Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-14
A REFORM AGAINST NATURE
Why Woman Should Not be
Given the Ballot.
WHAT WOMAN IS ENTITLED TO
Every Right Inherent in Her
Nature--No More.
l. woman without Vote Deprived of u
Legitimate Right s---Nian and Woman
Were Created Different aud They Move
III Different sphcres-Tho Ballot Would
But Serve to DemOralize Woman.

The question of the ballot for
woman" Is 50 dangerously near, that IT
Is tile duty of every woman TO know
how ~ answer it.
Shall we say yes" for ourselves, our
daughters, and our grand-dausAtcrs, or
shall We say "no:" The proiEar OF Gu
reimbursement is plausible, hatterIng
and on the face Of it, logical. Nothing
is really that, however, that has not its
root in the necessity Of our being
The arguments in favor Of equal
suffrage Gre many, specious and seem
ingly fair but they are iallacions be-
cause they depend for their force on
amusing points Of ridicuic or satire, or
on what is worse yet, q fundamental
misconcepliOn of the plan OF the
Creator.
The question is this Is woman suf.
frage needed good: Is woman with
outa vote deprived ofa Legitimate rightE
Ridlcule is ready weapon but
there's no science in it. It's easy
to draw amusing pictares Of "how eX
hausting it would be to a woman to
drop a vote in the ballot box, compared
10 her dancing all night IN ia ballroom,
or standing in shop all day" 1t IS
also very nanswerHrle, the humOr that
pictures IAN ignorant lrishmaH OF Italian
voting for our country, while our Gdu-
Gated, cultivated, propgrty-ownlng, tax
paying American women are Obliged 10
stand humJ!y aside and see these gentle.
men tramp along 70 the polls. They
satiricaly ask, II this is true, or that
| Just, and they wait with triumphant
smile for uur reply.
Our reply is, that small side issues
| are irrelevant - tile mann point IN
! question, and that one mistake (allow-
| ing unrestricted male vote is not going
to be rectiied by the adding 10 II Of
another.
/ But snifraCists have a more serious
| argument than rldcule IL bring up, aud
they do it with an earurstness that
weighs heavily even with conservative
thinkers.
They say, "Woman is as good US a
man, She Is his equal, she should have
tile same privileges, the same rights.
Suffrage is right, therefore woman
should have it"
This to many is unanswerable. They
sigh at its seeming fatal logic, crush
down the instinct within them that
something Is wrong, and feel that they
are narrow minded, aud mot advanced, >
because only their head and not their
heart, il convinced.
The truth is that the chief argument
in favor OF woman suffrage is founded
upon a mistaken idea, namely. that God
created man and woman equal. lie
did not. lie created them different.
This is the keynote 10 the whole situa-
ton.
Things different cannot be compared
The work vi man is one thing, the
work of woman is another; the glory OF
man is one thing, that of woman i.
another; the sphere of man is one thing
that of woman Is another. Take Il fish
ont of water and he will gasp for breath
in the Iifo-glying air; put a lion into the
sea, and lie Will struggle and die in tho
yielding waves.
Every living organism thrives in it:
own element Man has lis clemens
and woman her's-change them auC
you kill them surely, whether you take
il moment or century 70 90 it, a re
form against nature is what the equa
suffragisis are trying to secure. Its sub
lime absurdity is only equallel by thu
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