Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-09-01
DUAL SUFFRAGE.
Read Before the w. c. T. u. County Con-
vention July Goth, 1897.

Read Before the W. c. T. u. County Con-
vention July Goth, 1897
Suffrage for woman is not an estab-
lished fact; hence speak for it. The
objections to woman's vote have been
answered times without number, 1t
is like teaching the spelling OF words
or the rules of rammar-they have to
be repeated over and over again. And
it is so in reform, we must be instant
in season and out of season and repeat
the same argument over and over.
mo fight, no vote" is still rung in
our ears. This involves the physical
powers of woman as compared with
man. Very well. If we study the
animal kingdom we discover equality
in the male and female in nearly all
animals. In the elephant and the
equine family we see no difference, or
very little, between the sexes in size
or strength. In the sheep and Bovine
family there is but slight difference
in size, but the COW is the greater de-
fence for the young The report OF
hunters from three zones claim the fe-
male to be the most desperate in an
encounter.
In the creation of the man and the
woman we find nothing in history TO
indicate that the man was the larger
or stronger. But notice: After time
they hid themselves in the garden, and
Adam acknowledged that he was
afraid, but he did not include his wife
with himself as being afraid, and we
may take it for granted tkat she had
the better pluck.
II we question her endurance on ac-
count of feminine functions we appeal
to the Indian woman, who retires by
herself and without aid brings her
child into life, and if on the trail, stops
but brief space, picks up her babe
and overtakes the tribe in due time.
1t is the life we live-the education
and training that give physical power,
and the courage of war is as likely to
fall on the woman as on the man.
The shooting of gun or the charg-
ing OF a cannon is not the all of war.
Woman in our late war filed places
with better success than man could
have filed them. And these places
were often as dangerous to life as the
place occupied by the soldier and re-
quired equal courage.
A young lady in the family of the
"four hundred" brought up in the most
delicate and refined habits, without an
exertion and without discomfort, we
admit would make poor soldier. But
you take a lad and give him the same
habits and rear him in the same deli
cate manner and he would make no
better soldier.
Here wish TO refer to Miss Willard.
You know who l mean for there is
only one Miss Willard. In her early
life she was equal TO her brother or
any other boy. That She would have
made a fighting soldier or even STRAIT
egist general no one can doubt after
reading the Indian fight and the de-
fence of Fort City. This was only
play in her girlhood days, with few
actors. But she issued her general
orders-three in number-that covered
the situation as completely as could
any masculine general. l remember
the third: Let us have a bit of spare
rib to entice the dog away from those
two horrid indians" 1t is true that
the fort was take. And it is also true
that great masculine general has
been beaten. But our skirted general
was not conquered, for she was ready
to learn a lesson from her defeat for
future use.
Miss Wizards early life was equal
to the life of strong healthy boy, and
the result is all that we could expect
from boy. But the sorrowful day
came when all this had to be changed
The short skirts were replaced by the
long baggy gowns that clogged and
hampered the limbs. Alas for the law
of fashion, that obstructs with its
mighty power. the development of the
woman from the child of nature. Next
ollowed the 'cla bed-up" hair spiked