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The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-29
Hon. CHAS. r.. HOOKEiS

NJ Kinds county rs a candidate for reelection 10
Congress from the 9Th district; subject tn the
action Of the Democratic party,
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-29


mated Hiss
1t will be seen that the negro ma
iority has been increasing at a rate
which can be appreciated only by OBJ
serving the figures in contrast, thus:
1870 coored voting majority II ,941
1880 cOOTed voting majority. ............... % 24
$780, coOred voting majority. 70,S94
And the majority at the same rate OF in
crease for 1893
Again. a distinct conception Will be
obtained of an educational basis, by
contrasting the above with the follow
ing white majorties, excluding illit-
crates of both races from suffrage.
1870, white majority 59512
1880 white majority. 645
1880, white ma ority. 40451
l9O1 Whlte 2S,3iS
The increase of the white majority
from 1870 to 1880 is explained by the
smaller per centage of white illiteracy
compared with the large percentage
of negro illiteracy, overcoming the
larger per centage of increase in the
negro population, the former Operat-
ing as retarding force. But from
1880 the larger increase of negro pop
ulation with the decreasing illiteracy
began to reduce the white majority,
which will continue steadily to de-
crease until it may finally disappear.
The value of table number consists
in showing as accurately asall the data
possibly attainable can indicate that
the white majority will not fall below
5000 for the next ten years. The
precise premises upon which these es-
Inmates are made have been explain
ed so that everyone may judge of
their correctness. 1t will be said fur
ther that the stream of negro immi-
grafton to the State, one of the factors
of the enormous increase of the negro
population, may be partially check
ed by limitation on suffrage and
the requirement of longer residence
III the State, which will off. set the
more rapid decrease of illiteracy. At
all events it cannot be assumed that
the negro increase will-exceed 46 per
cent, and this has been taken as the
basis of calculation. Commenced
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-29

In $50 the iTIlteracy of the cOIOred
voting population was 80, and in the
same year the white illiteracy stood
at III per centum.
In 1880 colored illteracy fell to rs.
and the same year white illiteracy di-
minished to lis per centum.
On these ratios of decrease the next
table has been calculated in respect
to illiteracy, the per cent. being 50.
for the colored and 10. for the whites.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-29


Whole number white voters 49,. 1850
lllitcrate white voters ............. n,SS9
Educated white voters .............. 107 ,OOl
Whole number colored voters =. 1854
Illiterate cOlOred voters ......... 1854
Educated colored voters ........... $3.50
White majority. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 40,45l
In 1880 the percentage of white vo-
tiers was 22.5 per cent. of the whole
white population, while that of the
colored voters was 20 per cent. of the
cOlored population. These ratios are
followed in the next table OF the es-
timated number of voters for the year
1900. The ratio of decreasing illitera-
cy in the two races is thus: For the
colored race for 1870. 80 per cent; in
1880, rs per cent; 1890, estimated ut
65 per cent; and for 1900 at So per
cent. For the whites, in 1870, II per
cent; in 1880, 11.5 per cent; for 1890,
10 per cent; and for 1900, 9 per cent.
1t is assumed that the negro increase
of population will continue for the
next decade at rs per cent. and that
the whites will increase at the rate of
a per cent. On the above premises
the following table for the year 1900
is constructed
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28

an, that has in the last few years made
such measureless strides forward, long
and patiently has she toiled over the
rough, sharp stones of discouragement;
but, thank heaven, new and brighter
era has already dawned, and those who
plead, indeed, give us this day our
daily bread" have avenues opened
whereby their prayers can be answered
by compensation for honest and honor
able toll. Think of clerkships all over
the land filed by earnest women and
intelligent girls.
The public gold in Washington is out.
going to the salaries of honest women
as we'll, we hope, as honest men. We
have lazy Congressman drawing enor-
nous salaries, but alas, no lazy Con-
gresswomen, and the one should be an
Offset to the other. But isn't 1t grand
that woman has already proven her
business OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES re-
Enumeration for labor and receives it?
She is no longer obliged to stitch,
stitch her weary life away" at starvation
wages, nor allow her atom of strength
to take the legitimate place of Drawn
and muscle at the dashboard, and she is
daily climbing up higher and demon
strating to the world her accuracy and
fidelity in filling important places Of
trust. Finally, if these endless argu-
ments fail to convince women of their
ability to fill more than one sphere in
life, we must conclude that in this par
ticular woman is woman's worst enemy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28
The Promise to Obey.

