The Globe-republican., 1891-05-06

JUST LlKB HEN.
cate female outrage. is that the giving Of the
ballot TO woman will tend 70 the publication
OF politics. Il IL also claimed that the innu-
ence Of women will be enrolling and that the
most dishonest politicians will become honest
by associsting with them at the polls. These
claims are evidently based upon the theory
that, politically, woman can do no wrong.
The facts of the recent municipal elections
in Kansas, at Topeka especially. 90 to show
that women are capable, according to the
Capital of considerable wrong doing politi
cally, and of raising large crop OF political
cain when they really set out to see what they
can do in that line. In New Jersey, at the re-
cent township trustee elections. girls IS and
l6 years old voted, claiming to be of age, and
swearing to 1t, and women who were of age
but had not registered voted, and when their
votes were rejected. in one instance, pro-
ceeded to make it very sultry for the judges
of election. Thus the late elections in Kansas
and New Jersey have given a paralyzing
shock to the belief that woman il incapable
of political wrong.
These instances do not, we admit, prove
any innate dishonesty on the part of women
who wish to vote, but they do show that some
of the claims made in favor of woman are ex-
travagant. Woman is q dear, good creature,
the best part Of the race, nearer perfection
than the average man is or can ever hope to
be, and all things considered. is q better citi-
zen than man, but when It comes to that de-
gree Of perfection that excludes political er-
TOR and wrong doing, the sweet creature Is
simply not In II. She may not be rs capable
in degree of wrong doing politically, rs man
Is, but it will be found that she has decided
tendencies in that observation-disclosures CAan.
pios.
There are some truthful statements in
the above article, though perhaps they
were intended as ironical. Women that
have used the limited franchise allowed
them have done 50 knowing that their
every movement was watched, and that
any irregularity would be magniAed into
willful wrong-doing or an evidence of a
lack of capacity. Yet their actions have
shown a regard for principle and total
disregard for party. They have voted
for those whom they believed to be the
best men, and for the suppression Of vice
in every form. That few illegal votes
cast by women should bar all from vot-
ing, when thousands Of illegal votes are
cast and wrOngfully counted by men, is
absurd. The illegal voting of women is
usually done at the solicitation of men
and upon the assurance that they have
a right to so vote. If woman were in
capable of wrong she would be unable to
do right, and be a passive nothing; she
is, however, portion of humanity, as is
her brother, with similar desires and as
pirations, and were woman as near per-
feet as is suggested by the above. she
would not wish to associate with the av-
erage masculine voter either at the polls,
on the street, or in the home. We have
noticed nevertheless, that the same par
ties whom it grieves to see women degra
ded by the communicating influence of
the ballot are not averse to seeing their
better half wade through barn yard filth
to milk the cows while her partner in
life's joys and sorrows, who is either be-
low or above the contamination of poll
tics, serenely smokes his pipe, the fumes
of which are killing the insects upon the
plants and pertaining the robes of her
whom he considers too pure to breathe
the fumes of cigar on election day. So
long as woman is considered to contain
enough of good and bad, and common
sense enough to have her real and per-
soual property taxed, she is eminently
capable of giving an intelligent vote as
to how, and by whom, the money taken
from her shall be used.
If the voters of this country were now
drawn up in separate lines upon this
question. what think you of the appear
ance of the two? Every dive keeper.
every ignorant specimen from the slums
of the large cities, every Italian, Hun,
Greaser and Chinaman; every man who
considers his wife or his squaw beast
of burden, would be on the side that say
woman should not vote. How do you
decent people who think that way like
your surroundings? Is the odor of your
pleasant?
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