Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1885 — Page 3

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THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22 1885. '3

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TTOIUVS WORLD. It la Intended that thee colnnn hall record mr.an'i work la all the varied CtldJ c! scrsbcis, refect opinion respecting women, and voice the views aud thoughts of wenea. It Is hoped that Xtej ciay la tone aeanre encenrage and ren jthes women la every worthy efTcrt,ald theia In aolv isj the problem of leli-ripicrt, protect then ikwc knowledge cf fores of tuncra and Uw iavplre them to tum to tLeir shtml position, esü tati tarongn enlightened, elevated wocanj hood ennoble the Lome, the race the Nation. "Womta'i World" Is wide. As wife, mother, tl heme niter, u worker. as educator, as phllan toroplit. as comrade, citizen, tad ss a humanst elzz woman li everywrere trsiiciss ror Lersell and hö feneration, yrora aa sectioua or tnii world, fcrltf reports of individual and orxaalxeJ woit, ttn items, tho-ztta. ir.?get:o3 s-d inquiries are Invited far these coIuull AUxtU all loci coxniunicaMons to Flo ax nm r.ii.Nws, KÖ Elm St., Indianapolis, lad. The bill requiring that half cf the clerks erupiojediu ihe departments be women hai yaüedboth branches of the Texas Le.r!alaiajB. It was supported by the Bonham N vf, Austin Statesman, Greenville Banner, Gaivt&ton Kewj and other papers. The Texts, Arkansas and Georgia Legislatnres hare made & remarkable record this winter In the expression of liberal opinion iej.aiding the rights of Aromen. At the recent meetinc of the Indiana State B.arrlof Agriculture the amount o'premiuns for the woman's department was increael from $000, as offered last year, to $1,0 O. This m create is for the parposa of securing exhibits representing the ossiness interests of wcrnen. By yote of the Stite and lriae Biwd of - Agriculture the entire management of the usp9r fl yjr of the expoe tlon bailding has been tendered to the Wr roan's S'ate Fair Association. This is certainly a hih tribute ta the judgment and extcLtive ability of women, The cEirr-encement of thi Indiioa Eclest'c Med'cal College on last Wednesday afterneon afforded another illustration of the pactibility and success of medical co-edun-tion. Artong the graduates were Mr. T. V, Johnson and Mrs. Ellen JI. Johnson, husband and wife, who have pursued their medical studies together during the past two years, and who expect to open the otüce of Jthcson fc Johnson in Sprln?ld, Mo., at an early date. A younger lister of Mrs. Johnson Mies Letitia Langhlin, of Irviogton, has also been attending this college daring the past j ear, and both ladles made a good record as undents. The Wfst Virginia Legislatur is wrestling with a bill to open the doors of the State Univeisitv to women. In a debate on last Friday a Mr. Lucas denounced "co education us the enterirg wedge and the first step which would !ed logically and inevitably to female suffrage," and declared it a "miaerable failure" noon the authority of President Elliott, of Harvard, and other gentlemn who have had no experience with coedncation. The measure was supported b7 Mr. Dam in a masterly argument, and after aijouratiitjni, ol. Dan Johnson, one of the regents of the University made a sp?e:h in which hi said that almost alt the ftculty and regents are now in favor of the idea, and explained the plan upon which they hoped to mike the charge. Mrs. A. M. Noe and Mre. Jadih are ia New Oceans looking after tho interejts of tbe exhibit of woman's work from Indtana. A if cent letter from Miss Emily A. Eonthmajd. wio represents the special commissioner for ths Northwest, Mrs. Julia Holmes Smith, i peaks very favorably of th s exhibit. It is proper to mention in this connection that tbe labors of Mrs. 2oe and Mrs. Finch in the installing of the exhibit have been hishly commended by the pre?s of New Oilcan, and aiao by Mrs. Smith, who tally nndrrstocd tbe difficulties and who has warmly expressed her appreciation cf and thanks for their co-operation. The report prepared by Mrs. May Wright Sewall on the position of women in industry and education in this State has been published under the supervision of Mrs. Jndah. It is comprised in a pamphlet of 16 rages and gives much interesting information regaraing the number of occupations in which Indiana women are engaged, the nature of tboee occupations, and tue opportunities afforded women as teachers and nertp m th public ichools and the higher institutions of learning. The argument of Senator Palmer upon Kornau suürage ia of special interest at this time since the question is pending in several State Legptlatures as well a mContrress. The Presidential E!ecoal Suffrage bill intrcdncid in curS'ate Legislature early in tne eeeflon, has not been reported by the Committee, and may not be, as its constitutor ality is teriously questioned. On last Thcrsdav, Eenator Foulte offered a joint resolution S 11 proposing an amendment to Articled Section 2 of the State Coastitnt on by strikine therefrom the word irale" and inserting insteai the words 'without distinction of sex," which was read the first time and referred to the Committee on Woman's claims. The Committee will probably report the resolution favorably, and with an earnest effort in its behalf by woman anffragitts throughout the State, its rasiag might be secured. All men and women who desira the saccess of this principle, hould at once inform their Repiesentativea and Senators to that e3ect, and urce that the resolution be pressed to a vote. On last "Wednesday a large meeting was fcfdd at Albcay, Mrs. Llllie Day raux Blake land Mr. Caroline Gilkey Redners addressed Ihe Committee on Orivancea to whom the Woman batfragQ bill bas been referred. On last Tnesday the Massachusetts legislative committee on woman suffrage gave a h etile k to the 8uffrasl.n oa Wednesday to the "remonstrants." Additional interest and agitation were created by the eeisioas of the annual meeting of the State branch of the National Woman Suffrage Association which was held in Boston on Wednesday and Thursday and waa addressd by Miss Anthony, Mrs. Sbattnck and others. Bills for municipal suffrage for womin have been introduced in the Kansas and lilchigan Lesislatnrer. A bearing wis recently given by the Rhode Js!acd Legislature. In tbe far West the subject has been given considerable attention by the Legislatures In Idaho it met defeat in the Assembly by a vote f 15 to G. In Oregon, the Senate by a Tote of 18 to 10 on last Thursday rejected the weman suffrage bill which has been sapported by tome of the most prominent men in the State. After a long debate, a bl:l extending suffrage to women was passed by the Dakota House) n Feb. 10, by a vote of 23 to IS. General W. H. H. Beadle, Superintendent of Public instructior .oported it by a strong argument. At last acciunta. this bill nad Wn referred to the Council Committee ou Elections, with the probability of a closa yote when put upon passage. General News Notes. Ihdu.napolis, Mrs. May Wright Sewall left yesterday for New Orleans to attend an educational conference to be held In that city on the 24, 25, 2G, inat. Mrs. Sewall is a member of the committee of fifty appointed at the Madison convention last July to represent tbe National Educational Association at the New Orleans conference. Her appointment with that of seven or eight other ltd ie a on this committee If regarded es a very important recognition of the value cf wctn in educational werk. Mrs. Bessie Athlsy, cf tnti city, will TtzU a parr on 7etcan. Present and Past," at the meeting cf tha Ccaty Horticultural CacUtj ca next

