Woman Suffrage

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 25, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 33.

Woman Suffrage.—The Advance, in speaking of the woman suffrage agitation in New York, points out that "those who have been prophesying the advent of sweetness and light into politics with the placing of the ballot in the hands of women have been somewhat shaken by the utterances of one woman advocate, who has declared that 'we have but one slave in New York State, and that slave is woman,' and also that 'the women who are against woman suffrage have placed themselves on a plane with the worst and lowest elements the world has ever produced.'" Dr. Joseph Parker in speaking of the same thing is reported to have said, "Women be hanged," because he believed that it would be worse in the city of New York under woman suffrage than better; for many of the best men do not vote, neither would the best women, while every corrupt woman would vote for corrupt politics. What better are the governments of those States where women do have the rights of suffrage? What better are the men? What better are the women?