The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-05-01
& j .&cl.) GGman's Column.
ARTICLES APPEARING UNDER
THIS HEAD ARE FURNlSED
BY, AND PUBLISHED AT
THE REQUEST OF,
'THE ELY SUE
FRAGE LEAGUE"

bered by those of the suffrage cult as
n most eventual one. The proposed
amendment to eliminate the word
male from the constitution was not q
sentiment, but principle. Neither
was it crusade against man, nor
against our organic law. but allegi-
ance from ourselves to the spirit and
text CT the law and asking the State
to protect us in the right of the fran
chise in the election of those who
make the laws--only this and nothing
more.
The Honorable Senate voted that
the amendment be submitted to the
people, This was noble and true
Americanism, because the best inter
csts OF the whole people can only be
conserved when their representatives
perform their duty according to the
spirit of the organic law. just one
half of the Honorable Assembly took
another view of this vital question.
{ The arguments in favor of the sub
mission " ere able, ethical and patri-
otto. The same cannot be said of the
arguments against the submission
(save ne or two exceptions, which
were very manly statements of the
question as tho Honorable Sis sppre-
ciate it at present.. The arguments
against were mere volley of words
| or would be invectiyes. as un-Ameri-
can in principle, as false in fact and
spirit.
All the waiting and lamentations
current fifty years ago about the con
ditions Of the home, the neglected
husbands, the neglected children, etc.
Were repeated with all the force ana
emphasis thsr vocabulary would per-
init really come Of them were almost
moved to tears at the very thought of
women undertaking to deal with the
! problems Of civil eovernulai t, because
HONE was woman's appropriate sphere.
! Indeed it would ba we'll for The State
! il Sons msn were also quarautined at
hnme. l.ouell said:
! G1se 10 every msn and nation comes the
/ sscaiea todecide,
"A lie s,Iiie OF trath with falaehooa, Tor
the GOOD or evil sl9c.
!arts the goats u.3sa tie lef; hand, and
the sheap uooa he right.
.tnd the ehoiea is of.en baftle3 tN ixt That
darkness and that light.
1t does seem incomprehensibly
strange that i'll this age of practical
intelligence some men will cling with
more than Oriental servllity to the
p sjudices and precedents of four
thousand years ago, when women
were held in obscurity and their lib
critics were at the disposal of the male
member of society, They array their
selfish prejudices sinst the Ameri-
can idea Of civil government. A few
, representa- iyes assume the response
bility of voting for the people; this is
an attempt at making individual au-
thority superior to the self-evident
truths of our governmental system.
The great weakness of the sterner
sex i'll politics and legislation seems
to be temporizing with, resorting to
policy or prejudice, delaying action in
some measures that vitality concern
the best interests of our common
wealth, while other measures that
sellishly concern few are rushed
through locomotive speed, regardless
of future consequsa ces. All that the
women sutfragists of Nevada asked
for was to let the people decide the
question of their Acknowledgement;
they are the proper jury, so to speak,
to argue the merits and dement's and
by their votes decide the question.
The question of equal political rights
is one of conscience ana humanity
without regard to sex or any condition
whatsoever, save those specified in
Federal Constitution.
Suffragists regard their defeat as a
Bunker Hill, not Waterloo by any
means. Two years hence there will
be another legislature, and we sutf-
ragists will be Their. with another
petition five miles long, if necessary,
and repeat our quest by the same
authority that Ethan Allen demanded |