The herald., 1896-04-12
Men are all these, but women cannot be

any of them.
In South Dakota where woman's enfran-
chisement was at stake, in one place at the
end of railroad under construction, 800
Italians voted, not one . citizen; not one
could read or speak our language. Yet
when the votes were counted 800 Italians
at that place had voted against the edu.
Gated, Intelligent women of South Dakota.
There must be o change of front or our ma.
ton is doomed. BEN S. MAY.
Aunt Sally Again
My Dear neices. I noticed that the Ed.
Of the Herald tried to fix up my words
little Il suppose he was ashamed to have
them in his paper, but every body has
their style & I thought I'D like to have
& one Of my o1S own even to 4 the .s
as Mr.. Ruskiu's. So Mr.. Editor you
needn't mind fixing my letters up at all,
because believe in everything standing
on its own merits.
Now my dsars Jonas & me nearly
quarreled over that last letter. 1t wasn't
about the plymouth rocks or the garden,
but this:--Jonas wants me to vote, &
threatens to take up his pen in behalf of
the amendment. II he does 1t will carry
sure for Jonas is powerful with the pen &
he says he wants to see the men disfran-
chished for they've made such failure G
he thinks the women could run things
(Of course he'd want me to be president)
1t appears that Ben S. May thinks Pm
not evoluted enough to know where 1 am
at. Then in his notes he says: "Do not
bar the way to your own freedom," etc.
Now, Mr.. Ben S. May, has suffrage made
man free? Have we not seen him year
after year voting away that very freedom?
Voting himself out Of home? Voting his
children into slavery? If the ballot brings
justice and right. why are our mortgages
increasing, foreclosures multiplying and
taxation an increasing burden, while the
tramp multiplies, opportunities for an in
dependent life narrowing and the masses
restless because of uncertainty of employ.
ment and poor wages? If the ballot is
such cureall why do we behold man such
q pitiful, unresisting victim OF the official
classes, OF unequal and unjust taxation?
continue to vo the coat off his back and
the bread of independent labor out of his
mouth?
You may be lordly man. Ben S. May,
but you have evidently yet to learn that
you can vote yourself into pauperism
while the politician is cajoling you and in
creasinR the army to shoot you las Major
Elderkin suggests) when you wake up and
find yourself bereft OF everything but the
right to starve.
Suffrage! what boon to man-to bind
with unerring certainty the chains of his
own ignorance about him. While he is
shouting "Great is Diana of the Ephes-
iansw or something just as silly. Ben s.
May thinks would have my neices "cir-
cuiating around amid the iabarynths of
superstition and prejudice and the dry
bones Of the past" He (or she) must have
read my letter by tallow candle or even a
DINNER light, for said we had to get rid
of a lot Of our prejudices and learn some-
thing. 1t is because my neices are full of
superspitions that think it would be ca
lamity for them to vote.
They would want everybody hanged that
did not belong to their church. They'd
want the government to do this and do
that, and prohibit this and prohibit that,
until there wouldn't be vestige of liberty
left, but an inquisitorial Office.
Every oppressive and unjust measure
every fiosted upon the people was done in
the name of God or government, and until
my neices are free from the superstitions
of both their votes would only tend to
conservatism and further restrictions, while
necessity points to freedom and opportu-
nifty. AUNT SALLY.