Year: 1874

Well, now. What shall we say of


our correspondent? That he is not


lover of women? But he is. That


he does not believe they are entitled


to respect in the exercise of certain
rights? We can hardly think that


of him. That he does not believe


in granting political rights and elec-
tive franchises to women, and there


fore condemns everything of a pub


lie nature in which they engage, be-


cause it is "undigniied" in his esti-
nation? Would you believe it, kind
sir, one of the ladies from Findlay


who spoke at the Wednesday night
meeting, alluding to this change
said: 'you need not think because
we carry forward this cause, and be-
cause we speak in public against
this evil, that therefore we are 'wo-
mems rights women l only know
OF three women in Findlay who
want the right to vote. We have
all the rights we want, and we are
willing our husbands and brothers
should do the voting" Now what
do you think of that, Incorrigible?
We felt a little incredulous but in
voluntarily said "Amen," and it gave
US a higher estimation of the cru
saders than we had had before, and
q greater assurance Of their devo-
ton to the cause from pure and ex-
alted motives. If the women of San
Diego lacked cheek, as our cores
pondent expresses it, they lacked the
grandest element of the female
character, if cheek induces them to
do rs they have done elsewhere and
as they are doing here. The best
women Of our city are engaged in
this work, They engage in it with
pure hearts and clean hands, and are
not defled by the visitations they
make. But what a confession for
man to make, i. e., that men cannot
visit such places without being de-
filed, and yet are found among the
supporters, justifers, excusors, pal
liators Of such haunts of vice and
infamY." Women can and do, and
when they do they elevate the char
acter Of the places, and men unused
to reverence frequently bow their
heads in contrition, and drop the
tear of sorrow over the record of
their past. They do it without
Boosting, as they do it without fear,
and we venture the assertion that if
ever our correspondent gets into
meeting where these praying women
assemble to worship, whether in q
street or in hall, whether in a sa-
loon or in a chapel, the true man
hood of his nature will rise above
his prejudice and he will be ready
to confess that his estimate was all
wrong and that there is nothing de-
grading or unfeminine in the pro-
Geeding.


Let the Pharisees go, man. Re
member that he who condemned
them drew around him vast multi
tudes and taught them and prayed
with and for them. He taught great
truths and enforced his precepts by
example, and when he found the
crowd so ready to condemn to exc
cution, his quiet " let him who is
without sin among you, cast the first
stone," dispersed the loud assailers
so rapidly that evidently no one
knew which way his neighbor went.


But it is the same way in every
thing. We never knew a man who
thought every one else guilty of
corruption and dishonesty, but as
heartily believed himself to be the
only honest man in the community,
though he may have set the law at
defiance every day, because he held
the pelf and his unfortunate neigh |
Dor was obliged to have it.


No, no! let the women alone. The
same divine One who condemned
the Pharsiee because of his hypoc-
'ricy, nevertheless gave the command,