The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-28

out women eligible 70 serve on a
grand or petit jury This, however.
would ccrtairly be- an incident to the
+ right TO vote The very thought Of
such a possibility is enough to- shock
/ the modcsty of all cultured. wOmanly
women. what man would be willing
for his mother. sister. daughter or
. wife to attend court for a month
where they would often be compelled
r TO listen to the yilost and most shock
ing revelations of human depriyaty?
Who Of our womoi desire to perform
such unpleasant duties2 II it be
/ tyranny to protect our mothers and
sisters daughters and wives from
such unpleasant tasks by Withholding
from them the privilege of voting.
then may every man be an unrelenting
tyrant forever have mentioned only
one phase of this particular question
but there are many others which
might mention to show how extremely
undesirable II is that women should be-
subject to jury duty.
Another important du,y which the
right to vote carries with II is that OF
military duty which is of such ma.
ture as that only young. strong and
well-deyeloped men are made subject
to it. Az overwhelming majority o.
our women are physically incapacitat.
ed to perform such laborious duties As
dcyOlve upon a soldier. Man doubts
not her patriotism or bravery, but the
proposition Of making her subject to
military duty is SO exceedingly pre-
postcrous and absolutely absurd that
shall not take up any more space in
considering it, lest it be taken as ar
insult to the intelligence of those who
may chance to read these lines
If the right to vote be granted to
woman. then it will become her duty
to exercise that right by going to the
polls at every election and voting.
Shall women be plunged into politics
and made equally responsible with the
men for the existence of that blot up.
on American civilization? But II is
contended by some that the entrance
of woman into the political world Will
have a purifying. elevating effe".,
Their reasons for saying this are very
defective. They argue that under all
circumstances feminine instincts will
preserve woman 1t is absolutely con.
trary to the facts of evolution. en-.
vironment and culture to assume that
either men or women will remain un-
charged in their intellectual. moral
and emotional natures whatever tn ,!r
I situation may bc. They seem to for
get that there is a powerful and in.
cNurable law Of association, and that
every force or influence. be it good or
bad. with which We come in contact
leaves an i.Gelible impression upon
our lives and characters: an impress.
sion which the hand of time itself is
poworless to Oblitcrate and which will
nave tendency either 90 mar or inn
lures That woman is not immune
against the effects of evil i-flueuc IS
and associations is too plain to need
any argument, then what becomes Of
the claim that she will cleanse the
political world of its impurities. co:-
ruptness and denominations? Granting
tl.p h.. gnl lgA of tstTttt hat hn
would accomplish some good In that
line, would not the harm done to ner
be much greater and Of far more con.
sequence to the present ard future
generations, il there should be anv,
than the good accomplished?
Mirabeau. a great French orator and
state sman, in Il speech on public edu-
cation which he wrote bu, was Pre-.
vented from delivering on account OF
his death said Man and woman
play an entirely different part la m.
ture, and they could not play the same
, part in the social state, the eternal
- lit ess OF things only made them move
ing to them distinct ans separate
places TO take these modest
beings, whose maidenly reserve gives
-. a charm TO the domestic circle where
: all their loyable qualities cXpanl tC
y, perftctiOn TO place them among mer
and affairs to expose them to thC
, p,rils OF a Lille which they carnot Learn
to support except by distorting theil
physical constitution; this Is but :;
Ooliterate that exquisite sensibilitN
which, 50 10 speak, constitutes thei,
essence and becomes the guarantee @
their aptitude for the fultillment o
those private functions which a gooC
> social scheme has assigned to them
y, II is TO confourd everything; II is by