Futurc'ay aftfrnccu. Te Indianapolis I7i man's Club celebrated i'i tenth naxiversar; Ly a banquet at tbe Deaison. Imt Tuesday tveniDg. The toa's aüd reianet at t fupierwere a follow: "Literary Gabs." response bv Mils Harriet Noble; "Th Indianapolis Woman'a Club and its Past," reepoaee by Mrs. Marths N, McKay; "The I. W. C. and its Pre-ent," reepone by Mrs. May Wright Sewall; "The I. W. C. and its Foture,'1 response by Mies Carrie Hendricks; Onr (iuests," response by Professor Scoti Bitler. Wi8co?:::c Mrs II D. Sumner, of Waikesha, the wife ol Coaireirnau isamner, has ctn adsn'ted to practice .tt the t.ircl the En;reme Court. Iiako. The Leia!tnre has parsed a IaT to 'Trctect the iis:btiof njarried wcmi in coi. vejaiiC and ciorta;iag of homesteads acd real Citate." WAei2!Xf-TON Tcsp.rTctY. Vrs. Hattie Decr.ii on haben cji fimed by the U. .w. Gerate 83 postmaster at Vancouver. W. T. HAa ia a practical recognition of woman's e-joality, it being the tret instance in the Tenitcry where a woman ha3 been appointed to a Presidential orlice. MicmnAN. Mr. S. W. Fowler, secretary of the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association, has drawn up and published a mecjorial ta the Legislature of that State, asiicg that municipal -uffrage be granted to women, and urpinr; unanswerable reasons in behalf cf her plea. OnEGoy. Tbe -'Historic Ficture,"to which Mrs. A. 8. Daniv.ay has devoied ko much tirre during the past year, ha been completed by the Chicago lithographers. It repretents the ' Curonatien of Womanhood' under the watchful eyes of Washington. Lincoln, Garüeld and Baker, with the portraits underneath of three hundred men an-1 women who have contributed to the tiivanren ent of the Woman Suifrage cause in the Pacific Northwest. A capy. handsomely framed, was presented to the State Senate bv Senator Siglln on behalf of the Oregon Woman Suffrage Association, and accepted with a vote cf t tanks. Nxy Yoek. At the annual convent'ou of the State Woman Saffrage Association held in New York City, Feb. 12, addressas were made by Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Biake, Mrs. Caroline Kogre, ex-Governor Koy t. of WyomiD; Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Mrs. Parnell. The last mentioned lady referred to her sex as ' the gre.it unpaid, great unrecognized, ar.d great unrequited." A reception was held iu the evening. TJNITEftSAIj SUFFRAGE.

