Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-06-05
they can't III this way put down

other is that having been raised
IN ignorance Of all business she
leans on father, husband ETC.
This is the most palpably absurd
argument(?)I ever saw. Giving
as a reason that women ought to
vote in this enlightened, cultiva-
ted land that size has been raise0 ig-
norant Of all business! Ignorance
instead of culture a qualification
for voting!! Dido further says:
eyes women has an inherent right
to vote" The word Inherent, as
defined by all photographers,
means cristi''g iasepa,adly IN some
thing else, mJorn, etc. By this
definition no one, man or woman,
can have an inlterentright to vote;
for we know that voting is priv
ilege granted by the State and not
an inborn right. If it were an
Unborn right, minors ought to be
allowed to vote; for this inborn
right would exist in them as we'll
as in men 81 years old. Again,
anything existing inseperably with
something else cannot be forfeit
ed; whereas, a man, by treason
and certain crimes and misde-
meanors, forever forfeits the right
of voting.
"Women will cast an unbiased
ballot" With all due respect to
them, are not women more senti-
mental, more inclined to prepos-
session and preiudices than men?
Would not this element of senti-
ment in their natures hinder them
in weighing calmly, coldly, and
logically every political issue that
might come up? 1t is impossible
for creatures of heGd like men, to
be unbiased on any issue: how
much more impossible for crea-
lures of heart like women, to be
unbiased.
Dido argues tha! inasmuch as
women own property and pay TAX.
they should vote. Property-boId-
ing carries with it no right of suf
frage, else minors, idiots, ana for
eigncrs who own property in this
country, would surely vote. The
protection the government affords
their property, is sufficient return
for the tax paid. Capability for
military duty seems to be one Of
the principal things in deternIin-
ing the right Of suffrage. Ddo's
statement that women are capable
of making soldiers, is all moon-
shine. | would not thi'rk OF i'm
pugning their courage, but conf
mon sense as well as all past en-
perience teaches us that women are
out Of place on the battlefield.
Dido's aspersions on Tenny-
nyson will not turn many against
the most popular poet III English
Literature; and Augusta Wilson's
authority does not rest on the fact
of her having created character
true to lie, but on the wholesome
philosophy with which her books
are filled. Her learning and good
judgment cannot be impeached.
She is also thrifty housewife and
a model wife. If the simple fact
of voting were all that bad s,.t.s to BE-
cons5ibility. But things wouldn't
stop here. Once women get to vot-
ing, running for office will be the
next move. Some woman who
wants office, will swear that the
men won't do to trust, that they
have gone back on their pledges
(the old cry), and that the only
sensible thing to do put in wo-
men who may lookout for the
rights of the down-trodden sex.
They will 60 into politics and that
quick too. Dido says that few wo-
men will go about, and speak like
Mrs. Lease. She doesn't know
what people 'riH do when they get
office-crazy. Every one can see
what disgraceful spectacle wo-
man would make running for an
office. and stopping to the usual
methods of office-seekers.
Dido quotes from the look Of
Genesis to prove that God created
man and woman. Does she take
me for an infdel? I will quote
some. In Eph. 5-22 says: "Like-
wise, ye wives, submit yourselves
unto your husbands as unto the
Lord Even as Sarah obeyed
Abraham, calling him Lord" Pc
ter-3-6.
Ifwomen vote, the law, to be
dealing fairly, will make them help
keep up the roads and pay poll
tax. How would Dido like to work
on the public highway? No; wo-
man is on a plane higher than
man, and let her stay there. She
has many immunities and prlvl-
leges that a man has not. Go in
a crowded tax collectors office,
store, or any other place where
there is a crowd waiting to trans
act some business, and if woman
enters, she gets attention before
men who have been waiting hours,
and this is all right. But once
let them come down off Of their
high plane and mix with men in
dirty political squabbles, and they
will find that their glory has de-