The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-06-11

have been opened to her; and she still
desires that of which her grandmother
did not dream" because like an over-in-
dulged child, as long as she is denied
privilege, that privilege she desires above
all others. She has decided that without
the ballot she can do moth ng, for, in
her vocabulary, ballot is Synonymous
with power.
The new woman says that mothers
prerogative ends at the garden gate;" but
common sense replies that no mothers
prerogatve ends there A mothers pre-
rogative is to govern and direct her child;
and there is no child that does not carry
through life his or her mothers influence.
Let that influence be good or bad. il is
alwayspresent. Any mother can make,
If she will, her power over her child
stronger than the seas of the earth, and
purer than the air of heaven" and she
needs no especial legislative act to &C
complsh her work. If woman does not
make the laws, she trains and educates
those who do, and thus is indirectly re-
sponsible for ali legislation
The plea which these women make.
that they need the ballot for the protect
ion of their homes, is self-contradictory.
Has the new woman never heard that
ito teach early is to engrave on marble?'
If she would devote some of the time in
which she struggles to obtain the ballot
to rational reflection on the influence a
woman has over the parental life of a
child, and would then consider what a
mother may do with a plastic human
life-say during the first seven years of
its existence and before it goes out to be
contaminated by the evil influences of the
world-she would then find that ballot is
not what women need for protection of
their homes But the faculty of logically
reasoning from cause to effect has never
been characteristic of the new woman.
1t is chronic grievance with the new
woman that she is taxed without repre-
sentatlon. She scorns to be represented
by the sons she has reared, or by the men
These she pronounces unworthy and con
siders incapable of doing her Justice
But when she is told that if women vote
they should also bear the burdens of war
in case OF necessity, she replies with her
usual inconsistency, "She who bears sol
dhers need not bear arms" She has not
the aversion to being represented by men
on the field of battle that she has to being
represented by them in legislative halls
and at the ballot box She greatly dep
recates mans selfishness and tyranny, as
exhibited in human history. But she has
come Wanting into the arena with
''womans clubs" conventions" 'lea-
CUES" 'tribunes' and signals" If
periodical be not wholly devoted to wom-
en-, they demand that it must at least
have its 'womans column" wherein they
may chronicle the most insignificant acts
Of the sex
1t was the new woman's earliest. and is
her latest, foible that woman is superior
to man. Perhaps she is. But the quest
ion is not one of superiority or inferiority.
There is at the bottom of all this talk
about women. natures inexorable law.
Man is man and woman is woman. That
was the order of creation and it must so
remain. 1t is idle to compare the sexes
in similar things. 1t is question of diff
ference and the happiness and perfection
Of both depend on each asking and re-
ceiving from the other what the other
only can give
For woman is not undeveloped man,
But diverse: could we make her as the
man,
Sweet love were slaiu his dearest bond is
this,
Not like to like, but like in difference"
Sentimental and slavish as this NAV
sound to many ears. it is as true rs any
of the unchanged laws governing the uni
verse, and is the Creators design for the
reproduction and maintenance of the race.