Speech ty ITon. Thorxas W. Palmer oi Michigan In the C. S. Senate oa Fri Jaj, x ebuary 6.1 TheSenate having under consideration the joint reeoiutlon (8. K. 10) proposing an amendment to tho Constitution of tL United State?, as follow: Kfeolved. c. That tbe follo'vln? trticle be pioj-ojcd to the Legislature of the several sj-Rtes a Hn ttmendnient to the constitution of the fatted States; hich, when ratiScd by three-foarth? of tie said Legislature, shall as valid a3 part of liid Ccnstltutioa, namely: "af.ticll "Section 1. The rights of Citizen of the United States to vo;e an 1 n-t be deiiied or abridged Ly the United Htaits or by any stile on accoant of sex. "Sec 2. The Congress shnll hnvo power, ty appropriate 1 g'.slation, toenforca the rravisloas of this attic' e Mr. Tesident: Th;s resolution involres the consideration of tbe broadest step in the progress of the Btruegie for human liberty that has ever been submitted to any ruler or to ariy legislative b3dy. Its taking is pregnant with wide chanees in the pathway of future civilization. 1 s obstruction will delav and cripple our advanr - The trinity of principles which Lora chiham called the "Bible of the English constitution," namely, the Magna Chatta, the Peiitioa cf Rights, and the bill cf Rights, ara towering landmarks in tb.9 history of our race, but they immediately concerned but few at the time of tbeir erection. The Declaration cf Independence by the colonists, and its successful asseition, the establishment of the rights cf petition, the abolition of imprisenment for debt and the property qualification for suffrage in nearly all the States, ahd the recognition of the rights ct women to earn, hold, enjoy, and devise property are proud and notable gains. The emancipation of 4,000,000 elavea and the subsequent extension of suffrage to th9 male adults among them were measures enlartfng the possibilities of freedom, the fnll benefits cf which hav9 yet to be resl'z3d; but, sir, the political emancipation of 23,000, OCO cf our citizens, equal to us in moat essential respects and superior to us in many, eeerDS to me to translate cur nation, almost at a boned, to tbe bread plateau of universal equality and to co-operatioa to whick all these bloodstained and pray er-worn steps have surely led. EISE A5D rF.0GF.ES3 OF TEE MOVEMENT. The time which I may occupy in advocacy cf this measure will not admit of even a cursory review of the history and program cf the movement whose ultimate is bafora v.r. Like life insurance and the man who carried the first umbrella, its inception was greeted with derision. Born of an apparently hopeless revolt against unjust discrimination, unequal statutes, and cruel conttructiODS of courts, it ha3 pressed on and ever ridicule, malice, indifference, and coneTat;8m until it star ds in the gray dan before the mcst powerful legislative3ody on earth and challenges lical consideration. In its progress it has bene t. ted all and injuiednoae. It has created a public sentiment before which Legislatures have bent acd courts have bowed. The lawa which. degraded our wire have been everywhere repealed or moliüed. aud our children may no be barn o! free worn en. Our sisters have bfen recognized as hav leg braics as well as heart?, and ai capable ef transacting their own business affairs. New avenues of self-support have beea found and profitably entered upon, and the dcors of our colleges have ceased to creak their dismay at the approach of women. Twelve States have extended limited auffrsp through their Legislatures, aud three Territories admit all citizens of suitable a;e to the ballot" box, while from no single locality in which it has been tried comes any word but that of satisfaction concerning the experiment. The apirit of inquiry attendant upon the agitation and diecunion cf this question has permeated every ne'ghbirhood in tho land, and none can be so blind as to miss the universal development of eelf-resaect, self-reliance, general intelligencs, and increased capacity among our women. Tney have lost cone cf the womanly graces, but by fitting themselves for counselors and mental companions have benefited man, more perhaps than themselves. osjicTioy. coysiDEKxn. In considering the objections to this extension of the suffrage we are fortunate in finding them grouped in the alverse report of the minority of your committee, and also in confidently assuming from the acknowledged ability and evident earnestness of the distinguished Senators who prepared it that all ia contained therein in the way of argument or protest which is left to the opponents of this reform after thirty-seven years of discussion. I wish that every Senator would examine this report and note how many of its reasonings are self-refuting, and how tew even seem to warrant further antagonism. They cite the physical superiority of man, but offer no amendment to increase the yoting power of a Sullivan or to disfranchise the bait, the lame, the blind, or the sick. They regard the manly head of the family as its only proper representative, but would not exclude tne adult bachelor sons. They urge disability to perform military service as fatal to fall cituenshiD. bat woild bardiy consent to resign their own rights because they have passed the age of conscrip tion, or question tnoae of Una era. who will net fir In, or of professional men and civic officials who, like mothers, are regarded ca of more um to tbe Etat at home. They are dismayed by a ylcica cf Tfoaea

