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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!” MISCKIAA.IIKUI* AIIVKHTISKMSST*. 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