We have arrived at point where dis
sent from the popular view is no longer
deemed unlovely. Charming young Ia
dies are beginning to have opinions of
their own, and we find, says Mrs. Maria
G. Frost, they can express them with
out losing the opportunity for family
ties and cOngenial companionship. Life
has a broader outlook for woman, and
marriage imposes no barrier to prog
ress. An Episcopal lady was asked:
what she meant by her marriage vows.
She promptly replied: 81 reserved the
privilege of private judgment" Excel
lent; but why make VOWS that have no
significance? Better drop the form than
make the inward reservation. Said Be-
riah Green, fifty years ago: 81 never
require the woman to promise more than
the man in the marriage ceremony" A
wise thought of great and good man.
This is the principle of equality We are
contending for to-day. 1t applies to the
family as much as to the State.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28
FRAGMENTS FOR WOMEN.

Two HUNDRED thousand unmarried
women and girls are said to be employed
in various trades in South London.
1 BELIEVE that the great vices in
our large cities will never be conquered
until the ballot is put in the hands of
women.-Bishop Simpson.
AN examination of subscri ption lists
made by Edward w. Box, shows that
seven-eighths of the subscribers to the
magazine literature of to-day are
women.
l FULLY believe that the time has
come when the ballot should De given to
woman. Both her intelligence and con-
science would lead her to vote on the
side of justice and pure morals.-Bishop
Hurst.
If the suffrage is long in coming, we
have this consolation, that every day
makes the desire for it more general,
power for good when it does come more
certain Gazette.
WE NEED the participation of women
in the ballot-box. 1t is idle to fear that
she will meet with disrespect or insult
at the polls. Let her walk up firmly
and modestly to deposit her vote, and If
any one ventures to modest her, the
crowd will swallow him up as the whale
swallowed JOnah.-Henry Ward Beech
er.
THE sphere of women continues to en-
large. The latest evidence comes from
Connecticut, where young woman has
been given license as dispensing
druggist 1t deserves to be added that
she not only got her license, but passed
the best examination that has yet been
laid before the examining board.-Bos-
ton Herald.
UNDER the misleading caption,
"Woman Suffrage, Pro and Con-" an OPP
ponent of equal rights for women, in
the Atlantic Monthly, publishes a med
lev of mistaken assertions and ground
less objections. This would be well
enough if the advocates of woman suf-
frage were permitted to make reply.
But to designate such an article as PRO
and con" is a misnomer. 1t IS al oon
and no pro.-WOman's Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28
FREE.TRAOE WAGES.
How They Compare with the Pay o
American Operatives.

How They Compare with the Pay OF
American Operatives.
No assertion is more frequently
made by free-traders than that the
difference between wages in this
country and in England is greatly
exaggerated in protection arguments
based on the difference of wages. Up
to 1887 few official statistics of wages
has been collected in England, and by
comparing the most favorable conditions
there and the least favorable returns
here, some basis for the charge could
often be obtained.
Fortunately, Mr.. Giffen, the official
Government statistician, has just made
a report on the different rate Of textile
wages in Great Britain. This report
gives not the actual wages, but the
''wages of a normal week." without de-
duction for sickness, shut-downs, slack
work or strikes. The figures were col
lected last autumn, a most prosperous
season, when all mills were running at
a profit. They are, in short, the most
favorable showing which can be made.
To reach the actual wages at least 10
per cent. must be deducted for sickness
and per cent. more for accidents and
the mischances of trade and of life.
The average weekly rate of wages for
about 900, 900 operatives, as given by Mr.
Giffen, are as follows, shilling being
reckonei at IS cents, slight overvalua-
ton:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28
MANS IDEA OF WOMANLY.
The Course Prescribed For the Oppressed
of Mankind.

The Course Prescribed For the Oppressed
of Mankind.
Some men tell US we must be patient
and persuasive; that we must be woman
ly. My friends, said Elizabeth Cady
mans idea Of womanly? 1t is to have a
manner that pleases him, quiet, defer
entail, submissive-that approaches
him as a subject does master. He
wants no self-assertion on our part, no
defiance, no vehement arraigning of him
as a robber and criminal. While the
grand motto Resistance to tyrants is
obedience to God" has echoed and re-
echoed around the globe, electrifying
the lovers of liberty in every latitude,
and making crowned heads tremble on
their thrones; while every right achiev-
ed by the oppressed has been wrung
from tyrants by force; while the darkest
page on human history is the outrages
on women-shall men tell us to-day to
be patient, persuasive, womanly? What
do we know as yet of what Is womanly?
The women we have seen thus far have
been, with rare exceptions, the mere
echoes Of men. Man has spoken in the
State, the church and the home, and made
the creeds and codes and customs that
govern every relation in life;and we have
simply echoed all his thoughts and
walked in the paths he prescribed, and
that they call womanly. When Jeanne
d. Arc led the French army to victory !
dare say the carpet knights of England
thought her unwomanly. When Flor
ence Nightingale, in search of blankets
for the soldiers in the Crimean war, cut
her way through all orders and red tape,
commanding with vehemence and deter
mination those who guarded the sup
plies to unlock the DOORS" and not talk
to her of proper authorities when brave
men were shivering in their beds, the
mobiles of Russia would no doubt have
called her unwomanly; but the doors
opened! the blankets were forthcoming!
and the men in their tents slept warmer
that night than if she had waited with
patience and persuasive eloquence to
convince the authorities that the ther.
mometer was twenty degrees below
zero, and that British soldiers, unused
to the cold climate of Russia, might be
little chilly in their tents. To me,
unlock the DOORS sounds better than
any words of circumlocution, however
sweet and persuasive, and l consider
that the womanly way of accomplishing
her object.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28
DRIFT OF OPINION.

