The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-04
WHAT CHANGES WILL THE FU
 TURF WOMAN WITNESS?

TURF WOMAN WITNESS?
 The following quoted from Carrie Chapman Catt is very sane and ! cheerful glimpse into the future:
 Were 1 to assume the role of pro- phet | should predict no astonishing changes which are likely to overtake
 women in their business, political and home life within the next half century Certainly the forecasting of the horo- scope of the American woman reveals no sign of the coming of any startling innovation in her career for the next fifty years. Instead, that which wil! come to her will be the natural results of an evolution already so well estab- lished that no power can stay the tide of it's oncoming
 Fifty years hence women will long
 have been enfranchised in the United
 States. They will have taken their
 places i'll the body polite so naturally, so quietly, so internationally that the event will scarce have made q ripple in
 the stream Of human progress. There will be no one left to marvel at the claim of woman's political rights. and
 if the subject of Woman's s enfranchise- ment is mentioned at all as distinct from mans enfranchisenent it will be in wonder that great men and women once obstinately refused to perceive the justice of woman's claim to the ballot. An old man in the Alabama constitu- tional convention, short time ago, af- ter a bitter speech in opposition to Wo- man suffrage, exclaimed in that spirit of surrender which sometimes overtakes us when standing in the presence of the inevitable: There are young men in this convention who will see every wo- man in Alabama a voter That proph- ecy is echoed in the heart of the most active opponent of woman suffrage. It's coming will shock no one, and least Of all the woman voter herself. It will serve as a seven days wonder and the papers will discuss it as new item for a brief time Then women, as women
 will sink out of existence in the body polite and will rise again as citizens, There will be no more talking of the man vote and the woman vote, but the new classification which will be dis cussed by every political party will be the intelligent and the ignorant vote; the moral and the immoral vote.
 "rhe time required for the actual process of voting is so infiniteslmal it is not worth considering, but the labor necessary to organize voters, to edu- cate them, to win elections, especially for great principles of morality, re- quires time, brains and energy. These women will give, but how are they to l. yaI woman may ask. The womons club of to- day will have departed after having fully performed it's important mission to women and the world. and in it's place will have come the political or- ganzation. where problems of real life are discussed There men and women will debate those mighty questions, upon the correct solution of which de- bends the progress of civilization. There they will teach each other the need of personal responsibility for the affairs of state, and it will all come about so naturally that men and women will both forget that it was once spok- en of as dangerous revolution.
 Fifty years hence the American home will still be the 'bulwark of American liberty the haven of hus- band and wife, and the happy shelter of the dear children. There may be changes in it's material arrangement. The city flat, perhaps. will lead to CO., operative dining rooms. There doubt less will be an extension of the busi- ness, now in it's infancy, which deliv- CTS by order upon the family table, eIl-cooked and satisfactory meals.