The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-12-23
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

The ladies of the Woman Suffrage As
ISOLATION are still working hard to pass
their amendment through the next Leg
islature. Many members OF the Legis-
lature are willing to give it full consid-
Grafton and some are enquiring how it
has worked in other States.
Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns, of Kansas,
writes as follows on the subject:
Editor Appeal
The Ladies in your State favoring Wo-
man Suffrage have asked me to tell the
people OF Nevada how the experiment
has worked in Kansas:
The investment of Kansas women
with municipal suffrage has brought
to woman herself all gain and no loss
She has gained in power, and has dis
covered thai not poaerlessness but pow
er commands the respect and consider
tion OF the governing class; she has
gained in self-respect and in sex-respect |;
she is learning that there is dignity,
righteousness and womanliness in u GER.
tain sort of self-assertioD. 1t is here
demonstrated that we women who vote
remain III present possession not only OF
all our "ancient privileges" but We
have rights" added thereto. Indeed,
extra privilege and consideration and
| special attention are ours in consequence
OF our enfranchisement,-particularly
when election uay is at hand.
" hen some violation of law has been
endured far past the point OF liberation,
then in at least dozen cities women
have been put forward to perform Il SER
vice from which men shrink us likely 10
"hurt their business" or as being an
ungrateiui task. AS the "business' of
women is mainly safeguarding their
children, they do not find The conducting
of a city administration according o the
laws OF decency, sobrely, and morally
hurtful TO their dearest interests. 1t Is
therefore ihat city governments are put
into their hands, and tney are known to
have undertaken the duties OF pub c
trust" with proper sense of the rtspon-
eibility, and to have performed their
work in excellent fashion.
The home has not suffered any loss by
election of city officials. The biundering
pred judice which stood out against W.
mans enfranchisement on the score OF
lief TO come to home and children
t .ereby, has been disarmed by the denl-
onstration that voting is no more lncon :
patible with washing little faces, wing
on buttons, and sweeping Loors, than 1t
is with merchandising, blacksnllthing or
farming. Woman suffrage in actual op-
Grafton demonstrates that The eXercl,e
of the suffrage by women does not les
III mother love, diminish Wiley devo-
ton, nor weaken woman's loyalty 10
home and lis dearest in ereats.
Concerning the effect Of woman's ba :
lot upon city government we hasten 10
say that we have not brought in niuni-
cipal millennium. We have, however,
made it imperative upon men to put up
candidates of higher moral character
than formerly. Ii man of known i'm
moral character is proposed the "sun-
bonnet telegraph" is potent to make the
facts known, and to bring upon him a
storm OF women's ballots under which
he is buried out OF sight. Party consid-
Grafton are not weighty enough with
women to overbalance the question OF
character in officials. Whether women
poll their whole vote or not at every
election, the fact that "they are there to
do it, prevents tine nomination OF any
except the most upright men who can
be persuaded to accept the burden Of
municipal office.