Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-08-19
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

No one claims that the women Of
Colorado have rendered that State a
Utopia. No one with sense would de.
mand that woman should accomplish
that in three years, or perhaps in any
number of years. But | will make, as
an undenied and undisputed assertion,
that equal suffrage has not injured the
State by N jot or little, either in its
public or domestic life, or in the char
acter of its citizens. / will go further.
and claim that the possession of the
ballot by the women of Colorado has
had a beneficial effect upon both the
public and private life of the State.
First, as to public life-it has intro
duced into the political world a large
body of political voters whose aims, on
the whole, are pure, and whose inten-
tions, on the whole, are correct. Equal
suffrage has brought into the political
arena a large. uncertain vote; a vote
that can not be herded to the polls,
that a not be bought with drinks, or
controlled by any of the ordinary
means. There has always been a large,
uncertain vote at the bottom-uncer-
tain only till it became apparent which
side had the longest purse or the
shrowdest bosses. This uncertain vote
at the bottom, rendered certain only
by the lowest means, is now balanced
in Colorado by a vote at the top, whose
action is uncertain and will be decided
on election day by considerations of a
nature more or less moral. Mrs. John
L. Routt, whose husband has once been
the Governor of the Territory and twice
Governor of the State, said lately that
she had always been more or less con-
versant with political doings. OF late,
she had noticed in the discussion of
candidates, names otherwise available
would be put aside because of q doubt
as to the feeling of the women. There
is now a woman vote" to be consider
ed, as well as an Irish vote," Ger
man vote" and all the other classes of
votes which have hitherto influenced
the selection of / ckets.
AS to private life, equal suffrage has
brought the discussion of economic
and political subjects into the home.
The character of candidates, the inten-
tions of parties, the meaning of plat.
forms, the principles involved, the
pledges made and broken, the mysteri-
u ramifications of local politics, are
all topics of conversation in the home.
The children are being brought up in
this atmosphere. The mothers opinion
is no longer passed over with indifer.
ence. 1t is worth something, because
it is going to be counted on election
day.
One thing more before I close. The
polls on election day are as orderly and
quiet as the postofice. There is no noise,
nothing whatever of u disagreeable ma
ture. All this has been absolutely eli
minated from election day in Colorado
by the combined influence of the Aus
tralian ballot and equal Suffrage
Minnie j. Reynolds, of Denver, in The
Chattanooga Times.
TOBACCO.
Until within a few years ago part of
the Southern States and the Middle
States were the chief tobacco raising
States. They now raise it nearly all
over the United States and as farnorth
as Canada.
The plant grows to the height of
about six feet. 1t has long. pale green
leaves which are dried and prepared to
smoke in pipes, chewed or made into
cigars.
Tobacco is q narcotic. A narcotic ia
anything that deadens the brain and
nerves. Tobacco contains q substance
called nicotine. You can prove the
poisoning power of nicotine by putting
a single drop on the tongue of a dog.
1t will soon kill the animal. A cigar
contains enough nicotine to kill three
men, if taken pure.
Men have to learn to like tobacco.
They know that the first time they take
any of it, it makes them dizzy and
causes headache, A great many boys
and men learn to smoke by beginning
on cigarettes. These are SO small that
they seem harmless but it is one OF the
worst ways of using tobacco.
Old cigar stumps are often picked up
in the streets and made into cigarettes.
In this way diseases may be spread,
coming from the mouths of the first
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