The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-10
WoMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Those Women Who Deaf Want to Let
other Women Vote.

Those Women Who Deaf Want to Let
other Women Vote.
A queer petition has been circulated
by some female persons in Brooklyn
They declare themselves opposed to wom-
an suffrage, and they petition the con-
stitutional convention not to strike cut
the word male from that document
that is to say, they do not wish to vote
themselves, and they wish also to keep
other women from voting. I wonder if
it ever occurred to any of these antisuf-
fragists TO think how impertinent they
are. If they do not desire to vote, no
body wants them to or will force them
to. But when they endeavor to impose
their own private views on other wom
en- and keep them from voting, too, they
are interfering with every ones consti-
tutional right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. They do not think
suffrage would be good thing for them,
and certainly women so ignorant and
prejudiced could not use the suffrage
wisely at first. But they step quite be-
yond reason and common sense when
they attempt to say it will not be a good
thing for other women. For decency's
sake the least they could do would be
to keep silent. 1t is exactly the spirit
they manifest which burned heretics in
the days of the inquisition and hanged
Quakers and supposed witches in New
England. The old inquisition people
burned heretics for their own good-to
save their souls So Latimer and Ridley
were burned at the stake IN England for
their own good and the good Of all her
etics, the ruling authorities being the
judges of what was for their good. So
in Brooklyn women undertake to tell all
women what is for their good, in direct
contradiction to the Judgment Of many
of the wisest and greatest minds in all
ages Under the circumstances it would
look just as we'll if the Brooklyn anti
suffragists would mind their own bust
ness.
/ am going TO Ohio this week, and Wis
it my native state with greater pride than
ever did before. The reason is that
the Ohio legislature has passed law
giving women the right to vote ct school
elections. Good. Now let the Ohio
women take hold and vote and see to it
ed ON boards of education. Wherever it
is practicable let them put in wise and
intelligent women as school trustees.
The days of the saloon keeper ON Ohio
boards of education, hope, are num-
bered
The Brooklyn Eagle is one of the most
prosperous papers in this country. The
editor Of the Sunday edition is a won-
an-Miss Celia Kenney. Half the conf
positors are women, and the foreman of
the composing room is young lady.
In this happy and prosperous Brooklyn
Eagle Office the proofreaders are women
and the copyholders are men, the usual
order thus being reversed.
Women are going to throw their in
fuence with that political party which
gives them the most recognition.
find Episcopal and Presbyterian min
listers coming out in favor Of woman
suffrage. At n meeting in Brooklyn the
other evening learned and eloquent
Presbyterian doctor Of divinity made a
woman suffrage speech. 1t makes one
feel like singing the good old hymn,
1.-The Year of Jubilee Has Come"
at Spring Hill, Kan, at the recent
municipal election all the officers chosen
were women, from mayor down.
a young Kentucky girl, Miss Temp
kins, has been appointed assistant mar
shall Of the supreme court Of that state,
being the first woman to hold this Office.
The Young Women's Christian asso-
citation of Boston graduates A trained
housekeepers from its school of domestic
science this year.
Mrs. c. 4. r. Devereux, long with
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, is
now the editor of Tips, Cincinnati So
ciety paper.
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