The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-03-28
TWICE TWO ARE SEVEN.

Moscow murderess will make slight
change, but still the population Of the
prison may be cited as illustrating the
relative merits of men and women as citi
zens. We give men the ballot and fill n
great punitive institution with them, but
when 1t is asked that the right Of fran
chlse be granted women there are many
who object because bad women would be
admitted TO the ballot box. There are
bad men and there are bad women, but
all experience shows thrt women are the
better half of the race, Ii there were
any doubt OF this, the proportion OF l0l
to found in the Idaho penitentiary
would settle the point. . 1t is universally
admitted that IL is to the interest of the
public to have the best citizenship at the
polls; and it follows that society would be
benefited by having the ballot placed in
The hands of the sex that contributes
least toward the population of prisons.
Statesman of the DIST instant.
The above is no doubt correct
statement. Fact beyond question.
But the conclusions that are arrived at
in the comments are certainly very,
very superfcial-arguing as it does
that, inherently, women are better
than men in proportion beyond the
possibility Of mathematical demon
stration, and consequently if adj
mitted to all the privileges and duties
of citizenship would elevate the !
standard of political and moral
affairs accordingly.
On this same line of argument we
notice that in the great battles of the
rebellion, in counting up the number
of slain and wounded, the list did not
contain the name Of woman-all
men. Hence the conclusion must be
drawn that with women as soldiers,
war could be conducted without
deadly results.
One might possibly conclude that in
this as in other affairs the results one
way or the other might in some de-
gree be in proportion to the risks in
Cured, and following to a logical
conclusion, subjected to the same
conditions, in due process of time
we would have the same result
On the face of this earth in no
nation is the status of woman as ex-
allied as in America, and the feeble
remnant of political honesty that
remains is that which comes from the
teachings and memories that men
take from the homes and firesides
presided over, nay, more quietly
ruled, by the noble women Of our
land, and any law that would drive
them from this the most sacred
position, would be the first fatal step
in our downward career as a nation.
To give to women full privileges and
the duties of citizenship
is inconsistent. To require them to
fulldll them would be destructive to
our social purity.
In moral way the church would
be the first to feel the evil. And to
politics a new element of corruptness
would be added
AS to the question Of intelligence
this is not debatable, as the element
itself in our political economy is a
fallacy, and is in no sense a require
ment.
The Spanish proverb says, "Honey
is good thing but the price of honey
is another thing" An abstract JUS
tice in this case may be good thing
but the price of it is another thing.
The pitiful whine from mankind
that the purity Of woman is required |
to purify politics is a cowardly at
attempt to shift on to innocent
shoulders the burden of filth we as
men have brought upon ourselves.
Who can handle pitch and not be
defiled?
That wrongs exist in our laws re-
garding franchise there is no doubt,
but the remedy should come from Il
restriction of privileges and not
from an extension.