Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-09-08

zone gets ell the news Of the world A.
large, beside the political questions Of
the day are ably discIzed, and otcl
good newspaper Rad carefully will
furnish one food for thought mnt b
longer than the idle tales Of "Comfort," !"
don't you think to?" "Well, III tell
you how that is: Women can't vote 10
Oregon, and according TO my notion 1t
wouldn't do much good TO fool away
time reading politicsv-is the answer
that IL invaribly made. "But wouldn't
you like 10 voter we ask, ''well ! dc MT
know but should: But husband 81. .
that women don't know enough 10
vote, and I reckon he's about right"
"perhapa So" we assent mentally, but
only says Haven't you just said that
you took no interest IN politics becsute
you couldn't votej and now that sou
don't care 10 vote because you dou't
know anything about politics.
Now 1 believe that the women Of
Oregon can have the ballot at what
time they choOst-but they must work
for IT.
gbe Lords of Creationp(?) are Tigh'
when they say women don't know
enough to Yote-thaf is so long as they
r strict the observation to politics lfor
Of course no one in this advanced day
would have the presumption to siy
that womans intellect is not equal 10
mans Oh, that the mstto hung with
in every household might be-not "God
Bless our Homes" but "FiFst deserve
and then desirep what a wonderful
transformation would be wrought!
when heard my sisters of the white
Ribbon Army" at the recent conven-
convention 10 Salem making out their
committee to petition the Legislature
70. Suffrage, / said, never, till the
women of Oregon are ready for the bal
lot shall they have it. If can prevent
1t. The argument IL invariably brought
up that there are many men too ignor.
aRt to vote, and, taken as a class, why
should not women be granted the same
privilege? All! there's what we are
getting at. There are men today, hoLs
dreds Of them, who fail to understand
the first principles of political economy
who haven't the faintest conception Of
the vast importance of one single vote,
who go on from year to year polling
vote that is slowly and surely building
a barrier between them and their best
interests; and why should lot OF
women of the same stripe be turned
loose to increase the evil? True, there
are enough of intellectual women TO
offset their less brilliant sisters, and
right there is where their work lies.
The great work of sharpening wits
that are dull from disuse, and if the
good w. G. T. u. sisters want to exer-
else their persuasive powers at petition.
ing, let them labor and pray and plead
that this terrible evil of ignorance be
abolished from our land; to petition
that no man be permitted to cast
vote without first answering those ques-
tioDs that proves his nowledge Of our
governments inner workings. s@
In this day ignorance should be
rightly considered a stigma of disgrace.
Women suffer equally with men from
poor laws, and If didn't care about
politics, should be ashamed to admit
IL! But he who allows himself to be
worm, must expect TO be trodden upon,
and 1t Is by our own efforts that we
must arise up and out of this worm
condition, and primarily in the reform
we must attack the venomOns litera-
ture that at this present moment Is
flooding the country. Once year j
believe 1t is they have sort OF Post
Office house cleaning when all the un-
claimed papers Of the years accummu-
lation are sold or destroyed.
Recently had the pleasure Of look
ing over stock Of this kind and was
Mortified, yes, actually Mortified at the
reading matter that makes "home
happy "Comfort, !" "Happy Hours"
"Companions" and "Visitors" Of diff
ferent kinds were all there and those
dozens Of other worthless little ''story
papers" that are worse TO my mind
than the "PolIce News, and the "Ga-
Eette" that have been forbidden the
use OF the post Office. All sistersl to
arms against things that are making
us weak, foolish and visionary.
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