Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-07-31
CORRESPONDENCE
Tie Queen of Carthage Once
More Essays the Task of Do
ing up SemphrOnlcus.

Beg pardon Semphronicus, my
nose is purely Grecian anil unless
YOU are cross-eyed | cannot under
sta,.d how you can say it is turned
up.
And YOU doubt my fondness for
Tennyson and Mrs. Wilson. When
some younger l simply revelled III
their writings. Isn't that love
scene sweet? Do you remember
Edna my darling my darling,
the tremulous voice the tender
pleading cry rang startling through
the silent church" &c. l learned
pages by heart. Did you know that
Olga Neville was real character,
friend whom Mrs. Wilson kept
in her home that she might study
her?
About Tennyson-Don't you
think that fellow in Locksley Hall
somewhat egoti steal? If he had
arrived at marriageble age and
like YOU believed d womans life to
lie circumscrihed by the front
palings, should he not have pre-
pared fitting home for his Amy?
IF he was too worthless then ne
should not rail- so, it some one
else did and secured her. 1t is
all sweet, pretty sentiment put as
suitable to practical life as would
be a diet of sillabub and sponge
cake to lahoriug man. You are
certainly stupid if you fail 10 dis
cer:l my meaning. am fond OF
sponge cake, but / would BIZ stu
Did to make it my diet when l
needed something more substan-
tial. I like sentiment certainly but
I would be an idiot to be controll-
ed by it if the welfare of those l
love demanded otherwise.
I am honest in my question as
to where womans sphere begins
and ends. a few years ago the
roads were almost impossible near
here; men beat their teams, and
broke their vehicles for days,
weeks, and months until woman
took her husbands hands, (mostly
negro men) and with d wagon
hauIed rcck and helped toput that
road in good condition. Was she
out of her sphere? At picnic last
Saturday at four o'clock the wo-
men suggested going home, the
men protested; "oh, says the wo-
men, we have the ratioaS TO give
out TO the negroes. l found many
of them cooksd and washed dishes
for negro nen who are necessarily
in the kitchen a good deal. Is
that a womans spher". If she is
50 easily contaminated as you op-
ponents of suffrage pretend to
fear, why is she not better pro-
tected? I had rather vote once ev-
cry two years, and run all risks
than to cook in one year for a ne
gro 1895 meals and wash that
many cups, plates, knives, and
forks.
Will you kindly explain to he
how it is that those who drink
much of the liquor are without
family connection. That is the
most absurd assertion and poorest
argument which could emanate
, from a christian country. Did
, they spring up spontaneously or
, are they spawn of the stuff they
, imbibe. CLERKS, railroad men,
, tramps, adventurers, rich old bach
elors, widowers, outcasts from So
ciety, and numberless others" are
not without mothers and although
men without families, have hu-
man souls, and the God who
watches the fall of the sparrow
will hold man responsible for his
brothers fall if he is instrument
al in bringing it about, and be is
responsible when he licenses the
sale of the soul destroying stuff.
And so you are q doubling
Thomas. There is municipal suf-
frage in many states and it works
we'll. Wyoming has had suffrage
for the past quarter of a century
and it has wrought no harm and
has done great good in many ways.
From a vote of resolutions prepar-
ed by the Legislature of 1893. |
copy this: Suffrage by our wo-
men has largely aided in Danish
ing crime, pauperism and vice
from this state, and that without
any violent or oppressive legiala-
ton, that it has secured peaceful
and orderly elections, good gov
ernment, and a remarkable degree
of civilization and public order,
and we point with pride to the
facts that after nearly twenty-five
years of woman suffrage not one
county in Wyoming has a poor
house, that our iails are almost
empty, and crime, except that
committed by strangers in the
state, almost unknown, and as the
result of experience we urge every
civilized community to organize
it's women without delay"
Every Governor of Wyoming for
more than twenty years has testi-
fed to the good of woman suf-
frage. AS these Governors are ap-
pointed by the president not elec-
ia bu +bo poonlo tho,, ora NOT