The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-06-09
womAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Eight Way to Look at the Woman
Suffrage Question.

The Right Way to Look at the Woman
Suffrage Question.
There is no longer q reasonable doubt
that women viii be enfranchised in all
English speaking communities before
many years. If one might prophesv. it
would probably be safe to say that worn-
en- VIII vote IN every state in this Union
early IN the twentieth century Then
the only wonder viii be how they could
have been SO long getting the right. The
victory Is almost won Women must
now answer the question, What will
she do with it? The exercise of the bal
lot Is both right and privilege. That
side Of the matter has been sufficiently
discussed Another side remains to be
considered. Voting is also duty
When women are enfranchised, they
Will be recreant to sacred trust if they
do not vote, and vote wisely. The next
step for them TO take is to inform them
selves without delay on all pubic ques-
tons Most men mistake their preju-
diceS for principles. It Is for women TO
put aside their prejudiceS and study
public matters as conSclentlously and
earnestly as those are bound TO do who
have received q precious boon-the boon
of liberty In education and municipal
government women viii find especially
a field suitable for their civic endeavors.
Our American cities are so wretchedly
and corruptly governed that they are
byword among Europeans, who point TO
them and ask If that Is what republican
government brings country TO. The
reason is that the best men in cities are
too busy earning money-money TO sup
port their wives and children-to take
r part IN city government On the women
Of the highest social rank, then, the
task of purifying and economizing our
CITY governments should devolve. The
reason for this again Is that these ladies
have leisure. They have culture and
the intelligence they need they can cas-
lily gain Women are natural economists
and housekeepers. Women of cultiva-
ton and leisure are the proper persons
TO become city aldermen, councilmen,
mayors and members of boards of eGlu-
cation. They Will make mistakes, but
these VIII not be such fatal ones as have
already been made In our city govern
ments. The exercise of the right 20 vote
will become duty to the best women,
duty they must not shirk, for the sake
u bACAL tA4Ad4St III t41O SiltAG u b110
moral and sanitary interests of the in
habitants of American cities. It is time
the mother heart and brain were applied
to settling some questions.
Miss Jean Nelson. the brilliant In
diana girl, who, when a student Of De
PAW university, won the intercollegi-
ate prize for oratory, is putting her gifts
TO good account. She is this spring help
ing In the woman suffrage movement in
New York city.
Look at things and people just as they
are. Don't look at them through the
green glasses of your own prejudices.
Mrs Julia K West, Republican and
Independent Democrat candidate for
school commissioner of Staten Island,
has been decided by the supreme court
to be- duly elected. Her opponent in the
contested election case was Mr. Hub
bard r. Yetman, regular Democratic
candidate. 1t is poetic revenge on Mr..
Yetman that he was the man who intro
duced into the New York legislature a
year ago bill IN favor of school suf-
frage for women. Now he has been
beaten by woman at the polls. In JUS
tice to this good friend of women, how
ever, it must be said that he takes his |
defeat very gracefully and does not seem |
to mind it a bit.
Whatever you would not like TO have |
told of yourself do not tell of your |
friend.
When women gain the parliamentary |
suffrage in England, they will then have
all the civil rights that men in that |
country have Thus much ahead of wo-
men IN America are they. The prospect |
is that they Will soon get the right to
vote for members of parliament.
The Avant Courier of Bozeman, Mon,
says editorially OF the rational dress
'aThis reformatory move
ment has no doubt passed its stage of
ridicule and opposition and attained
status of respectability.
Iowa women will hereafter have the
Eght to vote for town, city and school
5mcers and on all questions of issuing
bonds. The Iowa legislature Will accept
my sincere thanks for thus giving wom-
IN a quarter of q loaf. Now let every
woman vote.
Seven women are county school SUI
In Kentucky. The latest
,ne to be elected was Miss Lucy Pattie
IF Frankfort
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER
Emery Strawberry.