Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-17

or given to him and in whose exercise
you invite her to instruct him.
l can not conceive of more absurd
condition Of things than that the woman
who is capable of doing all this is not
capable to do the lesser thing.
Collegiate Training.
mistake lies in assuming that the
education most desirable for women who
will marry is totally different from the
education most desirable for women
who will not marry. A collegiate train
ing, says Mriter on Woman Suffrage,
accompanied, as college training is COM
ing more and more to be, with exercise
and gymnastics, tends to give woman
sound health, and also to cultivate,
strengthen and broaden her understand
| ing. Good health and trained mind
will stand her in good stead in any posi-
tion in life-will make her efficient and
successful as mother if she should
marry, or efficient and successful in
some other profession, If marriage
should not come to her A certain gen
eral foundation of liberal culture is
thought desirable for young man, no
matter whether he is to be doctor, law
yer or minister. Nobody objects to it on
the ground that it is giving a like train
ing for totally unlike professions. 1t is
the foundation of all professions. To be
sure agreat deal of all scholastic rubbish,
of little use either to men or to women,
is still taught in most colleges. This
could be eliminated with advantage to
both sexes. But the advocates of equal
rights believe that the same basis OF
general culture which is good for man,
no matter whether he is to enter the
law or the ministry, is also good for
woman, no matter whether she is to
marry or do something else. 1t is also
to be remembered that marriage does
not necessarily absorb woman's whole
time and energies. She may be sue
cessful mother, and also success rs a
literary woman or lecturer on cookery
Examples are not lacking.
Unjust Taxation.
1t was taxation without representa-
ton" that directly brought on the Revo-
lutionary War. Our fathers would not
pay taxes unless they were represented,
and declared that to pay taxes, when
they were denied representation, would
be slavery" robbery" and tyranny"
But, says the Woman's Journal, women
are taxed all over the Republic without
being allowed representation. Tho
women of Massachusetts alone pay an
nual taxes to the amount of S2,000,000.
How vast the aggregate of the taxes
paid by all the unrepresented women Of
the United States! Why, the Stamp Act,
over which our fathers famed in right
eous indignation and refused to pay, so
that the British Government yielded
and withdrew it, was not expected to
put into the treasury more than $780,
600! Is it not plain that women need
the ballot for their own protection?
Only by complete enfranchisement,
! which will place women on an equal legal
footing with the men Of the nation, can
these centuries of dishonor be brought
to an honorable close. Nor will this ac-
complish any quick-coming millennium.
1t will only bring in the beginning of the
end, when manly men, and womanly
woman, equal in rights, but different in
function, shall workstogether for the ac-
complishment of righteousness and JUS
tice in national as in family life.