St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-10
Ito be Continued.)
Miss Glider and suffrage.

Miss Jeanette L. Glider, to the great
come out strongly in opposition to the
woman's suffrage movement, which is now
agitating all classes of society. In explain
ing her position she says, in effect, that she
is a believer in the mental equality of the
sexes, but denies that there is any physical
equality.
Women's work and mems work of the
same character, she thinks, should be placed
side by side, so as to judge each fairly; and
she maintains that, when so compared,
mems work, particularly where strength and
skill are required, is incomparably greater
than that which it is possible for woman to
do. Miss Glider is certainly right in saying
that there can be no sex in literature and art.
and that every book and picture should be
Judged by its own merit irrespective of the
writer or the maker.
Miss Glider gives her belief rather than
her reasons, why women should not take
part in politics. She believes that public
life is too wearing and too untitled for the
average woman. She does not believe as do
many of the women suffragists, that better
laws would result from the enlargement OF
the franchise. The same vexed questions
would remain, and nothing could be settled
by more votes. Miss Glider believes that
from the days of Adam and Eve men and
women have been different in all important
respects, and she believes that this difference
will continue She holds that it was intended
by nature that men should work, and that
women should share in the disposition and
enjoyment of their labor.
Without intending to contradict Miss Gill
der, it is evident tt It she has overlooked the
fact that in a state Of nature it is the women,
and not the men, who work, and it is the man
who enjoys the fruits and disposition of the
products OF his wife's labor.
Miss Glider does not believe that the laws
are unfair to women. With spirit that
would be chivalric if manifested by the other
sex to hers, she believes that men want to
be fair to women, and that the laws made BY
men are'more lenient to her sex than to their
own. Very pertinently she asks the question,
while discussing the question that men are
unfair: 'sWill women, if allowed to vote and
to make laws, be fair to women?" This she
regards as very serious question, and the
inference is, although she does not openly
state it, that women will be more severe
and uncharitab!e to their own sex than are
men.
Miss elders strongest point is made when
she states that in her opinion it will be i'm
possible for women to cultivate home life
and at the same time to enter the political
arena. Referring to her own hard working
life with its essential duties and its conse-
quent trials, she says she does not see how it
would have been possible for her to have
cared for herself and the loved ones dependent
upon her and at the same time to have given
any attention to politics. She believes that if
the franchise were extended it would clearly
be the duty of women to exercise the privilege
of the ballot and she IS clearly believes that
this could not be done without sacrifice of
the home duties on which the happiness of the
community and the success of the nation so
largely depend.
In conclusion, Miss Glider says that she is
ANXIOUS to give women everything she wants
but not the ballot. She believes in opening
III, to her every field and every avenue Of in
success; but she earnestly adds: "keen her
on: Of politics"
The census of 1890 shows cnat in the
United States the number of females of all
ages is So: IS $40, of whom Il. 49,, 9S8 were
Ssnge. Tho large number Of unmarried
women batween the eyes Of forty-five and
SKY, strangely enough, corresponds with
toe humber OF men, North and South, who
were killed or died during or soon after
the civil war. These amount to nearly one
million.