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Woman Suffrage.
At
last a Southern legislature has done its duty to God, humanity and to the
government--the Tennessee Legislature has passed the Suffrage
Amendment.
The influence of woman in politics is going to
be salutary. Their pure morals, unerring intuition and devotion to the
right will necessarily improve our laws both spiritually and in the matter
of vouchsafing equal rights to all and special privileges to none. The
nation will give a vote of thanks to the Tennessee legislature for their
wise and righteous act.
There are a few pin-headed
politicians and prejudice, beclouded intellects in the South that oppose
woman suffrage, and, of course, they will be disappointed in what the
legislature of Tennessee has done, but time and trial will dispel the
cloud that obfuscates their mentality and in a very few years there will
be no difference of opinion as to the wisdom of the act.
While
expediency in dealing with a great problem is always pusilanamously
contemptible in my estimation, still it is perfectly legitimate that this
act of the Tennessee legislature should be used to the advantage of the
democratic nominee for president. But whatever party may be benefitted by
it, the fact still remains that the whole world will be made better by
conferring this supreme privilege upon women.
"You may talk about a woman's
sphere As though it had a limit,
There is not a place in earth or
heaven There is not a task to mankind given, There is not a blessing or a
woe
There is not a whisper, yes or no
There is not a life, or
death or birth
That has a feather's weight of worth
Without a woman
in it."
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