The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-11-27
why WOMEN DO NOT
VOTE IN THIS CITY
VOTER CLAIMS THEY ARE iNTiM.
iDATEp-THosE WHO VOTED
I'M EARLY DAYS WERE NOT
CALLED NEW WOMEN"

Editor Bulletin An article in our
evening papers. in which complaint
of the expense of the women voting
and of the few who took advantage
of 1t and the hint that in few years
the women would not have The op.
portunity TO vote, has aroused me to
point where must defend my sis.
tiers.
When full franchise Is granted wo.
men she will not be found wanting.
Our women do not yet realize the i'm.
portance of voting for the trustees of
the State University; many feel ii to
be of little importance. while if it
was something in our own community
the result would be quite different.
Our school elections have shown that.
Would the male citizens enthuse
much over the trustees of the State
University if they were denied all
other privileges of the ballot?
Many OF our women would have
voted at last election If they had felt
sure that the same courtesy would
have been shown them as to the male
voter at the polls. but the experience
OF some inundated others. Good
men whom cultivated women honor
and respect, say, give women the bal |
LOT. Men of honor and cultivation ia.
yor this reform. The opposer is the |
man who hangs around the saloon !
while his wife supports him or who |
evening after evening leaves the wife |
at home to rock the cradle through |
the weary hours of the night while he
seeks gayer companions. Women
love their homes better than anything /
else upon this broad earth, and she l
hat rocks the cradle can NOT rule the Il
world, because she can not keep the 1
world in the cradle. The boy out.
grows the cradle. He kicks over the
'radle, and though he loves his moth.
n, he sees that she has no influence Il
II the outside world. and he is TO be
man and voter. the mothers infu.
nee has departed. If father drinks
md smokes the boy drinks and i
mokes. He loses certain respect for
lis mother because she Is powerless.
md the mother who rocks the cradle
# the boy. Man who can not treat /
ady as lady at the polls as else
where, had better leave the cradle
mpty and cease her rocking.
Women do want the ballot: and
fhen the time comes that the whole
oaf is given her, instead of a small
art, she with her ballot will ring the
cath knell to all immortality, and
len will not reel through our streets
! a state of intoxication on election
ay when all saloons are supposed to =
3 closed. n
In New Jersey from the adoption Of ii
e constitution until 1907, more than
years, women voted The women j
that state voted for Washington. h
dams and Jefferson for president c,
I'd they were not considered strong A
inded nor called the new woman"
Do not lei us hear any more about h.
e expense OF women voting but let Sc
turn our attention to the expense Ell
the jails poor house. and police fc
ryice. which seems necessary all on
count of misused ballots in the
nds of the male voter.
A woman is woman whether she
Ids the ballot or baby. SO give wo- tn
IN the full franchise and the mum pl
T at the polls Will be so great that Gu
ither judge nor clerks will have the tn
ne to look up the law TO see if wo- pr
IN can really vote or register. re
W0AfAN NOTER ~