llowing
extracts which appeared in January and December of 1881:

We wish our legislators would go home and ponder this thing.
Read the Bible and understand the scheme of creation. Read
the New Testament, and appreciate the creation of the
Christian home, and the headship of things. Reflect upon
what rests the future of this government we have reared, and
ask what would become of it if the Christian homes in which
it is founded were broken up; then reflect upon what would
become of the Christian homes if men and women were to
attend to the same duties in life. To get a realistic
notion, let every man who has a wife ask himself how he
would relish being told by her, "I have an engagement with
John Smith to-night to see about fixing up a slate to get
Mrs. Jones nominated for sheriff," and being left to go his
own way while she goes with Smith. If that wouldn't make
hell in the household in one act we don't know what would,
yet this is merely one little trivial episode of what this
anti-christian woman suffrage scheme means.

To what straits must the advocates of suffrage for women be
driven when they needs must seek to show that the ballot is
not degrading. What becomes of all our fine talk of the
ballot as an educator if they who seek to secure it for
women must advocate as a reason why it should not be
withheld that it is not degrading! But what better can one
expect from those who, when it is suggested that there are
duties attaching to the ballot as well as rights, solemnly
say that the few moments necessary to deposit a ballot will
not interfere with women's duties of sweeping and dusting
and baby-tending. When one hears talk of this sort, there is
indeed a grave doubt as to whether the ballot really is an
educator after all.

The first of the above citations is from what might be called an
article of instruction addressed to the legislature then in
session, and considering the question of woman suffrage. The
occasion which inspired the second paragraph may be readily
inferred. It seems "profitable for the instruction" of the future
to preserve a few extracts like the above, that it ma