The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-06-17

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grows inefficient. The hand of the
painter artist loses its delicacy of
touch by welding the blacksmith's
hammer. The prize fighter soon
ceases to sympathize with bodies in
pain. The frequent repression Of
sentiment benumbs it. Public en-
ployment breeds Indifference to pri-
vate duties. And when greed of Of
flee takes possession, what care has
one for other things? 1t, was angels
Of heaven seeking power who be-
came the devils in hell.
The woman in office Of political
power has almost invariably shown
herself unfit for it, being either the
slave of some male favorite, or else
a tyrant, or both. Victoria of Eng
land, Wilhelmina of Holland, and
Maria Theresa of Austria, may be
claimed as exceptions. But neither
of the first two have had one-tenth
of the power lodged in the president
of the United States. Parliaments
and prime ministers govern both
countries. And the third named con-
fiscated several Hungarian cities
pledged for debt, without paying any
of their debts, and joined the robber
rulers of Prussia and Russia in ap-
propriating 1-s of Poland. Three
women were governors of the Meth
erlands; under all Of whom there was
gross tyranny and religious perse-
cution. Two of the Medici women
ruled France at different periods.
One was an arbitrary tyrant, and
the other directed the slaughter Of
10000 or more Protestants. Per-
,haps Mary of Scotland did not take
Ian active part in the murder Of her
husband; but three months thereaf-
tier she married the man known to
lbe his murderer. Her cousin Mary
of England approved Of the burning
of 2s8 Protestants. Mary's sister
Elizabeth appointed ignorant Chris
!topher Hatton, lord chancellor for
his fine dancing, murdered her kins-
woman, Mary of Scotland, and prob
ably was unchaste. Then there were
in England Eleanor, wife of Henry
the Third, an intolerable tyrant, and
Isabelle. wife Of Edward the Second,
who lived with a lover and murdered
her husband. Christina Of Sweden
was guided for q time by the wise
counsel of Oxenstiern; but broke
loose, went cranky (and perhaps
worse), and finally helped her coun-
try by abdicating. In Russia, Cath.
crime the First was drunk most OF
her time; Anna Iyanowna was q ty-
rant, swayed by hre fayorite man.
Elizabeth was tyrant, and notori-
ously licentious, and Catherine the
Second was cruel tyrant and strum-
pet. Spain, during the regency Of
Maria Christina. and the reign Of her
daughter Isabelle the Second, was in
constant turmoil and revolution, un-
der one man rule. Isabella in 1851,
made a treaty with the Pope provid-
ing that only the Roman Catholic re-
ligion would be allowed in Spain.
Finally, she abdicated, went to Paris,
and lived in pleasure. The list of
good kings is a short one; that Of
good governing queens decidedly
shorter.
Voting and office holding by wo-
men in America have not subsisted
long enough for us to judge very ac-
curately of their effects. But statis-
tics show that in II States where wo-
men have voted for some years the
average of div orces in 100000 of
married population is 364, while in
II adjoining States, where women do
not vote it is 264, and in the United
States 200. Women are supposed to
be opposed to liquor drinking. But
in the State of New York, where wo-
men voted, prohibition was defeated,
in 1918, by a majority of 215,000
votes. In the recent election in
Chicago 10000 women voted the
"dry" ticket, and $4,000 the "wet."
In San Francisco 36,058 women
voted "dry," and 1920 'twet.''
Probably, not a fourth Of the wo-
men of the United States, and not a
tenth of those in the South, wish to
vote. And if we exclude the office
seekers, and seekers of display and
notoriery, and dreaming visionaries,
a very small percentage Of real NO
manhood seek the privilege. And L;