The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-11-21

erty equally among the children. In
fashion, it has done away with liveries.
and dresses master and servant in pre-
cisely the same costume. 1t has chang
ed the relations of parent and child, OF
husband and wife. of teacher and pupil,
of employer and employs; has brought
them nearer together. made them more
nearly equal. 1t has placed the pew on
level with the pulpit; has achieved
| the extension of suffrage; has caused
the State to provide equal education for
its children, and equal charities for its
unfortunate.
OF this movement, Burns is the poet,
Dickens the novelist, Millet the artist
and John Stuart Mill the philosopher.
The woman's suffrage movement is.
therefore, only a part of this great
modern revolution, still unfinished, hav-
ing for its object human equality.
When Rousseau's splendid but diseased
genius famed across Europe, by its
light men saw that the perpetual,
natural, unceasing and indefeasible SOW
ereign" was the people. Yet the new
form of government, both in America
and in France. were to some extent re-
cast in the old mold of barbarism. The
mounting wave could roll no higher.
As in the most primitive stages of So
ciety, the political unit was made the
family, and not the individual
The subsection Of woman comes down
to us from the earliest times. 1t strikes
its roots into that ancient law which
gave the father despotic power over his
children. Even after marriage,
daughter remained her fathers slave.
Her husband was without authority.
With the advance Of Roman law the
paternal power declined, until woman
was in danger of becoming free. To the
early Christian Church belongs the re-
sponsibility of having revived. in the
husband, the ancient professorship of
the father Trace back these notions
far enough, and you will find their
source in caves and hollow logs, the
homes of our naked forefathers. There,
with foreheads an inch high and teeth
an inch long. club In hand, they founded
the empire of force, the despotism of the
family. The Preside was the first place
for the spirit of monarchy to enter, and
is the last place for the spirit of democ-
racy to penetrate.
The progress Of civilization is a war
fare, a war of light with darkness, of
truth with falsehood, of the illuminated
intellect and the rectifed heart with
the barbarism of ignorance and the ami
malism of the savage. Let US, as far as
in US lies, help to carry forward civiliza-
ton. Let MS welcome new ideas, and
every reform which seeks to destroy
artificial inequalities among mankind.
Let us no longer deprive woman of
the ballot. Let US open to her every
path in life, so that she may freely
choose that for which her nature best
fits her. ~
On the sunburnt plains of the West,
this new movement is now carried on
by Drawer pioneers than those who first
penetrated its urpeopled solitudes. Let
us believe that the pioneers of this re-
form. no less than they who pressed the
plains in covered wagons and built their
cabins by the riverside, are engaged in
warfare with savage barbarism. To
these new pioneers let US send tonight
this message of hope, "Be of good
cheer, you will overcome the world"