The record-union., 1893-03-22
Suncnge n Rirllt.

/ EDS. RECoRD-U MON: Woman shoulC
have the privilege OF franchise the same
as men, because it is right. No sane mar
will say 1t is not right. Ii right. how cal
| it be mex xpedient? She bGS the right &c
! own property, pay taxes on it: to use tho
! highways, the cars, steamboats,, to buy
! and sell and get gain; go to balls. thea
/ ters, and attend the public schools and
/ coAeges, and State Fairs; enter the pro-
/ LESSONS of medicine, law, ministry.
/ teaching, and housekeeping; hold bank
and railroad stock, and vote on these.
/ She can hold school Offices, attend the
same political meetings, specially in
/ vited," listen to the same stump speaker.
debate the questions, discuss men. and
get excited like men; but the heavens
would fail if she put q little piece of pa
per III Il box on election day, expressing
I her conviction on these questions dis
cussed.
/ III late years she has entered many new
| occupations and trusts, and yet in no sin
/ gle instance has she failed to show her
! self equal to the task. Who can pom.
/ out one case where Il woman has lost the
respect OF honest men because she owned
I property, paid taxes, practiced medicine,
! held the Office OF School Trustee? Now.
since she is accorded equal privileges in
/ these hundreds Of occupations, there must
be some mysterious and dreadful reason
why the right should be stopped at the
ballOt-boX, the fountain head of all sue
cess in these occupations; for you must
know that when the ballot-box goes
wrong it affects all destinies.
| am afraid the opposition is not so
much the fear of her losing her prestige
and respect" as the fear that her moral
influence would cripple certain busi-
nesses that are the enemies Of the woman.
/ I =, = ~
great and radical change in affairs even il
she is permitted equal suffrage with man.
Radical changes are only made by peo-
pie who have some great public end to
serve But women have not such. Her
whole aim seems to be to please
/ the multitude, but one man. For this
/ purpose the mantuamaker, milliner, the
! cosmetician and artist are brought in use
| to look well and pleasing as Queen
/ Esther did before Ahasuerus, is to gain
her end. Now, l confess l do not expect
much from any class OF persons who have
no higher aim.
So long as women resort to paint and
! powder, and use artificial means to form
and deform the body, they are incapable
/ of anything great. Their minds must
| bl oaden out beyond their own handsome
! selves. Some years ago she almost uni
versally adopted the foolish custom oil
wearing large hoop-skirts, and a more
/ silly "'Grecian bend,n and peculiar knots
! on their heads, chignons, aud ad infinit-
um. Do you think they would be so silly
/ again? l trust she has gained much in
/ her contact in business with men.
! quite agree with your late correspond
/ ent of Elk Grove, that women are the
weaker vessels and ''inferior to man, y
and is never happy till she finds some
/ man TO whom she can hang herself for pro-
| lection, and her highest aim in life is to be
wife and mother' But is not custom
more TO blame for that feeling than right
and justice?
! Until it is seen she intends adapting
/ her custom and manner to scme nobler
purpose in life than simply to please
some man, we need not hope for much
moral or intellectual gain by giving hel
| the ballot.
| But let US give it to her if there is the