WOMEN SHOULDN’T VOTE, SHOULDN’T THEY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 175, 13 September 1879, Page 3

WOMEN SHOULDN’T VOTE, SHOULDN’T THEY.

The following letter appeared in the columns of the ‘ Bruce Herald:— TO THE EDITOK. Sin—l take your paper regular and, I like it. Take it altogether I ain’t got much fault to find with it. I don’t portend howsomever to understand much about leading artikles, but Brown he reads 'em to me sometimes of a night. He was threadin' your artikle in last Wednesday’s paper something about Members of Parliment and votin/ and though I couldn’t understand much about it, to please Brown I listened to it with patience till he cum to that part where you redicule the idea of females votin’ and then I lost my patience and ses I to Brown that 11 do, I don’t want to hear any more of that leading artikle. Brown, he puts down the paper and ses hallo old woman what s np now, doesn’t the noshun suit you? Suit me ? ses I, I should just think it don’t. All right old gal, ho ses, 11 wire in” at the Editor, not me. So I am J ust o-oin’ to give you a bit of my mind. How, sir, I daresay you are if the truth vas nowD one of "those cenceted stuck up self cpimated lords of creashun that go amiinst womens rites altogether. I should like to ask you why shouldn’t a womanvote as well as a man and a good deal bet-

ter. Do you think because we are not supposed to be so well up in whut s goin on in Parliament as some of our husbands are that we can’t judge as to who’s a good man and who isn’t 1 Do you suppose .that we don’t know anythink except how to cook a dinner, do the washin,’ dam stockin’s and tidy up the house, and many other things for our husbands that they can’t do for themselves half so well as wo can? Let use tell you that plenty of women would show better judgment in choosin’ a member of Parliament than some of the men, and even if we couldn’t always judge rite of a man’s fitness for, Parliament we none of us would ever be made to vole as anybody ’ad a mind to dictate, to us. ! Catch ns women votin’ as we’re being bribed by a pint of beer, or a glass'of gin, as perhaps you would insiniate. I tell you wat it is Sir, if we women only ’ad a mind to be Members of Parliament, if we couldi’nt take the shine out of some of the stronger sex as some of them calls themselves, my name ’aint Liza Brown. FROM OUR EXCHANGES. Webster On Bunker Hill.— As • a boy clinging to my father’s arm, I stood on Bunker Hill, where stoood at the same time most of Massachusetts—in fact, most of the American nation, if reckoned by quality—and listened to Daniel Webster when the top stone of the monument was laid. That experience was in the power of a single sentence which probably does not appear in Mr. Webster’s published works. The oration had not yet begun, and the fast crowd, to get nearer to the .orator, finally in their impetuosity pushed back the lines of military, and as, in mv vicinity, the guards held their muskets horizontally pressed against the breasts of the people, they were swept away by the crowd, who knocked up their .muskets, hitting breech and bayonet 'right and left, and pouring forward in such masses as threatened to trample those in front to death. In vain the master of ceremonies entreated them to fall back, for tliere was an oceanic swell behind that fairly flung those in advance towards the stard. At last he begged Mr. Webster himself to come forward and plead with the tumultuous crowd. He arose, advanced a step or two towards us, and said: “ Gentlemen, you must fall hack !.” “ Mr. Webster, it is impossible ! It is impossible, Mr. Webster !” shouted a thousand voices at once. Then the Jupiter Touans burst forth. Raising his arm and his voice, as his burning eye flashed over the excited multitude before him, he exclaimed; “ Gentlemen, nothing is impossible to Americans on Bunker Hill !” A great shout thundered through those thronging thousands, and they surged back like waves from the shore. That was eloquence, or rather to use Webster’s immortal language, it was “ something higher and nobler than all eloquence—action, noble, sublime, godlike action.” A prominent horse-dealer of Montreal tells a curious story about the fancy his rates (as he calls them) have for a change of diet. He keeps a horse and noticed lately that he showed symptoms of lameness in Ids forelegs. He examined him carefully, but could not discover the cause. On going to the stable one day he, before entering, looked in through the window, then to his astonishment, he counted eleven rats stuck on the horse’s leges sucking his blood. He waited, expecting every moment that the horse would shake them off, hut, instead of doing this, he remained motionless, and seemed to enjoy the strange visitors. A rap on the window sent the rats scurrying off. On examination of the horse’s legs he found twentytwo little holes, from eleven of which blood was flowing. The horse was removed to another . stable and soon recovered'liis sores, but, strange to say, his appetite has almost failed him; he refuses oats, and as a consequence, has fallen in flesh so much so that now he is almost useless. : A woman in Oamam gave birth lately to five fine little boys, all of whom are doing well. Sir George Grey wired his congratulations to the boys, and promised five feeding bottles in full milk if the L 5,000,000 loan was arranged. The r Tiurse replied —“ Lawks, a deary me, Sir George, the boys ain’t aware of their birth yet.” , : News from Afghanistan states that g, rat mortality amongst .the camels on the route to : the campaign causes difficulties of transports, and is delaying the renewal of hostilities. It-is .proposed, to operate simultaneously with the Jellahi bad Canrbdrir and the Knrrarn Yallev columns.

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