The Seattle Republican., 1908-09-18

opinion to the outcome of the present national
campaign
selves do not seem to know just They were lead
to revolt and desert the Republicans, who have done
all that has been done for them in this country
by Senator Foraker and my mind for selfish purposes
and when he had used them long he could he left
them high and dry and formed truce with Roosevelt
ISM which will return him to the senate while the coored
man. theoretically speaking will be without friend at
court. They cannot without stultifying themselves
back to the party they cannot with degree of
consistency go to the Democratic party and Foraker
has deserted them all of which is of the most un
fortunate circumstance that has occurred to them
whole since the days of emancipation"
be issue before the next legislature of the state of
Washington if the petitions which being circu-
lated throughout the state
Woman's Suffrage and which are being literally
For Washington signed by both men and won-
count for anything. Bear
ing on this subject brief letter from woman that has
given it vast amount of thought and consideration is
reproduced which is full and overowing with meat for
thought. Womans suffrage is by means popular
subject at this writing, but it is of the coming re-
forms of this country which seems the inevitable.
Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho of the West
ern states have adopted equal suffrage and have no de-
sire to repeal the act
Most persons accepts true the statement by Plato
The womans man they rise sink together
dwarfed or God-like bond Free" and suffragists
therefore deem it necessary to show that womsn;S
cause would be advanced by her enfranchse since if
this be proven it follows that the would
Don01lC Il0L.
Unfortunately the cause of womans rights. So
called has been largely concerned with woman's wrongs
and in effort to right these wrongs it has been mposs
BILE to avoid seeming antagonism toward men,
However, with the partial attainment ofmuch which
women strove for in the early days. such as the equal
zation of the property rights of husband and wife the
higher education of women, the enlargement of the
sphere of their industrial activities and so on the
movement to obtain enfranchisement has assumed a
somewhat different aspect
We now more often than otherwise hear the re-
form urged as method of securing cooperation be-
tween men and women who working for the moral
elevation of society, and of rendering the
influence of in public affairs effective It
is also claimed that suffrage would strengthen
the bond between husband and wife by adding one
more common interest and that it would increase Wom
ans general intelligence by enarging her outlook and
imposing responsibility in important affairs of govern
ment thus making her intelligent companion to
her husband Furthermore it is held that the removal
of the stigma of political disability would strengthen
mothers hold upon her and that she would be bet
ter qualified to inculcate high standards of public
integrity.
Suffragists believe that dispassionate considera-
ton of this question in its present aspects would lead
to the conclusion that although designed PRIMARILY to
confer upon woman the power and dignity which at
taches to self-government yet woman suffrage would
accomplish much than this and that it is benef-
cent measure from which right-mined men would be
oaina -Ecthar Frances Roland