The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1894-11-03
WHAT Is woMAN's SUFFRAGE?
Why WOman's Voice in Coutroverted 0ucs-
ti0ns!-WOman's Vote.


though for ages past, men have taken
part in politics, woman has never yet
had her right,-the right Of casting her
vote and having a voice as to who shall
be the officers that govern her coun-
try, State, county, town and (in-as-
much as these) herself.
.. Why should a clear-minded woman
. be denied the liberty of voting? The
illiterate regro man can do SO. How
can any impartial person say that an
Intelligent woman should have no voice
, in such matters, and at the same time
courtenance the male negro voter who
is more often than not, the tool OF some
office seeker or his friend.
Politics are becoming so corrupt that
we can almost attribute the objections
of those Interested in such matters to
this fact. They realize that women
won't be so easily handled; that votes
won't be ''for sale,' and that much
"poltical foul play will be exposed, fo1
they know that, as Col. Ingersol has
. expressed it, women are more pru
dent than men are, more truthful thar
men. are more faithful than men: ye!
, ten times as faithful as men. And
too, they know that when women es
pouse a cause they will be faithful
: regardless of bribes-or popular favor
9 The great reason we cant have. a
q present and have not had, woman SUI
frage is because the ward politician. ant
corner, grocer know that with wome
d voting, their power is forever gone
|. They rule the country to a great ex
:, tent and this fact in itself shows no!
much we need woman's influence in po!
+ itical matters, for with woman
d suffrage, would thus be the case
q Would the saloon men and proprietor
y, of gambling hells have such full sway
, A Thousand times, No..
10 Women will be more courageous i
II such matters than men, they wi i h
ic for the lust and true" and won't /
If afraid to cast their votes that way.
f. Man wont intefere with these gre;
:. and noble institutions-the saloor
u and such like-oh no, it might damag
le the success of his party. The Legi
of lator in State and Nation won't do
~ for it would defeat him at the ne'
~ election.
- The legitimate subservience OF OF
s' sex to another is wrong. but It's not
lc easy matter to make the majority
ar people think SO.
Id However. the difficult! does not l
Y. in the deficiency OF reason. but bccau
IS custom and feeling bear so heavi]
rs against it, and It's true ''that so long
It, an opinion is strongly rooted in Il
be feelings, it gains, rather than loses, l
We having a preponder rating weight
II argumenta against it.
u. Women who own property have
- nav the same taxes as do men who oV
,w property.
No. Women are subjected to the san
.d laws as men are. and when II WON;
m breaks law made by men, she is trl
ho before men, like Il man, and sentence
m ny a man, to the same punishment
M m1n would be. under similar clrcu
,ra sances. Then in the name flustl
~ why can't women have voice as
In. who shall govern her country, ana NJ
in self?
ID, think I can hear my reader ST
res ''Pshaw! my wife doesn't need to vo'
she has enough to do to attend to ho'
affairs" But let any unprejudlced IN
follow my line Of argument and the
is only one conclusion possible: AM
ask, can any woman,-a wife and
lth mother, better do her duty to her b
band and children, 10 her country a
her God than by voting against t
m. ''politictan by trade 1.-The saloon, I
m .s. gambling den, and the thousand VII
.rb M that are sapping the life OF our II
in country?
.rh Give US woman's suffrage and we
en- show YOU how soon these vices will
,ss. crease. They will ''ny before justi
ing truth and right
nd, WILL B. HEARD