Woman’s Suffrage and Moral Influence
The “Union Signal,” the organ of the W. C. T. U., in speaking of the adoption by the Alabama Constitutional Convention of a section providing that women tax-payers shall have the privilege of voting on bond issues, etc., commends it, and remarks: “Alabama women will now get ready for the next ‘step upward.’” The convention’s decision is doubtless just and right, but what has this to do with women’s step upward? Every step upward or downward will be taken by herself, regardless of constitutional conventions or statute laws. Some of the lowest women of earth have reigned on thrones; while some of those whose feet ever stood in the highways of holiness knew naught of political enfranchisement or the right of suffrage. Politics may open before woman a different field, but it will give her no higher station, no more exalted position of moral influence.