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Show THE COMING POWER. (jreorge Francis Train, we believe, is credited with saying that the coming man was woman ! The idea seems paradoxical and epigrammatically expressed, ex-pressed, but woman is a coming power, pow-er, and of a different kind to the quasi power she is now supposed to be among civilized and enlightened com-loneer com-loneer claiminc an ab surd sovereignty on the strength of her atsumed helplessness, she asks and the answer is a difficult one why she should pay taxes and be denied the right to express herself on a choice for the representatives who impose those taxes, while that right is eojoyed by ignorant, bemi-brutal and uncultivated men, whether white or black. The wife of General Sherman and a thousand other ladies have had a petition pe-tition against woman suffrage presented to Congress; but the House judiciary committee has had an attack from the suffragists, claiming that they are already al-ready entitled to vote under the Fifteenth Fif-teenth Amendment; yet urging that the rjuestion be put beyond the possibility possi-bility of doubt by another amendment to the Constitution, making woman a material part of the political body by giving her the full right to vote enjoyed enjoy-ed by tha male members of the human species in this Eepublic. And it is held by sound lawyers that the Fifteenth Fif-teenth Amendment does give women the right to vote, which, if the opinion is sustained, will make it sit heavy on the stomachs of . certain prominent auti-suffragbta, who were among the strongest advocates for the franchise fran-chise being extended to the colored population. Butler, Bingham, Kerr, Kellogg and other Congressional lights of the House Judiciary committee stood the attack like heroes, listened to the winning speeches of Mrs. Wood-hull, Wood-hull, Mrs. Hooker, Susan B. Anthony and others, felt the sun-light of win-nirg win-nirg smiles cast over them, looked into bright eyes and did not .commit themselves. them-selves. Will the right of suffrage be extended extend-ed to women ? There does not appear ap-pear the slightest doubt but it will ; it is only a question of whether it will come this year, next year or the year after. And why should they not vote ? They could use the ballot as intelligently, intelli-gently, vote as early and often, and sell out occasionally as shrewdly as the male bipeds do. And then woe to the candidate against whom they throw their united strength ! The unfortunate unfortu-nate individual might as well go and be hanged as attempt to succeed in the face of their opposition. The question is sometimes asked, if women vote why should the not fight ? Have they said they wouldn't ? Some of them would make excellent soldiers, for fighting comes as natural to them as tea-gossip and scandal to others. And if some feel different, are there not plenty of men who are cowards, who would rather wear petticoats and 'tend baby than go out into the tented field and do battle for any cause ? Let . them vote ; and then if volunteers are wanted to fight call on them, and if they don't respond readily make them volunteer, just as iuale3 are made to do who are backward in coming forward. for-ward. . CongTets will have to take the woman wo-man question in hand, or the women will take Congress in hand, and the result, then, would be a terrible thing for Congress. |