The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-08-19

World Her Best Hishh Defined The
Ballot Ror.
fcapyrleht 1901. By Louis Kiopsch Is. VI
Washington Aug. ls--in this dis
course Or. Talmage exios home as
field Of usefulness. aud especially en-
couraEes wives and mothers; text
Genesis 4 n. Male and female created
he them"
10 other words. God. who can make
no mistake. made man and woman 70.
a specific work and 10 move in par
ocular spheres man 70 5e regnant IN
his realm, woman to be dominant in
hers. The boundary line between Italy
and Switzerland. between England and
Scotland is not more thoroughly
marked than this distinction between
the empire masculine and the empire
feminine. So entirely dissimilar are
the fields to which God called them
that you can no more compare them
than you can oxygen and hydrogen
water and grass. trees and stars. All
this talk about the superiority Of one
sex to the other Is an everlasting
waste Of ink and speech. ieWelef
max have a scale SO delicate that ne
can weigh the dust OF diamonds ont
where are the scales So delicate that
YOU can weigh Ia them affection. senii-
ment against sentiment thought
AGAINST thought. soul against soul.
mans word against womans "oiu
You come out with your stereotyped
remark that man is superior 70 "o-
man In intellect, and then J open on
my desk the swarihy iron typed
thunderbolted writings OF Harriet Mar
tineau and Elizabeth Browning and
George Eliot. You come on with your
stereotyped remark about woman
superiority TO man in the item Of at
fection. but ! ask You where was there
more capacity TO love than IN John the
disciple. and Robert McCheyne' the
sootohman. and John summerheld, the
Methodist and Henry Martyr, the mis-
sionary? The heart of those men was
SO large that after you had rolled into
Il the hemispheres there was room
stlll LETT 10 marshal the hosts OF hea-
ven and set up the throne Of the eter-
nal Jehovah I deny to man the throne
intellectual. deny 10 woman the
throne afectional No human phrase
ology will ever define the spheres
while there Is an intuition by which
we know when a man Is in his realm
and when a woman is in her realm and
when either Of them is out Of Il. no
bungling legislature ought to attempt
10 make a definition or to say This
is the line. and that is the line
woman's best Rights.
know there are women Of most I'M
desirable nature who wander up and
down the country. having no homes OF
their own or forsaking their own
homes. talking about their rights. and
we know very well that they them
selv,s are At neither 70 vote nor ti 10
keen house. Their mission seems 70
be TO humlliate the two sexes at the
thought OF what any one Of us might
become. No one would want to live
under the laws that such women would
enact. or 10 have cast upon society the
children that such women would raise.
But will show you that the best
rights that woman can own she already
has in her possession; that her posi-
flou IN this country at this time Is
not one OF commiseration, but one OF
congratulation, that the grandeur and
mower Of her realm have never yet
been appreciated. that she sits today
on throne so high that all the
thrones Of earth piled on top OF each
other would not make for her a foot
stool, Here Is the platform on which
she stands. Away down below Il are
the ballot box and the congressional
nssemblage and the legislative hall
Appreciation OF Her Rights.
Woman always has voted and always
will vote Our great-grandfathers
thought they were by their votss put
ting Washington into the presidential
chair. No. His mother. by the prin-
ciples she taught him and by the hab-
lts she inculcated. made him presi-
dent II was a Christian mothers
hand dropping the ballot when Lord
Bacon wrote. and Newton philosophiz-
ed. and Alfred the Great governed and
Jonathan Edwards thundered Of iudg-
ment to come. How many men there
have been 10 high political station who
would have been insufficient to stand
the test to which their moral principle
was put had il not been for a wife
voice that encouraged them 20 do
right and a wife's prayer that sounded
louder than the clamor OF PARTISAN
shipi Why. my friends. the right Of
suffrage. as we men exercise it seems
to be a feeble thing You. a Christian
man. come up TO the ballot box. and
then drop your vote Right after yoa
comes libertine or a sot. the odscour-
ing Of the street. and he drops his vote.
and his vote c9unteracts yours But
il IN the quiet Of home life a daughter
by her Christian demeanor a wife hy
her industry. q mother By her faith
fulness. casts a vote in the right direc-
ton. then nothing can resist it. and
the influence Of that vote viii throb
through the eternIties.
Ny chief anxiety. then. Is not thar
woman has other r.ghts accorded her
huf that she H,s fHa s-rars - f1af 49,