The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-06-12
Women That We Love.

.Rcautifui Women That We Love"
In the course Of his response to tie
toast Then and Now at the Canadian
Maple Leaf Club banquet held in Chi
cago on the 24th of Nav, Superior
Court Judge W. O.. Ewing, of Illinois,
thus eloquently pleaded the cause of
=" the strong, pure, beautiful women
that we love:
1--WE have but to love justice and do
Justice. We have but to DO unto
others as we would have others do unto
us to kindlc the spark that shall flash
from heart to heart around the world
and up TO the throne of the Eternal.
And in sympathy with this thought
while we lovingly proclaim the graces
If character that adorn the British
throne, may | not say one word in be-
halt of the strong. pure, beautiful wO-
men that we love? Shall we shrink
from doing them justice? That is all
they ask, it is all they are entitled to
ask. \ sensible woman does not crave
obseuulous tlattery or soulless atten-
ton, but respect, confidence, and above
all justice Long since we learned that
by honoring women, we honor our
selves; by initiating her virtues, we add
to our own; by lessening her burdens
we make smoother our own pathway;
why should we not learn that by sincere
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an independent, intelligent, moral agent
in the economy Of government and the
eyoomy of being. we enlarge the bound
aries of our own manhood and increase
the chances of keeping company with
our own self respect.
. Is it not patent that by the evolu
ton of mental and moral forces, woman
nastens the dawn of 4 greater and bet
ter world? IA the republic Of letters,
in every form of intellectual combat, in
every profession, in all the arts. in all
the sciences, IN every walk of human
learning, on every field where human
ity struggles for humanity, the woman
Of to-day stands unabashed, without
tear and without shame, not simply the
tawdry object of mans simpering flat
terry, but his co-equal, challenging his
confidence and winning his respect IN
her effort to reach the shining goal of
every laudable human ambition.
At the beginning of Victoria S reign
there was not 4 married woman III
England or America vino owned the
clothes she wore. The Queen has lived
to see the effect of her own great indi
vidualitv and character III the elevation
of woman, and the recognition by law
not complete Justice.
- \ ct no man is endowed with wis
dom, wit or cunning enough to give a
plausible reason why an intelligent
moral woman in a land of freedom
should be deprived of any Of the priyi-
leges of citizenship; why in a govern
ment based upon the idea of equality,
before the law, of all the people, a
woman should be citizen full pam
opiled, when the taxpayer comes around
and a cipher when the election booth is
opened; why the product of her brain,
the accumulation Of her thrift, should
be taxed to support a government that
she has no voice in administering; why
she should be charged with the fearful
responsibility Of rearing her babes in
the love OF their country and the love
OF God, and yet be deprived OF all
power to prevent an asylum of vice.
the saioonkeeper' :" ticket office to
hell, from being erected i'll the very
shadow of the school, the church, or the
home, the sanctuarles Of her children.
There is no sex in truth, patriotism, in
telll-ence or justice; answer me, then,
who can, wherefore should sex be a
factor, of any degree, in determining
the highest privileges and prime duty
OF cItizehshlp'
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