The herald., 1896-04-05
WOMAN SUFFRAGE NOTES
BY BEN 5. nay.

"Aunt Sally" not having evoluted with
her ''nieces," has hard y reached that alti-
ttide where she can plainly discern the
near pomised land, or realize that wan
dering in the wilderness with man it was
only a step to claim her rightfu, Inherit
ance. Two or three reincarnations will
mayhap reveal to "Aunt Sally' that she
had retrograded instead of coming up in
the evolution of time and progress with
her neces, whom she fain would have cir
culating around in the labyrinths of SUPER
sttion, predjudcs and dry bones of the
dark ages.
We have been asked if we believed Mrs.
Randall suffragist, judging from her
article in the Amendment column OH Sun.
day. Yes. we catch her occult meaning,
and in her thought see the grand possible
ties of the future government, where there
will be no need of laws defining the qualifi-
cations of sex. but where man and woman
walking hand in hand in harmony with
natural laws, where like nature there VIII
be no clashing, but silently erecting the
beauty and music of the spheres. Woman
then will long since have forgotten that by
the force of her own individual character,
by the agonized cry from the heart of
motherhood, she was called into the arena
man held as his alone. The critical hour
for woman has come, and rising to her
high aspiration, born of her travail, the
new declaration will ring through the ages,
pure, inspiring and exalted. Our sister,
carried beyond our narrow confines by
occult power, swept past the turmoil of
the present, and realized the glories of her
emancipation. We have need of such
women, who by the inspiration of their
own lives bear us on to the dawning OF that
day.
| The first grand mass convention to open
the suffrage amendment campaign will be
held at Music hall April 9Th and 9th.
Rev. Anna Shaw and Mrs. Yates of Maine
will address the evening sessions, other
prominent speakers during the day. Ad-
mission free. Program will be published
| next week.
Recognizing the urgent need of organiza-
| ton and the immediate and the concerted
action Of all scffragists, male and female,
number of prominent women met in the
| Nadeau parlors last Monday afternoon,
4 and by unanimous vote organized county
| campai!n coInmittee-Rev. Mia Tupper
| Maynard, president; Mrs. Almedia B.
| Gray, vice epresident at large, with vice.
! presidents from such towns as have res
| ponded TO the call. The city will he thor
ouglly canvassed and a vigorous and sys-
tematic campaign inaugurated.
| All suffragists must recognize the fact to
| carry on this campaign successfully, money
| is the essential feature. Lecturers must
| be sent into every town and hamlet, and
| literature sent broadcast; to meet these
| demands we must have money. There are
| many women unable to attend the meet
| ings or take any active part in the work,
| whose hearts are with us, and would gladly
aid in the financial part; to all such we
! address this most important feature of the
| work. Silently, yet effectively, will you
! help to carry tue cause TO victory; every
so cents will be as gratefully received, be-
cause of the donor, as $50 or $500 from
another's abundance. All contributions
should be sent to Mrs. Anna B. Andrews.
775 Myrtle avenue, Los Angeles. Any
time in distributing literature or adding
signers to our petition, will address Mrs.
Algae Rothery, 513 Court street, Los An
gees.
This is your cause, do not bar the way to
your own freedom, by standing as an anti ;
help us who are working 10 break the
shackles from your hands aud lift woman
hood from the degradation and bond age OF
the past.
A picture will be placed on exhibition in
the windows of some of the large stores in
the city, representing Woman and Her
Peers. 1t will be a most interesting study
for our male opponents to learn in what
category he, by voice and vote, places his
mother, wife, sister and daughters; among
the select seven, convicts. lunatics. idiots
minors, Chinese, Indians and Woman
truly and honorary(?) disfranchised class
pleasing group for the intelligent woman.
hood of free ca America, but-even 10
poor Indian''-may have a vote, and one
thousand native.born Cinnamon arrayed
against women in the coming election
contemplate it, We sons of mot hers, and
let Justice answer.
We cannot think of a state without re-
lating it 10 the citizen, woman not ye
risen, according to the Interpretation o.
our national laws, to the dignity of citi
zenship, her sphere must still be in the
nebuar condition of the comets, not ye
revolved or evolved an orbit proper. Ger
tainly, like comets, she appears year after
wear with congregated bodies of men with
less and less fear to the inhabitants of the
earth; and also is she like this brilliant
erratic wonder OF the heavens, she still
by and fully laid out by our re-
public and placed in the archives of the
state. Woman's sphere is also like these
heavenly bodies-it never is the same a
any two places and never still in the great
expanse of the universe. Her sphere is
heavenly also; like the comet, i: shines
brightest in the darkest places, and again
she resembles the nebular creation. for
like these misty stars, we have beer
told in ancient history in tn
ton she, too, was thrown off or cut loos'
from another body, and today she is sti:
in many places q satellite wandering
among the sons of earth seeking her posi-
ton. Again is her sphere akin to thu
comet and the whole nebulous hypothesis
for it is yet disputed theory.
The latest news in municipal reform
comes from ST. Louis. where the taxpaye
] have br ought suit to restrain the mayo