Evening star., 1895-11-09
Views of n Woman Lawyer.


May the good time come speedily!'
SUSAN B.. ANTHONY.
Views of a Woman Lawyer.
"If a woman was sent to Congress- she
would go there by the votes of the people,
and would therefore be likely to be wise
woman, and If so, would study political
questions and their bearings upon the mass
of the people, and would probably say the
right thing in the right place, and vote the
right way. My experience with women in
great international congresses. where much
thought is required, ID that they are zeal
GUS and conscientious. 8 The effect of wo-
men in Congress on the masculine portion
would be civ;l:zing and refining. Belliger-
ent encounters would be unknown.
"BELVAl A, LOCKWOOD"
Some Men Who Don't Want Them.
THE result would be-rhaosr'
JAMES H. KYLE
U. S. Senator from South Dakota.
IF women come to. Congress and wear
will speak for a frorit seat"
Yours trsay, :.
g. r. Q. MILLS.
U. s. Senator from Texas.
IF women came to Congress, what would
be the result?'' grl. lac ;s-t -,
4 reply-words and lwarr',-s 80,
= /. FITZHUGH LEE.
My views with regard to woifian suffrage
are krown. and will be further set forth in
a work, Icarus,' by me: ~
II women came to Congress. what would
be the result? - E"N
''The Decentralization of men and women
from the employment of women clerks in
Washington Is fact, and the result OF
the advance would be a uuickening of the
'Descensus Averni" 3i''i ---s.
"CASSIUS NARCELLUS CLAY,
"Ex-Cnited States Minister to Russia"
A Poetic View.
"If women came to Congress, what would
be the result?"
Taking the sitting Of women in Congress
as emblematic Of the political equality of
the sexes. I answer this question in the
words of Tennyson:
and SO these twain. upon the skirts of
Time,
Sit side by side, full summ'd in all their
powers,
Dispensing harvest sowing the To-be.
Self reverent snd reverencing each,
Distinct in individualities.
But like each other ev'n as those who love.
Then comes the statelier Eden back to men :
Then reign the worlds great bridals, chaSte
and calm:
Then springs the crowning race of human
ISABELLA BEEcHER HOOKER.
For one thing. the dirty. vile. poisonous
tobacco smoke and spit ould have to leave
the House and the committee rooms. To-
bacco kills the men who use 1t as well as
those who have to breathe It,
ELIJAH A MORSE.
Member of Congress from Massachusetts"
Among other results. We would have
better laws generally and purer air spe-
cifcally H. c. HANSBROUGH,
"U. S. Senator from North Dakota"
Clara BnrtOn's Sober View.
"It would seem that a glance backward
would be helpful in this attempt at fore
casting the future. What has been the
result of mixed assemblages Of men and
women; the miners camp and all pioneer
life? Did the advent of women there de
moralize? Did 1t impair the atmosphere,
morally. religiously. socially or economi-
cally? Did 1t retard progress?
IF women had not gone, what would
have been the result? The churches-were
they better without women? Has their
presence there been demoralizing? Have
they bred discord? Have they readily en-
Have they been easily bought and sold!
Are they costly elements in the churches?
Would the churches like to dispense with
their presence?
"If women had not gone. what would
have been the result? Schools-Have wo-
men students demoraliZed such schools.
colleges and universities as have admitted
them? Has the standard been lowered, and
inferior capacities, and enable them to
keep abreast with their classmates? Per-
haps the classmates themselves would be
the more correct testimony in this mat
ter. The experiment is comparatively new
and has been fraught with difficulties; we
are willing to submit it to a twenty years
trial, and then decide the results.
Where women are members of con-
ventions, do they disturb or lower the tone
of thought and action? I'VE have no way
of judging the future but by the past
and judging by the past, what are we to
expect. If women should come to Con-
gress" CLARA BARTON.
More Letters From Statesmen.
1.-The result would be that at the first
session they would vote the country into
warm which the men would have TO
do the fighting. Yet 1 have often thought
l would vote to let women vote"
W. T. CHANDLER,
U. S. Senator from New Hampshire.
"It would depend very much on the kind
of women. If they Were disciplined par
liamentarians philosophic thinkers, train
ed debaters. students of history, acGuairt-
ed with political economy. accomplished in
oratory, and exempt from all the irridents
of maternity, the result might he .,enefi-
cent. JOHN J. INGALLS,.
my early and intimate acquaintance
with woman has taught me that she is
always to be trusted and is oftener right
than men are" D. B. HENDERSON,
Member of Congress from Iowa.
"She would take the official oath. draw
her salary promptly, strive to win a good
ty, tI@ 1otf h-I1 r~,- hat vN1IrTn