Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-13
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DAY BY DAY
WHY ONE WOMAN WOULD VOTE,
Several Forcible Reasons why the Bal
lot Should Not BE withheld.

several Forcible Reasons why the Bal
lot should Not BE withheld.
desire the suffrage because am
human being and am concerned in the
welfare of the race. The s'human ques-
tion'' lies at the foundation of the
"woman question" THE uplifting of
the race is the divine problem for whose
solution Christ gave the golden rule.
ANY restriction upon the development
of woman breaks that rule and hinders
the progress of the race. Mankind can
cot rise above the mothers of mankind.
ANY measure therefore which liberates
and develops the powers of woman is Of
universal value Whether suffrage be
right or privilege, if it is of value to
one-half of mankind it is of value to all.
To continue one-half of the race in
tutelage after they have reached years
of majority is bad for both parties to the
transaction. Train your hoy to swim,
but keep your girl in ignorance; if they
fall into deep water, what? The chiv.
alrous boy seizes the girl perhaps, or
tho despairing girl grasps the boy, and
in either event they go down. Better
teach both to swim and breast the
waves of life with equal stroke.
The human question will never be
answered by imposing equal burdens
upon mankind and denying equal rights
Men and women must rise or fall to-
gether. Hence the advocate of woman
suffrage is no special pleader, whether a
Plato or a Lincoln. His is that ideal
republic, yet to be realized, govern
ment not of men, by men, for men; but
of the people, by the people, for the peo-
pie.
am suffragist because am a wom-
an and believe in the equality of the
sexes. find in nature threefold equa-
ton = physical, intellectual, moral.
Woman, it is true, has smaller bones
and weaker sinews than man, but so
has the nightingale than the ostrich, the
deer than the elephant. Woman does
not (as q rule) carry the hod or handle
the pickax, but she does turn the rolling
pin and ply the needle. She offsets
strength with delicacy, prowess with
endurance. If not the burden bearer,
she is the pain bearer of the world.
Though she does not build pyramids or
fight battles, she brings forth men-chil-
dren and nerves them to be heroes.
The equality of woman being con-
ceded, the right of man to legislate for
her must be denied as an act both mex
pedient and unjust. Inexpedient, be-
cause it deprives legislation of one-half
of the mental and moral force which
should seek that channel; unjust, be-
cause it always has been true, and from
the necessities of logic forever must be
true, that ''the unrepresented or misrep-
resented class goes to the wall" AS a
single case in point within few years, q
large body of Christian women in per-
son petitioned the mayor of Chicago to
right fragrant wrong, and were met
with the sneer, 'You have no vores."
while he turned respectful ear to the
wrongdoers who had elected him to
Office.
1t is an axiom of history that no class
can legislate fairly for subject class.
In spite of the fact that through the
agitation of suffragists during the last
twenty-five years many laws unjust to
women have been repealed, we have
only to turn the leaves of our statute
books today to prove that men, as a
class, fail to treat fairly their political
interiors. Such injury and insult would
be impossible if women had an equal
voice in government.
am suffragist because I am a
Christian, responsible to my God. AS
an accountable being already standing
before Gods judgment bar, erected in
her own soul, woman is bound to seek
her own highest development. The
conscientious exercise of suffrage is a
moral educator. The woman who votes
will study history as one who is making
history, civil government as citizen,
logic and morals as a thinker who
must act.-Ella G.. Ives in Stock and
Home.