The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-15
A PLEA FOR FAIRNESS.
Continued From Fac !.

pulling-and almost hair raising-the
| papers would have chortled for six
months. We would have heard all
about the inability of women to gov
ern others when they were so fla
| GRAVITY unable to govern themselves
True, the cartoonists and para
graphers reaped a rich harvest as II
was but they did not reap it at the
| expense Of the sex! It was the in
i dividual who was derided and ridi-
/ culed, not all mankind
But when women are in the fore
front of a political battle that which
| one woman does that is absurd or lilo
gical is not that which counts to her
credit alone. 1t is all women who pay
the penalty
Women and men are much alike
when 1t comes to their real selves
The man is more of an adept in GER
tain lines because tradition, and train
ing have perfected his power of per-
| ception along those lines. Women
have their specialties but to libel the
whole sex for the sins of the individual
is manifestly absurd. No one thinks
that all the men of a party are to
blame for the mistakes of one of it's
leaders. He is the only one to be called
to the bar of justice for his sins. But
men are not SO generous in their judg-
ment of women.
Let the women of a club or society
get into little family scrimmage, and
the women who do not indulge in such
rough and tumble actions, have to
wr1the under the stigma and grin of
derision
1t is manifestly unfair! Women are
willing to play fair with men If men
would only play fair with them.
One of the leading magazines. up
held and supported by women. has
published an. article on suffrage which
claims to be unbiased It would be
amusing in its weak effort at fairness
If 1t We're not SO maddening to the
women who really think of what It
means TO the cause Of women. One
little portion of that article is worthy
of consideration. Certain bills were
offerend In the legislature of a state
where women vote. The support was
for the betterment of the conditions
of women and children. They were
presented by the only woman MEM
Der of the legislature. Save one min
or bill they were defeated. No one
knew why. The writer of the article
said the woman legislators would not
say why, with the inference that she
understood but would not incriminate
herself A man put it tersely and
prutally that it was because the wo-
man presented the bills. "If some good
man had presented them with a plain
explanation Of their necessities they
would rave passed. he said We have |
nothing against the women anu chi |
dren
With that as the attitude of the men |
is 1t any wonder that in states where |
there has been suffrage for women /
there has been little work done for
the betterment of women? Does not
the question of why, answer itself?
Another article deprecates making
the pay Of women wage earners the
same as that of men for the same
work. 1t declares that women should |
NOT pc made so independent or they
VIII not fulfill their natural duties as
wives and mothers.
When men qualify to make women
there will be few women who will I
shirk the duty which is theirs natur-
ally. They win not only be wives and
mothers, but good wives, and thought
full mothers.
II seems illogical to deny women
wages equal to men. 1t Is the only
way to raise the standard of mans
pay AS long as a woman can he
hired at q less wage than 4 man then
women will be hired. and wages kent
DOWN TO make women independent
Y one sense viii not make them less
womanly. II will serve To make them
more selfrespecting.
Men boast of their fair play--whv
not play the game with women IN tia
same spirit as they would with man
AZ any rate do not blame all wonn,,
Tor the sins 0f the few.