The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-03-06

side by side with the husband-a wife
who is a woman in all the affairs of life,
strong in time of sorrow and trouble, ev-
er ready with counsel, sympathy and
loving comradeship, one to be honored
and respected everywhere.
ga perfect woman, nobly planned
To warn, to comfort and command"
This class of men has never been known
to oppose the right of suffrage. But a
las! its members are hopelessly in the
minority.
The speech of Representative Ramsey,
the Gallatin bantam, is said to have lost
the cause many votes. His hearers must
have been very weak minded to have
been influenced by his far fetched argu-
ments.
How convincing to refer to Victoria
as a good queen, but as having raised a
royal gambler to succeed her. Mr..
Ramsey thus admits that one woman is
better qualified for affairs of state than
for ba~by-tending. He then caps the
climax by waving in the air a letter
from the Hon. w. E. Gladstone, a most
un-American thing to do.
America and American interests have
no deeper, more subtle enemy in the
whole world than Gladstone and instead
of being %applauded Mr.. Ramsey should
have been Kissed down as a traitor.
Those who wish for English dictation
have no right to represent free or So
called free people. How insignificant
such men would appear in the company
of those leading representative women
who are advocating this cause.
How many men who have helped to
vote this measure down could today do
the work and responsibility that grand
philanthropist, Clara Barton, is now
doing In Armenia. Perhaps there were
some old soldiers in that august legisla-
tive hall. Perhaps they have forgotten
the invaluable assistance Clara Barton
rendered our forces during the civil war.
A late Chicago paper speaks of her as
possessing rare organizing and executive
ability, and yet the pusilanimous polit-
ical leaders of her country dare say to
such women as her, as Julia Ward Howe,
as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and scores
of Others, sin this country of supposed
freedom, of supposed equal rights to all,
You can have no voice in the affairs of
state though you may be equally on
cerned in them with ourselves.
Are those same high-souled men
ready to suffer the penalties of the law
for the women they pretend to represent?
Are they willing to hang for them if
need be, since they would make them
wholly irresponsible in themselves9 Are
, they ready to pay the taxes of women
property ownerss Taxation without
representation is a tyranny to which
Americans would not submit a cen
fury and more ago. The subject is in
exhaustible but this fact remains. %
There are thousands of woman in this
, country who are supporting themselves,
oft-times families, performing all the
duties of citizenship contributing to the
public fund for the support of the gov
eminent, and their right to representa-
} ton is inherent. None but an unmanly
man will oppose it. So long as women
must suffer the penalties of the law
= She has a right to a voice in regard tC
! who shall administer that law. Sc
long as she Owns property and pays
taxes, she has a right to a voice re.
garding the measures controlling her and
that property.
The press comments on this subject
of late, as a rule, are uncalled for anG
h undignified savoring much of the groe
9 shop and brothe], only fit to have origi
q mated and emanated from those prolific
hotbeds of wrong and injustice. ***