfully in hos
pital wards. or whose fathers, husbands, or
brothers had given their lives for tho country,
they have been retained because they have
deserved to be retained: because the efficiency
Of the public service has nowhere been greater
than where they were employed; and because,
being equally with men bread winners for their
families. ~ well a. taxpayers. they were equally
al IN ha bar af haf
country.
The President was sagacious He re-
ceived the ladies kindly and heard them
respectfully. But as yet he has given no
sign. and II is not the rule of modern FEM
inindom to be bound by the ancient maxim
that silence gives consent" They are
still agitating. The air is murky with the
fumes thereof. The Chicago newspapers,
almost il not quite without exception
(being sagacsous). have been enlisted in the
cause of the ladies. The issue cannot be
doubtful. Mr.. Manner had better never
been born. The President had better
capitulate. 1t is the most erroneous of
errors to suppose that women, because
they cannot vote. don't amount to any
hind II, the throne IL simply nowhere.
Compared with men. the .vox" part OF
their 'populi" is as countiessness to
nothing.
1t were better for congress 10 adjourn
without passing any tariff bill. or any sill
yer bill, or any kind of bill. for that mat
ter. than attempt to make stand against
the just indignation of these fair worlds
fair) ChicaKoans Let the commotion
cease