The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-25

IL tue IulloT OF j ne POSt.
Houston. Texas, April 24.-It seems to
have been tho province of man to address
man. 1t may yet still be his mission for
some time to come but logically it can not
so continue.
II is as bad to be 100 years before your
age as to be 100 years behind it. When
poor Susan b. Anthony, at whom ! have
so often laughed in the bygone, first strodc
the lecture stage all humanity Missed be-
cause 1t was not possible to permit such
thoughts as she enunciated to prevail in
a woman's brain. She was a maiden
that was terrible thng-and when Cadv
stanton took up the role also she was
Strong minded and peculiar woman-some-
thlhg wrong-she had a whole family NJ
ooys to raise-she was surely stepping ont
u Tue province OF woman, wife and
mother And yet how many. many. manv
women have thanked the Almighty Power
Tor the strength that was within these
women and others like them. for the mower
that has been the means OF bearing such
noble fruit
Our esteemed fellow statesman. Con-
gressmail Bailey. tells us that the Filipinos
can not-according to the constitution
lWllh hig Cl-because in the estimation
OF Congressman Bailey il is the grand
desiucTaium, as 1t ought to be--the FIJI
| plnoS can not BIO taxed to assist in the
support OF the army TO crush them
alnounnng IN rolSd numbers to many
millions hundredsAof millions of dollars
because tney could not and would not b,
| allowed representative in congress and
| Wnen | asked him how in the case of orr
widowed and maiden ladies, he could log
| lcaliy hold that against the FiIipinos .
taxation without representation had al :
| re"uy become an unwritten law of mir
constitution. lie CALAMITY replied with a
lovers inclination; "Ah, we represent
mem as We live for them; we love them
so; Moulu uie TOT them. don't quito
Understand that in reference TO ths
haldenS and widows What would Inc
| wives have to say? NV
NOW that is what call a sumntuarv ,,,.
! when woman is old enough ana strI,r
enough to earn her living. and often thoss
~ others besides. and has to do IL. when
sne nus reached the level plain of man
mat she must then delegate a man TO do
her voting while she continues 10 nay ~ ~
taNes-she has neither father. brother mo-,
| husband-a maiden--she has no 80
logically then-or logically It seems "a
me-the Filipino who Is not canahIe ~
supporting himself without sometimes az
Veloplng the corporal being of another. il
| surely capable of being represented ~,
the high and mighty American r,,i,ar W
that means man and the woman--w.,,
ycnre lust too sweet and good and noh,a ;,
mind you, the sweet comes frst-thot's
| woman. "'
He goes on further to say "the oo,s,,.,,
ton must be obeyed and to mako !, ~
iigatory 1t has, by the superior mail
genee-- experience rsther--of the man y. = !,
framed 1t, been put in writinr-hacs',naoS
those men, he repeats, who framed "v ~ y
constitution, found by the study ~ th Sa
worlds history that men could-not- he
| trusted" pe
Then, said l, "can these ladies ,rr.,
you to make laws that are bene6ei,i %
moment" e'oa'er
Ny friend not So said .r. A
the sanction aud the letter Of tho Law ~, !
without IL God and man know the con snl
quences; the husband is compelled ~ :.
before the law and make a public s,. ~
ment hetore no is Entrusted With a,sa
They ask Won not for the courtesy =, ~" ~.
lover, but for tho Justice Of law 'ns
They ask ycu for the right ~ .r..,
can eiti5enshir. heesute logically ,hs,, ~
! serve IT, One OF the legends borne unon