The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-18
Should Have Taken From His
Backbone Instead Of Rib
Says Dorothy Dix
WOMAN Can ONLY GET BALLOT
BY GOING OUT AND TAKING II
Only Four Great States, According to
Suffragettes and They Are the Ones
Which Give Women the Equal Suf.
frage Right With Men.


Washington, April 18-An army of
suffragettes moved on capitol hill to-
day and presented the monster ma
tional petition of a half million sig
natures praying for vote 70 rwomen
to congress. The delegates to the
convention of the National American
Woman Suffrage association and no
small number of enthusiasts who
were not delegates. took part in the
march upon the national legislators.
The petitioners rode in flag bedecked
automobiles, the long string Of which
reached almost from the hotel where
the convention has been in swing,
down broad Pennsylvania avenue to
the capitol. The suffragettes must
have had every available automobile
in Washington.
Florence Kelley, secretary of the
National Consumers league, based
her argument for suffrage on what
she said was the direct relation be-
tween the ballot and wages. She de-
clared that advancement for women
workers would never be accelerated
until they possessed the ballot. In
part she said:
Except in the four great s.. states,
great because they are just to all their
citizens-Colorado, Utah, Idaho and
Wyoming-women have no voice in
passing or defeating laws for mini
mum wage boards. Wage earning
women have no word to say as to the
persons to whom the constituting
power is given under these laws
when passed. How can their will and
judgment be fairly respected. even
though they serve on such boards
! (when created) since public opinion
holds them, and all their sex, inferior
and unfit to take part in politics7
"At present there is pending before
the legislature of several American
states a bill to prohibit the employ
ment of boys under the age of twenty
one years in the telegraph and mes
senger service between ten o'clock at
night and five in the morning in the
interest of the public health and NOR
ais; the measure is an excellent one
and should long since have been the
law of the land. But why messenger
boys only? Why not telephone girls
also? Why is.V i better Tor girls to
work all night than for boys? Thou
sands of young girls do work all
night in this service. In many-if not
indeed, in all telephone exchanges,
i beginners are regularly started in the
night service. Much of the conversa-
tion which they are constrained to
hear is as vile as that from which
the messenger boys are to be protect
ed.
But they do not count in the conf
munity as future voters count. and
the agitation for their protection will
be far slower and moro discouraging
than that in behalf of the boys. for
the champions of the girls will be
voteless women confined to the meth
DDS of persuasion"
Dorothy Dix.
Dorothy Dix, in the language and
gestures Of an old negro nanny, ex.
plained the eneeds of suffrage as she
saw them to the convention. The lack
of backbone is the reason for woman
not having the ballot, she declared
She spoke as follows:
Il amt never been one dat run af-
ter ev'ry new belief dat comes along
an dats de reason dat l amt never
took up wild dis heah doctrine about
things not being made at de start. but
hit seems lax to me dat dem folks
what laks to claim monkey for dere
grandpaw has got mighty little pride
and mighty little call to brag on dere
family tree.
But amt ever had no trouble in
believin' dat woman was made out of
mans rib. What worries me is why
de Lawd's choice fell on de rib, which
amt nothin' but sort or rafter to
hold up a mans chist an swell hit
out, an make him look proud. but dat
amt nowise important in hitself. an
dat hit is about de easiest thing dat
man can spare widout missin' hit.
"Cose l amt presumin' to criticise
de Good Master. but hit does look lax
to me dat when he was creatin'
nan, an had de whole man to cut
from, dat he could have saved us a
lot of trouble eff he had made Eve
out of Adams backbone insted of his
rib.
"Yassum. dats de trouble wild wom-
en- down to dis very day. Dey amt
got no backbone OF rib dey was
made. an rib dey has stayed an
nobody amt got no right to expect
nOthin' else from 'em.
Hits becaze woman was made -out
of mans rib-an' frim de way she
acts hit looks lax she was made out
of floatin' rib at dat-an' man was
left wild all of his backbone dat he
has got de comeuppance over woman.
OATS de reason dat we women sits
down an cries when We ought to git
. up an heave brickbats.
whats de reason DAT We women
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