The San Francisco call., 1895-11-15
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
MISS FRANK CHALLENGED.
HER POSITION ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE AssAILED
BY Miss S. SoLoMoNs OF TINS CITY.

HER POSITION ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE AssAILED
BY Miss s. soLoMoNs OF THIS CITY.
To the Editor Of the San Francisco Call-SIR
In view OF the broad and liberal policy of THE
CALL with reference to matters of public inter
est, submit the following in reply to the ad-
dress of Miss Ray Frank on the suffrage ques-
ton, which, as reported in the Examiner, is a
tissue of misconceptions and fallacies:
She states that 'if woman is given the ballot
the home becomes divided and has two heads"
This is an absurdity.
Does Miss Frank mean to advocate the mas
tership of the husband-that exploded medi-
eval doctrine-at this end of the nineteenth
century?
Husbands and wives who are disposed to
quarrel will be much more likely to make
their ''casus belli'' missing button or un-
derdone beefsteak than q difference in politics.
Sensible men and women Will permit each
other freedom of political opinion as well as
any other without bankrupting the home.
In the States that already have woman Suf-
frage most OF the homes are still standing, and
thirteen successive Governors OF Wyoming have
testified to its beneficial results Then TO
the statements that "home is the basis OF the
State:" II this is So how does it happen that
the thousands OF homes presided over by
women have no representation, and all the
male loafers, bachelors and callow youths of
day?
zens"-the Nation is a Government by the
people''-women citizens, women are
people, yet they have no direct voice.
No r1dlcule, no evasion, no sentimental OBJ
Jeetlons have yet been able to controvert this
simple proposition, and they never will.
According to our famous Declaration, all Gov
ernments derive their just powers from the
consent OF the governed" Taxation without
representation is tyranny to-day just as much
as it was in 1876, and as long as there is one
woman in these United States land the writer
is willing for the sake of argument to assume
that position) who is denied the wished-for
representation, then this Government is not a
just one it is not what it processes to be-it is
fraud
Miss Frank is misinformed again in stating
as reported, that in all communities the women
outnumber the men. In most Western COM
| munities quite the reverse is the case.
! She charges the speakers at the late Women's
Congress with descanttng upon the 'iniqui
| ties of man."
| AS a constant attendant at the sessions. the
| writer can testify that our brothers were not
| abused, except in having a little good d-natured
! fun poked at them, OF the sort their sisters
| have sweetly endured for some hundreds o.
| years.
Miss Frank wonders ''when the suffragist;
are going to talk about the rights of children
instead of their own" Would she expect 6
temperance orator to grow eloquent upon the
| Chinese question, or fereign missionary tC
engage in college settlement work.
Most suffragiSts are enthusiastic believers IT
| the rights OF children, because they are be
| levers in human rights, and the subject o.
trained mothers" received q great deal OF at
| tentiOn at the Congress.
That there is no profession in the lane
| which they cannot enter" is true-owing tC
! the heroic labors for half century OF the piO
neers in this movement when Miss Franz
condemns. This is history. Were she consist
| ent she would seek some domestic outlet fol
| her talents, for women speakers were more
! bitterly condemned few years ago than she
! condemns the suffragists to-day and on exactly
| the same grounds. S. SoLoMoNs,
! 1907 Scott street, San Francisco