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against her judgment or feelings, or as it is commonly expressed, her will. Neither can it justly prevent her from doing whatever she pleuses, that is within the compass of her single ability, and no infringement of the rights of otherB. This right, fully recognized, would secure to her all others desirable. But, siuce it is not, let us couslder, in some detail, a few of her other disabilities which, by every consideration of justice and humanity, demand a prompt removal. While she envoys theright to acquire aud hold property in her own name, she is not allowed the exercise of the consequent right to say what shall or shall not be ' done with it. Men tax it without her consent, and refuse her a vote to influence that disposal. A similar injustice toward man provoked the Revolutionary War, and the plea of our modern rebels for tbe terrible aud devastating conflict that they waged, was that they had lost thepower to control taxation, and to govern both themselves and us. This taxation of woman without allowing her representation, Is a monstrous injustice. I can scarcely think of its multifarious aud pernicious results without feeling the blood of indignation boil in my veins.Men who love money and alcohol assemble at th® polls to vote aud grant license to sell it as a beverage. The former, the avaricious and Inhuman, persuade the latter, of morbid appetite, to drink till they lose their reason and squander the money received for their daily or weekly labor, aud then, go.home in the most disgusting and revojtiug'^xhibitious to quarrel with, ofteu to beat and bruise, and sometimes to foully murder their starving wives and children. In this way they waste their property and wear away their lives, till the grim monster, claims his prey, when his widow is left with a burden on her which none but a mother eould bear. Can any one believe that thosescenes would bo witnessed, if women were“suttered” to cast their votes for the oflicers that rule our cityl The more thoughtful of our citizens, while they grieve tiny, they are ruled by.. mULU1UJLC3 tu WUV A u* i uum OUUCl YU1exercise her inherent right to vote, and death 'and ruin dealing barsalcohol, whisky rings, c., and disgraced by intemperance in high places, confess that they t^re unable to prevent It. Let them suffer woman tothesecoffee-houses, and the rnoutal derangements, domestic quarrels aud destruction of, family peace, the murders, arsons, thefts, robberies, assaults and batteries, aud ttio incarceration of men in prisons, or tncir suspension upon the gallows, so common now that most men are case-nardened to the sight, would soon be numbered with tbs things that were, and a change would take place almost equal to the long-desired millennium.Another outrageous disability of woman is the preveution of her from having the same right to, and control of, her husband’s estate after his death that he has of hers, and for which she Is often better qualified.Som® say It might be well enough to allow women to vote in municipal affairs, but she is not qualified to enter the arena of politics. That is such a scene of corruption and vice, that she has no business there. I answer, this argument against, is the best reason for her going to the pulls. She is wanted there to purify the atmosphere that politics contaminates.Woman is not qualified, is she! I know a number of ladies who read aud write well, but whose husbands do business by making their mark. I know one for whose busy husband she reads the papers, pamphlets, books, c., and gives him at night the best things in them, instead of curtain lectures. Mrs. A. Johnson taught A. J. toread. -Which are the best qualified to vote In these cases—the ladies or the men!Lastly, we shall never have a millennium in allgeneral nor happiness in families till woman is “suffered” to exercise, without restraint, the right to choose her companion for the journey of life. Star being compelled m bow by the stern.
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Cincinnati Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Nov 27, 1868
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