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'r a'terdance at CTiuse a, late honn of 1L nht, but docbiless enjoy tneir present t rout and entertainments until the er!v dawn. They Ceprecate tbe apparaaca 1 craen at political iLeetl.vs; but la Uichi can won. en have attended sucn meetings fcr years upon the earnest bolicitatiou of those iu charce, and the Influence of their presence has been for rood. Eloquent women are employed by State committees of all parties to canvass in tbeir interests and are highly valued and respected. 1 key ob ect, lor their own states to the addition of their former tmdsv.-jmea became of their ignorance; but that risfc wi takt n at greater hazard upoi the aloptloa of the htteenth anendment; aud I hardly tr ink tbe cent'etnen would care to ackno'rir'ge their inability io provide that coutrol for worsen which they appear to have obtained over the men. They obj'ct that many women do cot de sire tbe suffrage and tbat some would not e2rcieeiL It is probably trne, as often claiaed, trat many slaves did not desire eioancipatioa in l-s'J, and there are men in racet communities wno do not vote, but we hear of no f reedman ta-day who asks re en slavement and no proposition is offered to dutrarchhe all nen because some neglect their dr.ty. Tse niinonty prafees a wiJliugness to have this measure considered as a lecal issue rather than a national one, but those who recall the failures to extend the ballot to black men, in the mo3t liberal Nothern States, by a popular vote, may be excusal if tney question their frankness in suggesting tbis transfer oi responsibility. The education of the people o: a who e State on this particular question is a much more laborious and expensive wcrs: than an appeal to th9 several Legislature. The buoiect would be much more lifcely ta receive intelligent treatment at the hands of the picked men of a State, whee calm discussion may be had. than at the polls whire prejudice at d tradition oftentimes exert a raare potent influence than logic aud justice. To deny this method to the women of this country is to discriminate against them invidicuslv. A whole race,di3tinct from us, was er franchised in this way, after repeated attempts at securing popular approval from the voters had failed, and to refuse it to these to whom we are bound by th9 ' dearest ties betrays an indifference to their requests, or an inexplicable adherence to prejudice, which is only sought t3 be defended by an asserted regard for women, which, to me aeerns mctt Illogical. I share no fears of the degradation of wemen by the ballot. I believe rather that it will elevate men. I believe the tone of cur politics will ba higher; that oar caucuses will bs iealonsly guarded, and oar conventions more orderly and decorous. I believe the polls will be freed from the vulgarity and ccaiseneBS which now too often enrround them, and that the polling booths, instead of being In the least attractive parts of a ward or town, will be in the most attractive; instead of being In Etable3, will be in parlors. I believe the character of candidates will be more closely 8crutinizsd and that better officers will be chosen to make and administer the laws. I believe tht the casting of the ballot will be invested with a sericusncss I had almost eaid a sanctity eecond only to a religious observance. THE MISUSE OF THE IIELE. The objections enumerated above appear to be the only profferings against this measure excepting certain fragmentary quotations and deductions from the sacred Scriptures; and here, Mr. President, I desire to enter my most solemn protest. The opinions of Paul and Peter as to what was the bjst policy fcr the struggling churches under their supervision, in deferring to the prejudices of the communit'es which they desired to attract and benefit, were not ine piratiens for the guidance of oar civilization in matters of political co-opera-ticn; and every apparent inhibition of the levelc;ent of the caste of aex may be neutralized by elections of other paragraphs and by the general spirit and trend ef the Holy Bock. In the history of human aivancsment no sing'e indnence has been so powerful as tht of the Bible. It has sufficed for all the ages passed aud will suffice for the ages to come. To its students has come wisdom, Its precepts have trained to virtue. To the wretched it bas afforded comfort, and to the sorrowing it has brought consolation. None have learned from it bad citizenship, and its guidance tas ever led to gentleness, honor, and truth. Its histories, poems, and inspired directions, altogether, inculcate the broadest equality of the human race and the greatest tenderness of mutual rights, while its pyramidion, the Goiden Rule, voicad by ihd Saviour, contains the e-senca of all the law and tbe prophets. Sir, my merenco for this grandest of all ccrnpiiationp, human or divine, compels a piotest against its being cast into the street as a tarricade against every moral, political, and aocial reform; lest, wnen the march of pu gress ehall have swept oa and oyer to its ccntnmiEation, it may appear to the superficial observer that it is the Bible which has been overthrown and not its erroneous Inteiprefaticn. TKADITIOX ASD PREJUDICE SHOCLD BE LAID ASIDE. Sir, if, with our present experience of the reeds and dangers of co operative government and our present observation of won no's Bccial and economis status, we could divest ourselves of our traditions and prejudices, and the question of suffrage should come up for incorporation into a new organic law, a distinction based upon eex would not be entertained far a moment. It seems to me that we should divest oureelvf s to the utmost extent possible of these entanglements of tradition and judicially examine three questions relative to the propcd extension of suffrage: First. Is it right? Second. I9 it Usirabla? Third. Is it expedient? If these bs determined affirmatively our duty 19 pbl:. is IT r.IÜHT? If the right of the governed and the taxed to a voice in determining by whom they shall be governed and to wfcat extent and for what purposes they ma be taxed is not a natural right, it is nevertheless a right to the declaration and establishment ot which by the fathers we owe ail that we pos!es3 of liberty. They declared taxation without representation to be tyranny, and grappled with the most powerful nation of their day in a seven years' struggle for the overthrow of such tyranny. It appears incredible to me that any one can indorse the principles proclaimed by the patriots of 1776 and deDy their application to women. Samuel Adams said: "Representation and legislation, as well as taxation, are inseparable, according to tnc spirit cf our Constitution and of all others that are free. "No man can be justly taxed by, or bound in conscience to obey, any law to which he his not given his consent in parson or by hU representative. "No man can lake another's property from him without his consent. This is the law of nature; and a violation of it is the same thing whether it is done by one man, who is called a king, or by five hundred of another denomination." James Otis, in speaking of the rights of the colonists ss descendants of Englishmen, said they "were not to be cheated out of them by any phantom of virtual representation or any other fiction of law or politics. "No such phrase as virtual representation Is known in law or Constitution. It is altogether a subtlety and illusion, wholly unfounded and absurd." The Declaration of Independence asserts that, to secure the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, governments are instituted among men, "deriving their just powers from ths onsen t of the governed." Benjamin Franklin wrote: "That liberty or freedom consists in having an actual share in the appointment of those who frame tbe laws and who are the guardians of every maa'a life, property and peace. ' That they who have no roles nor vote in I the electing of reprcaatstivea da not enjoy

liberty, but are ab.-dr;'e!y enslaved to thai who have votes and to thtir representatives," James Madi'on eaid: 'Under every view of th subject, it seems Indispecsible that the mass of the citizens should not be without a voice in making the laws which they are to obey, and in choosing tbe magistrates who are to administer them." But it seems unnecessary to multiply these excerpt?, familiar to every student of the history of tnoee times. Tnese decla rations were net confined to our shores. Lord Somers said: "Among all the ri-hts and privileges appertaining unto ug, tbat cf having a share In the legislation, and being governed by such laws as we ourselves shall cause, is the most fundamental and essential a well as the mcst edvantgeous and beneficial." The judicious Hooker wrote: "Agreeable to the eame just privileges f natural equity is that maxin of tae Eaglish constitution that 'Law to bind all muse be esstnfed to by aiy and there can be no legal appearance ci assent without some decree of representation." In 1700, Condorcet, in his treatise on the admission of women to the rights of citizeneMp in France, says: ''Now, the rights of men result colely from the fact that they are rational beings, susceptible of acquirirg moral ideas and reasoning on those ideas. Women, having the same qualities, have the same equal rights. Either no one individual of the human kind has true richte or all have the same, and one who votes against the right of another, whatever be that other's religion, color, or eex from that moment forfeits his own." Mirabeau condens-es the whole question In his definition that "a representative body should bea miniature cf the whole cjmmnnity," Tbe r?,-bt of women to personal representation thrcUih the ballot seems to me unassailable, wherever the right of man is conceded and exercised. I can conceive of no possible abstract justification for the exclus on cf the one and the inclusion of the other. IS IT LLS1F.AELE? Is the recognition of this riat desirable? The earliest mention of the Saxon people is found in the Germany of Tacitus, and, in his terse description of them, he states that "m all grave matters they consult their women." Can we afford to dispute the benefit of this counseling in the advancement of our rtce? The measure of the civilization of any Nation may be no more sui ely --ertained ty its consumption of salt than by the social, economic, and political status of its women. It is not enough fcr contentment that we assert the superiorty of our women in intelligence, virtue, and self sustaining qualities, but we are to consider the profit to them and to the State in their further advancement.

