Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-09-06
Vol. III.-NO. 20 f.

NAo''t VA
II am glad Of it, not that was in favor of it
as prime proposition, but we are in fix, and the
easiest way we can relieve ourselves of the present
condition of affairs is to my mind the BEST
1t is fact that on no question preached since
the convention met has there been such rapid
change in sentiment as on this subject. Col.
Fewell's speech when introducing the resolution,
put members to thinking, and since then the meas
ure has steadily gained ground. 1t was we'll un-
derstood that the committee would recommend
both an educational and property qualification, but
the committee agreed to reject the property quail
cation and recommended an educational quafica-
ton to 60 into effect III the year 1896. In the
meantime the Australian system, that is now in
force in Tennessee, will be adopted.
From the Memphis Daily Commercial we quote
the following:
"Viewed in any light this is great advance, an
immense gain, and it will stagger, especially the
people of the Northern States, where systematic
agitation of woman's suffrage has long been con-
Quoted and encouraged with only here and there
partial success in forty-fve years. That Missis-
sppi, which has been painted in the blacklist col
ors of iliteracy and ignorance should be the first
State east of the Mississippi River to place the
ballot in the bands of women will starte and stag
ger especially those ln-the East and West who
have been in favor of women's rights. A COM
mittee composed of the abest men in the conven-
ton have, after mature deiberation, indeed upon
revision of their previous judgment, declared
for woman's suffrage on property qualification of
only $500. Well, this is step away in advance,
and dates new departure for Mississippi. When
the writer of this twenty-fv years ago first
preached the subject of woman's suffrage, upon
the logical basis of her responsibility here and her
accountability hereafter he was hooted at and de-
rlded, Knocked and sneered at, and only few
months ago he was subjected to rldicule and to
villifcation and abuse by newspapers not thou
sand miles away, which challenged his sanity But
time works wonders Buoyed up by hope, he felt
that success was only question of time as he saw
one by one of the artificial barriers in the way of
woman's advancement swept away. She rose to
an equality with her opportunities, and proved by
her rapid advance from three to sharing in over
1000 avocations and trades that she was worthy
to be in the best, the highest, the nobest and in
the most practical sense the helpmeet of man.
And so it has at last been established beyond
doubt or dispute, and as direct result of woman's
work, that neither sex nor the size nor the con-
tour of the head, affect the power to think and to
do, and that given the way, women have the will
and also ready hands to do their share of the work
of the world, and are, therefore, no longer to be
counted among the worlds useless mouths She
realizes that Christs parable of the talents applies
to her as to man, and that God and society will
demand an account of their use by her as of man.
The select men of Mississippi, prompted by the
right spirit, who have taken first step looking to
woman's absolute equality, have done wisely and
the future will justify them. When womans suf-
frage becomes part of the organic law every man
in Mississippi will feel great deal BETTER for in
proportion to the freedom of the women has always
been the bravery and moral courage of the men Of
our race"