The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-27
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For months the world has been holding its sides
at the antics of the 'Sutfragettes" in England The
'Suffragettes women who want suffrage and have
resorted to or less Naonsh methods to bring
their demand for votes before parliament The most
sationa thing gather about the halls Of parliament
along the route of official procession and mob
the legislature the Legislators, the king-a somewhat
noisy mob of less charming with petitions
in their hands instead of bricks Some of them wrote
play called "gaol'' it is spelled there. One of
them wrote play called Voes for Women, and it
a dramatic
The methods not always sane but there
earnestness about the movement that showed real de-
sire on the part of large body of for the right
to vote.
Being in earnest, they likely to get what they de-
mand. A bill granting suffrage to woman has just
ceved vote Of three to in its favor its first read
ing IN the house of commons. The Suffragettes must
have impressed the British with the righteousness of their
cause by other methods than that Of the 'mob" with pc
titions instead of bricks
We shall have Sufragettes in America no doubt if
the bill pulls through to final passage The suf
frage movement made its first great march Importance
IN the United States. In Susan B. Anthony Julia Ward
Howe Elizabeth Cady Stanton and their group the
ment had some great women.
1t has succeeded to extent. There are some states
IN which women vote as do men-and in Australasia
women suffrage is perhaps the rule.
The significant thing is that when women get votes
nothing seems to happen. The old world ways on with
its virtue and its vice. its honor and its dishonor its evil
and its good just the
But why has not the suffrage movement Won in Amer
lea, where women have their way more nearly than
anywhere else in the world? Whatever women really
want of American they get The woman is empress
OF the American home, American business, and of all
things American-if she to be.
And there you have it. The American woman as rule
has not the right of suffrage because she doesn't for
it, When she wants she have it. 1t is all in her own
any state behind the movement and they will get su
trage the first of the legislature Put all of them
behind it, and any governor in the union would call
extra session to enact a suffrage bill
The suffrage movement in the United States is in the
hands OF body of very intelligent and good women-who
do not understand the real back of their own de-
mand The real for suffrage lies in it's re-
come an arlstocrac movement rather than democratic
one Let once the of the United States come for
ward with their demand, saying:
eve are human beings. We are adults. We have ma
ture brains We great issues to be setedar greater
than that of taxation without representation of
basic righteousness the very existence of the race We
have duties to society Let take them up The very
theory of democracy is stipulated long you shut us
out 1t may lot be better for u.s. but it will be better for
democracy; therefore, must have votes''
When they demand in this spirit, they will be
given what they ask 1t is up to the women