Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-10-10
On Woman Suffrage

tells his wife she can't vote because
she don't understand public ques
ti0ns. lie then goes away and
perches ON the cracker barrel in the
corner grocery and argues that the
country Is that prosperous that now
is the time to improve it by changing
the management. He will tell his
wife that politics is not a woman's
sphere aud then he forgets to register.
He despises her because she asks
him questions about the Constitution
Of the United States that are so fool
ish that he can't answer them.
When his children ask him how
many states there are i'm the Union
he tells them not to bother him and
to ask their ma. But he don't think
ma knows enought to vote for a
board Of supervisors.
The whole male population Of some
Of our more chivalric towns viii
turn out to help grill a colored citizen
at the stake and then will turn home
ward and shudder at the thought of
woman debasing herself by casting a
vote. Woman might debase herself
by going TO the polls but she would
not come into town thirty days before
election with a tin can and dirty face
and after a months free lodging in
the Bowery cast vote to carry the
second assembly district for Tam
many. She might waste some time
finding out how to fold the ballot
but the vote in that ballot would be
what she thinks it ought to be and
not what was suggested by the man
that bought the last round Of drinks
for the crowd.
Women wouldn't kick and scold
and tear her hair all the year about
high taxes and assessments and then
go out and vote for the party that
made them. She may not be a
statesman but she isn't goose.
Man says that women don't know
anything about the burning issues Of
the day. Mostly she don't know as
much as he does that isn't so. He
despises her because she has to ask
considerable questions about things
before she can think straight about
them. Most males think about
things offhand without needing a
single fact to go on. Man feels sorry
for woman because she can get g
thought and yet sit down calmly ant
mend the children's clothes insteaC
of going right out to impart it to the
rest of world. When a man gets {
happy thought ii is like a convulsior
of nature and he must at once mingl'
with the select bar trade of the forum
on the corner in order to spread the
glad tidings.
When a mans wife asks him how
to figure the compound interest il
her bank book he tells her to run
away and look it up in the cyclopedi,
and then he will set up till two a. m
discussing cigars and the treasur!
surplus with a friend who ha
dropped around to borrow enougI
money to pay his gas bill. Some Q
the male part of our mammoth ciI
culation write to tell us, besides wha
they think of us, that woman dom
want the suffrage anyway. We oftel
times suspicion that those who thin
this are the same ones that love t
think that their wives don't want
new hat for Easter or a Christina
present.
Out Of all the letters that we hav
received in our editorial sanetur
there is only one that has given US
a real good reason why womal
shouldn't be allowed to vote. 1t
that if a woman was to be bribe
she couldn't keep the price sh
got to herself but would tell all tn
rest. And then every man that dom
think that woman ought to vote vii
think that he ought to get at least q
much for it, and rates would go u
higher than the Insurance on a bloc
of houses owned by a afirebug.
"BrOneO1 in New York Press.