The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-13

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but ever loving and furgiving, she is ready to for
get The blows if she does not get the kisses. N
liusage unless it be neglect, can weary he
love or exhaust her forgiyeness.-SfdneV forke
THAT PROTEST..
Sarah NJ. Severance Discusses the One
Presented by Chicago Women.
Editor Womdn'S Column, Morning Call
A clipping is given great prominence in the
papers, for it is a protest presented to the
Illinois Legislature against extending suf-
frage to women, signed by prominent So
ciety ladies OF Chicago. Mrs. Lieutenant
4 Colonel, Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Bankers wife,
etc eight names are given, and how many
more not mentioned, as they surely would
have been had the number been large.
They "denOunce as false and pernicious
all attempts to secure legislation in that di-
rection. Busy in the cares of home, women
have neither time, strength nor inclination to
enter the public arena and defend them
selves against doings which they believe de-
strucliye of the power and influence of
women in their homes" The French Revo-
luton is cited to prove that woman suffrage
would result in the degradation of the sex,
etc.
If it is false and pernicious to try to
secure power to govern ones self, it must
be equally false and pernicious to try to in
fluence The opinion of men endowed with
the governmental instinct" under laws
| above all human laws, the great natural
laws inherent in the universe, whi@h nc
men can contravene, which laws have Tor
ever established
A DIFFERENCE
Between the powers and privileges of the
sexes"
Now women with a great deal of connI-
| IRON my = Plntn
son, Wade Chase, Joseph Cook, Talmage,
all smart enough TO know better than these
meek "society ladieS"-have gradually
worked up from the slave mart, from the
haren, from the drudge or the doll, by seek
ing broader feldS, by concessions OF free
dom bit by bit They have opened schools,
professions, opportunities for business, Sc
cured degree Of property rights. These
society ladies have enjoyed all the ad-
vantages gained. and would they advise
that these statutory crumbs be withdrawn?
Yet the ballot is only the title deed to these
gains, as important as the deed or house.
Ii IL is wrong to own the deed, it is wrong to
own tie house; ii 1t is wrong to have the
ballot, it is wrong to retain The powers OF
| privileges which II couterS and protects
"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. u
Moreover, We cannot have the ballot with
out the consent Of men; and why are these
women out of their sphere advising men
what they shall do?
women may be so busy IN the cares OF
home aud maternity" that they have nc
inclination 10 consider the big things
THE INFLUENCES
That mould the home and do more than all
else 10 mou,d John and Mary for time and
etsrnity-Out great many women without
time tor society are deeply interested
hundreds OF Thousands have asked for the
ballot and have they net as good right tt
ask for it as have the eight to ask not to have
il? There is this ditference-the eight
ask that some II, OU0,000 shall not have it.
the others ask that woman shall be free tC
do just rs she pleaseS about voting. a Suf
frage petition was once presented to ouI
Legislature, so long that it could be ex
tended around the room; last week, March
ID, over 10000 names were presented in the
California Senate asking fur woman suf-
fTage. Who shall decide? Why not le
|. women petition as they please conscientious
" informing themselves? And men should
decide in the lear OF God. Surely society
| women, understanding the great laws i'll
herent'' pertaining 10 the sexes, canno
safely advise; fnd then, too, men have tn,
bad habit Of signing eur petitions. Only
iast week memorial signed by lawyers
clergymen and prominent business men OI
Oakland WAS also presented TO our Legis
| atuTe in addition 10 tbs petitions. What il
| woman thar she should dictate to those meI
what they should ask or grant regarding
her? 1t takes metaphysical mind 10 SEE
| how
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
| Proved the evils Of woman suffrage, which
| it did not confer. The women of the Eau
DOurg St Antoine were part OF Paris mob
the revolution was volcanic explosion, re
sultng from the Ubiquitous rule OF monarch.
under the Sale law, which permits uI
woman II govern; demagogues-all men
soon secured control by killing the Glrond
lists, in their blind Jury killing men ane
women, friend and foe. a military despot
ism soon followed, under which was 10 free
| discussion, little free voting, the gendarme:
of the empire C, ntrOled tile elections anC
no one dreamed OF woman suffrage. IL The
French Revolution proved anything In Tx
line II self-EOyeIumept, II proved the unfit
ness of men to rule, to vote; yet the FTencl
Republic is better governed than the Erencl
monarchy ever vas, and some Of her ableS
men, such as Leon Richer, Alfred NOque
and Senator Andouard, are the eaTneS
friends OF women.
I Why not dilGte upon the regime of Veto
ria, who has had chance, as well as upor
communists, whose deeds were greatly mis-
resented-wOmen who were among tile
most oppressed and debauched Of Paris?
But then the ladie i'll their club have evi
IDENTIFY not yet reac he'd Theirs and Lamar.
tine
MEN WHO KNEW ALL
About the French Revolution. ''Wher
women snare with men the burden OF labor
and government, communism with all thai
IL implies mas DtHuH All women OQL So
ciety ladies already share the burden oil
labor, all women share the penalties Of gov
eminent and some of its privileges, as every
public school marin is Government officer
and we know That what men aud women
share as equals Is safest and best managed
The home is by no means perfect, but il
all true homes there is perfect equality law
is ignored, and the home is the sneet-anchol
of our Government. These prctestants
seem not TO know that for twenty years
English women have voted and held Office
and that the acknowledged best men of En-
gland approve.
They do not know that most English
colonies have municipal suffrage fol-
women with the approval of the best men.
They do not know that after twenty
years trial as a Territory Wyoming men re-
fused Statehood except women be admitted
us equals.
They do not know that Kansas women
have voted for years, aud really what can
woman do when her husband votes that she
shall vote?
Ii men become so "socialistic that they
want to share with their wives instead Of
rndowing' them with all, what can wives
do?
John Quincy Adams once presented in
asking that no slave (of the millOns) evel
be freed, but they were freed after ali thai
the eleven could do, slaves as they were.
SARAH NJ. SEVERANCE
Gttroy, Mdreh. 1891
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