Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-06-19

the license system demands your
money aad your life.
You wilf"lly or ignorantly mis-
understand my allusion of wo-
mans ignorance of business. The
meaning | wished to convey wa'
that if trained from childhood
with business qualification, she
would be better fitted to protect
herself when thrown upon her own
resources. However, that is al
ready heing done. reiterate wo-
man has an inborn right to vote.
The law prescribes the time for
the exercise of that right. "rhe
eaglet is the king of birds even in
its callow state, but until its wings
are hedged and its eyes can bear
the light OF the sun. the nest is the
place for it,"
If as you clam men are creatures
of heud, and women Of heart, to my
mind the union of the two is usl
what is needful to equalize affairs.
You would not impugn womans
courage but you call it moonshine.
If tested 1 don't think you would
find it very healthy moonshine.
My allusion to Tennyson's in
consistency was no calummy on
that author, but meant to show
the quick changes of humanity un-
der the exigence of the hour or
need of the minute. My favorite
hooks are poetical WORKS and Ten
nyson occupies a place of promi.
nence. Augusta Wilson is good
and pure writer. I have read with
pleasure all of her works, l have
listened by the hour, to a relative
of mine and acquaintance of hers,
telling of many pleasant things
about her h"me ife. She has made
money and she enjoys it. No chill
dren gather around her fireslde,
consequently there are no tension
ed chords, connecting her heart
with humanity, to vibratc with a
a pang at every boys dissipation,
or girls false step. ale was some
mothers boy" "She was some
mothers child"
Let me tell you of a noble wo-
man i'll my opinion, Mrs. Berilda
G. Wallace of Indiana from whom
Gen. Lee Wallace drew the portrait
of the mother in "Ben Hur," ann
she was his step mother. She
raised to noble manhood the above
author with two other sons OF her
husband in the course of years six
children were added to these, and
no mother was more devoted. Her
husband was twice Lieutenant
Governor then Governor and then
served in Congress. Everything
he wrote was submitted to her for
criticism or approval. She read
law with her step-sons The end
of twenty-onc years of married
life found her with home but DO
income. Then came the battle of
life to support and educate the
children. Just as ease and COM
petencr came a dying daughter left
her four little children and she
lived over again the anxious years
of conscientious motherhood. This
woman answers tile argument that
"Politics are too dirty for women
to mingle in, in these words:
That is no argument against wo
man suffrage, it is an argument
for it. Men have always had con-
troll of politics; if they have al
lowed them to become dirty it is
time the women came 10 the res
cue and helped clean things up,
Just the work in which they are
adopts. If thought that politics
were necessarily dirty, the unholy
scramble for power into which
they too often degenerate, l would
never wish my boys 10 become vo-
ters. If not fit for my girls, poll
tics are not fit for my boys;;" L
can but indorse them.
DIDO.