The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-08-24
II Women Vote Instead OF Men-The
Other Side Of the Question.

TO get a hat
"For mercy sake. You must
think am made Of money. 1t has
not been more than a year since
YOU had new hat | gave you a
quarter last week, what did you do
with it?'
why, | got three postage
stamps. =
"lou write altogether too many
letters; twice a year is often enough
for you TO write home. What did
you do with the rest of it,"
81 put ten cents in the basket at
lchurch Sunday, but don'I believe
| would do il again. If we men
IRE not good enough to vote at the
VI. Il. Conferences, we are not good
enough to help support the church. z
"Oh, pslaw, don't bring that up.
What did you do with the other
nine cents?N
"Why, | have it yet.
"Well, hand it over; you will
lose it or fool it away"
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith are walking
down town, he to his office, she to
the polls. She says, II wish you
were going with me. think men
ought to vote as well az women.'
"Well, | don't care anything
about voting. | have my hands
full trying to make living"
"Just then he reached his Office
and group Of women joined his
wife.
"What do you think, Mrs.
Smith" exclaimed black-eyed
woman from the country. Last
night man in Knoxville spoke on
Mans Suffrage My husband
and one of his neighbors were down
there and heard about it, and stay
ed to hear the speech, and let their
chores go until they got home,
away in the middle of the night,
and now they are crazy to vote.
You can Just see how it would work,
they would be ranting around the
country half the time, and their
crops would not amount to any
thing
Election day does not come very
often, replied Mrs. Smith, land |
think it would do the men good to
get away from their work once in a
while. Men need rest and change
as weH as we women"
"My husband don't want to
vote,n said another. "lIe says he
has his hands full to earn a living,
and when he has any spare time he
likes to white, and so | buy him
strips Of lumber to amuse him."
Just then a young man with a
small head and big eye glasses, and
limbs not bigger than the cigar he
carried between his teeth, Joined the
women. They asked him if he
would like to vote.
"Oh, no." said he, 81 don t
think the ladies would respect US if
we voted, and could not possibly
find the time, ! am so busy keep
ing my wardrobe replenished and
minor matters
The women went to the polls,
and tie election was Just as unfair
and one-sided as it is now.
Now, let Us take a peep into the
future, say about ten years from
now, and imagine it election morn
ing. We see the ladies and gentle
men going to the polls. Husband
and wife 60 arm in arm. They are
companions. comrades, friends in
the truest sense. They feel mu-
tual interest in the affairs Of the
world. Neither one is an under
ling; neither one is domineering
over the other.
There is something in the breast
Of every thinking man and woman
that rebels at tyranny; and taxation
without representation is tyranny,
and caused our forefathers to heave
overheard quantity Of tea once on
a time.
Now, gentlemen, we ask you to
heave overheard your time. worn
prejudices, and allow US to 60 to
the polls with you and register our
Opinions there. Woman needs
something beside the narrow round
of home duties to make her truly
happy. We want to be just what
God meant us to be. Help-meets
in the hone and in the nation.
II MRS. EVA FICKEs.