The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-10-20
Why Some Men Oppose Women's
Rights.

Why Some Men Oppose Women's
Rights.
New Orleans States.
Among the women who have been
shielded from the hard struggle of
life, who have been protected on every
hand, it ia not uncommon to hear
very strenuous objection made to the
views advanced by woman's rights
advocates. The fight, though, should
be for the many, not for the few. 1t
is not correct to say that women OF
refinement would be dragged into
politics, into voting booths, into
public meetings, against their will.
Many of the wealthy and supposedly
cultured classes would absent them
selves from the polls if we had
vomen's suffrage, just as their hus-
bands and brothers do now. The So
called "Silk stocking" vote has
never counted for much in elections,
and a some time observation of the
''silk stocking vote rather cOnvinces
us that public affairs are just as we'll
off without his too great activity.
1t is the mar or woman who lives in
the city the whole year round, the
the man and the woman who cannot
afford the burden of unjust taxation,
the health of whose children is jeOp-
ardized by skum covered cutters and
bad neighborhood and city conditions
these make the mofing forces in the
great movements that mark the
worlds real advancement.
IT women could vote in New Or
leans we would have q much better
city, and il they could vote 10 Louis
lana we would have q better State.
Did you ever ask . real bad egg Of .
man whathe thinks of woman's suffrage.
Pick out the worst one you know and
ask him. He will give you . dis
course on the beauty Of womanhood
end the sanctity Of the home that will
seartle you.
Also there are . great many very
good men who are opposed to
voman's suffrage. They have not, -
. rule, very good reasons to offer
against It. but the world advances
slswly and always some Of the really
hest people are among the last to get
on the band wagon. The most of US
don't mind seeing the other fellow
nads better, but We cling frsntically
. our own privileges and independ-
ence, and to pet vices and follies.
The men % : rule are afraid to al
low the women to. vote because the
women are 80 much better than the
nen that they would make things
better than the mon want them to be.
Yet society should b conducted in
order to bring the greatest real good
to the greatest number. And the
woman and the children far out
number the men.
A contemporary puts the case very
pisinly in discussing the English
woman's suffrage movement, as fol-
lows:
I'm England some gentleman with .
very fat brain has discovered that
woman cannot vote, because II she
voted she would be . mans equal,
end she must remain mans subordi-
nats". Why should she remain mans
subordinate?. Very simple, accord
ing 70 the fat, thoughtful English
brain.
"War ID the ultima ratio III you
know Whist that ,isl. woman il in
capable Of taking her share in war,
end therefore, g man must FIGHT,
must b tho boss and the woman
nnst nsver vote"
That U shout g strons g the
average objssaon 70 giving women the
sasht e Profess themselves with the
ballot.
Among The Sandwich Islandsrs
hoy mades rule hat nouoman should
get ile boat. Even to-day Sand
wish Isla1A woman. fairly civilised. il
gather frightsnsd whsn ahe steps into
: host. For csnturiea they taught
the woman that the boat Vas s'taboon.
1hsir very religion taught them that
10y must nover 70 into the Water. az.