MALE SUFFRAGE IN AMERICA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1594, 28 January 1884, Page 3

MALE SUFFRAGE IN AMERICA.

There are (observes the Melbourne 1 Argus') two Wyomings in the United States. It is necessary to mention tlio ; "fact ,in order that it.'may not bo : BUpposed, from what follows : thatV the . ; beautiful valley in tho Sfote. of •-Pennsylvania, : described. by the poet '■' Campbell, has been or. that " : ." the rose of Englandwhich, he tells us, " blooms on Gertrude's cheek," has been transformed into gvog-blossom by , the excessive indulgence, on hor part, : iu Bourbon whisky.. Tlio Wyoming of . which we are about to speak lies out V In the Far West, and was constituted

' a territory about fourteen .years " ,'ugo, when it provided itsolf with a . brand new constitution, furnished '■with tho latest improvements, and Bet up in political bnsincss on its own account, Remote as it is from the • Atlantic coast, it is by 110 means backward in civilisation, for two-thirds of ■ its inhabitants live along,the line of ■ the. Union Pacific Railway; and . ;' Cheyenne, its capital,, has tho usual of churches, school houses, and newspapers) a theatre and,a telephone ' exchange; and is lit. with electric light; r .-Being one of' the youngest territories in , v th'e-UnionJ it tleterniinc\l,Jto bo innd- . . VHnCe'of all its elders. Its leading politi-' ' . cians had listened to'tho beguiling voice •' of a' g'tt'ong-ininded ndvocfltoof women's rights. Everybody knows'the typical female—elderly and austere,-.with closecropped hair, an nnfeminineiVoice, an upper lip clothed with lhasculine down, ~ 11 sell-assertivo mannoi', and'a;general ■ tendency to agnosticism. Slie came, and taw, and conquered. While her husband was pricking his • clumsy fingers in futile attempts to se\\; miss- ' ihg buttons on his neglected apparel, his hottciimlf was convincing tho people ofCheyenno that tho one thing-want-ing for the regeneration of mankind, and for tho reversal of the sentence pronounced upon Adam and Eve, was the admission of her own sex to a participation in tho suffrage, The proposition was carried by acclamation; and : lot' fourteen years they have enjoyed this privilege,in the territory of Wyoming. It is twice the term of an ordinary apprenticeship, and therefore Jong enough, it may be assumed, to test the value of the principle and to measure the results of its reduction .to practice.