The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-12

war always are repeated In a carnival OF crime
sense q a whole neisR6orhood. :.
Let the, public become accustomed to the
the name of law, and il would develop a spirit
o! cruelty which would result in an increase
OF S sT5io%nefdS Ssa daS, the P ., The witS;bsNt;;
hard labor. This will be almost universally
conceded but this does not solve the problem
meantime Must they also become q public
eharkey, Why can we not have y law that win
nay, the expense he Is causing the State. and
anpiy 5he, remainder TO the maintenance Of his
tts sm ! pint,o II i this were e., done there would DO no
that he might help furnish the necessities of
NE on the contrary It would be e her interest
OF receiving the money and equally sure Of not
receiving another beating. Thus the ends of
justice would be much better served.
The ". c. T. U. OF Indiana has been work.
ing 70 secure a woman suffrage amendment.
titlons we're stackoi:up on the cIerK's desk like
coordwoodn The. National Suffrage Associa-
ceedings, has been curious to see what partlc-
nlar means would be employed to defeat 1t.
t dae J Msrs rc;sT Committee lsnS to Which the pe ,t6
as another amendment was introduced prior
to this one. II cannot come legally before this
able consideration OF the next" As the Leg
isl1ture meets once In two years the women OF
The ladies having this matter In charge will
be saved tho labor and expense OF a CAMPAIGN
tTi onsI.' " haraIgg could # would Sope be be bb BIZ sScc ssn sfnI,
There are very few States whose laws are as
thH6rable to women as are those 81 Indiana.
tial factor in framing its Constitution. The
vast majority Of the public school teachers
They have full privileges In all the colleges
mationi ali the professions and professional
schools are open TO them. There are women's
clubs almost without number and tho women
are very broad and progressive. Their Is. as
"a natural sequence to all these opportunities.
a strong and widespread sentimentln favor of
ganiZed and not available for campaign pur-
poses. II, the next two years should be do
beginning with the election precincts. and there
should be hearty cooperation among women.
It would be quite possible to carry a woman
suffrage amendment in Indiana.
The California papers are enthusiastic, over
the San Joaquin and Tuolumue Railroad. be-
gun last summer under the management OF
Annie Kline Rikert, President. She has large
mining interests in T%uolumne county and felt
the pressing need OF a railroad. az did the
mine, owners among men. The latter be-
lieved it to be an utter impossibility, but Mrs.
again and again on horseback. had the sur
veys made. bridges built, and the.road is now
San Francisco. where she directs her corps OF
engineers. contractors. &c. All OF which in
I @snaI.ps ~ y the res IHSicag n ,n s SpNSm6rrttbtewI. 70 1he
The Colored.American disapproves OF the
election Of Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett to the office
Of Financial Secretary of the Afro-Ainerican
League. and thinks she should have had "A po-
sition more in keeLing with the popular idea
fere SO disastrously with her domestic duties
There Used to he a popular idea" Of the 20
sition of the colored man very different from
that entertained at the present day. He should
rsmemher this and not insist upon detinine
husband. a lawyer Of Chicago. is said to be OK.
ttremely DESTROYS that, his wife should con
tinus in the p.blic work in which e h was sc
ious solicitude on the part OF certain wise men
In regard to the domestic. duties of women
would be quite touching II 1t were not-weU
II it did not suggest that perhaps in the mean
time they were neglecting their own.
A protest comes from Wyoming in regard tc
the statement made in this column that 8
Utah legislator was the first in history to cas'
tor. In 1898 the entire Populist vote Of The
Wyoming Legislature was cast for Mrs; Mary
Wyoming's laurel wreath. which always will
be worn by her as the first State also to en-
franchise women.
The threatened slump in the matrimonial
Court recently held that the husband is re-
spunsfbie for the ante-nuptial debts OF the
wife. but the Legislature has nov aGN passed a bill
taken women more than fifty years to have the
laws annulled which seized their property Il
| pay uic bOu . ODAbss nv NhVS Nah % ~
pathize with those Arkansas men: but tn,
latter are fortunate In having a leGlsiatpr,
century of urging to perform this little act o
Justice. IDA II. HARPER.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: I wa
very glad to note that P. P. n. had the couraR'
to touch Oil Miss Harper's note Of the anti
using their husbands names.
=-hls ants. we are used TO being saddled witt
all the woes of womankind. because. forsooth
we are responsible. But to be accused o
using our husbands names-that is delicious
And do we? Am l less Mrs. John Smith thai
PLAIN Mary SMITH 1 differ right there; m
husbands name. prefxed by my own distinc
tive title of Mrs. is his no longer.
Most of the haphazard statements throw
ont by suffragists seem mere bait to draw GU
argument. Now II a woman with a salary c
500 a month loves a man earning only $50
we'll. women do foolish things. we OF the Sc
all know. but on the face OF 1t. why cannot sh
use her brain to help him to rise in his owl
profession. instead Of keeping on workin
herself. One thing Miss Harper overlooks:
woman must have brain TO be able to com
mand that salary: also self-respect. HOY
long would the latter quality hold out II. ate
hearing a man promise before God to love
cherish and incidentally take care Of her. sh
still weIat on in the same old ruts and helpe
ne ants do not protest. rcHsSin any y great !eM. a amour;
cd standards we surely have neither. for W
fellin love dreadful and married tmore dread
full and bore children Il am dying with sham
to tell IL: we never had our names in the pa
pers. except perhaps when we c2tered tn
martyIdom called marriage: IN
glare '3f footlights has not been ours. no. no
fierce controversies, nor newspaper notoriety
But-'we have had comranionship with a brail
as good as our own. at least. and the rlasl q
little hands. the satisfaction OF seeing peac
and happiness in daily operation. Are the
little things? II we denied ourselves the low
and Bympathy OF our husbands and relegate,
the. children to boarding schools. SO, that W
had leisure to meet man on his own plane an,
prove our right to vote with him-would tn
world be better II every woman was a sui
fragist, would the millennium come any quick
err? And when women have a constitutions
Tor unc2nstitutionall right TO Stand unlike me
world TO be run? AS a universal Oneida col
ony. or will we have stately. high-aown, PA
tonic Affection And will n miracle happe
then. and girl babies fall from the skies an
boy babies grow out of the earth we are surel
going to trample on them thenlH Or does tn
new scheme Of creation prohibit children alto
pether and insist that any newcomers to IN