Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-15
The DEMOCRATIC PRECEDENT.

Relative n erits Of Boy and Girl Babies
They should BE CircuIuted on . Party
With Each Other.
Without absolutely retracting any
thing. we wish to modify somewhat the
opinions expressed in these columns
within the last two days concerning the
relative merits of girl and boy babies,
with special reference to the case OF
Miss Frances Folsom Cleveland-as the
Republic hopes she will be named
While not absolutely untenable per
haps, on theoretical grounds, the posi-
ton that boy babies are preferable to
girl babies is open to such grave practi-
cal objections that we feel it wise to
sheer away from it bsfore either the
Republic or the democratic party is
committed to it In word, we believe
double standard, putting the two
metals-we should say sexes-in circu-
lation on a parity with each other.
But where the question is of single
standard there is a great deal to be
said of the advantages of girl babies.
They show their superiority from the
very first For at least three months
after their arrival they are entirely in
AOCuOUS Ctuu lnOlChSlFCs WllllC wy
generally gets into a state of pernicious
activity before he is a week old. AT
the age of four years boy is liable to
learn to spit between his front teeth.
and at six to begin smoking cigarettes.
Before he is eight. it is altogether like
ly that he will kill the neighbours cat
with a sparrow rifle, after which he is
LA BILE to shoot himself in the arm and
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amputation. Girls do none of these
things Meritorious in many ways,
they have their disadvantages, it is
true, but it is always to be said in their
favor that they are not boys
But over and above all this the girl
baby is mark of intellect 1t has long
been noticed that the greatest men
leave no male descendants. George
Washington left none. Thomas Jeffer-
son had only girls Andrew Jackson
never risked a son. In our own times
Chief Justice Fuller, though he is the
happy father of a family of girls. the
mum Der of which is variously estimated
from nine to thirteen, has not ventured
On single boy. The greatest demo.
Gratis of the country have steadily pur-
sued this safe and conservative policy,
the great advantages OF WHICH are AIuS
trated by the contrasts presented in
other parties The opponents Of dem
ocracy have been obliged to elect two
presidents as sons of their fathers OF
grandsons of their grandfathers-am mis-
fortune which could not have happened
had the democratic precedents been
followed.
Under this safe rule the danger Oh
having Russell Harrison in the fam
lily is altogether avoided. No girl baby,
when she grows up. will demand naval
vessels for her own use; or will try to
get loans in Wall street on the strength
of her fathers administration; or will
go into partnership with Steve Elkins
in Montana speculations; or, after he1
father has signed bill for the improve
ment of Arkansas Pass, will become
president of the Arkansas City Improve
ment Co., for the sale of city lots on a
sand bank
It is not the first time the Republic
has been somewhat dissatisfied with
Mr.. Cleveland. but here, usual, OF
closer examination, we find that he has
followed democratic preceden:s and
that he is on the safe side.-St- Louis
Repu bile.