The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1903-07-02
THE INCoNsIsTENcIEs
OF soME PEOPLE.
nv carr. ". nrwlrT WALLACE.

our pohtiCal Systcms II cetfltu 70
its logical resorts and justly appli-
cd would place the ballot in the
hands Of every woman in the land.
And why notp They constituted
a majority Of our people. They
are subject TO the lawsi they pay
taxes; they are as intelligent and
patriotic as the men; and vastly
more conscientious. II were
asked, who are the most ineonsist-
ent men and women, ! would,
without a moments hesitation,
answer, "The opponents Of
Woman Suffrage"
Think Of i'll They proclaim
that man and woman have differ
ent natures and yet maintain that
man can represent woman better
than woman can represent herself,
they admit woman possesses
intelligence and mental
endowments equal 10 man, and yet
maintain that she lacks business
and political sense; they protest
that virtue is the most essential
qualification Of the citizens voter,
and yet maintain that woman,
who possesses this qualification in
the highest degree, should be ex-
Guided from the polls,
They admit to the ballot box the
worst elements Of society, and yet
maintain that the hest elements
should be excluded from IL they
believe that nature established the
home, and yet maintain that a leg
islatiye enactment, giving the ballot
to women, will tear it down; they
concede that woman is the best
sculptor Of human character, the
grandest teacher of the citizen voter,
and yet maintain that the produc,
wrought is everything, the artist
nothing,-,he pupil a king. the
teacher a slave; they assert that all
governments derive their just pow
ers from the consent of the governed,
and yet maintain that governments
should be established and laws en-
acted with the consent of less than
one-half of the people they declare
that taxation Of man without repre-
s~entation is tyranny, but that taxa
ton OF woman without representa-
ton is a blessing; they trust the ne.
gro, the Chinaman, the Irishman,
the Indian, the German, the Hotten
tot and the South Sea Islander, 4
these choose to come to OUT shores
but they refuse to trust their owl
wives and mothers.
They fear that, II the latter Shout,
breath the pure air of political free
dom, it would poison their mora
lungs; they fear that the flower o
modesty, though watered by tn
dews of liberty, would wiiher in Ia
sunshine of freedom; they fear tina
the cords of affection. which breaI
not at the drunkard's strain, vii
snap asunder at the first touch c
political difference; they fear tina
the love Of the mother tor her chile
which, as in the case of~Ben Hur'
mother, chooses for herself miser
and death, to save her offspring
will be swallowed up in the love {
politics; IN one word, they fear Tbs
woman is, by nature, untitled 4
freedom
l set my foot upon THIS doetrin'
and declare tina, freedom-ire'
dom intellectual, freedom mora
freedom civil, freedom political
as truly the natural possession {
women as II is Of man, and that
is as necessary to her highest an
best development as 1t is to his.
After all, is Il not true, 10 spit
Of our principles, that our boasts
republic is, practically. but the GO
eminent OF a class, tor = class, an
by a classi But the times are At
spieiousl The world moves; ar
mark my words, the day is no, 4
distant. when our wives and daugl
tiers shall walk with as to the poll
as they now 20 win us to polite
meetings and Fourth OF July eel
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