Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-14

allowed, would do more IN q rev SencT-
ations 10 depopulize America, than any
other one thing that could be devised.
FuIlaw the result of enfranchisement
and sec IL work. Women then would
be eligible alike with man to all the
offices, low aud high, of city and state
ana nation.
We should have women policemen,
women jatlcrs, women shcrlifs, women
aldermen, women mayors, Congress-
women, Senatoresses and perhaps n
Presidentrcss Of the United States Have
women the inherent qualities 10 I'LL
these offices to the satisfaction Of all
concerned? Would these positions not
naturally develop traits Of character
contrary to her wOmanly nature? And
worse evil yet, would not the oppor-
tunity of holding these positions lessen
domrsticity and homo making, ana
give us, in place of unselitsh mothers,
care-taking daughters and helpful wives,
creatures neither men nor women, but
| hybrid beings who would scorn the
Quieter spheres assigned to them by
God, and who would usurp the places
they were never intended to occupy
| 1t is folly to say that the traits necessary
to make d good lawyer, good statesman,
| GOOD business manager Of any trade are
native TO woman Us well as to mum
! they are not. These naturally require
| calculations and compromises, while a
woman naturally divines and idealizes.
The few cases Of exceptional women
who attain successful prominence, only
| 90 TO prove tins truth,
| 4 good man We know said recently,
| ftt d l. ial 10, fFiVo oil
| liberty and fair play, "whcn introduced
! young lady into my law Office, several
| wears since, il was considered danger
Gus innovation. Did she do any harm?
| No; rather she purified that Office and
| its inmates, and the men who came into
| il behaved more decently because a
| woman was there"
Yes because woman was there,
! afcmlnine woman whose whole previous
! life, and that Of her mother and grand
mother back Of her, had been that Of
| sccluaiOn, which tostered the dclicacy
and the bloom OF her womanhood.
Its sweetness was not marred by
| generations Of public life, or masculine
trade. But if she can only stay in that
office decade or two, and with time
and practice become tirst.class, hard
headed lawyer, it is quite unlikely then,
that cigars will come out of mouths
when she enters, oaths be suppressed,
or any of that instructive homage be
| given her by man, that is now one Of
the signs of her divine prerogatiye
Anything which will lessen the at.
traction Of the sexes is mistake.
Whatever eXalts woman in the ewes of
men, whatever gives her power not in
trade, but over hearts, is for the best
welfare OF the many. Woman
domestic arts and skill, her modesty,
her purity, her gentle ministries, are
penetrating agencies for good. Let these
be annihilated, or in their place put
coarser masculine powers, and the world
will be poorer aud sadder.
But the suffragists eXclaim; 1.-THE
ballot would not unsex woman, she
would be as feminine as before; she
would retain her traits OF gentleness
sweetness and purity" Would she
In the nature of the case she could not
Masculine prerogatiyes would mean
Lothing II not used masculine rights
would have to be exercised, ii the new
'arena of freedom was to be entered
upon. The laws help only those who
use them-they are swords, but they
must be welded by hands that would
hcw their way. Woman to gain any.
thing by entranchiscment would have
10 use it, have TO so into the field Of
battle, and meet men on their own
ground. No repJsc, no gentle quiet
would be possible. All delicacy, all re.
firing modesty, sweetness and spiritu,
ality, would be at discount. These
traits would have 10 give place to sternei
measures, and cOarser tibres. They say
woman would purify politics.
Nay, she would become demoralized
That "tAe highest forms Of organic
, life are the most delicate. the most cor,
ruptiblc, and the most offensive in cor
/ rHption,' Is true Of morals US of physics
Whatever woman would gain in powei
by the right of Acknowledgement, sh,
would lose in her higher nature. Car
the world afford this Have we an,
/ right to attempt this reform agains
naturey
! Suifragists talk of the great "poliuca
reforms" that the enfranchisement o
! woman would bring about Are thel
. blind! HIVE they no eyes to see TIN
, evils Of our present unrestricted vote
given alike to the wise and the foolish
I They object now to the frauds an,
acknowledgement in our country mad
| possible by the vote of illiterate and un
f, prluCiplcd men. What double chaos an,
mischief would follow the addition o
: the votes Of thousands Of women, un
educated, ignorant, or evil! We com
I plain As il is of the Ignorant vote;
would not this be quadrupled If tn
I right of suffrage We're given to al
classes of women?
a 1t is really amusing TO see where tn
/ more honest and logical of the sufIragis
thinkers are coming To. The clearesi
A headed among them see that the ques
: ton OF maternity is ono that will hay
4 t. be somewhat considered 1t is de
!. liciously funny to read in the EortHighti
= iitoion in Karl Pearson's article o
r Woman and Labor" such scntenc
= as this: I'VE may expect national in
q surance against motherhood to be 4
n much feature Of woman's politca
i programme as q national INSURANCE
:. against old age will soon be Il featur
II OF the programme vi labor"
!. Imagine it.! Imagine the mother
pain, the mothers JOY, made mer
i, question of her material contribution I
|. the needs Of society,"
!. Acknowledged as such by the State
v estimated as such by the law; matte
I simply OF business value, capable q
V being reduced into actual dollars an
q cents !! This is progress, truly. This /:
" indeed, something unthought Of in In
x old fashioned days OF long ago. Whe
o romance and love We're the fashion
f when husbands and wives hecam
l. fathers and mothers with tremulous 10,
n and dreamed foolish dreams over tlei
- little ones.