Out statistics are lamentably meager in in formation as to the status of our women out- i side their mere enumeration, but we learn tbat in a single State 42,000 are assesaad and pay one-eleventh of the total burden of taxation, with no voice in its disbursement. From the imperfect gleaning of the Tenth Census we learn that of the total enumerated bread-winners of the United States more than one-seventh are women. They are classified in round terms as follows: Agriculture, 000,000; professional and personal services, 1.4CO.CO0; trade acd transportation, 00.000; manufactures and mechanical and miniDg industries, eOO.000. That these 2,047,. 157, citizens of whom we have olficial information labor from necessity, and are everywhere underpaid, i within the knowleko and observation of every Senator upon this fODr. Only the Government make3 any pretense of paying vomen in accordance with tbe labor performed without submitting them to the competition of their starving sisters, whose natural dignity and self-resoect have anlTered from being driven by the fierce pressure of want into the few and crowded avenues for the exchange of their labor for bread . Is it not the highest exhibit of the moral superioiity of our women that so verv few consent to exchange pinching penury for

Will the possession of the ballot multiply and widen these avenues to self-support and independence? The most thoughtful women who have given the subject thorough examination believe it, and I can not but infer th.t many men looking only to their own selfish interests, fear it. History teaches that every class which has assumed politcal responsibility has been materially elevated and improved thereby, and I can not believe that the rule would have an exception iu the women of to-day. I do not say that to the idealized women so generally described by obstructionists the dainty darlings whose prototypes are to be found in the heroines of Walter Soott and Fenimore Cooper immediate awakening would come; but to the toilers, the wace workers, aud the women of atfiirs the cotsequent enlargement o? possibilities would give new courage and stimulate to new endeavor, and the State would be tae gainer thereby. Tbe often urged fear tbat the degraded and vicious would swarm to the polls, while the intelligent and virtuous would stand aloof, is fully met by the fact that the former class has never asked for the suffrage or shown any interest in its seeking, while the hundreds of thousands of petitioners are from our best and noblest and women, including these whose efiorts for the ameliorization for he wrcngs and sufferings of others have won for them imperishable tablets in the temi le of humanity. Would fear be entertained that the State would suffer tome mortal barm if, by bo me suarjge revolution, its exclunva control ehould be turned over to an oligarchy competed of auch women as have been and are Identified with the agitation for the emaucipaticn of their sex? Saloons, brothels, and gaming-houses might vanish before such an administration: wars avoidable with safety and honor might net be undertaken and taxes might be diverted to purposes of general sanitation and higher education, but neither in these respects nor in eiTorts to lift the bowed and strengthen the weak would the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be placed in peril. Women have exercised the highest civil powers in all ages of tbe world from Zenobia to Victoriaand have exhibited statecraft and military capacity of high degree without detracting from their graces as women or their virtues as mothers. A woman. Mrs. Ross, designed the American flsg. The records of all wars show the presence of women in the ranks. More than f cur hundred were discovered in the Union Army who had eluded the scrutiny of the muaterinsr cheers and served in disguise, The cervices ot Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, Elizabeth Blackwell, and hundreds of other noble women were as valuable as any received. That the most important campaign of tbat war was planned by Anna Ella Carroll! is attested by the report of the Committtse on Military Affairs of the House of Representatives March 3, 1831, ai "fully established," and was vouched for in elaborate detail by Hon. B. F. Wade, chairman of the Committee on tha Conduct of the. War, soon after its triumphant close permitted him to speak. The rally ir g of a Michigan regiment by Ann Ethndge and leading them again into the hot fires of Cbancelorsville was only a repetition of the chivalrous deeds of women recorded in every age. The preponderance of women in our churches, our charitable organizations, our educational councils has been of such use as to suggest the benefit of their incorporation into our voting force to the least observant. A woman who owns railroad or mann factoring or mining stock may yote unquestioned by the side of the brightest business men of our continent, but if she transfers her property into real estate she loies all voice in its control. Tbeir abilitie, Intellectual, physical, and political, tre ts v&rioua ta ours, tad they

err who set up any single standard, bowe-?-lovely, by which to determine tbs rhi-, needs, and poeibilitet of tbe eex. Tc me tbe recognition of their capacity for full citizenship is right and desirable, and it only remains to consider whether it ii eafe, whether it is expedient. IS IT ZXFEBIEST? To this let experience answer to the extent that tbe experiment has been tried. During the first thirty years cf the independence ot New Jersey, universal suffrage wee only limited by a property qualification; but we do not learn that divorces were common, that families were more divided on political tban on religious dierencts, that children were neglected or that patriotism languished, althoo-h tbe first seven years of tbat experiment were years of decimating war, and tbe remaining twenty-three of poverty and recuperation conditions most conducive to discontent and erratic legislation. The reports from Wyoming, which I have examined, are unifaraa in satisfaction with the system, and I do not learn therefrom that women require greater physical strength, fighting qualities, or masculinity to deposit a ballot than a letter or visitingcard; while in their Eervice a3 jurois they have exhibited greater courage tban their brothers in finding verdicts against desperadoes in accordance with the fact?. Governors, judges, orficers, and citizens unite in praises of the infiuence of women upon the making and execution of wholesome laws. In Washington Territory, last fall, out of a total vote of 40,000, 12,0uo ballots were cast by women, and everywhere friends were rejciced and opponents silenced as apprehended dangers vanished upon approach. Sjme of the comments of converted newspaper editors which have reached us are worthy of preservation and future reference. The elections were quiet and peaceable for the first time; the brawls of brutal men gave place to the courtesies of social intercourse; saloons ere closed, and nowhere were tbe ladies insulted or in any way annoyed. From tbe Isle of Man, where universal saffrsse obtains, comes similar approval. Women vote intelligently and safely, ana it does net appear that their place is solely at home any more than that the farmer should never leave his farm, the mechanic bis shop, the teacher his desk, the clergyman his study, or the professional man his olüce for the purpose ot expressing his wishes and opinions at the tribunal of the ballot-box. To-day and to a greater extent in the near future we are confronted with political conditions daDgerous to the integrity of our Nation. In the unforeseen but consistent absorption from immigrants and former bondsmen of a vast army oi untrained voters, without restrictions as to intelligence, character, or patriotism, many political economists see the material for anarchy and public demor

