Show ASININE E LOGIC One of the most must all amusing features of oC th the after c election comment is the solemn conclusion of several weighty Republican l can organs that female suffrage is a menace to the country because in the V estern States where women are allowed to to vote the majority of the women voted with a maj majority of ilie Hie themen men For liry This Thi proves say say the journals in question with the ponderous solemnity of a convocation of long eared rum ruminators that women have lave laveno no no q quicker or truer moral perceptions percept pons than men and therefore o 3 a dangerous element lent that is likely to vote wrong every lime tinge It should be noted that the wrong vote anti and the the which demonstrates es woman's womans moral unfitness unfitness' to ilO to possess p the th right of suf suffrage 4 W was 51 a vote vole against the God and morality party of these organs We presume that if women omen ha had been admitted led io to the polls in in the Eastern Sa Slates tes and anu had the It Republican majority these thes would woud have concluded w h equal i facility that women have ha fine moral moral ion and and that their i influence in politics is benign and anti elevating They wholly overlooked the reasonable reasonable reasonable reas reas- theory that thal the he better belt r moral of the ot voting ng women enabled en en- enabled them their to be superior to the campaign of bugaboo bugaboo bluff bluff and boodle that drove the majority m of the men into the republican camp The proceed on ion that all the morality was on the tile side of the republicans that all the n.- n. esty was wa's c on u the side sille of or the Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- and th that t women women are not subject sub subject subject to the same influences of en r. r nn mn e et t and ir t je le t t tl ti a men are ii it short that women women are inhuman uman One false fals assumption is sufficient io io to vitiate a train of reasoning but our Republican logicians ate are not content with less than three It is Impossible to deduce their condu conclusion sion from th the fact but it is easy to deduce from rom their conclusion the tile fact that they are St. fools St St. Louis Republic |