Arizona republican., 1894-03-16
LOSING GROUND WITH WOMEN.

time in practical joking. The woman suffrage and prohibition isms have both been tried in the older communi- ties and found impractical. Prohibit tion has been virtually abandoned and woman suffrage is dead letter. There is no reason. therefore, why Arizona, either as territory or newly-fedged state, should not profit by the ex- perience of others.
 Even in Massachusetts while the scattering advocates of woman suffrage ask the legislature to pass law giving the sex the right to vote at municipal elections, they show their distrust of public sentiment by bitterly opposing proposition that the question be re- ferred to the people.
 The leading Republican journals, like the Boston Journal and the Springfield Unson, oppose the passage of the pro- posed bill on the ground that there is no evidence that the change is desired by the majority of men or women. After more than thirty years of agita. tion only very small proportion of the women of Massachusetts, feel enough interest in the matter to sign petitions in favor of suffrage. The majority of the women of the most intelligent and thoughtful commonwealth in the Union do not desire the suffrage. Why should they? Before the law in all our states a woman has all the rights and im- munities granted every vote.casting man, and practically woman has the best of any man before an average jury. A jury always decides for 8 woman if she can make any kind of a showing that will stand in law or equity.
 The lack of ballot surely robs a woman of no rights of life, liberty or property. AS matter of fact, woman suffrage is not favored by the mass of women or the mass of men, because it is barren ideality; it rights no wrongs; it corrects no disabilities. It is a mere matter of expediency and the mere wish of few women to vote is of no more consequence to the state than the mere wish of few women to enlist in the regular army. Moll Pitcher took her dead husbands place in the battery of artillery at Monmouth, but we do not, because of this fact, think it ex- pedient to enlist women in the regular artillery today. Society would gain nothing by enlargement of the suffrage, and would lose something by the grad ual desheltering, desexing and demo- ralizing of woman's power and capacity as humanizing com panion for man.
 As rule the women would vote with their men, whether their men were good, bad or indifferent; if they did not vote with their men they would be. come mere masculinities in women's clothes, of which the world has already enough and to spare. In the broadest sense socially and politically, women are, as rule, but the reflections o their men. When men are cruel and coarse women are no better. The French revolution, the war of the com mune, the old slave south and the Homestead riot are cases in point Women have assisted at lynchings a the south, and in fact no greater pop ular fallacy exists than the belief tha if women voted they would refine ant humanize politics; they would not bu practical politics would in time dese1 and demoralize them. Women in thu mass are good or bad, just as the mas culine public opinion they respect i good or bad. On the stump Mrs Lease and Mrs. Cougar are just a coarse as their male associates. Il the matter of partisanship womel would be just as bad as men When Judge Maynard was repudi ated by his own party in New Yorl state the woman suffrage party got ou their strictly confidential" circular for the guidance of their voters. On of these circulars described Judge May nard as specially entitled to ou friendship." Tt is, it says, livery in portant to our cause to keep him on tn court of appeals bench. A great effoi is made to defeat him, and every vot is needed. Whatever is said againt him, it is our duty to stand by ou friends, and the more our friend is al