The herald., 1896-08-30

point is not TO De dOuBeu -Dy ndulinS
In the blind and lame. These form no
class and have no class rights to de-
fend.
Wyoming Is the main citation In favor
Of woman suffrage as tried. resolu-
ton of the legislature Of that state set
ting forth the order of the state, It's
lack of poorhuoses and generally favor
able condition Is the evidence adduced
Wyoming Is a state with very large
area but with very small population.
The scant population is widely scattered
There Is no large city. The lack OF poor
houses under these conditions Is lack
that exists also where similar conditions
prevail Wyoming Is second only to Ne
vada In it's stagnant condition. This Is
que 10 some cause, most probably TO the
sterile character of it's stretches of noun
tains and dry uplands. AS to its good
order, no state has q more inpotent
record For long time g wan existed
between cowboys occupying vast ranges
ana settlers who came in to the water
sources. This war went on for year in
series of trays and bloodshed in which
no one thing was more prominent than
the venality. brutality and cowardice of
the law officers. The war went from bad
10 worse until order and law were de-
stroyed. The state government was
helpless and at last called In the army
and courts of the United States to re-
store government. The state govern
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FOR some time. The cowardce and
cruelty of its civil officers seems how
ever to continue. Federal aid was re-
Gently invoked on some Indian difficult
ties. The state was again helpless. But
the Indians surrendered from respect to
the federal power to the civil officers Of
wyoming These state officers took the
disarmed prisoners short distance and
shot them down in cold blood. There is
no page of American law stained by a
\ nn1I I,I q
nurderers. The resolution of such time
serving I\litlcians as we put in our leg
lslatures is no evidence on anything,
least of all in regard to interests sup
posed to affect any large class of voters.
Inc wyoming legislature has even less
than the usual respect for truth. The
customs of society everywhere follow
nature In specializing sex except when q
race Is weak or dying. Dress every
where adds handicap to the female in
outside work. In China the shoe Is the
most notable of these. In Turkey the
| veil with US the skirt, hat and orna-
| ments. Dress or custom, or both add to
the mystery of sex. invite the monopoly
OF the woman in marriage as a satsfac
tlon OF the sex passions heightened and
concentrated by mystery. Love appears
In the highly civilized and the door Is
opened to joys which can only be con-
ceived of by those who have experienced
them. In American we have less of the
soul standards of our forefathers and
more of the material. Our marriages are
later our birth rate is growing less di-
vorce increases, an independent and nee
essarily sterile career is more and more
the educational ideal of our young wo-
men. Ambition beckons them into trade,
art, the professions, and now into poll.
tics. our sex specialization has been
modified and lessened.
Our American reproductive power Isl
tOdaV c1 "a
signs, portents and tendencies all indi-i
cate further reproductive weakness. In
fact sterilization and eXtermination of
the American must result from con-
tinuation of present conditions.
Everyone looking forward with hope
to the evolution Of better humanity
sees that women as well as men must
use their highest faculties to improve
the race. But it is clearly the compost
tion and enforcement of a race death.
warrant to introduce women as a sex
into the world producing contest or into
any war, participation in which dis
courages or prevents child birth and
child care. -
Woman suffrage is only one phase OF
" dangerous drift in society tha. clearly
recalls the fall of Greece and Rome by
self determination with more deaths
than births.
1t is defended almost solely on the
ground of abstract Jus. g. We might
with equal force invoke abstract justice
to arraign God Almighty or natural law,
if one likes that better, for making the
ant smaller than the elephant, or for
making one ant smaller or weaker than
another, or for bringing a tornado on st.
Louis and not on London, or for making
one place sickly and another healthy.
Justice is not applicable to any of these
things. A woman has mammary glands
to nurse her babe. 1t is unjust that this
material function is not shared by the
man. The woman carries the child nee
essary to perpetuate herself. her hus-
band and her race in a world of immor
tality to possible human perfection for
nine months. 1t is unjust that the man
should not carry it part of the time or
perhaps carry in his body TO nine months
every other child. 1t is unjust that wo-
men should bes horter be beardless,
have smoother skin and have great
variety of fundamental sex character
istics different from men. A cow is
specialized in sex from a bull and a
woman from man because of the es-
sential necessities of such specialization.
To talk of justice in such matters is to
Introduce nature to comedy. Polybius'
Travels. in Greece, Gibbons History of
Rome and the chapter on sex in the Con-
quest of Death will prove of interest to
real lovers of America and it's people.
The vital objection to woman suffrage
is on account of the logical sequence
WnlCn the Off1c1al imposition of the full
male duties of government must bring
The suffrage is not a privilege but
duty Those who have the franchise
must in duty exercise it. The ballot is
only compromise of war. 1t is the sub
stitution by agreement of a count of
heads instead of decision by war. Be-
hind the ballot stands the force to carry
out its edicts. Our civil war shows US
that the arbitra ment of the sword is not
far off under our system.
No reasonable person but must rejoice
at an Improvement in men and women.
Our aim should be to secure better and
grander humanity. This can never be
unless by children we perpetuate, the
better results of evolution. BY children
alone can these be perpetuated. Each
high type of human being holds in trust
the achievements of his race His duty
is by the use and development of the
best faculties and powers and the sup
preston of the bad ones to improve
himself or herself and to perpetuate the
improvements and the possibility of still
grander growth by children. In chill
dren we create. The parent is a creator
The father and mother re-create them
selves in their offspring. In children W.
live again. To the parent the door of a
world immortality is opened. In our
new lives the old interests revive. The
parent Is never without living interest
in life. The child Is the bond that is an
eternal union Of two lives. In children
we march on in new life to our destiny