The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-02
OUR SUFFRAGE DEBATE.
The Ladies Continue
toFMake Life a Bur-
den for Mr.. Wilson.

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n ever allowed by my vote TO assist in
making a governor of the State of
Kansas, or president OF the United
States. 1 greatly fear that L shall
not lose one ounce of adipose tissue by
reason of lying awake nights to grOan
over my inability to- vote. l am per
suaded that shall still find life worth
living, and that shall still relish my
pancakes for breakfast as well as my
morning paper, although may never
be accorded the privilege of voting
upon the questions discussed therein.
But, as one of my sisters has said in
a previous number of the REGISTER,
"Why not?" By what right, human
or divine, do men claim the right to
govern the nation to the exclusion of
women? Our friend, Mr.. Wilson, en-
deavored to show i'm last weeks REG
lister, that man possesses this right
by divine authority, and to our mind,
failed utterly. He said, "Man was
formed first; woman was made for
man and not man for woman" An
indication that he is the head of the
woman and that the office of teaching
and governing belongs to him. Why
the simple accident of Adams having
been created first, entities him exclu-
sively to the Office of teacher and gov
ornor of all creation, is more than the
average woman can understand. Now
we are forced to the conclusion that
Mr.. Wilson hasn't read the first chap
ter of Genesis lately. If he will turn
to that book and chapter he will find
that it reads thus: $50 God created
man i'm his own image, in the image
of God created he him, male and fe
male, created he Them" plainly using
the word "man" in the broader sense
including both sexes. "And God
said let us make man in our own like
ness, and let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea. and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle
and over all the earth, etc" Equal
dominion lover all the earth" Equal
Rights. my brothers, from the very
dawn of creation.
He says further 1--WE find that
Adam named all things according to-
their character and was made ruler
over them" Adam was ruler, so also
was Eve ruler. God gave them do
minion." And Adam named all
things" l suppose Mr.. Wilson ex-
poets us to take that as evidence of
Adams superior judgment. Now no
body doubts for an instant that Eve
would have had a say in the naming
of the animals had she been around at
the time. The implied reproach to the
sex falls fiat when we remember that
A dam named the animals before the
creation of Eve. Evidently there
could be no choice between a living
Adam and an unborn Eve. He next
very modestly proceeds to remind us
that women was made from a every
small portion" of man, hence "tLe
weaker vessel" Well, my sisters,
you and l learned in the old black
covered physiology at school that
fool may have more brain matter than
genius. 1t is not quantity but quail
ity that counts. Let us console our
selves with the reflection that women
was made from all that was best of
man and for obvious reasons it was "a
very small portion"
He says, "St. Paul said that the
husband is the'head of the woman.n
n ow that was simply Paul's opinion
In that chapter Of Cor, in which he
treats of the marriage relation, he dis
tinctly says more than once, 81 speak
not by commandment, but it is my
belief" Now when Paul spake not
by com mandment, his opinion is
worth no more than that of any other
m an having equal education, shrewd-
ness and opportunity to observe. No
divine command then that we can
see.
Mr.. Wilson assures us that oman
has his duties to perform, to labor and
toll and breast hardships in provid-
ing a living for a woman" Now
there are thousands of women all over
our land who nave very eagerly re-
lieved man of this laboring and toll
ing process; and there are thousands
more that are just aching to breast
these same hardships in order to
make a living for themselves. All
they want is an equal show and they
will risk the doing it well.
He next very coolly informs us that
'women are not needed in offices and
high places, there are plenty of men
for these" We humbly acknowledge
the truth of the assertion with respect
to the offices, we have had that DEM
onstrated right here in our own coun-
ty, but as to the thigh places" there
we beg to differ. There is room for
women in the "high places" and the
best of it is they are finding them.
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