Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-06-16
MAN A VILLAIN? NO, A HERO!

the Federation OF WOmenS CLUBS at st.
Paul. It appears that the blue-stock-
inged element got a setback at the
session of June 7. One Rev. Mary G.
Andrews of Omaha started the ball
rolling by making an impassioned APP
peal for women to demand their rights
at the ballot box. asserting the sole and
only reason for their not having 1t
was the sordid selfishness of the male
element who wanted to keep every
thing for themselves. Incidentally it
may be stated that Mary G.. Andrews,
ID. D., gave us poor wearers of trous-
ers an Evolutionary walloping that
would doubtless have held us for a
while, had we not an unexpected
champion in the person of Mrs. Robert
Hall Wiles, who, being a married wo-
man, knows something about the male
sex. Mrs. Wiles was emphatic in her
assertions and statements.
"The American man." she said, 'is
the most unselflsh man in the world.
He is more unselfish than the Amer
lean woman. Property rights are just
as fair toward women as toward men,
and the delegate from Nebraska is
wrong when she says the men want
to keep the ballot to themselves
through selfish motives, or because
they do not want the women to have
property rights. Women can get as
much favorable legislation now as they
could were they able to vote. We can
not have it go. out from here that we
believe men are selfish"
The vigorous trimming" Mrs. Wiles
gave her antagonist caused the female
minister to take it back" In order to
square herself" she INDUCED in the
following:
Il love all men," shouted Mrs. An
drews, springing to her feet and turn
ing upon Mrs. Wiles. 81 idolize man;
he Is an adorable creature. | wouldn't
have that impression go out from here
for anything. I'm not talking about
the good men we all love; I referred
only to the politician"
Mrs. Rev. Mary G.. Edwards having
made that statement, we accept her
apology. We might state, for her edi-
fication, however, there are men who
do not believe in women having the
ballot for purely sentimental reasons.
There are men who love their wives,
their daughters and their sisters so
dearly that they cannot conceive of
their entering politics without losing
some of the womanly sweetness that
attaches to the uncrowned queens of
the home. There are men whose love
for the family circle is such that they
do not want women to enter the field
of politics, because somewhere on earth
they desire there shall be one place
sacred from the entrance of the base
IDEAS of life. That within the holy
circle of the Preside nothing shall be
permitted save that which is good and
pure and beautiful. There are men
who believe that the mission of
woman is to mould the early life of the
child in such a way that 1t shall attain
the years of maturity with high and
noble purposes in view, and the men
who so think are sincere.
Such men are not politicians at all;
far from it, They are the ones who
set women upon pedestal of affec-
ton ana worship her all their days.
They are the sort who believe the wo-
man contains all the best elements of
life. If women like this female minis
ter would study men as some men
study women she would get new lights
on a subject which is as yet to her as
darkness is to midday.
The men of whom we speak do not
care much for women who love all
men," Indiscriminate scattering of af-
lection does not appeal to the man
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