Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-25
"snALL WOMEN vornm
An Analysis of Some Opinions on
the Subject.

Fort Worth, March 2i.-Editor CIT
2ette; This question was asked twenty.
seven thermometers who met recently
in Dallas to save ua from going to tho
how-wows, or the Populists, which Is
the same thing, and their answer wa3
printed In the Dallas News OF the
zen. When approached on the sub.
Ject some were serious, n few testy aud
many wuNed tacetious, on reading
their replies one sedAte woman here IN
Fort Worth saw u vein OF the hur'or-
GUS where none was supposed to be.
The objections to wUm0n'H voting re-
solved themselves in the main into
four
J. Woman should not vote because
she is not mentally competent.
2 Because the laws OF our state
already protect her interests, there is
no use ia wuman's voting.
g. She would be contaminated by con-
tact at the polls, and thereby rem
dered unit Tor the office Of queen OF
the household,
4 The woman does not want 10 vote.
l did not mind the first three, bat
when | read the last, the iron en-
tered my soul"
The Southern woman has never made
UP her mind whether she wanted to
vote or not, but since these gentle
men have started the train Of thought.
she cant help thinking, and to think
WIN a. NNoinhH IL 10 pnilOAopllZe, Inc
candor OF one young man in denying
womons mental fitness 10 refreshing
especially as one, II not several, yOunr
women have 80 often groanCd in spirit
and in truth at the prospect of his
calls. That young man did not i'm
press those glddy girls as being more
overwhelmingly given to mentality
than they: In fact, they complained
that no was most awfully slow"
Then women are angels and too
good to be allowed to 10 the polls"
II voting is bad for one morally, my
brother, why viii you vote2 Curiosity
Is strong In woman. N these pnils
are SO bad | for one, would like to
know Just how bad they are, so that
l could know how much harder to
pray that my brother be delivered from
temptation. l am not AN angel
As for her majesty, the Queen OF
the Household, she does not always
find her office lucrative one. or one
surrounding which there is as much
dignity as queens have been led to
expect The title has an allurlng sound,
! admit. but we American girls have
been taught by the press that Euro
pcan titles are empty bnublos, and
may It not be that a United states
one is something OF the same nature 2
Maybe most OF the queens OF the
household could take time enough
| from the sewing, baking and Intending
TO cast a ballot | do not know lust
how they cast them, but imagine q
would not take long,
Az to the law protecting women-wo-
men, as Mr. Senter says, ARE people.
| II there are already existing laws 10
| protect them, why VIII not these Same
laws protect men, and what's the use
OF having any more voting or any
| more laws nader
Lastly, women do not want 10
vote" Maybe she does not, but the
| uncommon nyness OF few mems de-
| Gliding she does not Is what / eau.
not put up with. How do they slSnnw
whether she does or not? i krow
there are some thlnga men do aot
| know, For OF all that crowd OF han.
monitors Who knew how TO perforn
"herolc deeds" OF hRrmonl1ng, make
| sproad-Ugle speeches and drink .Johr
/ llarlcycorns blood straight, thor
/ wasn't one who could sing ''Neai er
| My God, 10 thee" As have SAID
before, ! don't know whether l mis-.
that suffrage I have mover had al
not, SO ! do not see how they eoult
know so much about g. l have neyei
heard a woman's rights lecture in IN,
life; neither have nineteon-twentieth,
OF the good women OF Fort Worth
but | have heard that there Is to b,
an equal suffrage association organize,
In our city on the 10th, and I have hal
mind to 20 round and see what /
viii be Hike IL l thought there w sui,
be q few more women there who a,
not know whether they want To vote o
not, I'd be sure TO 10
No. the brethren have right q
say | am not mentally capable. that
don't need to, but they have no rii,h
TO say DO not want TO, They do no
know that, for the very good M
son that I do not know myself whethe
do or not, ", EVA HALL.