W-The Cleveland experience in
Washington was speculation" from
first to last. The real-estate part turned
out trifle better than the political
n. Y. Press.
cK-Governor Boies Of Iowa, having
settled down quietly to the duties OF
his Office. is lost to the viewsof the gem
eral public, but what he has lost in mo-
toriety he humbly trusts he is making
up in salary.-Chicago Tribune. .'
sy-The Augean stables have 70 be
cleaned regularly and often. And every
once in while 1t is necessary to clean
out the fellows who are hired to reno
yate the aforesaid stables, but only in
crease their filthiness. The professional
stable-cleaners in politics are some
times most in need of renovation--Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
sB-Speaker Reeds argument in the
current number of the North American
Review in behalf of the position he
holds in respect to the power of the
Speaker to count quorum when a
quorum is present is one that can not be
controverted either on constitutional
or on common sensible grounds.-N. \.
Mail and Express. %. ttl
8The Republican party has been in
power just year in the executive
branch of the Government, and the
many diplomatic triumphs which 1t has
achieved and the sensible legislation
which the party in the law-making
branch has inaugurated show that the
people made no mistake at the ballot
box in 1Sos.-St. Louis Embellishments
eBThe convention in its ows affairs
also showed that the Republican League
is faithful to its trust, that the young
men who have enlisted in this army can
be depended upon TO march in the ranhn
without ambition to seize the reins OF
control and dictate to the chosen power
of party caucus as recognized in State
and National conventions. The resolu-
tions are singularly free from all such
interference They are in the line OF
Endorsement and encouragement to
party loyalty rather than party dictar
ton Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28
A Fossilized Idea Which Serves as q Relic
of Barbaric Age.

of a Barbaric Age.
Will women ever get through under
rating themselves? We have the relic
of barbarism in the few lone, wandering
tribes of Indians that refuse to be civil
drunkard that can not be reformed, and
the last drunkard's grave that is filled
will doubtless put an end to this partic-
ular species of decay; also the relic dis
senter to woman's education and busi-
ness qualification. We occasionally
hear, says writer in the Chicago Inter
Ocean, the WORKOUT theme revived in
the club-room, and an attempt made to
elucidate their particular idea of reform
which, unfortunately to the happiness
of man, at least, dates backward instead
of forward; for if there is one poison
more deadly than another to home in
terests it is the old fossil idea that wom-
an has but one avocation in life-that of
wife and mother. Preserved as relic
solely it served its time and passed
TRANQUILITY into posterity. Peace to its
ashes"
Woman is the maker of her own des-
tiny, and should she choose to become
the 'angel of the Preside" through mer-
cenary motives alone, because it is the
only means of livelihood, who would
dare foretell the sequel to such union?
The home might take on more of the
demoniac than the angelic. Again, We
have observed this .'dissenter'' at pub
lie gatherings where the speaker
CHANGED to be a woman. No matter how
keen the satire and how clear the logic
or flowing the diction it all went for
naught, and the speaker was referred to
as having ''recited her little piece"
Will some well-balance sister with
wisdom like unto Solomon, years in ad-
vance, who knows-for the lapsing ages
gather in strength-tell US process, a
line of argument by which this particu-
larly exasperating species of decay can
be brought within the fold of argument,
piled mountain high in favor of woman's
mental and business qualifications in
the past years, which, if any index tC
the future, savors of growth in all direc'
tions equal, at least, to that of man?
Patient, long suffering, mighty WON
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28
SUPPRESSION OF VOTES.
Figures Showing That the Crime q
Practiced All Over the South.

