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Show TIMEViONOBED KOMSBNSE. .aouJ i.- mu1J lh,.y '' cour",; wr V, ,? ii. ,l,eU.ola,at,ooo 'all men are created ' . . - tn . i ir niiV purlieu- 1 i -lit. to controvert Hit r"J" .,. Mtl.at aJJa "oioon ity in tho . Irian, of il.e Uruiioo ol U " ,nacaco either did Ivory, which then cxiSteJ, or d.d no curroe, men. Bat now to tll, political ritfhw of tLe cred rue ,,.,.,! bcCn e.ubli.lnnl by blood mid luaa'.n come to the fron , and .lindiKat women shall b; u:d iDtl.i.i primitive equality- Men arc not bora tV, neither are women. '1 key arc not bom of equal treU, nur with equal prospect,, nor unucr dual oircunu.tance. And though in thM republic ait oieo mayasptro to the l.inhc.t portion in the country, nothing noth-ing kiUT demonstrates tho natural i0L-.,uliiy which exbts, thao the man-ucr man-ucr iu which one individual sets obstacle obsta-cle and difficulties at deliaucc, and, overriding circumstances, soars far above his iUloWi, riing to emmcDce and distinction while hid juvenile com-,vrs com-,vrs rimain a parlof the great mass which goes to mako up tho sum oi mankind. This theory of being born equal is supplemented with another having no more real existence in fuot, usually ro-I'eiTcd ro-I'eiTcd to as '.'Equality before tho law." When legislatures can bo found that will act regardless of lobby intluencv, and, rising superior to personal or in-icrcAted in-icrcAted motives, will labor only for tho good of the wholo people; and when judges everywhere adorn tho bench who will administer the laws fearlessly and equitably, then equal laws and equality beforo the law may bo looked for. But as it is, the rich man can buy immunity for wrong doing, while the poor man must suffer. In 1'act, in laws imposing penalties iorthe lesser grades of crime, tho law itself provides for tho escape of the man who has money, the punishment in nearly every case being lino or inprisonmeat, or both at tho option of the coutt. Wo pride ourselves, as a country, greatly upon our equality, when really there is no such thing of the character theoretically described. There id uo social equality, no moral equality, no iutcllectual equality and co physical equality. If people would say what ihcy mean, and claim for a'ljjolitical equality, they could be understood. But whilo saying one. thing and yet meaning another it is difficult to follow their drift. Yet men and women nro not born free and politically equal; at;d whether they over will bo seems to depend de-pend entirely ou tho will of the men, who bold tho political power find do not Eccru disposed to sharo it with the womon. Even in this Republic Re-public all men are not born politically politic-ally equal. Those born in tho Territories Ter-ritories aro not the political equals of the more fortunate natives of States, unless they fke frontier life ani the work of wresting empire from nature, to bask in the political luminary lumi-nary that shines on sovereign States. But why pursue the subject further? Tiiero are a hundred evidences to prove how fallacious is this old time-honored thejry; and we would recommend the woucu suffrage people, and all others who aim at going back to first principles, princi-ples, lo boin straight and then go ahead. |