The morning call., 1891-05-22
AGAINST SUFFRAGE.
A Letter From One Opposed to Giving
the Ballot to Women.

Letter From One Opposed to Giving
the Ballot to Women.
Editor WOmdn'S Column, Morning Call:
M. B. has recently been guilty of saying
an inhuman thing in this column. 1t was
this: 1.-The woman who works against
woman suffrage openly or secretly does so
for coin or at the dictation Of master"
That is a false and disgraceful sentiment to
come from the mind Of any person. man or
woman.
The woman who honors her father, obeys
her husband, loves and directs her son,
ministers to them with charity and loyalty,
pTays for them. and forgets the world for
their temporal and spiritual good, is saving
their souls and saving her own, and that is
the one and only real business OF life on
earth.
While she keeps her house for her loved
charges, and rounds and develops her noble
character in all things sweet and W omanly,
she wins and keeps the deep, true love and
veneration of the men blest with home as
ISOLATION with her They go forth brave,
manly characters, strong in convictions of
wrong and right, and scrupulous to observe
those convictions. They venerate all
women because of that sacred household
angel of theirs, and Irregularities of con-
duct are unknown to them. Such men may
be more grave than witty, more gentle than
picnant, more silently impressive than
brilliantly entertaining, but also will they
be more decOrous than fljppant, more wise
than foolish and more faithful than other
wise,
LET NJ. B. GO TO THE HOME
OF such worthy people aud attempt TO con-
vince the wife and mother of upright and
wholesome men that she is slave, that she
needs emancipation, and that she should
walk up TO the polls on election day and
vote in order to save The country from social
and political runati0n at the hands of its
male citizens, and the Christian eyangel OF
the gospel oil home would call Nj. Is. mon
s,roSity and invite her to withdraw from
her sanctuary and never invade it again.
The mothers OF a nation are its strength,
its safeguard and its perpetuity., Good
mothers mean good sons who VIII make
good and honest citizens.
The clamOrerS for a vote are the women
who make very poor mothers. Oar popula-
ton is multiplying, but the increase IS the
result mainly of other classes and their de-
votion to raising large families. Women
among US whose voices are silent on the
woman suffrage question are singing bye
lows to hundreds Of thousands Of blessed
little men and women who will one day adj
minister
THE NATIONAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
OF this natiOn-may there be not woman
suffragist amongst them-and | have re-
ceiYed no gold Tor saying 1t, and L am no
mans slave.
TO read what woman suffragists say about
the men OF America, especially its leglS-
lators, one would imagine them so many
ruffanly deSpOtS. 1t must be remembered
that each one of them is the son of a woman.
and almost all are married to women, and
perhaps have young women daughters.
Countless great men have loved to attribute
their success in life TO the teachings and
home influence and inspiration OF their
WOmenkind.
If legislators and men in other high places
are guilty Of diShOnOr. what shall be said of
their mothers? OF their wives? OF their
daughters? That woman'S pride would be
MORALLY insulted who would be twitted
with having 10 influence over the men OF
her family. Do not American women boast
OF, and delight IN, their real or supposed In
hueuce over the men? Let them use their
power for good, then, and enuoDle. rather
than unman, their cOuutrymen. Let the
women Of America look 10 purifying and
DEMONSTRATING themselves. They are not at
al so wise as to be the mothers and COM
panions Of irreproachable men.
The Whole Tact Uf the matter is that the
laws of the land 10 not need amending or
enforcing nearly as much as the laws Of
God need observing.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Would be a nuisance to the woman devoted
to home, and such women do not desire it,
They look on 1t as simply unnatural and
LITTLE short of scandalOus. Perhaps their
grim and aTm0red sisters, who are fighting
for possession of some of the mems rights,
regard them as Ignorant and SubservienL
The humble, loyal and womanly heart is
better than the educated but rampantly
fanatical and pTejudiced brain.
Men and women were created with equal
chances for heaven-ChriSt died for all
but men are the born masters, women are
given hem as companions, as ministers 10
them, and, in turn, are cherished and sup
ported by them. When receiving the sacra-
ment Of marriage, the man promises to love,
protect, and cherish his wife. The woman
vows to love, honor aud obey her husband.
We render obedience TO masters, and the
men are not made t. promise to obey tho
women, because the Lord, in his infnite
wisdom, made woman subserYlent, aud in
tended her TO so remain.
IT Is NO DERoGATIoN
To woman 80 obey man II the purpose
be worthy; and the matter of wOrthiness
lies with each individual soul and consci-
ence.
We see very little Of the negative side OF
the woman's suffrage question in the papers
and hear none at all on the public platforms.
Thank God there are some American women
who mOdesty keep out OF public view, and
away from public Tidlcule. Yet the women
who are working hardest, and doing mostto
tTample out woman 5 unnatural work are the
true and noble mothers and wives, who are
working. often in poverty and always in
obscurity, to fit out sons and daughters
worthily for the battles Of life.
As for IN. BIS declaration that no true
wo man will oppose wOman's Suffrage, l in
clin ne TO believe that the lady's special at
tack of the emancipation malady has adj
vanced to q stage of development in which
she is incapable of discerning between a
true won an and woman suffragist.
Nay IL, 1891 N. X, p T.