Arizona republican., 1893-03-22
A SENSIBLE WOMAN.

TIE REPUBLICAN gladly surrenders it's editorial space to the following commu- nlcation from one of the many women who do not want to vote, taken from the Tombstone ProSpector:
 To the Editor of the ProspectOr:
 SIR Gan ask space in your valua- be columns for few words on the suf- frage question? You, 1 am sure, as well as every just minded man, wish to fur ther woman's efforts in seeking and claiming the best for the greatest num- Der :n our forward march in this 10th century. The suffragists have been heard long and loud, but the non-suf- fragists, which l believe to be in the majority, have kept too quiet. Will you kindly lend your paper to voice one phase of the many of the non suffragist question, that it may arouse the passive ''l don't want to vote" of so many wo- men, to the active "I will not have the vote"
 Do you, wives and mothers, want an- other burden put upon your shoulders? It will not be a burden of duty. Can we not trust our husbands and sons to legislate for us? We give unto mans hands when we marry, cur lives for him to make or mar. Sophlstries upon the married relation cannot do away with this fact, and as long as the world lasts the ajority of womankind will, from love for man, give their lives into mans keeping. Suppose we can com pete with and even outstrip men, will that make us any more happy with the man of our choice, or any less unhappy, (though more independenD when our faith and trdst are destroyed?
 Woman's true happiness depends upon loves devotion-to husband, to children. There are noble women who have devoted their talents and lives to noble causes and callings, but are they not the exceptions, and will they not always in the nature of things be excep- tons? Do we imagine that the women professionals will continue in their pro- fessions as men do? No. Marriage will create sad havoc among them. Fossil bly, it will raise the standard of woman professionals. All that, you say is out side of woman suffrage, bears no rela- tion to it But is it SO? Let us see? Women's sphere then, is essentially in the home, even if we do have in our
 
 will suffrage affect the home? We do not think that voting will degrade us; that it will take too much of our tune to cast a ballot. That we would court iR- suit from rude men, we concede; it might have refining influence over men on election days; that women might always vote for the best and wis. est laws; that she might, by her vote, redress all the wrongs to which woman IS heir; that in the justice" of things, woman has the "rght" to claim the vote to make laws to govern herself. In fact, we may concede all the woman sui fragists claim and then what? Why mothers, wives, will it ''pay"; will it be for our best good to get what we want, what we really need in this way? Let us first look at this way
 Woman's vote-a purifier, redress CT, right. If the vote is given us it will be our duty to vote. How many of us express our scorn for the men who stay away from the polls? But do you think our duty will rest with simply go- ing to the polls on election day and slipping piece of folded paper in the ballot box? Where should the purify ing begin? Men and women alike say; lat the primaries. And why, o wo- man sutfragist, should woman in justice" not claim her right to vote for the persons who will nominate the per sons that she must in the end vote for or against? 1 used the word "persons" because it includes men and women.