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THE INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY, OCTOBKR 4, I*l3.
IT KEYS* TATS
It ttcvar pv to fret nmt growl
When fort nil!' worn* otir for;
Tilt' better lir. il will pu.li .hi.ii
Aud strike the brsver blow.
For lurk 1* work.
And those- wtio shirk
Should not lunt nt theli doom,
tint vlfld tbo piny,
And rloar the wy
Tlmt Iwttor mn have room.
It never nnvn to wroek thr brnltb
In drudging nftor gnln.
And hr 1* noUl who think* that gold
la (tlioanoat bought with psin.
An niimblr hit,
A eny out,
Rave tempted even King*,
For station high.
That wraith will Inly,
Not oft contentment bring*.
fFrom the Chicago Time*.]
WOMAN AS A VOTER.
A t'ktragn Vtrw of the Female Suffrage
tkuratton.
In addressing the conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church ut Month
Bend, Imliuim, the venerable Bishop
Simpson mid:
“I want the (lav to come when woman
will vote. Without the vote I fear we will
never be able to pnt down the lit moon of
infamy and liquor mloon* of our country.
Nothing i wo ruinotiH to the country, it in
true; and it is my opinion that wc can’t
get along without woman voting. ‘lt is
not good for man to he ulone.’ ”
Herein Bishop Bimpaon makes on as
sumption which is almost always uuule by
the advocates of woman suffrage, namely:
that women are morally nujierior to men.
Those who make this assumption pay a
tribute to woman, in a spirit of gullmitry,
but they do not pay quite so high a trilmte
to the truth. Woman ia a human being
us well os man, and is apt to bear hitn
pretty close company in his degradation
us well as in his elevation. The two have
different natures to a certain extent; it is
true; he has a manly and she a womanly
nature, and each nature hus a kind of
moral deformity peculiar to itself; but
facts do not at all bear out the assumption
that the deformity of the one is greater
than that of the other. Man has the vices
us well ns the virtue# of the stronger na
ture. Woman has the vices us well us the
virtues of the weaker nature. The vices
Had the virtues of the te\es are about
equally balanced, and it follows that the
infusion of woman into politics would be
the infusion of weakness into politica,
without any compensating gain of virtue.
Bishop Simpson, in common with other
female suffragists, falls into two errors.
The first consists in taking only good wo
men into the account. There uro hosts of
good and pure, and intelligent women in
the land. That noltody doubts. But
there are also hosts of bail and impure and
ignorant women; and the latter wouldoer
tainly be swiftest to avail themselves of
the opportunity to vote. The women who
are interested in maintaining “houses of
infamy,” and who ore ever ready to drag
the young of their own sex down to their
own level, would be the most prompt to
Wist their ballots. Next would oomo the
Ixier and whisky drinking wives and
daughters of the beer and whisky drink
ing crowds whose habits the good Bishop
would regulate by laws made by pure wo
meu. Next would come the giddy-headed
throng of girls who would describe an
honest mechanic as “perfectly horrid,"
and a plate of steamed oysters on toast as
'‘perfectly splendid.” Have the Wood
hull sisterhood of obscure “reformers”
been omitted from this enumeration of
tlrst-eomers? Not at all. They will bo
found among the very first. Lust of all
would dome the gentle, loving, patient,
modest, true-hearted wives and mothers;
the sacred lights ami ornaments of the
homes where honorable sons and virtuous
daughters are reared; the women who in
stinctively know that theirs is the empire
of heart and home, and who are willing
through these to elevate and purify the
state.
The good Bishop's second error consists
in failing to take account of the prohuble in
fluence of political life upon the character
of women. It does not seem to have oc
curred to him that much of what is bad
in polities is due to the temptations to
which those who exorcise political privi
leges arc subjected. The person who is
more accurately than politely described as
a "waixl bummer” is the product of cer
tain political opportunities. What assur
ance is there that there would not be the
corresponding feminine product, if like
opportunities wore offered to women? Cer
tainly no such assurance is found in the
fact that a very close approximation to this
liad product is even now to be found in
nearly every community. And what as
surance is there that there would not lie
found to exist a class of women corres
ponding to the class of men who sell their
votes for beer and whisky, or for the favor
of an employer? Those who art* acquaint
ed with the practices of neighborhood
scandal-mongers, and who know what
weajxms the female politicians are using
in their newspaper organs, can hardly
doubt that politics would reach a lower
deep than ever if the same temptations of
ambition and avarice were held out to wo
men that are now hold out to men. If
good Bishop Simpson were once to see two
ewe lambs of bis own fold struggling for
the honors and emoluments of office, he
would probably find himself too niueli oc
enpied in patching two badly torn and
sbroded reputations to give much time to
the advocacy of woman suftVugo for several
months.
A third error may be mentioned. It lies
in the supposition that most women would
vote independently, according to the dic
tates of their own judgments and con
sciences. They would do nothing of the
kiud. The wives and daughters of per
sons who, like Bishop Simpson, think that
the saloons ami brothels ought to be ex
terminated by law, would vote with their
husbands and fathers to put down the sa
loons and brothels. But the wives and
daughters of these.' who disagree with
Bishop Simpson on these subjects would
vote with their husbands aud fathers.
And the women without husbands or fath
ers would lie quite im likely to vote against
the good Bishop os with him. In perhaps
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it
would make no sort of a difference with
the result whether thy women voted or
not; and in the hundredth ease there is no
assurance that the result would be any
nearer wlmt it ought to be in consequence
of their voting.
