The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-17
TONGUE-LASHING.
A Spirited Lady Correspondent Goes
for the Editor i'm Lively Fashion
''Help Me, Cassius, or Sink"

for the Editor in Lively Fashion
Help Me, Cassius, Or 1 Sink
To the Editor:
Seeing your answer to Mrs. Thomas Stan
ford, hasten to thank you in the name of
my sex for what you have written on the
subject. 1 think 1 never read one of your
editorials with more unqualified pleasure
1t shows plainly that when a man of your
ability can find no better arguments
against woman suffrage, we need not fear
the opposition of lesser mortals. You drew
a most lovely picture of woman as she was
meant to be, beautiful, tender and pure
but If we were all that you portray, would
you men dare to live in the same world?
Why not be honest, and instead of finding
our very weaknesses adorable" tell us
our faults as plainly as we are willing to
tell yours? We must acknowledge, with
humility, that brains are smaller than
mans, but so are our feet, and our bump
of self-conceit-a diamond is also smaller
than a cabbage. If 1 am not mistaken the
brain that came next in point of size to
that OF Daniel Webster was that of an
idiot. Now, really. Mr.. Donnelly, does that
prove anything? Our state legislators. who
recently went on a junket and became so
uproariously drunk that they could not dis
unguish saloon from mine, no doubt
had large brains to match their big heads
You quote the recent action of some Colo
RADIO legislators as a hint for us to beware
of public life. If all men were Of that type
the women might, indeed, give up all hope
of obtaining suffrage, but there are few
manly men left in this country, thank God,
and instead OH sctffrying their beloved
wives and daughters out of sight when
these brutes appearp they think it better
to reduce the 1rUwentl as much as possible
of the aforesaidabrutes by giving more to
all wOma nkind0II re
When Col. Breckenridge overstepped all
decency, did the good men of Kentucky
hasten out of publiE life for fear of con-
tamna ton? Nosl they simply showed him
under at the polls and vale Breckenridge.
You also speak Tf our meeting brutal and
filthy men terms of perfect equality in
the lowest struggles of life" Do we not have
to meet them also sin private? Does not
every brute We1imaN meet in public have
one or more ofivthe fair sex at home to
browbeat and afuse37 If, by keeping out of
public life, we mightsnever have to endure
insults, then your argument would have
some force THE halo. and glamOr which
the sexual instincts cast about a woman
sounds very we'll indeed, but any man that
respects those instinc s. at present will do
so even when he meets her in the political
kind do not respect her under any circum-
stances. A true woman admireS man just
much when he unsexes himself by taking
of crying baby, allows his wife to
sleep away her headache, while he wrestles
with the breadmaking, she does when he
is strutting around the polls, cigar in
mouth, exercising his especial prerogative
of running the government.
AS for unSeXing ourselves, do not worry
about that. There will always be two sexes.
Equality is not identity. 1 own it some
times seems a thankless task to tongue
LASH unthinking women into line but you
have experienced similar ingra titude in
trying to round up many stupid members
of your into the reform ranks that
you ought to feel more sympathy for us.
The way to bring about a reform is to
everlastingly keep at. it, and that is the
course intend to pursue, with your help,
if you graciously accord it-otherwise, with
out it.
1 am well aware that in thus addressing
you a subject that you have definitely.
settled and laid on a shelf, l am inviting
thunder bolt on my defenseless head, es-
pecialy as l am not so well versed as you
in welding polysyllabic words and over
Whelming adjectives, and cannot cover my
opponent with so much verbosity that the
argument need not be answered, but such
as they are, submit my very humble ideas.
c. H. d. ,
Burschville, MINI.