Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-10-04

they hadn't. Mrs Lease and Mrs Diggs and
Mrs. everybody else would have been on their
backs all over the state The democratic party,
on the other hand, holding fast to those first
principles Of society and human government
which they were enabled to understand by the
light which the Great Creator has placed in
every soul and in every conscience of every
rightly constituted man, says, no. IGreat ap-
plauSe.l This thing is wrong This thing is
unnatural. This thing is an abomination and
the right-mind9d women don want it. and we
don't propose to drag them into the slums and
purlieus of political warfare for the sake OF
satisfying the vanity of adyenturesses and bold
and brazen women who want to display them
selves before the world. Applause Why.
they say If you don't grant this then you are
practicing the great wrong that our fathers
fought taxation without representation"
Is that true? If it is, we had better think
about it, Let us look into that little.
In the first place there Is no necessary
relation between the power to cast 4 vote at
the ballot box and the liability to be taxed so
long the party taxed is in any sense repre-
sented In the government. For instance, the
property that belongs to minor children,
whether in the hands of a guardian or simply
upon the records of your county, Is taxed
These minor children do not vote; neither do
their guardians as such: nor do administrators
or other trustees Of property, nor do corpora.
tionS.
Now, if there is anything in this principle
commended for, then every guardian Or other
trustee OF property ought to have vote for his
own property and he ought to have avote for
his guardianship or trust, oughtn't he? There
Is nothing in 1t. When the suffragists exhaust
all other arguments they say: We'll,
suffrage is progressive. 1t is very
progressive and progressive people
are in favor of suffrage Well. let US see about
| that. 1t is fact attested by all history that,
in proportion as mankind approached barbar-
ism. just in that proportion women among them
take part and promiScuously mix in the hurly-
burly of public affairs, even of war. The
women of barbarianS engage in battle with
them, and in the last war in Africa, in the
Ashantee war the British army, in single bat
tie, killed 10000 women-beautiful spectacle.
wasn't it? But what do you think of that kind
of women? They would not suit in this coun-
! try. The Six Nations of New York. Indian
tribes, took council of their matTonS in regard
to all things, as they ought, because amone
them the household economy was in the hands
| of the women entirely. The lazy Indian would
not do anything but hunt. They took counsel
| of their matronS.
The thirteen colonies under George Wash
| ington did not. Progressive, amt it? Civil
| lied. amt it? In proportion mankind arises
| in the scale of civilization, the woman evolves
herself into the lady. And in proportion as
| she becomes lady she seeks to avoid the out
ward strife and mere physical and brutal ex-
elements and activities of men, Why, the
dispatches tell US that q short time ago woman
suffrage carried in New Zealand. New Zea-
| land! Now if could only hear that the Sen
egambians and the Dahomians had passed it,
why, our cup of progressive joy would run over!
Woman Has Protection.
| A favorte argument of our suffragists is that
| the denial of what they please to term the
right of suffrage implies inferior intelli-
gence upon the part of women. Now, there is
not man in the sound of my voice that does
not know that those who oppose it never did
put it upon the ground of inferior intelligence
upon the part of woman. 1t is not because
they not sufficiently intelligent that they
ought not to participate in these affairs it is
because they women A woman is suff1-
GENTLY intelligent to enter the army, and yet
she does not do so, simply because she is a
NEyflyI nr1d
proper A woman is sufficiently in
t9lligent to enter at the front
| door of a hotel, and yet well regulated, first
class hotels generally have a private entrance
for the ladies. 1t is not because woman has
not sense enough to go right in where the
go in, but it is because she is woman. The
effort is made inSinuate that the great,
brOad-minded, just husbands and fathers of
these same women object to their voting for
| the reason that they filter to vote than
these degraded and abject creatures. Gentle
men, the woman who tells that tells what she
knows is not true. We won't call it any harsh
er name because she is a woman.
The Indian and idiot not permitted to
vote because they are not fit to vote. They
would degrade suffrage. The woman does not
vote because suffrage would degrade her. No
body knows that any better than those people
who are going up and down the world trying to
preach their SophiStry into the minds of the
| American people. Applause.
| L want to call your attention to one thing be-
! fore close. If that amendment should pass in
| this state you would have twenty years more
| of this empirical and aesthetic legislation: you
| would have twenty years more of total absence
| of consideration of those solid and wholesome
subjects which make prosperity and thrift in
| the land.
| Twenty years more of legislation along the
| line of moonbeams and sentiment: twenty
| years more of extreme effort to make every
body good and awfully clean, and nice. and
sweet, you know, by law
| That is not all. You would have line of
public men, public women. maybe. such you
| never before. All the peculiar and ILL
| balanced people from the four quarters of the
world, and they all moonstruclx way,
| would be coming here to this state the FL
| Dorado of their hopes, gnarleG, gr1z-
Zled and specialized and Savagely
moral. They would swoop down upon
you fill your Offices, prosecute the people, pro-
1 long the embargo upon immigration, stihe
| commerce, strangle business. retard prosperity,
blight industry and trample under their fanat-
ZEAL Jealous and ferocious feet the rights and
| liberties of the people.
! This republic has existed for 100 years, and
| during that period it has been one-sixth of the
! time engaged in war The bones of Its heroic
| dead are strewn over this entire continent
| in ASia'S ancient land in Africa, and where
the coral builds its home beneath the
| surging pillows of the main. Have the
gallant and the brave, have the men
who held up freedoms flag along the
perilouS verge of battle, who have gone down
and been yelled in the vaporS of the tomb, that
| government of the people, for the people and
| by the people might not perish from the earth
have these men made these sacrifices simply
| for the male portion of mankind? My country
men, it is libel upon the patriotism upon the