But supposing the enfranchised women
of a community should arise in their
might, and with a small majority of tin
men enact that uo saloons should exist
among them, who would enforce the law?
Should the Mention of the law lie resist
ed, it would have to be executed by force,
or it would become of no effect. Suppose,
then, three fourths of the men in the com
munity should resist the law, even to armed
rebellion, who would enforce it? The wo
men, to be snre. But in such an encoun
ter the result would not be doubtful. A
rebellion of three-fourths of the men
against the other one-fourth, and all of
the women, could hardly fail to succoed.
Of course this supposed case would not be
likely to be realized to the extent of blood
shed, hut would often be realized to the
extent oi nullification, if measures adopt
ed by women’s votes should be oppressive
and unjust. The ease is supposed here
merely to call attention to the fact that
the power to make laws is nugatory with
out the power to execute them. All chil
dren who arc able to toddle to the polls
might vote; but who imagines that laws
produced by their votes would command
the saute respect and obedience us laws
produced by the votes of men? Assuredly
no one.
The answer to this will be that women
are not children. This is true as regards
tire fact of age aud maturity. But in
respect to the exercise of force, which is
necessary to the execution of all law, the
relation of all women to society is substan
tially the same ns that of children. They
have not the force to execute law, and
therefore laws enacted by them would be
nullities. The voice of nature declares,
and lias not ceased to declare since the
world stood, that it is woman’s nature to
rule by gentler influences than law. She
may mold law by persuasion and by the
education of her children, and that she is
constantly doing; but it will always be
folly for her to promulgate luws ns by au
thority so long as she Ims not the power of
will and the power of muscle to enforce
them. Bite may do much “to put
down houses of infumy nml liquor Ha
loons," but she will not do it through the
ballot box as long its she is woman, and
not malt.
Gen. Loo, grave man as he was, groutly
enjoyed the “sell” which a wag on bis stuff
palmed off upon a reporter, who promptly
inserted it in the papers. The reporter
wanted to know Gen. Leo's hour for din
ing. “Six o'clock-—exactly at six," was
the reply. “I infer, then, that it is rather
a formal meal?” “Decidedly formal—in
fact, I may say it is u rigidly military din
ner.” “Military! how military?” “Well,
yon sec General Lee sits at the bead ot the
table, and Col. Chilton at the foot, and
everything is done in red-tape style.”
“Red taj te at the table! I don't understand
you. Please explain.” “Certainly; Gen.
Lee never carves, aud never helps—all that
is left to Col. Chilton—but General Lee
asks the guests what they will have; they
tell him; then he issues ids order, and Col.
Chilton executes them. That’s all.” “Go
on, go on!” opening his note-book. “Give
me an example tell me exactly bmv it is
done. ” “Suppose, then, tlmt we have beef
—wc generally Imvo beef. Grace is said
by the chaplain, then Gen. Lee raps on
the table with the handle of his knife and
says 'Attention!' Everybody is silent.
Every eye is turned toward Gen. Lee.
He looks at one of us—me, for example
—and I rise and make a military salute.
‘Capt. C , what will you be lieped to?'
says Gen. Lee. I say, ‘Beef,’ make an
other solute and ait down. Gen. Lee, fix
ing bis eye on Col. Chilton, says, ‘Beef,
for Cant. 0 . ’ My plate is passed,
helped, and then Col. Chilton, handing it
to the servant, says, “Beef for Capt.
0 . By order of Gen. Lee. It. H.
Chilton, A. A. G.’” And this nhsured
story went the round of the Southern
papers.
Extract from a Virginian’s will: “I will
to my nephew, Juntos Madison M*** # ,
everything 1 may have after my just
debts are paid, with condition that after I
am buried he is to have n marble head and
foot-stone put to my grave, to be seven
feet long and four 'inches thick. I want
the following inscription out upon both
ends of each slab: :Henry M****, born
December lti. 1805; died . He was
a great turkey hunter and a tolerably good
tiddler. He desired the above to be placed
on this slab. Peace be to bis ashes.' 1
want the foot and head stone or slab of
marble five feet in the ground and two out.
It must lie eighteen inches wide. My
name is to bo on the end in the ground as
well as the end that is out. ”
A lndv recently stopped at one of the
Chicago hotels with her little son. The
boy wax not perfectly sat isfled with matters
and things at thej dinner table, and ex
pressed himself frequently to that effect.
The mother Anally rose remarked, in un
dertone to the youthful offender: "Come
with me up stairs and I will attend to your
ei s'.” The lad understood at once what
“attending to his ease" meant, but there
was an important matter of detail which
he was painfully anxious to have more fully
explained; so, pulling backward on the
hand of his mother, he blubbered out, in
a voice loud enough to be beard over most
oT tho well-idled dining-room: “Say,mother
are you going to take your band or your
slipper?”
Says Proof. Huxley; “As to domestic
service, the groans of the housewives of
England ascend to heaven! In live cases out
of six the girl who takes a 'place’ has to
be trained by her mistress in the flrst ru
diments of decency and order; mid it is a
mercy if she does not turn up her nose at
the mention of an honest and proper econ
omy. Thousands of young girls are said
to starve, or worse, yearly in Isindon, and
at the same time thousands of mistresses
of households ore ready to pay high wages
for n decent houseman! or cook, or a fair
workwoman and eon by no means get what
they want”
Some editor tries to frighten tender con
sciences by telling young ladies that when
they exclaim “dear mu!” they are swearing
like troopers. Yet snch is the fact; for
the phrase, as we have it is but the cor
ruption of the Kalian words, Via Mio!
"My God!”
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