Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-07-31

for her TO exercise that functlon-how
do you account for the fact that what
ever forward step you have let her take,
she has justified it?
Not only in my MUD is there no ar
gument against woman suffrage but
every argument for it. In the first place,
every extension OF intelligent
suffrage strengthens the body
polite. must believe this, or
give up the principle of republican gov
eminent, which is the strongest and Sc
curest form of government. ! know
some shudder little at universal sut-
frage, but 1t is ten thousand times more
dangerous to suppress and exclude
part of the people. The gases which are
harmless if vented, may work ruin II
you confine them. There can in the
long run be little danger when all are
equally responsible. Suffrage is itself
an immense education; its absence
degeneracy. The broader tho basis OF
your State, the safer. In the next place,
the influence of woman hes refined
whatever circle it has been admitted
into under conditions of its own self-re-
spect History, homely experience, COM
mon observation, all confirm this Wom-
an suffrage would not debase women and
politics. 1t would elevate both. 1t would
add to the body polite the positive Gle
ments OF feminine wholesomeness and
natural antagonism to vice and violence.
A new interest for the securities OF
home and peace, sobriety and order,
would be evoked Woman herself would
be benefited, as intelligent emancipa-
ton of every sort and to whatever de-
gree always benefits its object
can not help feeling that back of all
this matter of casting vote, lies still
deeper question of social integrity,
There is at stake not the unrest of few
women, leaders of the movement, but
the welfare-the moral and intellectual
status-of the great body of women who
| are in the mass of life, who toll in shops,
and whose character and fate are subject
to the molding of their circumstances.
Any thing that attaches to them badge
or fetter of inferiority, dependence, OF
weakness, just so far hinders their ulti'
mate moral and intellectual self-sover.
eighty. When woman is under full
equality of rights and of social respon
sibility, thence will date the era of a
wholesomer social life, which now some
times seems to be the despair of social
science.
The topic is boundless. have touch
ed only on familiar and practical as
poets, which come quickest home to thu
sense of Justice. To sum them up, it i.
right that women, equally burdened
should have equal voice IN the adjust
ment OF the burden. 1t is despotic an(
undemocratic to deny the equal right
Nothing is easier than to arrange TO
it's exercise without injurious disturb
ance to social life or political stability
Women would not be drawn from thei
duties, or their time over-occupied, an,
more than now in the case of men-anC
we all know how little, how next t.
nothing, that is for nine hundred ant
ninety-nine in every thousand of them
No dangerous, but better, elemen
would come into influence. | have n
more doubt of the ultimate voting o
women than / have Of the progress o
the human soul, or than / have that
when that time comes, more enlight
ened age will look back on our dis
elimination against one of the sexes il
this respect as relic of barbarism,
slowly-melting glacier of bourbonisr
and prejudice. want to be on recor
as having melted out early, or rather a
having never been frozen in.