The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-02-22

mcStlc upueaNal WHICH VIII lesul
when woman's suffrage is universal.
their creature comforts. so vastly more
important than anything else under
heaven. will probably be catered 10
as in the good old times when suf-
frage for women was considered a
huge Joke
That there is an imperative need
for refining element in our politics
no thoughtful person will deny. and
that the educated women of the coun-
try are destined 10 act as that refining
influence. the lesson which will leaven
the whole body polite, none will ques-
ton who are gifted with an insight
above that OF the common herd.
The injustice of taxation without
representation, of child labor, OF UNI
equal pay for equal work is too OBJ
yious for comment. but woman's suf-
, frage will abolish these and many 9th
er wrongs. add thousands of votes 10
the moral and common sense side Of
every election. and make OF this topsy.
turvy old world a much more har-
monious and desirable place.
Mans selfshness and egotism are
largely responsible for the misery
which prevails today. and his punish
y
a source little suspected and not much
respected. IL will most effectually i'm
press upon his stubborn mind the hui
initiating fact that despite his long
cherished delusion 10 the contrary,
the great Creator OF this marvellous
universe did not create woman solely
to pander TO his desires and comfort
but that she was designed to be his
equal-not his slave nor his plaything
and that her sphere in the colossal
scheme OF creation IS quite as exalted
as his own. She has been shockingly
handicapped and kept down all these
( dark ages by mans ignorance and In.
humanity. but with the gradual ma
turing OF her mind and character
through her increasing opportunities
! in modern educational advantages, she
is beginning TO cast aside these dem
oralizing fetters-forged by mans
selfishness and lust-and will emerge
at length new" woman. indeed erect
and free.
| Among the many men and women
OF finest intellects and noblest char.
acters who have spoken and written in
favor OF suffrage for women | can
find none more ardent and convincing
erson, from whom | quote the follow
ing paragraphs selected from his many
grand sentiments and startling predic
tions concerning woman and the suf
frage.
1t is necessary in music when you
strike a discord, TO let down the ear
| by an intermediate note or two to the
accord again and many a good expert
ment. born OF good sense and destin
ed 10 succeed fails only because IL is
extensively sudden. - Thus the
circumstances rnay be easily imagined
In which women may speak, vote
argue causes, legislate and drive a
coach, and all the most naturally In
the world, II only II come by degrees
Our American institutions have been
| friendly to her and at this moment
esteem 1t the chief felicity OF this
country that 1t excels Ia women. A
certain awkward consciousness OF in
feriority in the men may give rise "a
the new chtvalry In behalf OF woman's
I rights. Certainly. let her be as much
| better placed In the laws and socia
forms as the most jealous REFORMED
can ask, but | confide so entirely in
her inspiring and musical nature that
DeIleNe Only heiSeu Gan SNOW us now
she shall be served"
"The wonderful generosity of hel
sentiments raises her az times into he
roical and godllke regions. and yer
lies the pictures of Minerva, Juno anC
! Polymnia. and by the frmness will
which she treads her upward path sh,
convinces the coarsest calculators tha
another road exists than that whicf
/ their feet know"
The new claim OF woman TO a po
llitical status Is itself an honorable ties
timony to- the civilization which ha!
given her civil status new In his
tory. Now that by the Increased hu
mainly OF law. she controls her prop
erty she inevitably takes the next steI
TO her place in power.