Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-11-23
SOME COMMON SENSE FROM A
 NEW WOMAN.

Miss Ray Frank of San Francisco,
 the young lady rabbi of the Reformed Jewish church, is one of the brightest
 and best educated of the new women
 speakers, Miss Frank is a new women in the best sense of the word, but she does not believe in woman suffrage, neither does she believe in the emancip- Rtion of woman as the suffrag.st would define the term.
 Miss Frank recently delivered @ lec- ture, in San Francisco, during which, we believe. she voiced the sentiment of all true women if not of all new women. "How is it." asked Miss Frank in the course of her lecture; "thst we hear so much of one side of this great question and little or nothing of the other? Prob ably it is because most men do not have the time or inclination to answer the charges made by the suffrsgists, and be- cause those women who are not advoc- Rtes of the cause are not of the kind who are heard in public places or through public mediums. Most men look upon this whole thing as huge joke, and assert that it will work itself out m course of time. Now, they are mistaken In this regard. The subject is deserving of attention. There is not . state or territory in the union where wonsn's suffrage is not moving in some form or another.
 ''Suffragists claim that woman is the equal of man in every respect. If she is the angelic creature the poets have sung of, then she has not the qualities which man has, for he is just the reverse according to our suffragist friends. This being the case she is not the equal of man, for logic admits that things which are different in nature can be neither equal or unequal. If she were the same as man, then, naturally, she would do as man does, and we would not find her complaining of being down trodden.
 'Now let us see if the ballot is the re- medy for all those terrible evils the suf- fragists tell us about. If a woman has right to vote she has the right to run for office, and in this case she would cer- tainly be successful at the polls, for in every community she numbers greatly in excess of man. Would woman trust woman? Let us imagine 6 woman Pres ,dao< of 4ba TTpita1 Cfo{oo ak e,,ob o tina as the Civil War or any other eimi- lar crisis. How many women in the land. suffragists included, would have felt safe with the thought that such a question was in the hands of a woman?
 The suffrsgists have told us that wo- man is compelled to cook, wash and clean house because it is dirty work, drudgery ana something that man would | not do. But nobody will tell me that it | is whit harder than the work the men bricklaying, teaming, farm ing and the like.
 "They say, too, that all men consider them good for IS to take care of their children. I have often wondered when the suffrsgists were going to talk about the rights of children instead of their own.
 "They say they are denied the opor- tunities men receive; but this is not so. There is not profession in the land that they cannot and do not enter.
 "If woman wants to remedy all the ills and evils she is heir to, she should be- gin with herself, and the ballot is not a necessary aid in that direction. We are not ready for suffrage yet. Does woman sver stop and ask herself for what man is laboring daily and grinding his fellow man ln the hope of swelling his purse? !