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Show FEMALE SUFFRAGE OPPONENT. It is the Bacred duty of all earnest advocates of woman's rifihtj doctrines . to promptly and energetically sit down upon Mn. Clara P. Boas. In tbe first place Clara's namo belies her, for she is no such thing. In a recent lecture in Boston, on "Woman's Kingdom," she took Btrong ground against' woman suflmge, and had thn impu-dencR impu-dencR to say tuat woman Bhould not be permitted to vote and take part in politics not because she hadn't tbe necessary degree of intelligence, nor that she couldn't siuop to the trickery, deceit and fraud which seem to go hand in hand with suQrage; but bt-cauae bt-cauae woman's sphere was to Bbine in another direction, meaning, of course, the domestic and social circle. In closing, ho gave uttcraoco to the following heretical aud almost blasphemous blas-phemous ideas and language. The picture i9 one she drew to bang oppo eite tbo Authony-Dr. Mary Walker-Li vermore production, styled "Womai' in Politics:" "No woman's life is complete without husband and children. Never w.ib monarchy so absoluto, .. vcr a kingdom so loyal aa the flocU ot lulls ones over whom a mother reigns. To tbo3e womeu who, blest with luve, consecrated by wifehood, wife-hood, reiuse the crevning glory of their lile, the majesty of motherhood, ehe said there is no eunahine like a baby's i.-cp, no mueic liko the patter of its little feet; its prattle sweetens every cup ol disappointment and blunts the edge of care. Tbe time will come when the hair on your temples is gray; that the heart beneath be-neath which no child has lain will ache for the sacred burden; when the clasp of little fiugera will be passion ately Joined for; when to be called by the dear name of mother would make you radiant queen." |