The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-11-03
is 1T RIGHT?

women of America, hold today is more
fully and clearly demonstrated during a
political campaign than at any other
time.
There has always been a liberal num-
tending the political meetings held dur
ing the time preceding the election of
our United States and State officers, and
since the agitation of equal suffrage
has awakened such an interest in the
minds of the women in regard to politics
and all questions pertaining thereto,
there has been a wonderful increase in
their attendance.
We go there filled with patriotism in
regard to the results OF the coming con-
test, with an earnest and honest desire
to see those elected to fill those positions
who we feel will do their duty so far as
lies in their power. The band plays a
patriotic air which lifts us to the high
est pinnacle OF enthusiasm. We join in
showing the pride and Joy we feel in
this, our land of the free. The band
ceases; the cheering is hushed; we set
tie down to quietness in order to listen to
the eloquent speeches, the flights OF ora
tory, which fall from the lips of the
grand and noble men who have come to
tell us what policy they favor, their opin-
ions of the issues of the day, the all
absorbing topics in which We are SO
vitality interested.
They have made a study Of those
questions, have devoted years to the in-
vestigation-some of them a lifetime.
They come here to give the citizens, the
voters, the benefit OF their years of study
and experience.
The chairman of the meeting arises
and introduces the speaker Of the even
ing. He zones forward, makes his bow,
smiles his sweetest smile, and the very
first words he utters are an insult to
every American-born woman in that
audience: Ladies and fellow citizens"
As l said before, we entered that meet
ing with all the pride and interest
that IL is possible for us to feel in know
ing that we have an inheritance, through
birth, of the grandest country on earth.
The inherent and inalienable right to
enjoy all the privileges OF free and in
dependent citizens, and the very first
words he utters puts us without the pale
of that citizenship to which We are en-
titled, rob us of that prize which all
men glory in the possession Of, sets us
aside as y distinct class. Ladies, but
not citizens. 1t is an insult to every man
who has a mother, sister, or a wife.
| never hear those words issue from
the lips of man but a feeling of such
intense indignation arises within me as
to almost overwhelm me. [, an Amerl-
can-born citizen, at every urn must be
reminded of my false position. Not a
foreigner, no difference how ignorant,
how unprincipled, how low in the scale
OF intelligence, but can, in a few months
after landing in my country, become a
full fiedged citizen enjoying all the
rights and privileges which are God
given to me, but unjustly withheld
through false ideas and wrong ~legisla-
ton.
And right here ! wish to pay tribute
to one OF the orators in the present cam
paign, who had the grace and manhood
to preface his speech with these words:
II hope ere another campaign rolls
around to have the pleasure and honor
of addressing you all, ladies as well as
gentlemen, as fellow citizens" That
man is a noble man.. He is a man who
has a sense OF justice SO strong within
HIM hat even though his sentiments
might lot meet with the approval of
some OF the voters, and although he is