West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-02-06
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

A man sets at the dinner table
and tells his wife she can't vote be-
cause she don't understand public
questions. He then goes away and
perches on cracker barrel in the
corner grocery and argues that the
country is that prosperous that now
is the time to improve it by chang
ing the management. He will tell
his wife that politics is not a wo-
mans sphere and then he forgets to
register. He despises her because
she asks him questions about the
Constitution of she United States
that are so foolish that he can't an
swer them. When his children ask
him how many states there are in
the Union he tells them not to
bother him and to ask their ma.
But he don't think their ma knows
enough to vote for board of super
visors.
The whole male population of
some of our more chivalric towns
will turn out to help grill a colored
citizen at the stake and then will
turn homeward and shudder at the
thought of woman debasing her
self by casting a vote. Woman
might debase herself by going to the
polls but she wouldn't come into
town thirty days before election
with tin can and dirty face and
after a months free lodging in the
Bowery cast vote to carry the
second assembly district for Tam
any. She might waste some time
finding out how to fold the ballot
but the vote in that ballot would be
what she honestly thinks it ought
to be and not what was suggested
by the man that bought the last
round of drinks for the crowd.
Woman wouldn't kick and scold
and tear her hair all the year about
high taxes and assessments and
then going out and vote for the
party that made them. She may
not be statesman but she amt a
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 single fact to go on. Man
feels sorry for woman because she
can get a thought and yet sit down
calmly and mend the children's
clothes instead Of going right out
to lmpart it to the rest of the world.
When a man gets happy thought
it is like convulsion OF nature and
he must at once mingle 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 in
her bank book he tells her to run
away and look il up in the CYCLIC
pedia and then he will set up til
two a. m, discussing cigars and the
treasury suplus with a friend who
has dropped around to borrow
enough money 90 pay his gas bill.
Some Of the male part Of our NAM
moth circulation write to tell US.
that woman don't want the suffrage
anyway. We oflenumes suspicion
that them that think this are the
same ones that love to think that
their wives donFt want new hat
for Easter or a Christmas present.
Out Of ali the letters that we have
received in our editorial sanclum
there is only one that has gave US
a real good reason Why woman
shouldn't be allowed to vote. Its
that II woman was 70 be bribed
she couldn't keep the price she got
TO herself, but would tell all the rest
And then every man that don't
think that woman ought to vote will
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