The daily sentinel., 1906-06-13
REMARKABLE ARRANGEMENT
OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE

= Deep down I'm every woman's
= heart there is an instinct that
4 tells her she Is owned personally
= and entirely by him to whom
+ she gives herself: that she is his
= forever and ever; that to him
= she must cling while life lasts;
= that her life Is identified with
+ his.
= She gives herself freely. and :
= In doing so she rejoices in the
= ownership which makes her the :
= property of one man. She is
= not n slave because she Is the
= gift of love, not the purchase of .
= money She obeys through af- .
= fectlon. She gently recognizes .
+ the domination of her lord and .
+ master; and, in doing this. nine .
4. cases out OF ten. she is happy. :
+ honest. womanly and Godfear- .
= ing.
= He on his side. regards the I
= gift she has made in its true I
+ Significance. His ownership of .
4 her covers his most sacred pos 1
= session. He is to provide for I
= her and protect her. She Is to 4
= share his home. to be his clos .
+ est companion, the mother OF :.
+ his children, perhaps, and the 4
+ refining influence of his life. 4
+ Such an arrangement is based
+ upon common sense. II is hui 4
= man, natural. ideal.
+ But here comes up a class of 4
+ reformers whose purpose clearly
+ is to break up this identity of I
+ feeling among men and women. I
+ Marriage is made merely q legal I
+ convenience. If he declares 4
+ ownership over her, he is char 4
+ acterized as n tyrant and Z
Z brute. She is just as good as he =
= is, and n little better. Man. as I
= the basis of the institution of Z
+ the family is concerned even I
E called absurd. She has a right =
+ to vote, to trade, to preach. to Z
+ practice law, to go to the legis- Z
Z lature and to do anything that 4
= man does. irrespective of any =
= eternal and natural law. :
= And so 1t comes to pass that =
= today men and women are pit. 4
2 ted against each other in the I
: struggle for place, power and 4.
= position. Modern chivalry is Z.
= on the decline. and. worse than 4.
2 all. family ties are frequently Z
3 broken. +
7 do not exaggerate in this. I.
, believe me. 4.
3 The whole idea of female suf- I.
.. frage and woman's rights is +
: wrong. 1t is the result of the I.
3 false philosophers and destruc- +
, tive practices of a few misguid- 4.
7 ed sisters who want to turn the !.
> world upside down. {.
3 The result is very disastrous, +
Z and the worst, fear. is yet TO {.
2 come. 4.
= Politics are certainly no bet-i-
= ter or purer since women en- +
Z tered the field in this state and 4.
7 Wyoming. Drunkenness. in 4.
Z fact, is on the increase. Immor- 4.
+ ality Is Just as bad. No real 4.
= good has been accomplished for 4.
7 anybody or anything, while on ..
= the other hand, the sex has been 4.
= injured. 4.
= The bloom of the fruit has 4.
= been taken on. The delicious 4.
= ness of the full grown peach is :
= Just a trlfle specked. II is too Z.
= bad, isn't it? I am sure there I.
= are millions of women who 4.
= think this way. II Is only the I.
= strident, unrenective few who Z
= think otherwise. =
Z The whole advanced" 4
. scheme Is n social tragedy. be- 1.
= cause. nowadays, you see. more =
= than ever, on the streets of cit :
= les, throughout this common 4.
= wealth what William Dean /.
= Howells calls. THE lonely faces 4.
Z of uncourted women" I
. r. W. w. in Denver Post 4.
= = ! = Z - = =. 7. \ Il 4 4. 4.