Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-11-23

Misguided women and weak, con-
temptible, cunning. sneaking men.
Then when political intrigue had add
ed to the factor Of the sex, there
would be seen the greatest demoraliz-
alton in both public and private life,
the extent and character of which is
family foreshadowed in the jobbies of
congress and elsewhere, where women
join in the throng of men in mems
field of action.
Some of these Suffragists are angry
with God because they were not born
men. Miss Willard, one of their lead
ers, in an article in the Arena of May,
1892, bursts forth with great indigna-
ton in denunciation of the word
female" because It applies equally to
a hen and the mother Of Abreham
Lincoln. And she night have added
that the word male" applied equally
to rooster and the father of Abraham
Lincoln. Doutless this trouble was all
foreseen when male and female Great
ed He them" AS particularly subli-
mated Christian, Miss Willard should
tolerate with mo1e grace the work of
the Creator. She should get right
with God.
The Suffragists constantly assert
the Intellectual equality of women with
men as reason for voting, and effect
to believe that their opponents hold
women as inferior in intellect and in
worth with men. The insincerity of
this claim is equalled only by its
absurGity. No opponent of woman
suffrage ever asserted or limited a
doubt as to wOman's intelligence.
Women are sufficiently Intelligent to
BE soldiers, but they are not allowed
to enter the ain- imply because they
are women. A N,li~'n has ample
intelligence to work uloi he highway,
yet our American men thin it would
not look well. There are 10 600 things
which women are sufficiently intelli-
gent to do, but which they do not do,
simply because they are women. The
propriety of their doing or not doing
those things does not turn ON intelli-
gence, but upon sex.
NOT EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
Female suffrage would not be equal
suffrage, but grossly unequal suffrage,
as compared with male suffrage.
around the works of man the laws
cluster. They are the objects of the
laws regulation. The law touches man
ninety nine times where it touches wo-
man once, and it never touches woman
except with tenderness and partially,
both in letter and actual administra-
ton. 1t would be unequal suffrage to
Introduce into the present electorate a
body equal to it in number without
radically changing the laws. If equal
laws, then the suffrage of women would
be farce. If their votes did make the
laws different, the result would be that
the men would be ruled by the women
in all these great concerns, which are
not and can not in reason be handled
by the women. The effect would be to
create disrespect and hostility between
the sexes, the most hurtful thing the
human mind can conceive of. The
result would be confusion and social
anarchy fast tending to revolution.
Limited suffrage in this country up
to the present time has diminished the
respect of men for women and women
for men. The movement has brought
to the front and filled our literature
with female adventuresses, female
gamblers, female horsethieves, female
rough riders, with bifurcated skirts,
female orators, female lecturers and
female lawyers. The ideal woman of
olden times is back number. She does
not blaze upon the brazen front of the
snoboeracy of the last years of the
nineteenth century. Kansas has al
ready a plethora of Amazons. Let the
state once adopt female suffrage and
these people will flock to it from the
four quarters of the earth. The polit- |
dergone, wonld not be a circumstance
compared with what would then occur.
Kansas would fill her belly with the
east wind, her nostrils with the fume
of scandals. while RECALLING herself with
biige- water, and rejecting the light of
heaven and the nectar of the gods. |
The question precipitates crisis in
this state, which will determine its des |
tiny as state; which will determine |
whether there is enough masculine |
virtue and courage in the state to re
turn it to the ways of common sense,
OF whether it will embark upon a ca
reer of permanent, hopeless and sover |
eign lunacy."
In conclusion Mr.. Overmyer an
nounced that the democratic party pro-
posed to make fight for the redemption
of Kansas next year. and would meet |
the opposition on the stump on every |
issue that effected the public welfare
Funny isn't it, that when the demo-
Gratis want to set down On fraud and
crankism they vote the republican