The Revolution, vol. 5, no. 16, April 21, 1870, p. 246

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to posterity, what reason had those good prople to say that the golden heights for woman had beon geached ? That with all our duties now known to us, we must bave stopped m the mineteenth oentury while be saw the other half of humanity going higher and gher, to find what God would have them do? We take our cares and duties and privileges as they are, but have no mght to say what God has for us, unless we have a special reveistion on the subject. That our present duties fll ap the whole measure of our time and abihties"ocan be said only of a part of the sen

The wives of the werking men spend nearly, or all their time in rearing large families, and by prudence and thrift, helping to ewrn lttle homes. They have just as much time to vyote as then busbands, probably it might take one half hour m the year. They have just as much time to hold office as their husbands, for their busbands seldom or mever hold offie, and mever want to, for they cannot afford it. It does not pay to serve on a jury if one has eight children to feed, and the good sense of the community does not allow such men to sct; meither would it such women. They could become as well informed as their husbands. Spending one's evenings at saloons does not tend to incresse

culture any more than making baby's aprons, and would it not be an improvement to sll coneerned if the busband would resd politicst to his wife as she sewed, and thus incresse the intelligence of both? In the well-to-do class, the present duties of the women are such as might easily give piace to something better. Those who have small children, even now find time to read movels, attend parties, and be out mearly all night as often as they wish. They are able and bave servants to care for their babies, to do their work, and what do they accomplish? They make tidies. and sofa-pillows, and go calling, and riding, and have a good time generslly. 1f they do pot have time to vote, and make abundant preparstion for it, then who does?

There are moble women, and perhaps all the memorislists belong to this clas: God bless them, if they do! we know some of them do, whose bands are full of good works. who look fter the poor, the uneonverted, and the tallen. and when they die, carry home the record every true womwn should. 1f woman's voting is to do go0d to the country, they ought mot to overlook this good work any more than others; mdeed i its results are to be good it ought to be wrought out for the master. If these ladies, after careful study and thought, beheve that Woman suffrage will work evil in the 1amd, they onght to say tht, ther than base it pon lack of me The onfranchisement of 15,000,000 women will be a balsnce of power for good on evil, that will certainly need looking after

What obligstions there are which cannot be seperated from Suffrage without sacrificomg the higot itee of fe too obtuse to aee. The only obligation really binding seems to be, 1o become sufficiently inteligent to know how to drop mto balloton pper w e mame of the best candidste upon it. With s litle more inellgence on the part of the mejority of women, we think the highest imterets of the family would not suffer meterisity. t intol wence will make wociety any worse than tis mow, by sll mesns et us go geck to inantile i nornos. 1we must go to war fwe vote, there will perhaps not be women wanting volunteers by

ht Reinti thousnds, as there were in the last war. ond when property lsws are so arranged thet the women shall have the right to control balf of what they and their busbanos together earn, they will have as much money with which to brre substitutes as the men.

If we must be nominsted for offer if we vote. perbaps 1t would not dispiease the men to bave us dectine all such sppoitments in their faron. 1f we feel that there is a lack of propriety in being mayors, judges, legisiators. etc., if we have homes and prefer t stay in them, as most of us do. we see no objection in quietly refusing wuch honors. We nerd not be troubled. Exoept in rar mstemo. gretmes has mever been thru-t upon people

If women have loisure and talent. and desire to fill such places, no very cogent reasons bave ever been presented against it. One woman has already become a mayor, and I bave not beard that the foundations of the pisce have been shaken thereby. If the ladies aforesaid cannot ote without the bighest interests of thew famhes bemg sacmifioed, they ought to be allowed to remain m pesce.

It bas been shown of oourse a thousand times that all cannot be represented by husbands and fathers. There are some women whose fathers bave gone up to Hesven, and others for whon mo busbands have ever been sent down from there. Then it sometimes happens that s busband and wife, if they bave sny brains or individuality, do not have the same thoughts upon the same subjects. For mstance, be might think to be the husband of ope wife, the cream of existence she that polygamy is the gate to paradise. Be might tumk slavery was nght and proper; she that all are oreated equal. My observation, not my experence, has taught me that our busbands sre mot always one with us." snd our sons re not always “what we make them.

Thave known hundreds of mothers who prayed over and lsbored for their sons day and might ll society took them and rumed them. 1 believe the mothers very generally do ther duty at home, but we want thew infivence to resch out io the saloons and bouses of ill-fame. 1 do not see any need for representstion in the corn-field! If the man is not able to care for his field alone, let the wife help him. provided ber arms are mot full of children m the bouse. I1f he bes been careful of ber lest she be broken down early in life by, oftrecurring maternity, she onght to be. just as ocareful of him.

We do object to such dvimons of labor as 1wbefore our door last summer.A stont Germen wes loading a cow s she at gra. while m wom w rpity um fillimg a waggon with the same. He sauntered loiurely long tor the cow to mo er fo The woman oocsmonally strsigtoned up bet body wiped the perspiration from ber face, while be took ont bis pipe. lt delionte ourl of moke acond imto the ai, looked t her approvingty and lot ber go to work agnin. 1 think this more thn Womn Ri. thogh wol he o o t ti i t pt ing business.

As for our representing ther at the Srenide rent pl t y be there in porson. Nothing i more blossed than the hoe ireie d ore i bands were ot o reprted wivo. while hey wore ing onmportant business, the condition of things would be smproved. If women at the

oo, the by the instroction, make thor imnm upon the government. ae they would they woted. we would have oing ore . t e presont any. how imoompte y toct ther cilar e primpies of e publosn govermment. md t them for the plene they should be ae to oopy in There are s few exneptions. I bad s reintve who, beng s whig, snd her busband s dome by ber influenes. Sbe and ber busband weee never divoroed

1am gisd thes indies mede th protost not only becsuse this county whers hon est views ought to be expressed., but beoruse agitstion pusbes forward reform. 1I am gid that pearly balf of our representatives were in tavor of submittng this guestion to the women of the state. 1 am gind our mterets were so sbly aefended by a telented representate rom our t 1 do not thmk. bowewer. by submittmg it to the women, they would gets oorrect expresion upon the subject A good many would vote for it. a few against it, and toousands would be afrid to vote. or moferent to it. If it granted, I do mot suppose al women will vote immedmtely. Manmy presudices will first have to grve way. If women vote whet they wish to vote, and there is mo dsorderly conduct st the polls m cons quenoe, and mo gemeral disorder in the body polition, 1 de mot see any objection to the thing bemg contmed from yoar to your. 1 beheve in due time be men will grant it to us. but the change i so novel they can hardly concede it just yet.

When women like Miss Jones of our oity. now in California, take s fow more profesor ships in a universuy over a hall bundred competitors. write s few more Wbraries, show them selves capsbie of solvimg grest questo. become ormaments to their profesmons n ence, it will seom more absurd for thom wot to be enfranchined than it done maw for thos to be so. SaAnan Ewowr Bouron

forrign Correspondrur.

TTE . MANT Ap. 1870 NEws FRON W CAT

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