The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-08-30

purer one. This Is true with both sexes,
and it Is all the more important, there
fore, that they should not outvote the
good, the true and the beautiful.
It is true now and then that bad la
dies will vote If they have chance, but
we who know that the good ladies out
number them 1000 to / are not afraid
on that account to extend and divide
with our wives and sisters this solemn
right. We allow our wives and sisters
to 60 to church for us and pray for us
while we go fishing. Why not let them
vote for uss We allow our daughters and
their mothers to intercede for as at the
throne Of grace. Why not let them rep
resent as atthe polls also2
But women are peculiar, Of course,
from mans standpoint. For instance,
there can be no law passed to prevent
eve necked woman with gothic shoulder
blades and bloodshot nose If she should
desire to vote, but other ladies should
not get mad and remain at home because
this kind of voter makes herself often.
sive and votes. Neither should the good
woman remain at home because the
wealthy Mrs. Dewficker does. If wom-
an accepts one-half of mans duty as
patriot and as good citizen, not only as
a taxpayer, but as a voter, she should be
as faithful to the discharge of that duty
as she is to the discharge of his entire
moral and religious obligations, which
she seems now to attend to almost en-
tirely.
When we admit that woman is very
apt to occupy the front seats in para
disc and wear big hat so that man can
only see the neck and shoulders of the
bass viol, why are we so internally pig
headed about the right to the ballot?
She doesn't need to go to war because
she votes. Nobody is going to war in
80 years from now. We win wear bull
let proof machntoshes made in Ger
many and remain at home. When we
get so that we have guns that will shoot
20 miles and the enemy is able to catch
the bullets in the lining OF his coat and
give them to the children to play with,
men will turn their swords into cult
vators and their spears into Limerick
hooks, and we shall learn war no more
Why should a man whose parents
three or four generations back lived in
trees and hung by their tails from the
branches thereof vote in America, not
knowing a ringworm from a joint reso-
luton, while the noble mother of states
man ard warrior, taxed without repre-
sentation, remains dumb during the de-
cay of patriotism?
It has been said that the advocacy of
woman suffrage has always been in the
hands of long haired men and short
haired women, but I hope that I may be
regarded as glazing and glossy excep-
ton.
While in England cracked bonmot
which will be remembered in London
long after the gilded statue of Prince Al
bert and the memory of Mrs. May bricks
case have moldered into oblivion. I
had occasion only twice while abroad to
open case of bonmots, and one of these
found damaged, but London humor-
list, Mr.. Odell, was referring one evening
at dinner given to me by the archbish-
op of Canterbury to the loss of his hair.
"Mr. Nye," he said, doubtless had
very thin, weak hair, even in his youth;
but, though I am very, very bald now,
I once had beautiful long flowing hair. +"
"Ah, STRIP exclaimed, with ready wit,
as I spread little maple strip on q
trufae and ate it jauntily, "mine, too,
Mr.. Odell, was long flowing, but now it
is long fed"
["Flowing" and ''fled" of course be-
ing used interchangeable to make the
wit more pungent, but, as the reader will
see, in utter defiance of the actual sense
of the words. The wit of the remark is
so all fired subtle that some of the clergy
were at sea for some time, and even be-
gan the service generally used at sea,
when all at once the thin sparkle and
delicate fizz Of the joke flashed like q
Damascus blade, as it were, through the
Opaque atmosphere, SO that the arch
bishop laughed heartily and slapped me
on the back like everything.]
But, by way of conclusion, let me say
one word (for I find that nothing is bet
ter for that purpose). We may be, after
all, better off without woman suffrage.
Perhaps a majority of that sex would
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