Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-04-12

But not only is the American woman political
slave according to her fathers definition, she is
the only woman of all countries positively forbid
den to become public ruler. Not only is she
shorn of all political Importance, but the Supreme
Court of our nation has decided that she is not
even ga person"
But what is the fact with regard to other parts
of the world? Savages, we are told, are particu-
larly brutal to women; yet Stanley tells us of
woman, whom he found in the heart of Africa,
absolute monarch over a tribe of wild warriors,
not one of whom would make the slightest move
contrary to her directions. In this civilized coun-
try, Forum contributor tells us the reason why
American women must not be allowed to express
legal opinion is, because "the force of a COM
munity is male" and men might not obey
woman ruler
But China, that great empire of three hundred
million souls, has moved on peacefully and pros
perously for the past seventeen years. under the
despotic rule of its strong minded and able en-
press, who proved in the first year of her reign her
own ability to manage the Government without
dictation.
In India, from time mmemoral, native women
have been celebrated for their successful rule over
''Whenever government is wisely and econom-
ically administered, it is almost certain 10 be
province governed by woman" Last year, 1885,
at the Fifth National Congress held in India, ten
women, Hidu, Pars Mohammedan, and native
Christian, were admitted as regularly accredited
members of that great political body, seated upon
the platform with the president Sir William We'd
derburn, Charles Bradlaugh and others, who had
come from England to attend this Congress.
But, on the other hand, not only could no wom-
an be sent as delegate to political congress of
this nation, but even in religious conference of
men held in New York of late, five women, regu-
larly accredited delegates, were ANONYMOUSLY ex-
PEELED from that body, their credentials refused,
for the distinctly avowed reason that they were
women.
In despotic Russia every married woman not only
has perfectly equal property rights with her hus-
band, both as living partner and as nheritor after
death, but as taxpayer she has the same right to
vote in all affairs where Russians vote and exer-
cses that right as freely as man.
In this country woman, loved and honored
wherever she is known, who once offered her opin-
ion at the polls, was arrested, thrown into prisen
and condemned to pay a heavy fine, because the
Judge QeClueQ "a WOludu is uOJ u ClUlAou.
Yet we talk today of publicly rebuking Russia
for her treatment of her women criminals. High
spirited Russian women who are FESTIVE under the
principle of despotism represented by one car,
deliberately render themselves liable to punish
ment for treason, by attempting that monarch's
death and the overthrow of the Government by
force. Do we wish to publicly encourage the use
of dynamite for overturning governments not
founded on the just consent of all the governed?
Shall we ''rebuke' one nominal tyrant, who in
many political affairs recognizes the equality of
women, while we have here at home nation of
cars who utterly deny there is any political differ
ence between the opinion of woman and an idiot
except that in eighteen States it is in favor of
the IDIOT provided it is male?
In England, conservative England (the "effete
monarchy''), women have in one part of the realm,
full right of suffrage on every public question, and