The record-union., 1896-05-31
ments will be brought under has Judi
cial review.
AN EMOTIONAL DEBATER.

1 r. a7tr
! saying: -
| We are entirely willing to credfs the
Record Union with sincerity In its
opposition to the enfranchisemene OF
| woman and because of that sincerity,
and the editorial ability which cIharac-
terizes our Sacramento contemporary
| Its objections are entitled to candid
| consideration.
| By it's methods Of stating 1t, we con-
clude that our esteemed contemporary
| is unwilling to concede the claim of the
Record Union" that the crowding by
women into commercial life has been
detrimental to the home. But concern
ing Hike results from her entry into po-
litical activities, and that she is untitled
for such a life because she Is an emo
tional creature, the Record" advances,
as complete and satisfactory reply"
the argument that men who are moved
| by womanly emotions make the safest
and most valuable citizens, and that
emotional craftsmanship has been the
| most valuable factor in American at
fairs.
Just exactly what this means we are
not able to understand 1t is a bit of
hyperbole that does not fit into the ar
gument of this question. We are con-
sidering the matter of the adoption or
rejection of the Eleventh Amendment
| to the Constitution in the interest of
woman, not of man. He can care for
his own interests, generally, but what
Is to be the effect upon woman and the
home over which she is commissioned
to preside?"-that is the one and only
question. Since the home is the cradle
of citizenship, the nursery of manhood
and the guard and shield of society,
and the family the beginning of govern
ment, we are concerned mainly, if not
wholly, in this matter with the effect
upon that institution and its mistress.
However, our contemporary touches
bottom when it denies that women as
a class are not more emotional than
men; dogmatic assertion that we are
content to permit to pass, since it flies
in the face of reason, experience and
confession. Man is the more and
woman the less judicial being. When
any one contradicts that statement he
closes the door of debate. since he de-
MES what all the other people in the
world admit.
We wish to be charitable enough to
say, however, that our esteemed con-
temporary mistakes terms. When it
speaks of Lincoln as emotional, and of
emotional statesman 1T confuses
terms; it mistakes generosity, pity, gen.
tleness, mercy and loving kindness for
the emotional quality that warps the
judgment, leaps TO conclusions, Is
moved to ends by impulses, and which
prevents the individual from getting
outside Of herself, and occupying the
judicial attitude, wholly irrespective Of
the promptings of emotional impulse
Further on the Record" has the te-
merity to say:
The "Recdrd-Union" stands for the
preservation of the present unnatural
and debased conditions in ward poll
tics, primaries and elections. The Rec
ord" stands for the betterment Of these
conditions by giving every American
home two votes where now II has but
one 1t is the higher emotions, the
womanly sympathy and sense Of justice
emanating from the home that the
Record would draw upon to anchor
ate political conditions. The question Is
not one Of direct betterment Of home
conditions, but Of political conditions.
Whatever improves the country's poll
tics must react indirectly sooner or later
| in favor Of the home.
That is bathos. The "Record-Union"
is misrepresented by the statement Of
our contemporary, as its course all
these years testifies. If it Ia not the
champion of fair play. cleanliness and
decency in politics. and all things else,
we do not understand what 1t has been
driving at so many years, and with
such success. The bit of gush about
the amelioration of political conditions
| by woman suffrage cuts no figure in the
debate, since If woman, as we claim
! will result, is to be sacrificed that there
may be such amelioration, then man is
made to confess to a debased, helpless
and supine condition that ought to end
! in his obliteration from the scheme of
nature As a matter of choice, We pre-
| fer to trust to masculine ability to pre-
serve the State and guard democratic
! institutions alone and unaided, than to
place woman upon the altar and along
will go with her into the political arena
in which case, God help it.! The
! Record" is frank enough to say that
! it is not home betterment that concerns
the woman suffrage standpoint that is
lunhappily true.
| We entirely agree with the "Rec-
ord" that whatever improves the
! sooner or later, in favor Of the home"
| But that is by no means saying that the
| injection of woman into America pol
litical life will better 1t. In still another
matter we are In concurrence with our
Stockton contemporary; II is true that
the percentage of voters who take
part'in the jobs and other contemplate
proceedings of caucusses and primaries
| is very small compared with the whole
| number of voters" And again: 1.-THE
independent voters who hold aloof from
the caucus constitute the controlling
voice Of the electorate, and preserve