The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-10

Comes to the Defense of Women in n
Very Readable Article-She Thinks
Suffrage Can he Safely Conferred
Upon Women.
To the Editor:
l have just read the woman suffrage arti-
Gle in the issue of March q, and will write
a few lines in reply. I have read the let
ter of Mrs. Stanford to the Farm, Stock
and Home, also the article in the Repre-
sentative she referred to, and 1 was well
pleased with what she said
Mr.. Donnelly says: For generations
woman has been the slave or plaything of
man." Is it reasonable to keep them in
that Estate of imperfect development? %
The few able men who speak for the
Omaha platform are not content that
the majority of the voters of the country
do not vote their way, and try to tongue
lash" them into doing so 1--WE hope they
will succeed; still the tongue is conceded
should have chance
Look into our schools and see for your
selves how the young women rank with
the men there. Why should not our girls
rank as high as their brothers, when they
have the same father and mother, and the
same environment, and many of "the girls
take after their fathers, you know" The
imperfect Development must take place
after the schools are past. How can
conditions be changed so the early growth
will be continued?
In the Colorado legislature, if the discus
sion of a bill involving the protection Of
our girls caused the faces of the three
women members to blaze, it surely showed
that more women were needed there, as
most families have girls as well as boys
and what protects one will the other. Most
parents wish their girls to be as good as
their boys.
This was disgrace to the so-called men,
but not brutal (pity the brutes). 1t may
be some woman has to live in the same
family with those men, and children may
even call them father. What is their
hertatge? Farmers ought to appreciate
the case.
It was said of Jesus that ''He eateth with
publicans and. Sinners" as a reproach, but
there was where He was needed In a
reform there will be many duties that are
not pleasant, but the cross must be car
ried, even if heavy, by His disciples.
In Colorado's sister state, Wyoming, the
opponents of woman suffrage declare that
it has caused all political parties to put
their best men their tickets, as the
women will not vote for bad man. Let
us hope there will soon be a change in
the legislators of Colorado.
Every good man feels there is some
thing sacred about a good woman" True;
SO there is about a good man. Both chill
dren of the same dear God" what should
exclude one and not the other from the
duties (not honors), of government? If it
is not fit for one, it is not for the other
(they have to live together), and if all
q RI no lol
would like to be good had better emf
CRATE.
where man and woman sincerely love
each other, IMAM and woman are the
complement to each other" Good: there
are two halves to the whole; if either half
Is imperfect, the whole is imperfect No
one can overthrow the adjustment which
God fixed between the sexes" But what
is that adjustment? Neither Jew nor
Greek, bond nor free, male nor female
but one in Christ-and this is called a.
Christian nation.
Do we believe the "ambition' of a few
women may divest the great mass of their
sex OF beauty, tenderness, delcacy refine
ment, conjugal love and maternal instinct?
Has the ambition of men had that effect
on their sex? Why should woman be
lovable more than a man? The man
lives with the woman more than the
woman lives with the man. "a man"-also
woman-"is known by the company he
keeps" A good woman does not want her
father husband and sons to be found in
bad company.
The women are working to have better
associates for their sons, and to make their
lives better worth the living. 1t is con-
jugal and maternal love that is aroused
Let us not think that will make her less
beautiful; the best and most intelligent
women we know are not the most repul-
sive. woman is not man." Thank God
say the women, as well as Mr. Donnelly
Even a monkey might not want to be of
those brutal and disgraced men" we are
told of; and some in congress have been
found to be no better, though they do rep
resent we, the people. Is talking worse
than doing or thinking? ''As a man
thinketh so is he"
We take our sons to the school and town
meetings when we vote for school officers
and neither husband, sons or neighbors we
meet there treat us less respectfully than