The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-02-13
WOMAN SUFFRAGE AGAIN.

There has been n great Indignation
meeting in Philadelphia, against men,
held by the Extreme Woman Suf-
fringe society of which Susan b. Anthony
is the president. The Record of that city
prints the photos of number of the lead
ing women that attended the pow-wow.
The faces of these women have metallic
expression that is by no means pleasant
to look upon. Their eyes give out the
impression of gimlets, and each one OF
them looks as if she had just bitten ten
penny nail in two. They look like wom-
en- who had been playing mems characters
in the drama of life, so long that they
had contracted the fierce and unsympa-
thetic expression that belongs to the
most heartless Of men.
However, every great reform requires
martyrs, and these women as leaders
have martyred every tender feeling of
family and love to acquire right that
very few of them would exercise. There
is nothing so calculated to produce sad
ness, as to look upon the countenance OF
an unnatural woman, for the greatest
loss woman can suffer is her keen
capacity to enjoy all the tender and en-
dearing relations of family ties The
sweetest music to true woman's ears
is bound up in one word coming from the
lips of infancy, that sweet word Mud
der" Padercwski, even with the magic
of genius, never struck a note that filled
the whole heart of n young mother as
that word does. and when woman
sacrifices the joys of motherhood to win
for her sex the doubtful privilege of vot-
ing, she certainly deserves praise and
honor for the sacrifice she has made for
her sex, that is, if such self abnegation
were worth the sacrifice
As for us, we have no patience with
these woman suffrage women. a woman
with beard or with II hard metallic face,
that follows the open advocacy of wom-
ans suffrage, has very little influence
among men, but as we have before said,
if the women of this State want to vote,
all they have to do is to say so, and the
men voters will give them the privilege.
They will even hasten to give them the
privilege before these women catch this
mannish expression of countenancc in
making public canvass on the stump
for its exercise. That, of all things, the
men of this section of the country desire
to avoid They want to see these women
look like women, like mothers and
like they are, the joy and So
lace of the homes of the State of
Texas, and not the hard-faced, sad, but
gimlet-eyed women that the Philadelphia
Record publishes of the women who held
the recent woman suffrage convention in
that city.
But one of these women whose pictures
are printed as married, and we are sorry
to say she has the most domineering eX-
preston of countenance of all of them
sorry for the fellow she married, although
we venture to assert that she is soon
widow. There is no man on earth that
could go home for three months and sur
vive the look with which she met him, if
she ever met him, at his door. He would
die of fright in that time.
However, we do not want to be too
hard on these women, they have been
hard enough on themselves, so hard
that they do not look like the ordinary
mothers of this country. so hard that il
is fortunate that only one of them is mar
ried About the sweetest memories
man has are the memories of his mother
No man could recall such countenances
with any pleasant feelings in connection
with such a looking mother.
And now we suppose the secret of our
opposition TO woman's suffrage is given
away. 1t is very evident that the change
from an expression of gentleness and
kindness to that of hard purpose in the
faces of the advocates of woman's suf-
frage is the ground of the prejudice, and
not any sound argument that they should
not vote. We really see no other reason
for not allowing women to vote, except
that We believe it tends to unsex them,
and all such tendencies we deplors.
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