The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-08

Hon. Grover Clevland's recent
sweeping onslaught on women clubs
showed that his views about "wom-
ans sphere are so eeactionary as
| to be quite, out of touch with modern
thought. After that article, nothing
that he may say ON the woman
! question need be taken very seriously,
till, his latest utterance invites some
| comment
Mr.. Cleveland thinks that woman
is mot gifted with the power of
clear and logical reasoning" that she
deals mistakenly with practical prob
lens, because sympathy or sentiment
clouds her perception of the relative
value of the factors;" that she is
"unbusnesslike," and occasionally
stubborn Mr.. Cleveland's own ar
ticle affords amusing proof that
some of these characteristics are not
wholly confined to womenA
For instance, Mr.. Cleveland, dur
ing the past few months has had a
flood of evidence poured in upon him
as to the good work accomplished
by womens clubs; but he staunchly
says, II have no intention of modify
ing the opinions l have expressed re-
lating to women's clubs" 1t is not
women alone who are occasionally
stubborn"
y
that not more than one in ten Of
the persons implicated in the Colo
RADIO election frauds were women. Mr..
Cleveland says this does not mitigate
matters, for 1.-The most gluttonous
suffrage corruptor in the world ought
to be a happy scoundrel if he could
implicate in bringing about his ends
ten out of everA hundred voters.
Mr.. Shafroth said that one-tenth of
f1,n sit MT
Cleveland assumes that one-tenth of
all the women were culprits; blum
der for which the dullest student in
any logic class ought to- get q bad
mark. 1t is not women who some
times lack the gift of "clear and
logical reasoning
If Mr. Cleveland could show that
more women than men cheated i'll the
Colorado elections, he would score
a fair point against woman suffrage.
If the number of men and women
cheating were about equal, it would
iiot be an argument either Way. >fSut
since election frauds are much rarer
among the women, it is distinctly an
argument for woman suffrage.
Mr.. Cleveland says he believes it
will be found that the laws are bet
ter D. the States where women do not
vote than in the States where they
the feminine method of intuition;
he does not claim to have investigat-
ed the matter. Let us see what is
said by the men on the spot, who
speak from experience.
Mr. Cleveland says: "Of the four
States permitting full woman suf-
frage. Colorado should certainly be
considered as affording the best illus
tration of it's results Judge Lind
of 40 c
perhaps the highest authority in the
United States on juvenile courts and
the legal protection of children. In
Progress for July, 1904, Judge Lind
sey wroto:
1--WE have in Colorado the most
advanced laws of any State in the
Union for the care and protection
of the home and the children. the
very foundation of the Republic.
exist at this time if it were not for
the powerful influence of woman suf-
frage."
l>nv one Interested can obtain from
the National Woman Suffrage Head
quarters at Warren, o.. two leaflets
entitled Fruits of Equal Suffrage"
They contain a detailed list of the
good laws that have been pfCsed in
the four equal suffrage States by the
=
chapter and verse for each.
Mr.. Cleveland says that even if
every woman voted, the votes of tho
right kind of women would be large
ly outweighed by the undesirable
class. Ex-Gov. Warren, of Wyoming.
says, Our women nearly all vote
and since in Wyoming as elsewhere
the majority of women are good and
not bad, the result is good and NOT
evil
Mr.. Cleveland gives some fragrant
ly inaccurate statistics as to womens
school vote. For instance, he saws
Says, that in 1898 in Cleveland, Ohio,
only 81 women registered. The sec
retary Of the Cleveland Election
Bocrd says that in 1898, 5,648 women
reg stored and 4.S31 voted.
At elections where only school of
fccrs are chosen. only a fraction OF
the men ever turn out to vote. The
women's school vote may not be
large, but it is generally cast for the
best Interests of tho schools. Theo-
d"re Roosevelt was asked why he
recommended woman suffrage in his
message to the Legislature as Gov
ernor o. New Yor,-. He answered
that his h"fre town of oyster Bav
had long been in great need of 2
new school house. but they never
till the women were given the school
ballot Then tho mothers voted the
ueiv school house at once.
Mr.. Cleveland SAYS that the ma
i"rity cf women do not want to
vote Most womcn are Indifferent
but Of those who take any lively in
terest IN tho subject either way. the
large majority are in favor. This
was conspicuousIy shown in the mock
l...N
IN Massachrsets ten years ago, to
wh'"h nv. Cleveland refers. He saws
only q minority of the women voted
yes. He omits to mentions that ouTs
q much smaller minority voted no.
The womens vote stood-Yes. 22.2O4:
no. SCI. Mr.. Cleveland says there
were ~ towns in which no woman
voted yes. There were 23S towns in
which no woman voted no; and this
although the f'Man Suffrage ASsocia