The herald., 1895-07-23
HAPPENINGS HEREABOUTS

firm a house divided against itsel Is
it best for the public that its pures part
may NJ OF choose between good an EVIL
for the public? Have law-makin and
office holding any bearing upon happl-
ness in homes? Have men and women
Joint interest. then? Or is life only one
horse affair? When the Creator saw that it
was not good for Adam to live alone, you
do not suppose he conjured up kitten,
goose or peacock to be his mate, do you?
did the Divine Maker make man after
his image. and make mans mother after
a second-class image? If not, is not he
too good an architect to create qualities
the creature has no use for, in m rial
brains nothing to think of bigger nan
griddle-cakes and fashion plates? ny,
what's the use of being born just to AXE
a nice corpseP In fact, the famli not
the individual. is the unit which, /. lti-
piled, forms the state: the safer st..e is
an aggregate of households, and not per-
sons, for a million persons might 10 all
men, or all girls-in either6 case poor
state. ASK the old forty miner which one
of the ten COM mandments crept into the
early days OF California, when the coast
was almost without wife and babe? Ask
him. too. which one OF the ten depravi-
ties kept out.
If a republic be the natural form of
government, the ballot is the natural right
of its competent people; anu women are
some of them. Indeed the finest gentle
man has largest the gentleness of the
finest women. Political eunuchs do not
beget statesmen; tine Gagged lion is not
king OF beasts. And women whose kitch.
en- is a cage, whose political playground
is that of children-these will not develop
the highest womanbood or motherhood.
And with Emerson | believe women s
position the test of civilization. Com
mouly it is the fellow on the bottom
step who thinks his mother away down
cellar in the dark, and is willing to let
her stay there.
Say that women are naturally below
men; are not half the men naturally be-
low the other half? Draw the line OF ig-
norance. q malady all may be healed OF;
draw it at the male sex and you boycott
the handiworK of providence.
Why should intelligent women vote?
We'll, the best reason is, there is no rea-
son why she should not. Men merely
hug inherited rejudices and say she
should not. They say, Women are too
good to be dragged into politics" Then
lots of men are too bad to be left in, and
it's time .o drag in some goodness; sugar
sweetens crab apples. Ii man may be
both blacksmith and laundryman. why
not women both keep house and fold a
ballot. They say, Too many voters now. !"
Let us weed out numbers and plant in
quality in politics survival of the tittest;
half depends on banishment of the unfit.
They say, 1T were indelicate for women
to poll vote or fill legislative chair !;
but she may pour coffee at the polls and
sit in legislation gallery to smile upon
the indelicate animals lii the ring below.
They say Bridget will ask Father Ma
loney and ortwit her mistress" Unless
the cook knows something of books as
we'll as beans and the stable boy knows u
ballot box from feed trough, give
neither vote; likewise the maid with
no mind of her own is as likely to follow
mistress as priest They say, Wife will
vote just as husband does; so whas's the
use?' As well say that Bill Jr. will vote
old Bills ticket; SO what's the use?
Then they somersaut and say, She'll
vote thu other way and split the fam
ily." AS well say that brother and son
can't vote opposite tickets and love each
other; yet they do. They say the wife is
virtually represented by the husband-the
only representation some bubbles will
have in heaven. Moreover. they say,
too. she's not been trained to it, as
it is full of clowns. and womans ballot
would excuse many of them from further
serving their country. Admit woman to
the primary. too, and more gentlemen,
fewer galoOts, will go.
They say, too, The right of voting and
the duty of fighting should never be di-
vorced." Call to mind the old men, the
weak-eyed, the half witted. the deaf, the
dumb, the blind, thu thum bless, the
toothess. the bed-ridden, the fat fellows
ana the rest of the defective multitude
who thirty odd years ago kept clear of the
draft, but not of the ballot box. If none
vote but men able to march, muscle be-
comes absolute master of the country,
with no room at the polls for old men
adorped with the hrpnza button
What will voting women do? They will
put covers on the manholes of hell; they
will admit new voters only through the
school house; they will ingram property
laws with equality; they will make the
statute as helpful to the woman willing
to work as to the working man; they will
perfume the halls of legislature with
social purity; they will revoke the geat
citys nabit of license to harlotry through
regular monthly fines. and impose equal
punishment upon the male street-wal-
ker-sauce for the goose sauce for the
gander. Suffrage in duty as well as priv
ilege; and when duty calls, good women
step to the front. the bad stand back.
Why sthe bawds, brewera gam bers.
distilers and saloonatlcs-the whole beast
menagerie-cry out against 1t, the best of
proof it is good for something.
Among the many thinking men of our
day who have SAID. at is the brain and
heart not SEX, we want in politics,
these are recalled Presidents Lincoln,
Grant Garfield and Hayes: Charles Sum-
ner, Wendell fhillips, William Seward,
William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Poets
Longfellow and Whittier; Solomon P.
Chase, Roscoe Conkllng. George William
Curtis, Theodore Parker Ben Wade. Mark
Hopkins, William Dean Hcwells. David
Dudley Field; Bishops Brooks, Bowman,
Simpson, Hirst, Hover, Potter, many
senators ana congressman. ChAuncy De-
pew, in England 100 mem bers of parlia-
ment. great Mill and Huxley. with Spen-
Ger and Gladstone applaudiug woman s
municipal ballot and besides 200 such
thinkers, the swarm of gnats that buzz
against woman's voting are only as toad
stools to rocky mountains.
John C. Blatch ord, prominent capi-
talist OF St. Louis, spent several hours on
the peach yeterday.
Judge Rossiler of Pasadena registered
at the Seaside Inn yesterday.
viii Julian of Anaheim and Arthur
Darby OF Downey were among the Sunday
visitors.
The wharf simply brstles with fish
poles from daylight to dark, and even
after dark when the fish bite we'll.
George NJ. IIolton, assistant district at
torney, has purchased d cottage here,
and will soon remove his family to this
place.
Anson n. White of Bakersfield is here
with his family for their summer outing.
G. W. Sexton, justice of the peace for
University precinct, was in town today
on official business.
Dr. and Mrs. Moody of Los Angeles are
occupying one OF the Cuthbert cottages
on Pine street. Miss Annie Junkins is
visiting with them.
Miss Alice Cham bers ot Belmont av-
enue, Los Angeles, has returned home