The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-07-20


aud nsturalized women Of the United
States will be given the elective fran
chise? Such fact being quite certain,
IL 10 just that the right to vote should be
thoroughly diagnosed and exampled by
the present and past history Of the in
born capabilities Of woman.
History has Taught us that woman
a and has led armies to victory in de-
fehse Of the rights of her native land
and its people.
IL competent to lead armies to victory,
her brain must exercise executive and
legislative functions, which are two Of
the three departments into which our
Government is divided.
l do not apprehend that, for the pres
ent. woman's aspirations extend to the
Presidential chair. but. it is possible that
some of u school girls may, in the fu.
ture be called upon by the"vox Populi"
not only to participate in the conduct
but to hold the reins of our Civil Gov
eminent.
History is rife with women of note who
have ruled their country with wisdom,
understanding, knowledge and sound
Judgment. We have, for example.
Catherine III, Empress of Russia, from
l762.96 During her reign history tells
that for over 200 years, or since Ivan
1.-The Terrible" assumed the title Of
Gear of Russia in 1547. no sovereign had
extended the frontiers of the empire by
such vast conquests as Catherine.
She improved the administration Of
the empire. introduced . new code of
law and encouraged art and literature.
All this at q time when war was rife,
and anarchy and machination lurked
on every side. She has been called
s'The Semiramis of the North" and
voltaire said, with reference to her.
"Light now comes from the North"
Semiramis was one Of the wonderful
queens of antiquity. She assumed the
government Of Assyria after her hus.
bands death; she built the city Of
Babylon with its hanging gardens. one
of the seven wonders. the temple Of
Bel and the bridge over the Euphrates.
She conquered Egypt. Ethiopia and
Libya, and organized a campaign
against India. In short. everything
marvellous in the Orient was ascribed by
the Greeks to this queen, and that
Catherine should have been called "The
Semiramis of the North" is alone
proof of the brilliant excellency Of her
reign.
But we do not have to depend wholly
on pristine history for noble examples
of the power and ability Of women to
rule. The history of the past a never
excel the history of the reign of Queen
Victoria.
She was born May "a, 1919. and
crowned when only 10 years of age. To
her long reign of nearly GA years has
appropriately been given the name Of
the Victorian era. She died January
%. 1901. History tells us, never had
the death Of a monarch aroused such
sincere and wide. spread grief" During
these years, Victoria had won not only
the love and devotion of her subjects,
the respect and veneration of the out
side world for her nobility of life and
character, but also the admiration of
statesmen for her sanity of judgments
and intiexible honorableness of conduct
in politics and diplomacy"
Said Lord Salisbury: 'She has bridged
over that great interval which separates
old England from new England. Other
nations may have had to pass through
similar trials. but have seldom passed
through them SO peaceably. so easily.
and with so much prosperity and success
as we have. l think that future his.
torians will look to the queens reign
as the boundary which separates the two
states of England. and will recognize
that we have undergone the change
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perity without any friction to endanger
the stability of our civil life; and, at
the same time, with a constant expan.
sion of an empire which every year
grows more and more powerful"
No more glorious history could be
written of a woman. than that of Queen
Victoria, who lived and reigned during
aur own time, and whose reign should
finally determine til question of
woman's ability to govern or rule.
Many a woman has been the protagon-
ist behind the throne. while a man has
apparently welded the scepter.
The glorious reign of the victor of Ar
cole and Lodi, with his proud. over.
bearing manner, would indeed have
been brief had it not been for the ines.
timable power Josephine possessed over