The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-27

pcou DcdIiuS uOt ODly Our oWu Jul
den, but half of mans as well, and
that since tho transgression, it again
occurs to us that it is about time We
are taking vacation. Clearly this
state of affairs must be the result of
mans ruling over us. Our blessed
Lord lived thirty-three years upon
this earth, and do not know that he
ever spoke one word Indicating that
women should be in silence and under
subsection to men. Surely thirty
three years was long enough to have
dropped some word on so important a
subject. The only time that he ever
reproved q woman of which / have
any knowledge was when he rebuked
Martha for fussing around about the
b ousework, spending too much time
getting up fine dinners, when she
might have been improving her mind
and heart as did Mary. Try fewer
fritters, my sisters, reach out and
gather in knowledge, grow, be some
thing more than a domestic machine;
be good cook, but be better citi-
zen; be a good housekeeper, but be a
better mother; by demanding better
laws with which to protect your
children, and by so doing you will
protect not only your own, but those
motherless ones and worse than
m otherless ones who sorely need your
protection.
Mr.. Wilson wants to know why the
Governor of the universe permits all
this corruption, this misery OF the
millions when it might have been
prevented by elevating (D women to
the rank of men? / don't think the
brother can blame all that misery on
the Lord. If Mr.. Wilson swallows a
dose of strychnine he will surely have
the stomach ache, and he can't blame
it on the Lord if he has. AS long as
the voters in this country put corrupt
men in office, they must expect cor
ruption, and likewise if they enact
laws that protect the rich and not the
poor, they must expect all this misery
and they cannot charge the results of
their own mistakes to the Lord.
Mr.. Wilson again assures us, that
it would be reflection upon mans
intelligence to allow women to vote.
A reflection on mans intelligence!
When any red handed anarchist, any
parasite from the floating scum of
Europe after having lived here one
year may thrust us aside on his way
to the ballot box to deposit ballot
which he could not read to save his
neck from the gallows. And it would
be a dictation to his ability, if we, my
sisters should vote, We. born under
American skies; drinking in with our
earliest conceptions knowledge of
the principles and privileges of a gov
eminent of the people, by the people;
we, who nave "gone down into the
valley of the shadow of death", to
give to this nation her sons and
daughters; we. who have taught our
children, next TO the Bible to revere
the flag of their country; we, who, in
the home and in the hospital just as
truly defended that flag land that
without bounty or pension) as did our
soldiers in line of battle; we, who
yearly turn into the treasury of the
United States, our thousands, yea,
our millions, with which to support
this government, we are denied "the
sacred right of voting" while this
moth who works i'm the fabric of our
government only to destroy is prefer
red before us. Surely this must be
where the reflection on mans intelli-
gence comes in!
But the long delayed justice to our
sex is coming. AS surely as "there is
a God in Israeli, who hears and ans
wers pray rs, the women of this
nation are marching toward the polls.
We are not coming to usher in pOliti
cal millennium, but we are coming to
down Alchoholism; that will put mil
lions into the pockets of our suffering
poor, and ease up good portion of
that misery, which Mr.. Wilson is
charging to the Lord. We are COM
ing to down the politician. for we be-
lieve that he will never be able to
handle the vote of women as he does
that of men. We are coming to put
better men in office, and to wipe out
some of that corruption, which the
brother again charges to the Lord.
We are coming to usher in purer
day in politics, when it shall be asked
of a man, not, "what will you do for
your party" but what will you do for
humanity.
Mr.. Wilson makes mistake in clas-
sing himself inhis utter lonelinesswith
Martin Luther, Christopher Column
bus and John Brown. They were the
hen aids of great reforms, or the re-
of ideas for which the
world was not yet ready, while Mr..
Wilson is holding on to conditions
and ideas, born when the world was
young. The world has grown wiser,
it has moved on, and left the brother
with conditions it has long
since outgrown, and his argument is
the dying echo of exploded ideas.
JENNIE FULTON.