The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-03-11
/ I'TER diIigcnt effort for The past

Wyoming and Utah.
Whv woman should be excluded
from voting can only be accounted Tor
on the ground that The press generally
has been disposed TO ridir,IIe the idea OF
women having the ballot and women
themselves have been indifferent. in
some cases through organization, pro-
testing against being given he right Of
suffrage.
Men in general could not be expect
cd to interest themselves very actively
in the giving Of that to women which
they did not want themselves and YET
many reformcrS OF both sexes hay"
laborcd zealousIy for the securing Of
the ballot for women well knowing
the great benefit that would be con-
fcrrcd thereby.
Observation proves that If given
full and free opportunity woman will
completely equal man in intellectual
effort. The illustrations which prove
this are on every side.
The girls in school arc as bright as
the boys. They take as readily to
mathematics and the abstruce studies
but they cease educational advance
mcnt, generally in their teens, from the
fact that all the higher institutions
Of learning have been closed against
them and public sentiment has been
opposed to their entering upon the
higher range Of study which would
bring out their full mental capacity.
The facts are that when woman has
turned her attention to literature,
government or art she has become
dist inguishcd.
Tn all the range of fiction no book
has been more widely read. had great
CT z.~dence or done more good than
''Unclc Toms Cabin" In poetry no
author has taught more lessons or
stands higher than Ella Wheeler Will
cox.
"Laugh and the world will laugh
with you,
Weep and they turn and go;
They want full measure of all your
pleasure
But they do not want your woe.''
In all the field Of government af-
fairs no sovereign has ever ruled more
wisely than Queen Victoria.
Search the records everywhere and
we find that woman in any official
position to which she has been called
has performed her work as faithfully
and as ably as man would have done
in the same position. Is she the prin-
cipaI of school? The testimony is
that she is thoroughly efficient. Is
she the superintendent of the schools
in the county? She leaves no stone
untl,rncd to do her duty completely
Is she poStmstress' Everybody is
accommodated, her reports to the
higher authorities are explicit, and
she never runs away with the funds
which belong to the government.
Gradually the world is learning that
as a physician she is highly compe-
tent. combining nurse and doctor with
never ccasiny anxiety for her patient
AS legal counsel she is rapidly coming
to the front. and in the pulpit and
on the roStrum her talent and fitness
for the place have long been reco%
niZcd.
And yet with all the examples OF
equal ability with man the male legiS-
lHtivc salons will take up the QueStIo:
Of woman suffrage from time to time
in the different states and after chew.
inc up Il plug of battlraNc and Smoi>
ing ON The subject they adjourn to til,
saloon, joke over how Il woman woult
appear at he polls where they 90 tt
vote and decide hat Il woman has nc
business to mru,lle with politics.
.\nd so the men are running the
affairs OF The country. with Liquor
consumption steadily on the increase
with gambling so universal that :
man to buy Il drink or Il ci gar mus
shake dice or whirl Il roulette vince
in order TO know who is going to pay
for it.
Yes. this is i mans government. sc
conducted that there is no safe plar,
10 deposit money. II" certainty hu
the railroad train will be held up ant
;hc passengers robbed, no chance t,
hold an important office without con
tribu,ing To Il corrupt fund to get LAT
place. Yes, this is Il mans govern
mcnt, with every Jail and prison an'