Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-07-29
Treason the Outgrowth.

H. ted that I : confined almu-: OK
,,u>iN,ly t. tn" foreign element OF cit
..cn-ltr and t" tin male PORTION I'll
or i"rtiation.
Emma Goldman ha- afforded tn,
only notable Instance ri woman'> Ia
t.rI ii law and order. and >he WAS in
I'M. degree ,Xru>ablc from the cir
ciu>tancc oi her allen birth and tn,
WY natural reflex oi an active mind
accustomed t. Impressions ii the Old
World whic h were the groundwork %,
the liberties We are supposed To ENJOY
upon the ab-urlity Of a free govern.
ilcnt refusing representation to a pOr.
tom al her citizens IN the ground oi
>rN. Now another example of this re.
hclliou. spirit has been shown by Miss
Campbell, Il daughter oi Mexican
veteran, and She was born in kanSa.
city, Mo, and has lived most of heI
lie in st. Louis, i city that has kecn
in no manner noted for history that
would develop such law-defying ten.
denotes.
= Miss Campbell is a stenograrher by
profession: and evidently possesses the
mental stamina to insure success in
almost any pursuit OF life, but she de-
votes her talents to decrying the gov.
eminent and in waging warfare against
nearly all the conventionalites of life
She declares undying hatred of the
American flag, and hopes to see it
dragged down and trailed into the gut
ter-the rag, she declares, that waves
over women, slave"
The possession OF such bitter hatred
is the more unaccOuntable from the
fact that it cannot be attributed to
either heredity or nativity. In fact
Miss CampbelPs antecedents should
have developed, in high degree, the
patriotism and love OF country and its
beautiful insignia, the starry flag, that
is so generally transmitted through
veteran blood. There must be some
reason for this utter reputation OF
sentiments so universally regarded as
essentially American, and held in such
reverence by all born beneath the
star-gemmed banner.
What is it?
May not this spirit be engendered
by prolonged and incessant contempla-
ton of the injustice shown to women
by refusing her an equal voice in man
agement of the political affairs of gov
ernment? If the incongruities which
exist between the wages of labor and
the salaries of Office; the pay of the
workman and the fee for professional
service, between the burdens imposed
upon the substratum of the social fab
ric and the exemptions of the upper
crust, have led to such a mental de-
moralization as to impel the laboring
man to resort to reasonable means of
redress, is it not much more probable
that class who are denied even the
form of free government should yield
to the mental strain when confronted
by additional burdens which total dis.
reimbursement involves? How long
would her brother man quietly SUBJ
init to taxation without representa-
ton? How long would he tamely ac-
cept the pittance doled out for service
that when performed by others with
no better results, receives a reasonable
compensation? The wonder is that
woman has SO long quietly submitted
to these inequalities, and it can only
be explained upon the supposition
that she imagines she receives in some
other equivalent that of which she is
deprived in the wage contest.
The time has passed for acquies.
cence in the proposition that woman's
mission is solely home-life-to seek a
husband and base her life's destiny on
the cast of the die of securing a con-
genial and thrifty companion. If she
is unsuccessful in this, as is often the
case, and has by the force OF circum.
stance to become the bread-winner fol-
Others as we'll as herself, common Jus.
tice would demand that she be afford.
ed equal opportunity for so doing.
No further experience is necessary
than that afforded by the few years
our State, under Territorial govern.
ment, accorded equal political privi
leges to women, to justify the sound
ness of her claim. The innovation i,
then was worked like a charm. In
stead of losing any of the respect thai
had been accorded the sex, it was i'm
measurably increased. The hat wa.
raised to women everywhere. In the
primaries, at the conventions, at thu
polling places, in the courts of justic,
and the halls of legislation, woman'
presence and participation in duty ex
ercised the same hallowed, humaniz
ing influence that it had in the HON,
circle or in the social realm. Had tn
question of woman's continued en-
reimbursement been submitted at tina
time to a popular vote, it is safe to sa,
that it would have been oyerwhelm
ingly endorsed.
Upon no class of the commute
was the influence of the woman vote
more decidedly marked than on th
professional politician. He felt tina
to incur the displeasure of that ele
ment of the ruling power would be nh