Arizona republican., 1899-02-20
RIGHTS OF WOMAN
Subject of Sermon at inc
 Baptist Church.
Effect of Equal Suffrage Has Been 10 Purify POIitiCS-Great Day for Gdrnering af inc Presbyterian Church-A Creed Expounded.

was from Galatians, 5:28-''TheTe is
 neither male nor female, for ye are al
 one in Christ Jesus.''
 One of the most prominent questions
 of the day is, shall we have equal suf-
 frage for man and woman? Suggested
 questions are: Does the welfare of the
 church demand equal suffrage? Has
 woman properly any political rights
 which she does not derive from man?
 We do net all belong to what has been called the ''shrieking sisterhood'
 or to the "bawling brotherhood" and
 we can if we will look at this question
 in a common sensa way, neither
 shrieking for freedom nor bawling
 against woman's rights
 It is not the men alone who when
 their life work on earth is over are to
 be ''as the angels in heaven; women
 also are numbered among the joint
 heirs and the angels, and if they are
 to hold such an exaited position there
 it would seem as if they were qualified to take some part in the management
 of affairs here.
 Carlyle was asked by a lady with whom he did not wish to enter into an
 argument, Do you not believe, MT.
 Carlyle, that woman is the equal Of 'man?" The wary Scotchman replied. TT learned long ago that man was cre- ated a little lower than the angels. :"
 Politics" pertains to the ''regula- tion and government of q state and the 1f =
 perity." Thus the very definition of the word shows that woman ought to take part in politics. in PauPs day woman had no political rights. Now she has many. Should womans right to vote be recognized? This question is agitating the world today and de- serves careful and prayerful consider ation, for upon the answer given to it by this generation may depend the prosperity, yes the existence of the re- public.
 Politics need woman's purifying presence. When the men of Albany N. r., found that the women were com ing to register, they filled the registra- tiOn room with flowers from the con- servatOries and treated the new voters with the greatest courtesy. 1t would be well if greater restrictions were thrown around suffrage, if we could have an educational qualification. Wo- man suffrage is not an experiment. Ex-Governor J. B. Hoyt of Wyoming says that under it (woman's right to vOte) we have had better laws, better officers, better morals" Hon. N. L. Andrews, the democratic speaker of the house, said. "'I came to the terri tory in 1879, strongly prejudiced against woman suffrage. It has done much good, and no evil that I could discover. In my opinion the real health giving remedy that would counteract political degeneracy would be the ballot for women in every state and territory" Governor Warren said in 1885: "As the majority of women are good, the result is good. The men are as favorable to woman suffrage as the women are. Wyoming appreciates, believes in, and endorses woman suf- frage." In the last decade Wyoming was the only state in the Union in which the percentum of criminal wo- men decreased. The constitution of this women-voting state requires the use of public money, the 1 recognition of the rights Of labor, the 1 of monopolies, an educa- tional qualification for suffrage. Is | not that as we'll as the men have done? |
 Dealers in intoxicants are the most | bitter foes of woman suffrage A | brewers congress at Syracuse, N. Y, | adopted the following resolution: | Resolved, That we oppose always and | everywhere the ballot in the hands of | In Boston, Mass, women | own more than $12O ,0O0 OO0 worth of | but have no voice in the dis position of the taxes. It may be said. | Minors. aliens and idiots are taxed" Children are represented by their par entS or guardians. Aliens. idiots and | traitors have no rights as citizens.
 The majority of American high | school graduates are girls. Some time ago a hard-looking man came to the | polls at an election in Michigan. A offered him a ticket. You will 1blige us if you will vote that ticket What kind of a ticket Is it?" Read it. 'I can't read" Can't read!" No" Well. this ballot means that you are willing to let women vote as we'll as men," '1s that it? Then ' font want it. Women don't know enough to vote.'
 Working women need the ballot to enable them to obtain better wages. Fashionable women need the ballot to give them something to live for. We would not take women out of the lome, but would give her power to pre- ect it. Who, like woman, is interested T the sanitary condition of the schools Q which she sends her children, or 1n shielding from temptation her sons md daughters? The Bible defines the mutual relations of man and woman. They are to he one. The sexes sup clement each other. Mans strength leeds womans sympathy. Woman'5 l. nc Tn 'piritua1 things the case is reversed. Mans weakness needs woman's strength. The state needs the moral of it's women. We hear a great deal about the "dirty poop' of 2olitics. May woman be the angel whose coming will so trouble the pool hat its waters may bring to the wait ng nation health and healing, as Of ,ld the angel brought blessing to the 1cOl of Bethseda.
 Woman would vote to keep the chools open and the saloon closed A