Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-27
1.-THE LOUDLY SHRIEKED CALL"


 commendation of most men and of the greater number of refined and intelligent women that make the American home the most valued insti- tuition i'll our nation. The bishops comment follows
 ''l cannot count 1t necessary, and perhaps it is not wise for me to caution you against the loudly shrieked call to give women the right to vote and be voted for.
 ''I am disposed to think that the quiet and decent appeal of few of the so-called suf- fragists will be so drowned in the bowling dervsh performance of the suifragettes that it will fail of any effect"
 Although these passing remarks of the bishop in no way constitute a summary of question in which the arguments pro and con are legion, yet it cannot be denied that womanhOod would gain little by suffrage. And it is equally cer- tain that women as a class are losing every day in dignity and influence because of the rowdy- ism and hysteria that so far, has largely char acterized the struggle for the feminine vote.
 Beyond doubt, there are certain fields for the exercise of the female franchise, and the proba- bility is that the majority of legislators would give an attentive and respectful ear to womanly requests and petitions for the right to have a voice in the questions of taxation, of school con trol, and of various parts of municipal admins tration. The justice of women voting on these questions would scarcely be questioned by the fair and just men that we assume our leading legislators to be. It is, nevertheless, true that the date when these privileges will be granted is being made more and more remote by the ab- surd antics, and in many cases, still more ab- surd rawlings of the freakish, sexless suffragette of which London has furnished so many eX- amples The advocate of this type is to suffrage what the drunkard is to the temperance ques- ton, the terrible example of what to avoid. The drunkard, for temperance, and the shrieking fe- male for suffrage, afford the most forceful ar gument possible for the opposite side of the re- spective questions for which they stand. The drunkard excites horror and pity, but the un- womanly suffragette arouses only ridicule and disgust
 The advocate of universal woman suffrage is rushing out of the Eden afforded by the American home to plunge herself into the life of a commercial and civic purgatory. The con- ditions of modern business and political life have'had no perceptbe refining or eevating in- fuence on mascuIinity. Business competition is wolfish in its savagery. How little to the ad vantage of woman then, to expose herself more than necessary to it's degrading and coarsening influence? So far in the history of our nation, the ideals kept alive by the women of happy homes have been the chief factor in restraining man from falling down in unqualified worship to the idol of greed that is set up in the market place. To have our women, then, acquire the code of the counting house and the gold-mll spells permanent and irretrievable disaster.
 That politics and business power are not yet the chief end in view for the average man is un questioned The great middle class, which IS neither wretchedly poor nor excessively wealthy. represents the stamina of our national life They are the kind of men that prefer to hold the love and respect of one woman, rather than enjoy the plaudits of the multitude. And about these men of this type there IS something so manifesty human that they win our liking and admiration. And for these men the woman ly woman of the home is keeping the fires burn ing on the altars of self-sacrihce and worthy endeavor With their lives such men are con tent, and for reason that needs no setting forth or elaboration. In some cases these men of the great middle class are of the gentleman ly and courteous class of the old school, type which is the natural complement of the woman of this kind that has kept thoughtful and con- siderate manhood alive through the ages. The quiet and dignifed demand made by the ador- able feminine has resulted in rare type of to correspond, and one which should never be allowed to die out.
 A little child can topple from precipice a boulder that giant cannot replace. And so, the women of today should use caution lest they cast themselves from the pedestal of chivalrous
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