The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-02-26
SHOULD WOMEN PROPOsE...'


Because Justice demands perfect
equality, and perfect equality will not
admit of their being denied any legal
or moral privilege accorded to their
] brothers. CustOm-centurieS old,
mOss-backed custOm-even in its most
I vigorous attempts at display of
youthful leniency, has never contend
ed that they should be relieved of any
legal or moral obligations.
But, we must go back to the Gar
den of Eden and search for the other
end of the thread of our argument.
! 1t was in this Garden that the sys-
TEN of courts was first established and
the first case tried. Eve was not told
to run away and make herself q now
apron" while Adam was introducing
bill into Congress, whose adoption
would be for his sole benefit. She
was arraigned and tried on equal
terms. There was q heavy tax on
those pipins and she paid her proper
tionate share-but not without equal
representation. The sentence was
pronounced and she was deprived of
her independence in which she had
been created, as q punishment for her
! "sweet wOmanly gullibility" which,
as most truthfully declared by An
eminent modern writer sis the result
of generations of thralldOm Of
course the natural conceit of the SER
pent would lead him to believe that
the woman would more readily sue
cumb to his arts than one of his own
sex. There is no reason to suppose
that had the serpent been designated
as "she" the conditions from that day
TO this might not have been complete
ly reversed.
do not believe that Ewes sentence
was intended to work corruption of
bloOdn beyond the third and fourth
generations. Had the Just Judge de-
creed that years OF penitence and
servitude shOnld bring about no
amendment to the constitution He
would have deprived her also of that
equality of intellect by which he fore
knew, and intended, should one day
be wrought out her emancipation.
But Adam discovered, before the
first generation had passed that he
had, TO use a modern phrase, "a soft
snap" of it, and as Eve WAS now de-
MED representation there were no
amendments to the constitution pro-
posed. And SO, from Adam on down ,
the years, men cultivated this "sweet
wOmanly gHllibility," continuing to |
make such capital to their advantage, !
that she was finally denied the poor
privilege of acknowledging her wOr- !
shipful attItude--toward her sovereign |
until his Lsrdship should condescend {
to demand a revelation of her senti- !
ments.
Even st. Paul has projected some
ideas which would cause a contempt I
uOus election of saliva from some of
his most devoted wOrshipers had they .
been advanced by some man who was
never known TO have written any,
thing under inspiration. Some of his
statements are cOnfessedly made by
permission and not by command
and some, he being q bachelor,
have not even the plea of self interest
to justify them.
Who can say that Harriet Beecher
Stowe was not inspired when she
wrote a book which brought to an end
a controversy which had existed for
ages, and compelled the freeing of q
race from bondage? Or Charles Reede
when he SEM out "Never too late to
mend" to bring justice and human
treatment TO those lOng-suffering in
mates of those hell-hOles of brutality,