The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-01-16
WOMAN SUFFRAGE MEMORIAL.

a very neat memorial consisting of
a pamphlet of 81 pages, has been pre-.
scnled To the constitutional convention
hy the women of Oklahoma and In.
dian Territory in behalf OF consti-
rational provision for woman suffrage
IN the new state.
The memorial IS both exhaustive
and lopical and shows great care and
vast amount of work I'm its prepara-
ton II gives all the facts and pro-
ceed in an orderly manner to the III
innate conclusion that women ought
10 ebe endowed with identically the
same right TO vote and Aoid office. as
is conferred rpon men.
The statistics, from the various
states bearing on the subject are care
fully collected. 10th from those states.
which have equal suffrage and those
that have not, and deductions made
In favor OF those having laws giving
women the same voting power as men.
The case Of the woman with no man
to represent her and Without a voice
in the government that rules her is
presented with all the fervor display
ed in the De laration of independence.
All of the usual objections are raised
and elaborately and argumentatiVely
answered The conclusion Of the
whole matter is then summed up and
womans suffrage declared to be a
matter of right. prayed for as humble
petitioners. demanded in the name of
in tice and proposed as an ordinance
in The constitution of the new state.
TO put il humorously. man is literal
ly overwhelmed by speech put in a
hole. without having the last word a
very usual occurrence. left speechless.
a stone rolled over the hole and sealed
~ with sealing wax, and then left to
grope his way out, If perchance any
be so bold as dare attempt it.
Those mighty men of old. who lived
in the post-pamphlet days. u,ed TO
have the temerity to announce them.
selves as the protectors and guard
ians of women and used to swear to
protect women. not only OF their own
families, but of all the world. How
well they performed thoir self-appoint-
ed guardianship is told mostly by
their own chronicles and herein is a
difference
In spite of all this array of logic
and legal principles there h1s been a
feeling on the part of many men that
somehow in some mysterious and un-
explainable way both sexes were
created and united in one common des-
tiny for good or III with man the
champion and protector of woman and
that in that highest union the noblest
there WAS in man was brought out
when he gave the best there was in
mis- life TO the protection of his mate
and that feeling of woman's reliance
upon him TO perform that service
could nerve him to any sacrifice TO
sulhll that De tiny and that through
lsnat relation, wpmanhgod developed
.jnto US most loveable forms.
" The answer even TO. this vain and
amexplainable feeling is forseen and
may be found in cold type and master
ful argumeht In the memorial. Man
is not all love. not all tenderness, not
all devotion. bat there is an unwonted
amount Of the opposite element in his
makeup II is TO guard against this
that the ballot is demanded But ar
que as You may on the one side OF
the other. love and selfsacrlhce foI
the good of others live as organic laws
IN the relation of the sexes. quite ont
of reach OF either definition or ar
gument or statutory law and arc the
redeeming element in all mankind.