alization. It is claimed that the necessities of parties compel subserviency to the lawless and vicious classes in our cities, and that, without the addition of a counter balancing element, the enactment and enforcement of wholesome statutes will soon be impossible. Fortunately that needed element Is not far to seek. It stands at the door of the Congress urging annexation. In its striving for justice it has cried aloud in petitions from the best of our land, and more tban onethird of the present voters of five States have indorsed its cause. Its advocates are no longer tbe ridiculed few but the respected many. A list of tbe leaders of progressive thought of this generation who espouse and urge this reform would be too long and comprehensive for recital. Mr. President, I do not ask the submission of this amendment, nor shall I urge its adoption because it is desired by a portion of the American women, althoogh in intelligence, property, and numbers that portion would seem to have every requisite for the enforcement of their demands; neither are we bound to give undue regard to the timidity and hesitation of that possibly larger portion who shrink from additional responsibilities; but I ask and urge it because the Nation has need of the cc-operation of women in its direction. The war power of every government compels, upon occasion, all citizens of suitable age and phyeique to leave their homes, families, and avocations to be merged into armies, whether they be willing or unwilling, craven or bold, patriotic or indifierent, and no one gainsays the right, because the necessities of State require their services. We have passed the harsh stages incident to our permanent institution. We have conquered our independence, conquered the rspect of European powers, conquered our nJghtors on the Western Continent, and at vast cost of life and waste have conquered onr internal differences and emerged a Nation unquestioned from without or within. Our heroic and semi-barbarous ages have cloEcd and slumber in history, never, I trust, to be reacted. The great question of the future conduct of our people are to be economic and social ones. No one juestions the superiority of womanly instincta,and consequent thought, in the latter, and the repeated failures and absurdities exhibited by male legislators in the treatment of the former, fihould give pause to any assertion of superiority there. The day has come when the counsel and service ot women 13 required by the highest interests of the State, and who sha.'l gainsay their conscription? We place the ballot in the keeping of immigrants who have grown middle aged or old in the environment of governments dissimilar to the epirit and purpose of ours, and we do well; because the responsibility accompanying the trust tends to examination, comparison, and consequent political education; but we decline to avail ourselves of the aid of our daughters, wives, and mothers, who rere born and are already educated under our system, reading the same newspapers, books and, periodicals as ourselves, proud of our common history, tenacions of our theories of human rights, and solicitous for our future proeiees. Whatever mav have been wisest as to the extension of suffrage to this tender and humane class, when wars of assertion or conquest were likely to be considered, to-day and to-morrow and thereafter no valid reason teems essignable for longer neglect to avail ourselves of their association. FASHION AS IT FLIES. Fancy Ccatume Dressing the Hair. To chcose a costume for a fancy dress party is often quite perplexing, but to those who give a little thought to the matter there is, after all, little difficulty in coming to a decision. The long list of characters in romantic literature afTjrds great scope for the arrangement of character dress, while many illustrated boo as of national costume, to be found at the public libraries, supply the correct details for any required period. The entire range of Eaglish literature from the time of Chaucer to the present day abounds with suggestions for characters that may be taken with excellent effect, although Saakspeare, of course, is pre eminent in this respect. At a Shakesperian masquerade party given not long ago by a European prince the costumes were extremely brilliant Each member of the court had been assigned a particular character and diligently acted well the part. There was, as may be well imagined, a "flow of soul" in the measures cf tbe sublime poet. This same prince (a German preux chevalier) some years ago gave a floral masquerade wnich was as novel as it proved delightful, each lady appearing as a particular flower. The dresses were charmingly arranged, tbe bodice in imitation cf the flower, and the skirts in the color xi the blossoms in conventionalized forms in harmony with the general design A Spanish Duenna's dm should be of black giik made with full ssdrt and pointed walit, and worn with a draped lice thawl

t bot tb shrnV rs' cr els fastened high on tbe cui xtot ' I ta-r.in which a high comb istbrutu fToawih more colo. hav a jellow or red eatin front to the dress, ni carry a large fan of the same satin. The Spanish Maiden wears red, yellow, or black, with much black lace; a high coiffure with a high back comb, and a Spanish mantie of lace pateed over the comb and axoind the shoulders, with rcses to fasten tne lace on the bust, complete the dree9. styles :u hair rr.Essiyo. The tuck up switches are popular. They axe easily adjusted, cao be twisted or tied in various styles, and with the aid of ornamental bair pins make a very pretty coiifare. Ycung ladies aiTect puffa which are very becoming to many, end when parted a little at one side aid to the appearance of some faces. "The prevailing style" ia one of those mythical elements in the American management tbat is often a perplexity, and ladies ehould care little for the arbitrary demands of fashion, but follow a style that is becoming as well as convenient. The regulation "baDg," of unhappy sn.u'gestion aid not specially tender memories, is, fortunately, a thing of the past, so entirely out of fashion that even on little girls it is scarcely allowable. An e ü'ort has been made by a few leaders of fashion to make popular the brushing of the hair off the forehead, but without any show of success. The style of covering the forehead to the very brows is so becoming to mcst onien that its abandonment will not be thought of, at least for the present. The brushing of the hair back is an EnclLsh fashion that few of cur ladies eeem inclined to blerafe. Puff appear in some very etyliah dresaircsard ri u curded in otners. Curls are s'owly -oruing in fav ir. A letter from Paris eays tbat curls, fjur or nve inches "Ion?, refching just to the neck below the chignon at tbe back, are very fashionable. Orna mental pins in plain tortoise shell are the mcst popular among refined ladies. But fe w styles in fancy patterns are called for. A lovely little enell pin, witn a half ring top, is worn in evcryday hair dressing, five or six beleg used at a time. A large size, with fiat, square top, is also handsome and very ladylike. Natural flowers are much worn for evening dress, but always preferably a gift from some loved one. There are ladies who will not wear flowers of their own purchaiDg, and claim that under such circumstances the sweet sentiment that should always accompany the delicate blooms is gone. Young girls and children wear their hair in the simplest fashion. The front may be slightly Ciimped, but the remaining portion drawn back and tied by a ribbon or braided two-thirds of its length and then tied. A ribbon is is the cniy ornment worn upon the heads of children. Girls from twelve to sixteen may braid or twist their hair at the back and fasten it with shell pins.

