Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-06-20
Universal Suffrage.

clans may set up, and that nothing can
Keep hlef back or keep her down but the
question of Incapacity,
Universal Suffrage.
Twas in New Zealand last year just after
the opportunity OF suffrage had been con-
ferred upon women. The plan worked
well. There had never been such good or
der at the polls, and righteousness tri-
umphed. Men have not made such q won
derful moral success of the ballot box that
they need fear women will corrupt 1t. In
all our cities man has SO nearly made the
ballot box failure, suppose we let wom-
an try. But there are some women, /
know, of most undesirable nature, who
wander up and down the country-having
no homes of their own or forsaking their
own homes-talking about their rights,
and we know very well that they themselves
are fit neither to vote nor to keep house.
Their mission seems merely to humiliate
the two sexes at the thought of what any
one of us might become No one would
want to live under the laws that such
women would enact or TO have cast upon
society the children that such women
would raise. But shall show you that
the best rights that woman can own she
already has In her possession; that her
position in this country at this time is not
one of commiseration, but one of congrat-
ulation; that the grandeur and power of
her realm have never yet been appreciated;
that she sits today on throne SO high
that all the thrones Of earth piled on top
Of each other would not make for her a
footstooL Here Is the platform on which
she stands. Away down below 1t are the
blage, and the legislative hall. Woman
always has voted and always will vote.
Our great -grandfathers thought they were
by their votes putting Washington into
the presidential chair. No. His mother,
by the principles she taught him and by
the habits she inculoated, made him presi-
dent. 1t was Christian mothers hand
dropping the ballot when Lord Bacon
wrote, and Newton philosophical, and AL
fred the Great governed, and Jonathan
Edwards thundered of Judgment to come.
How many men there have been In high
political station who would have been in
sufficient to stand the test to which their
moral principle was put had it not been
for wife's voice that encouraged them to
do right and wife's prayer that sounded
louder than the clamor of partisanship9
The right of suffrage, as we men exercise
It, seems to be feeble thing. You, q
Christian man, come up to the ballot box,
and you drop your vote. Right after you
comes libertine or sot--the offscouring
Of the street-and he drops his vote, and
his vote counteracts yours. But If in the
quiet of home life daughter by her Chris
tian demeanor, wife by her industry, a
mother by her faithfulness, casts vote In
the right direction then nothing can resist
it, and the influence of that vote will thfob
through the eternities.
Woman and Home.
My chief anxiety, then, is not that wom-
an have other rights accorded her, but
that she, by the grace of God, rise up to
the appreciation Of the glorious rights she
already possesses. First, she has the right
to make home happy. That realm no one
has ever disputed with her. Men may
come home at noon or at night and then
tarry comparatively little while, but she
all day long governs 1t, beautifes it, sane
titles it. 1t is within her power to make
1t the most attractive place on earth. II
Is the only calm harbor in this world Yor
know as well as I do that this outside
world and the business world are long
scene Of jostle and contention. The mar
who has dollar struggles to keep 1T. The
man who has it not struggles to get it.
Prices up. Prices down. Losses. Gains
Misrepresentation Underselling. Buy
ers depreciatinQ. statesmen exnppnrntinr