Figures Showing That the Crime q
Prscticed All Over the South.
The junior Democratic organ in this
city, tagging along behind Senator
Pasco, denies that there is any suppress
sion Of the colored vote in the South,
and asserts that voters in proportion
ately equal numbers stay away from the
polls, both at the North and the South,
through simple lack of interest.
The sections are not much unlike in their 10
gard for the ballot. In both there are thousands
Of stay at homes as well as unfail.ng voters. II
is quite as just to infer "suppression' in ons
case as the other. The short vote Of both North
and South is doubtless due to the same cause.
The full vote is not cast in the North because
great many voters do not think II worth while
to 60 to the polls and it is not cast in the South
for the same reason.
The inaccuracy OF this assumption
will become apparent when COMPARE
son is made of the number Of votes cast
in each State with the total population
Taking the United States as whole
there were on the average in 1880 5.3
persons-men. women and children
for every vote that was cast. The fol-
lowing table shows how widely the
Southern States departed from that aver
aOa.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28

We do not need to comment on this.
We scarcely need to print the COMPARE
son. II we are told that living is
cheaper in Great Britain, we have only
to reply that the careful inquiry made
by Mr.. Carroll d. Wright in 1888 showed
that ION any basis of yearly expendf-
ture the articles entering into the cost
of living were on the average 17.29 per
cent. higher in Massachusetts than in
Great Britain" Prices here have
fallen for almost all articles Of daily
consumption. In Great Britain they
have not fallen to the same extent. To-
day ten per cent. would be liberal es-
innate for the difference between the
two countries on this accouIt-Philar
delphia Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28

One may ask with reason why the
percentage of voters to the total popula-
ton should be the smallest in the Gulf
States, where intimidation is universal;
should increase in the border States,
where bulldozing is limited to certain
sections; and should reach its highest
point in the Northern States, whore
bulldozing is unknown. 1t may be said
in attempted reply that there are more
male adults in proportion to total popu-
lation in the Northern than the South
ern States. This is so owing to the
large foreign immigration majority Of
which is composed Of adults, many Of
them not yet naturalized. Males over
81 constitute little over 90 per cent. Of
the total population Of Southern and %
per cent of that of Northern States.
This, however, modifies but slightly the
figures given above and still leaves 1t
for Southern bulldozers and their de-
tenders to explain why there should b
twice as many persons to voter in
Georgia as in Illinois. Trib-
une. ...... .#.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28
WoMANS QUALIFICATION.

mands for himself.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-28

treatment by child abbreviateS par
ent's life, for what is there desirable in
fathers life or a mothers life if its
peace is gone? Do you not think death is
benefcent if it stops the mothers heart
from aching and her eyes from weeping,
and says: "You need not bear the ex-
cruciation any longer. Go and sleep.
will put the defense of a marble slab
between you and that boys outrages.
Go now where the wicked cease from
troubling and the weary are at rest "
At the departure of such mothers let the
music be an anthem instead of a dirge.
While you and l hear no sound, yet
there are at this moment tens of thou
sands of parental hearts breaking. ALI
care was taken with the boys schooling,
all good counsels given, and the equip
ment for a sober and earnest and useful
life was provided, but it has all gone,
and the foolish son has become the
heaviness of his mother. Much of the
poignancy of the parental grief arises
from the ingratitude of such behavior.
What an undertaking it is to conduct a
family through the ailments and expo
sures of early life! Talk about the skill
demanded of sea captain commanding
a ship across the ocean! That requires
less skill than to navigate young soul
in safety across the infantile and boy
hood years. The sicknesses that as
sault, the temptations that entrap. the
anxiet:es that are excited! Young man,
you will never know what your mother
has suffered for you. You will never
know how your father has toiled for
you. You have been in all their
thoughts, in all their plans, in all
their prayers, from the time
your first breath was drawn until
this moments respiration. What they
could do for your health, what they
could do for your happiness. what they
The National tribune., 1890-06-05
AndersonYiIle Prison Purcba,ed.

Capt. J. d. Crawford, Commander of the
Post at Macon, has purchased the famous old
prison at Andersonviile, and il is to be used as
q national park and club house by the members
of that Order 1t was first intended to buy the
land and 10 erect the stockadc again. The
grounds as near as possible. were to have been
put in the same condition as during the war.
and an admission fee charged. This was con-
Sidered an unwise step, and all the evils Of
such plans were brought to tear apon those
interested, and the money making scheme was
abandoned. The stockade and all trace Of the
old prison will be removed The land will be
turned into park aud greatly beautihed. A
largo club house will DO erected, and members
of the GAR. now scattered over North and
South, East aud West, can gather there. FL
nanc'ally the GAR. In Georgia is in good con-
dition. and It is proposed to make the park
second To none. The site is on the Southeast
eTn Railroad, and is a beautiful aud pieturesque
place. When it was selected as a prison il was
done under an Official order, having reference
to the following points: "a healthy locality,
plenty OF pure, good water, running stream,
aud If possible, shade trees aud ia the i'm
mediate neighborhood of grist and saw mills" ("