Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-15
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A SERIOUS MISTAKE.
The Native American Cheats Himself BY
Deprlving Women OF the Right to Vote.


Deprlvlng Women OF the Right to Vote.
1t is said to be a mistake to have in
vited foreigners here as we have done;
to have all the people Of the world COM
ing here and sharing our inheritance.
What could we have done, asked Rev.
Olympia Brown in a recent speech be-
fore the National American Woman
Suffrage Convention at Washington,
without these foreigners? The Irish.
men have tunneled our mountains and
drained our marshes and built our rail-
roads; the Germans have cultivated our
broad fields, and made the desert bios
som as the rose; the Welshmen have
filled the land with melody, as they
sang their sweet songs and lifted up
their voices in devotion. Every nation
ality has done something. We have
learned something from them all, and
all have contributed to the strength and
the glory of our great country. They
have helped us to subdue and to extend
our dominion from ocean to ocean. 1t
is not mistake to have invited them
here. Had we pursued a narrow, exclu-
sive policy, we might have to-day been
little, conceited, bigoted, narrow
minded band of colonies, crawling along
the shores of the Atlantic, instead
of this great people, reaching from
ocean to ocean, and possessing the
entire continent. They have all done
their part Where, then, is the mistake?
For everybody says there is a mistake,
and evidently there is one-for have we
| not dissatisfaction on every side; have
we not contention and great gulf
| yawning between capital and labor-one
class arrayed against another class; and
have we not in our cities the dangerpre
sented to us that the red flag of anarchy
and revolution will be raised in our
midst; and have we notcontinual reports
that there is deceit and bulldozing and
bribery and riots and even murder on
every side? There is mistake-a seri-
GUS mistake. Where is it? There is a
mistake always when any man cheats
his neighbor, and greater mistake
when he cheats himself The man who
cheats his neighbor is guilty of dishon-
esty and folly; but the man who cheats
himself is as dishonest as one who
cheats his neighbor, and hundredfold
more stupid.
Now, the native American man is all
the time cheating himself He cheats
himself when he takes away the ballot
from his wife and mother and sister, and
at the same time gives it to every man
that lands on our shore, whether he be
pauper, tramp, or drunkard, or what not;
he cheats himself when he gives the
ballot to foreign people and disfran-
chises those of his own family.
Mr.. ingalls, said, in his recent speech,
that "there is nothing so Improbable
as injustice" and think the sentiment
is true. What can be more Improbable
to the men of this nation than to cheat
their wives out of the ballot, and thus
allow themselves to be governed by a
minority of foreigners? How unprofit-
able to the American men Of Wisconsin
to allow million of native-born people
to be governed by four or five hundred
thousand foreigners! How Improbable
and unwise and stupid that all the
American men allow themselves to be
outvoted and governed by small ma
jority of foreigners and this they do by
the disfranchisement of wom'
en-, giving the ballot to all classes OF
men and denying it to their own house
, hold. We see that these foreigners are
much more largely masculine than femi-
nine-as men, from various causes, emf.
I CRATE to this country more largely than
, women. We see that seven men
come to this country to one woman
while at the same time many of the ma
tive-born men have been killed in the
war, and some by accident, and some
have killed themselves by the use ol
tobacco and rum. Thus native-borr
! men sell themselves into bondage tC
foreigners by the disfranchisement o.
women. Isn't that mistake?