Woman Suffrage

The Battle Creek Tribune says ; The uecessary inference frora hor statement is that the women of Michigan are a degraded class - a race of slaves - an abused, tyranized over and down-trodden set. We cannot but think Mrs. Stanton wouldiowell toabandon this gtyle of treatment. The wives and daughters of Michigan are not slaves or degraded ; the rnen of Michigan are not tyrants nor slave drivers. Why persist in a declaration which every man knows to bo false, and which insulta the consciousness of nineteen-twentieths of the women F Why persist in a war upon the laws and homes oí Michigan so entirely uncalled for i As to tho negroes themselves, they were not degraded beoause they did not vote but because they were slaves and chattels Our wives and daughtert are not slaves and chattels, and it is an outragoous indignity to cali thein auch. ïhose of no other country or clime have been inore revered, honored and loved. Ifnotvoting makes them degraded, then for the same reason ia every non-naturalized person, non-resident, minor, United States officer or soldier, and sailor, while remaining such, a degraded serf and slave ? We should ask Mrs. Stanton what she does with the idea that woman is degraded, when, to point auother argument, she insists that women ia more moral, virtuous and beeter estáblishal in all righteusness than man p On the whole, eo absurd is the idea that women are degraded that we have no doubt she would strengthen her cause by abandoning what more deserves to be called a trick of rhetoric than a sober declarntion.