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« baihui warn •VUULU 1VUH lwimOnr Thirty of th* Mort Funooa Women Ar «»#' the % Qontioo.[Copyri«W*d. ;*«1Curiously anoagh tbs ino*t important and Qrttioo whish rater* into th« womaavital Q- - - - |l»cffr*g« discussion ha* hithrr'.c bees over look *1—would womra rat* If tb«y raald? With a view to securing the brat attainable Aeswer to this query, it ha* bran propoandod of th. bright** mind.-wornrawkoee opinion* weald be most valnnble. Hm writer* wbora Utter* ar* given below nartMot, It will be noticed, almost every walk of life In which the women of theUnited gtntei bar* distixgalshed themeelre*. end tfcfe eollection of opinions, H may justly be nrged, will stand u the mrat important •rrctributton ever offered to the woman sof-frag* question:The Duke Argyle, whom I remember •woe to have seen superbly overshadowed by hU magnificent mother-in-law, the Duchess of Sutherland, thongh hlmaelf a fair enecimen of progreeeire manhood, U sternly eaneerrative womanward. In a lecture, which come twenty year* ago he wae graeloue enough to deliver before a Me*©he*ice’ Institute, he taid, “A woman ha* no right to appear upon a platform oxoept when she I* about to be hang—then It U unavoidable. ” Tbit amart saying oauced great hilarity among hi* Orace'e audience, a Tittle wit from a nobleman going a great way. I a**d to quote that sentence la a lecture I wae bold enough to deliver from manr a pUtform, aod it alwayi brought a laugh — at 'woman s expenae -bat thea, again, my oommeot on it, though aot particularly •mart, never failed to bring geuerou* ap* piause, and thi« comment wae: “The freedom of the tcaffold, the ghaatly eouality of the gallows, ao graciously socorded te wo* man by tbe Duke of Argyle. t* not enough.Give her a fair awing at life aa well as at death; Ut her have a voioa at leaet in the selection of tho men who rnahe and admin* p;lle later th* Uw* under which woman may be ; not th taxed, divorced, deprived of her children, womai Imprisoned, tried, and hung. That wa* my sentiment twenty yeara ago.it is mine t«-«Uy, aod I propose to stand by it. Would I rate If I oould ? Yea, verily, at divers times aod in divers places, to mako np for my long political disability. I think that for th* first presidential election after my tardy enfranchisement 1 would hie me to a certain sity In which I flved during my trying days •f the Republic, and when my little literary income was taxed for the carrying of a war in which no woman had any glory stock, only a rulnoos investment of anxieties and agoaie*, and in that city I would wield the franchise with the patriotic prodigality of a newly landed Hibernian Democrat, casting my vote right and left from morn to dewyNotwith F powerGhacx Oaxx.ewooD.If tbe right were mine, I should hold it a duty and a pleasure to go to tbe polls and rat*.SnaA.x E. Wallace.
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QuAppelle Progress
QuAppelle, Saskatchewan, CA
Fri, Nov 09, 1888
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