The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-16
Our SUFFRAGE DEBATE,
Mr.. Wilson :" Comes
Back" at His Fair
AdverSarieS with
a Continuation
> of. His Anti"
Argument.

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affirmative side of this question. Now
as the battle is upon us, and before
we proceed in continuation of our
proof. we wish to make few correc-
tions in answer to some Thugs said
in the last issue or two by our lady
friends.
One has said that we must have a
very low estimation of women. Will
say there is no enc who repects, has a
higher esteem or greater regard for
the fairer sex than we do, and all who
personally know us will verify the
same. We admire their courage and
aspirations i'm all laudable causes and
its not a fair conclusion of our esteem
because we differ with them upon po-
litical rights God bless the women
We would not know how to do With
out them as our help meet in this life.
Therefore we have no TRADE of abuse
to offer. reflections to cast or criticism
to make, nor do we wish to be person.
al i'm the discussion of this subject.
Again she said that we were large
ly in the minority and that it takes
courage in this advanced ege to vim
dictate our theory. True, it took cour-
age for David to stand up against the
Giant with his pebble and sling. For
Martin Luther to renounce Roman
Catholicism. For Columbus to cross
the trackless deep to seek an unknown
world. For our forefathers to take up
arms against the British yoke and for
John Brown to become a martyr
for the freedom of four millions OF
slaves. They were all in the minority
and in fact alone, yet they were on
the side of right. So We see that
might is not always right, nor is the
battle always for the strong or the
race for the swift.
The same has said that any man
who fails to honor women is of very
narrow and egotistical mind and is
not human because he denies her the
{ right of suffrage and stigmatizes her
as. slave. Our sainted mother was
a woman and, is it possible that we
have become so low aud vile as not to
honor and reverence her and must 1t
be because some want to take the rule
of government and authority of men
that we are so british and egotistical?
God forbid.
Another dear. sister asks the ques-
ton, "by what right, human or di'
vine, do men claim the right to gov
ern to the exclusion of wemen?" Well
that is the question under considera-
ton and which brings usto the proof.
In the. creation of Adam and Eve.
with all other things, they were pro-
nounced good and very good. But
because Eve was first in sin God de-
creed a penalty upon her that was to
endure as long as time. Them and
the serpent each received a penalty,
but different from the woman's.
Pleaee read the third chapter of Gen.,
especially the sixteenth verse, which
is as follows: ~ will greatly multi
ply thy sorrow and thy conception,
in sorrow shalt thou bring forth chill
! dren and thy desire shall be thy hus-
band and he shall rule over thee"
Now if this penalty has ever been re-
pealed have failed to find it and will
be the wiser of knowing it. Ifit has,
Satan's curse and mans penalty must
have ceased also. 1t will be regarded
as quite favor if anyone will show
us when, where and by whom all this
was done. Oh yes, one sister said in
the last issue OF the REGISTER that
we are living under q new dispense
tion and old things have passed away.
If that really be so we are long time
finding it out and our blessed Savior
made a great mistake when he said
thatShe came not to destroy the law
and the prophets, but o.fulfil. The
ceremonial law has been abolished
through the death Of Christ, also
when we were cleansed from sin and
partoek of the divine nature old
things passed away and all became
new and while we are living under a
covenant, yet, we obey the spirit OF
the old. The ten commandments
come down to us with as much force
as they did to the Jews. The New Tes-
lament is fulfillment of the old and
we are under as much obligation to
live after its teachings as the Jews
were to live after the old. This, no
good Bible reader will deny.
Again our lady friend says that we
are living under spiritual dispense
ton when women prophesy and now
there is no distinction made in favor
of men. The true meaning of woman's
prophesyiDg is nothing more nor less
than proclaiming the will of God and
telling future events as in Acts q, g.
IL, and which was given for the estab-
lishment and confirmation of the Cos
pei with miracles. healings, signs and
worders, buG all have ceased since the
gospel has come and are no longer
necessary, according to the testimony
of ST. Paul and all good expositors of
the Bible.
Then again the question is asked
us, as there any word of Jesus COM
manding the subsection Of women?''
There states that Paul writes: 81
suffer not woman to teach or to