Those Are The Questions
Asked By The Friends Of The Rights Of Women.
But the young women
do marry, and the men pour their earnings into their wives' laps.
If little has as yet been done in extending the rights of women by
giving them a greater share of the work of the world, still less
has been done toward giving them their portion of political
influence. In the States there are many men of mark, and women of
mark also, who think that women should have votes for public
elections. Mr. Wendell Phillips, the Boston lecturer who advocates
abolition, is an apostle in this cause also; and while I was at
Boston I read the provisions of a will lately left by a
millionaire, in which he bequeathed some very large sums of money
to be expended in agitation on this subject. A woman is subject to
the law; why then should she not help to make the law? A child is
subject to the law, and does not help to make it; but the child
lacks that discretion which the woman enjoys equally with the man.
That I take it is the amount of the argument in favor of the
political rights of women. The logic of this is so conclusive that
I am prepared to acknowledge that it admits of no answer. I will
only say that the mutual good relations between men and women,
which are so indispensable to our happiness, require that men and
women should not take to voting at the same time and on the same
result.
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