Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-09-19
)OKHAVEN MISSISSIPPI, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 49, 1898.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
4 Correspondent Takes Dave
Hills Mississippi Organ
to Task.

EDITOR LEADER In many
respects the jackson Clarion
Ledger is remarkable paper.
Not long ago it had an editorial
on female suffrage, and for loose
expression and careless abandon
it takes the rag off the bush. That
your readers may know just
where this editor is "at," we in
close the articleand bespcak for
il careful study:
The Clarion Ledger has no space
| for female suffrage communications
and must be excused if it declines to
publish letters on this subject. The
Clarion Ledger is opposed to female
suffrage. The ladies of the South are
opposed to it; the people of the coun-
try are opposed to it. In fact, almost
everybody is opposed to it. except
some strong minded women and a few
preachers, who favor it as means to
promote moral reforms at the ballot
box. There will never be any female
suffrage in the South.
1t will be observed that the
Clarion-Lcdger man is opposed
to female suffrage, and therefore
shuts off all communications on
the subject. How broad. and
how liberal He knows it all,
however. and why waste his val
liable time in discussing such Il
trifiing thing as moral reform
Why should he open the col
umns of his mighty journal to
the discussion of such insignif-
cant things as drunkard factories,
ballot box stuffing, and other mi
nor affairs that will soon rcgu-
late themselves No. no such is
not the style of Dave Hill
newspaper, and the Clarion-Led-
ger will do nothing of the sort.
Again, this editor objects TO
woman suffrage because ''thc la
dies of the South are opposed to
it. =
How does he know this to be
true. Has the matter ever been
brought to II practical dcmonstra-
ton If not why deal in such
reckless assertion! But here's the
rightful plunge of the man as he
dives into the Dead Sea waves of
Mississippi Democracy. Listen.
"In fact, almost everybody is OPP
posed toit female suifragcl except
some strong minded women, and
FEW PREACHERS who favor it as
a means to promote moral re
forms at the ballot box. As
the negroes say, ''this do beat
ALL" for when brought to final
ANALYSIS these words simply i'm
ply opposition to clean ballot,
and a license, or the right of way
to political intimidation, saloon
domination, and ballot-boX stuff
ing. Do the people endorse such
sentiments! Are Mississippians
ready for the sacrifice ! Dave
; Hill and his crowd may be ready,
but sober minded men will hard
ly join the gang.
Finally, this editor informs us
that ..there will never be any fe-
male suffrage in the South. : That
settles it. We are sorry that he
has so dccreed, but will have tc
grin and bear it.
Probably when he is through
knowing it all, and begins to
learn something change ma!
come over his dreams. But
should he remain firm i'll his op
position, then alas. woman suf
/ frage is dead, as dead as Betsy
Pringles pig. 'Tis very sad, ane
our sorrow is deep and abiding
/ Indeed, we wouldn't own Il six
teenth cousin who could think oI
this thing without growing sorry.
But all irony aside, we honor
the ''strong minded women who
| labor in the interests of God
home and country, and deeply dc
we regret that SO ''few preachers
have the back bone to vote ii
they pray. As John Allen woul'
; say. we diStrust the boatmal
who looks one way and pulls th'
other.
How II groaning preacher cai
gct down on his marrow bones
and pray for the coming of God
kingdom, then get up and vot
for whisky party is IA myster,
far beyond the depths of our re
search. Not long ago littl
: boy asked us if Il fish was not
mighty sealy frog. We toll
him that question had nothing t.
do with his Sabbath school lesson
/ and so here we lay down the. pen
> When another moon wakes ant
wanes YOU may hear from u