ALI. AKOUND TUB HOUSE. A good way to make use of old red tablecloths which are co lodger suitable for the table, is to cut them in good-sized pieces and keep them in a drawer in the pantry, and on baking days bring them forth to lay the warm bread, or cookies, or cakes upon. They may take the place of tswels in many other ways, and prove a substantial economy. Either of the following receipts for cottage budding will be found good: 1. Two cups oi flour, two teaspoonfuis of baking-powder, one cup of sugar, one tableepoontulof butter melted, one cup of milk and the grated rind cf a lemon. Bake in a good oven and serve hot, with eauce. 2. One pint of flour, two teaspoonfuis of baking powder, two cups ot sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of milk and two e g?s. Serve hot, with a hard sauce. A pretty elumber pillow, to be fastened on an easy cbair just where the hollow of the neck comes, may be easily made. You will require one email skein each of cardinal, yellow and black yarn. Crochet a strip in Afghan stitch sixteen inches long, aud a finger wide of ;ch color. Work the yellow stripe with blue silk in the Grecian or Roman key pattern, and work the cardinal stripe with the yellow or corn-colored, and the black w ith cardinal : then put tbe stri pe3 together in a spiral form, or twist them half way round and fasten with a cDrd and tassel each end, leaving the cord long enough to pass over the back of the chair; fill with hair, elder down or hops. MANAGEMENT OF MniTHERIA. The Sanitary Engineer gives the following suggestions for the treatment cf this area led disease: The precautiens to be taken in the management of a wel-mared case of diphtheria are, or should be, generally known; they have been published as circulars by many health boards, and through the secular and medical press, and may be summed up as follows: Isolate the patient in an ; iry room having the least possible amount of lurniture, especially that which is upholstered, and having no carpet or curtains. Disinfect all excretions and secretions, especially tho?e from tbe throat, nose, and mouth, and all articles eoiled by them, promptly, while they are yet moist, and thorougly. Uee clean, eoft rags for receiving the discbarges from the nose and mouth, and burn them as fast as soiled. If other 'articles are soiled use solutions cf chloride of zinc or bichloride of mercury, under the instructions of the physician, lie especially careful as regards toys, pencils, or other articles which may be given tbe child for its amusement, of the articles used in giving it food or drink, and of the remnants of euch food or drink. Everything that has touched the patient's lips, or that has beiu touched by anything tnat has touched the patient's lips, is dangeious. When convalescence bas set in do not yield too seen to the importunities of the patient to be allowed to see his friends or to go cut, nor to your own feelings of weariness at the long-continued confinement. Above all things do not, under the excuse of giving change of air and tcene, send him otT to some other place to complete his recovery; you might send dynamite about the country with scarcely more risk. Do not send the chL'd back to school in less than eix weeks after the attack; about two weeks after you are satisfied that he is entirely well is a very gcod rule. If the little lifo is not strong enough to withstand the attack, and is cat short, do not in jour grief forget the danger to other lives which the house and its contents may yet cause. Do no allow sympathizing friends and playmates to enter; do not have any funeral ceremonies in the house; treat tbe sick-rcom and its contents as being dangerously infected. In mild and doubtful cases follow the plan above indicated as nearly as you can, and be sure that all your care and patience will be needed if yon wish to obtain security for ether members of the family and for friends. An Eye to Business. Philadelphia Press. 1 While England Is busy in the East is the time for the United States to cultivate her South American relations. New gonp on an Old Plan. Boston Harald. A new recipe is out for making mock turtle soup. We suppose the first thing to do is to catch your mock turtle. A Eerlens Charte. Philadelphia Press. The Dudley woman will be prosecuted for Yssult and battery with intent to spoil O'Dcnovan Rossa's clothes. How to produce a painless death in the lower animals has been carefully studied by Dr. W. B. Richardson. He seems at last .to have succeeded in securing euthanasia for them. The animals to be dee troy ed are placed in a chamber, into which Is forced a current of carbonic oxide passing at 0 Fahrenheit over a m inure of chloroform acd carbon bisulphide. Extinction of life ia soon effected in the chamber by the lethal nature of its atmosphere eo brought about.

Coetivenrti, tbe forerunner of so iztzj diseas, may be eCectcally cured ty Vi.. tona Till. This great Enßllaa remedy ta ben in uee for over fifty years. They never disappoint

