The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-12
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CAN WOMEN GOVERN?
A Writer Who Thinks That Women Arc
Emily Cnpab bile Men Are.

writer VINO Thinks That Women Arc
rs Fully Capable as Men Are.
Editor VOadn'S Column, Morning Gail :.
A writer to he Woman's Column objects to
woman suffrage, thinks woman's silent
influence should extend to politics, but her
presence never If it is right to use in
direct influence, it is equally right to use
direct, just as bad or just as good to do
thing first hand as to persuade some one
else to do it, and there is really just as much
responsibility involved. Either do nothing,
live as indifferent as an oyster to great
interests that concern us, or else use our
influence in an open way; rot as if we are
ashamed of government and of ourselves,
both of which are mighty matters to each
individual. II is not true that constant
conscious thought of minute details is the
most efficient way to accomplish even home
work, for big things carry the little things.
A mother may spend endless time trying to
keep her baby out of the open wells, away
from the loaded gun or tie sharp ak; power
to remove these dangers saves the whole
effort ana the anxiety. But boys and girls
in their teens are just as eager to crawl or
run into moral dangers as is the babe OF
months to play i'll the fire or the trimming
horse trough; power to remove peril saves
bo.h the child and the parent from evil, and,
AFTER TIME,
These babes, moral as well as physical, out
grow the frenzy to touch forbidden things,
and develop common sense If the danger
are not removed niue out of ten chi ren
suffer, aud all are smirched. while no one is
benefited. IL Is also implied that our Maker
implanted certain attributes in the 'sterner"
sex which are lacking in the weaker; ii
men ana wcmen are differently endowed,
certainly men cannot represent women and
a n n on fnF mat n
the home would, should it ignore the so-called
weaker" We do not, however, be ieve in
either mans or woman's superiority; they
are not identical, but they are equivalent,
and nowhere do they behave so well rs
when associated as equals. That man has
shown superiority rs governing being is
pure assumption. In the home the mother
Is quite as Likely to excel in government as
the father. Homes are, as a rule, as well
managed as business, though the house
keeper has no such control OF agencies as
has the father. and her well-ordered plans
are likely to be overturned at any moment
by the children. Women as teachers, have
shown as good governing ability as men;
women IN business are quite as
LIKELY TO SUCCEED
Though iiampered 90 men never are. Leave
a father ana motiier with equal means, and
he falls back on motiier OF sister 10 help him
out with the children, and often marries in
hot haste because he cannot get along"
while the mother viii hang for months in
the Probate Court, be sMindled by those
who prey on the widow and the fatherless,
pei haps see some one else appointed guar
dian 70 her children, thus putting a barrier
between her and them aud reducing hei in
come, yet she will somehow bring up her
children herself and they are usually a
cretit to her. is that not ability? Surely
our corrupt, eAlravagant public manage
ment looks as il the 'srerner" sex may have
its lacks, too and needs to be complenented
by the softer" sex. The writer laments