The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-04-29

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gold lace and more gorgeous uniform
aud look more beautiful.
Not only that, but in the event of
proves on the battlefield. Leaving
out Of the account the Amazons Of an.
cicnt days, and our own heroic Molly
Pitcher, there are plenty OF authentic
accounts of women who disguised as
men, have fought in the regular army,
and In the recent unpleasantness in
the Balkins the Balkin women have
given u good account Of themselves AS
soldiers.
Nor is this all. The martial spirit is
growing among women. You cannot
pick up "A newspaper without reading
the accounts Of one or more women
who have %grappled single. handed, with
u burglar and gotten the best Of him,
or thrashed u masher on the street, aud
the very police court is full of the walls
of timorous married men who have come
to beseech the protection of the law
against muscular and cruel Husband
beaters."
There Is No Weaker Argument
young woman IL going
What with the way the modern young
woman is going in for athletic training,
and the name in which war is being
simplyfied and made II light employ.
ment, 80 to speak-for now firing the
biggest guns il merely n matter of press.
ing "a button and letting the electric.
ity do the rost-it begins to look as If
the stock argument against giving won.
en- the ballot was about to be swep,
away, and that there was no reason
why women shouldn't go to war and
West Point be made u coed institution.
II would be an impossibility to make =
weaker argument against woman sui.
frage than the one based ON her in.
ability to fight. 1t is true that a gov
eminent must rest on force, but ii
must rest on many other things also
things like intelligence and patriotism
and virtue, for instance, and il women
are Il trifle short ON force, they are
long ON the balance of the qualities
that are necessary To the upbuilding
and unfolding of a nation.
Ii only the people who nave muscular
ability were of service to their country,
we should be celebrating Mr.. Jim JET.
fries and Mr.. Jack johnson as our great
est citizens. Either Of them could put
Mr.. Taft or Mr.. Morgan, or even our
strenuous Mr.. Roosevelt, out of busl
ness in about a quarter OF a minute.
Yet, if there is any call for either OF
the champion strong men of the country
to become our next president, or To
settle any OF the vexed questions oil
government, zone of US have heard 1t.
Jeffries and Johnson would be great
To be consistent, those who claim
that women should not vote because
they cannot fight, should ~disfranchise
ali the men who are also bodily unfit
for active service in the army. That
would deprive US OF the services OF
practically every man who is prominent
in public life today, and certainly it
would produce a state Oh affairs where.
in the brain Of the country would be
ruled by the Drawn.
In the days when the big boned men
put on a half ton or so of rafting armol
and mounted huge draft horses and
went out to defend their country with
all the p~omposity and glitter possible,
would nave been great men. Today
they are OF less account thar any little,
feeble, sickly old man with a shrewd
brain, who sits in an office aud thinkers
with the tariff or plans great things
for his country, or organizes great con.
binations for the building up of indus
tries or devises great charities for the
lettering of humanity.
1t is triumph of mind over matter,
and ;hs service that one can render
one's country Is going to be more and
more a matter Of brain and heart, and
barbarism of war is drawing to an end,
nations will settle their difficulties by
an appeal to reason instead of the sword
And in the great peace movement
the clearest voice will be woman =;
for in war il is woman who has suffered
most and of whom heaviest toll has
been taken. For man can only die once
for his fatherland, but a woman dies
over again in the death of her father
her husband, her brother, and every
son hat she gives in defense of hel