The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-20
EQUAL IN TAXATION.
III Woman Can Not Fight She Can Ps
Taxes-A Power In Time OF Peace.

III Woman Can Not Fight She Can Pay
Taxes-A Power In Time OF Peace.
Why should not women vote2 / met
very intelligent man, said Hon. G.. A.
Marden, of Boston, in recent speech,
who said: There are only three reasons
/ know of why a woman should not vote.
The first is that she is woman" That
reminds me. l said, of the story of the
man who gave eleven reasons why he
did not carry home brass kettle that
was borrowed. The first reason was be.
cause he had not had it. The second
reason this gentleman offered was that
women is physically incapacitated
large portion of the time for performing
political duty. The third reason was
that women had such an uncommon in
fluence over men that they would be
corrupting influence in politics.
woman ought not to vote "because
she is a woman" Grant that, and the
question is ended. That comprises the
whole of the argument. When you get
person on the other side down to his
lowest terms, he gives you the same rea-
son that was given by the gentleman re-
ferred to-a woman should not be allow
ed to vote because there would be some
times when she could not go to the
polls. 1t is said that women can not
serve on juries. But you ask women by
the hundreds and thousands to do house
work every day, which is good deal
more severe than serving on juries
Thousands of women work in our mills,
stores and shops, and yet that duty is
more arduous and draws more heavily
upon the physical system than all the
political duties done by all the politi-
clans of the State. And If it should
happen that at the time the polls were
open a woman did not feel like going,
she would only be on par with hun.
dreds Of men.
They tell US women ought not to vote
because they can't fight That is the
very last resort of the men who oppose
woman suffrage. / looked over the CEN
sus of 1885 before coming here, and i
found this. More than go, 900 boys be-
tween eighteen and twenty-one, who
were then enrolled in the militia, could
not vote. More than 100000 men who
can vote are between the ages of forty
five and the limit which comes to all
mems lives. Put the two classes to-
gether, those who have to fight and can
not vote, and those who can vote and
don't have to fight, and they outnumber
by good many hundreds the men with
whom the functions of voting and fight
ing go together. So that there is no
necessary connections between the two
Our fathers fought not against the
right or the obligation to fight and bear
arms without representation, but against
taxation without representation. The
same cause is as lively and important
to-day as it was in 1910. We tax wom-
an as we tax man. We ought to be
able to say to her that she shall have
the right, as every man has, to utter her
voice as to what disposition shall be
made of her property. Women can not
fight, it is true. Men are no: all re-
quired to fight. We are learning to
govern this world not by figh ting, but
by arts of peace; and if women can not |
fight, what peacemaker she is! We
are learning to govern by arbitration,
by leaning toward the things that make |
for peace: and in that attitude women |
ought to be, as she might be, the pre- |
vailing influence in our government.