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Show WOMAN SUFFRAGE, It has been reported that Miss Susan B. Anthony is about to retire from the presidency of the National "Woman's Suffrage association, which action is a great event in the history of that body. A prominent eastern daily, in a deferential defer-ential way, calls Mips Anthony the "War Horse of the Suffrage Caupe." Whether we regard woman suffrage as the best solution of our great political po-litical problems: whether we agree with Miss Anthony's principles or not, we offer our congratulations to the woman who has given thirty years of her life: to the accomplishment of an object which she earnestly believes will result in good to the race. One of Miss Anthony's most cheerful prophecies proph-ecies is that some clay a woman will .' occupy the chair at the White House. Who can tell? It makes some people's hair stand on end to talk of woman suffrage, but even when we get it. the. world will go round just the same. Such a calamity (?) or blessing(?) will ! rot necessarily precipitate the coming of Gabriel at the Millenium. Nothing can make politics in general much j worse than hey are and a change might be for the better. If we do not. w'isjh to say, Give women the ballot, ; Wo may say. Let them get it if they can. AYe concede the lat. however, with a sigh, as a woman's hand, head and heart are so valuable in other and nobler spheres, which we fear must ' suffer a loss1 if she gives her aid to ' the herculean task of bettering our political po-litical conditions. With Joseph Choate ' we say: "Woman: we have always re garded her as our superior, but now j p'.ie insists on being our equal." |