HOPE! r A young can nanedJohn Nave. lir'-e here, risd sn eAtine raucer oa h' f wi h ts..t c&ten away bis noc. part oi his cheek, tr. i . -x-tended up nearly to b;s eye. It was one of tr.9 rxct ansty eatlne sores I bad ever eca. H:i throat linallv teenir.e lnrolTe.l to mob ta ex'at teat ne con;a onlv nwalJow liquid fooa. After using all tbe rtraedies without cbeciln tber&T. apes of the eatinc cancvr, fcia ptne al h-ltti w troken tfovr, be a coafine-l to hl tel. aal thought it to t only aqutsiion of time about h a death Iren tbe canter. 1 p'lt him on e wilt's Specie s a lai .erort, he bsn to irarrore with the 2it do e. Iiis cncral nealta irarroTe t at once. andrap:d:y: bia tti oat cot well: the ravages of tbe cauc-.T were oon storr; It btran to heal arouQl toeoits: aad alter afewruoas treatment with L 9. be hi? Reiten entirtly weil. His fat-e is s!l beard ot- r w;t:i new l!oh, aad Bia pcr.eral health i exce-.ont. His n-covery 1 wcaderf al. M. P. Cf.vm: i:v, M. D , Oletnorpe, Ga, Cancer for 32 any Tears. TirroxviM r, Tenn.. Oot. Iiis LGentlcrcn: I tn proud I Jn. 7rto inferm I ( CS frv fry 'rv c 1 f i c has dancer, sad It wLs a verT tad one. I am In tne health not better for twenty years. 1 have paired twenty-five pounds since 1 tenraenced takiug swift Svtcirzc I S. Bradford, Snatched From the Grave. Mr.f arah E. Turner ar.3 her mother, Mr. P. 3 Bryan, for nineteen years icsilents of il umbo' it,Turn., make the fo.lowirg Matom?uts j to tbo merits of fcwb't's ptc:nc. Mrs. Tu rat r's case is well known in tf&t community. Sacsav: "I wf.s flMicted for two or tree year with Ecrema and Erysipelas cornbiL.od. Mf whole mtea was broken down, ray ttrcneih. and appetite cone, ani I became a heipleM as child, tK-inc lifted from place to place by my friends. I was treated by the bet phyi-idans in the community with Iodide of I'otHsh ana the other usual remedies for such cafes. I was g.ven up to die by my friend. My surTerirss were beyond description, and 1 he.l lott eil boye of recovery. Ist January I was Induced to try Swift's Specific, baTin received a ratrphlct from the company detailinc its raeriU. The tirst half-dozen bottles bad the effect to brlii tart hope to my heart, and the thought o? being well ajaln brought joy end pladncs to the loupchold. 1 have taken altogether 24 bottle. The sores have all healed up and disapt oared: my strength tas returned, and I am acle to do ad kinds of houße-work. Swift's SpeoiCe, I honettiy believe, snatched xne from the prave, and I do not know how to be grattful enough for ray recovery. ilKs. Sarau E. Teas er.' 1 I know that 8. 8, 8. has paved ray dauchter't life. She was tbe mobt wretched lockinR object tfcat I ever saw when fcL commenced takirc it, beln? perfectly helpless. I thank God that we ever heard of it. Ithas6avedmychlld. Mbs. i , kta. Ilumboldr, Xenn.. Oct. 1, 1SS4. Treatise on Blood and Skin Dleeases nailed free. The Swift Specific Co., Urawer 3. AUanu, Ga. INDIANAPOLIS Sentinel Cot aiy ro all e:::ds cf PEINTTNGAND r-IAF-LCTUIL-; BLANK BOOKS 1&L? CAN KOT riCZLLLD. Show Work BeDartient T7a are xcli rrr.orcl T:r prktisg Fosters, Programmes, SIEEME3 SSD DCDSEH3. W13 ni pfflphlsl Sisiicg A. SPECIALTY. Ii Ii n Wast Maßet Street, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GRATEFUL COMFOFITING. ERPS1 COCOA. BREAKFAST. 'Br a thorooeh knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of C!kUcu and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected Cocoa, Kr. Erps has provided our breaxlwt tables with a delicately flavored beverage which may aare ca many heavy doctors' bills. It Is by the judicious use cl such article 0! diet, that a Constitution, cay be gradually built up untU stron enongh to retltt every tendency to dlseMO. Hundreds oi subtle caladles are Coating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point Wo miyctpi roanv a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fcr titled with pure blood and a properly nourished fxarae'-Civll Service Giiette. Made simply with boiling water or rat Dr. Scia onlv tn bali-rnnl öns by Grocers, labellr" .iabie Kl'PS & CO.. Ifomoiopatme Chen fats. London, , 4 L A D 1 1 S n, cetH. t dioi $ssrfiaa Hair, root Md braDcb, 10 fire minat. without pirn, lirfti, r itiiarT. frti?u r, eeU. th Bast. CraM r -t Ortain. Prtlrt:r, ft rt. Chicago Weather. "I arrived at Chicago at 6 o'cloc c p. m. one day In June, ll. The day had been terribly hot and the railroad ri 2e from Detroit a foretast of purgatory. The Western Metropolis was an oven. Everybody puffed and perspired. Late Michigan lay etill sad breathless aa the Atlantic jat betöre a cyclone. Sleep was fcope'.ess. There wa no nervous force leit in the town. Even the hotel c'.erks stood unblushing In their ahiruleev. Mercury l5 degrees plus. Now litten. Twentyfour hours later fires were lizhted for warnth everywhere, and doors closed to exclude the Uro rie northwett wind. A touch of winter swept the city from tbe atockyards to Lincoln Tara." CorrefpODdence Eastern Journal. Is it strange that lung and chet disease figure folarctlyin tbe vital statit!c of the Occidental Metropolis? Here is sooicthin to the point: chxago, Sept. 2S, 1SSI. Mesfra. Seabury k Johnsou : All who are ftmilisr with this c.ty are aware that it has a very trying clima e. Feorle with weak cr dlaeised lunga run a great rlfck la lirtn j here. At le6t such is niy own experience. Physicians tell me I have a cavity in my right lunr and, judging from what I have suffered, I think: they are riaht. Two years ao I began the ue of Benson'a Capcine plasters, and since then I am almost wholly free from pain In the cheat. I ara satisfied that bad it not been for inaon's plaatsril ahould have given out long ago and atopta working. As it ia by tbe soothlns. healing and protective infiaenc of the plaster I lose titUe or no time from ray business. 1 deem it a duty, aa the Chicago Telephone Company, and shall be glad to 1 elate my experience to anyone who may call upon me. You-rs, ... JrvB,wu!,7-

it certainly is a pleasure, to say iqis. ur u -formation of the people of the city who have any trAnhlcifmitirtA min. I am COnneCtSO WlUl