Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-03-10
i FEW LEADING QUESTIONS.

@. Do the people make the! laws?
A. No; one-half the people are for
hidden any share in law-making.
| G. Who do make the laws?
| A. Men. .
Q. Who gave men the right to
make the laws?
q. Do not the laws concern the
women?
A. They certainly do.
q. Must not the women take part
in making the laws which they must
obey?
A. They may not. Men alone make
the laws for women and men,.
@. If a women transgresses the
law who decides the penalty, tries
convicts and Furnishes her?
A. Men.
@. Who sit on the juries before
whom the women are tried?
A. Men only.
Q. Is this what the Constitution
means by 'the judgment of his
peers?
A. Evidently not.
@. May mothers not help make the
laws which decide their legal rela-
tions to their children?
A. No; men make the laws, and in
only fourteen states of the Union and
the District OF Columbia has the
married mother the legal right to
her children.
@. Why is the law soSone-sided?
A. Because it is the product of one
sex alone.
@. Who makes the laws which de-
eide the rights of husband and wife
| in case of separation?
A. Men only.
@. When a husband brutally as
saults his wife, who determine the
penalty? f.
A. Men. ~
@. Who made the laws concerning
the property rights of husband and
wife?
A. Men.
@. Who pay the taxes.
A. Men and women
@. Is the property of a women
taxed the same as that of men?
A. Often higher.
@. Who assess, collect, and ex-
pend tax mc.aey paid by men and wo-
men?
A. Men only.
@. May not women who manages
her own business have vote in
elections which directly concern her
own interests?
A. No; but the most incapable man
in her employ may do so. "
@. May not an educated, temper
tate, moral and law-abiding woman,
vote? .
A. No; but ignorant, Incorporate,
immoral and law-breaking men may
do so. -
@. May not women who teach the
boys in our schools vote?
A. No; but the boys they teach,
when Fl, may do SO.
@. Inc mothers who have brought
forth, carefully reared and given the
sons to the state-may they not
vote?
A. No. e
@. Why not?
| A. Because they are women.
O. Would women vote If the priv
ilege were granted them?
A. Women have had the full suf-
frage in Wyoming since 1895; in
Colorado since 1893; in Utah and
Idaho since 1895.
The wyoming Secretary Of State
writes that 80 per cent of the women
vote.
The Colorado Secretary of State
writes that 80 per cent of the women
register, and about ~ per cent vote.
In Idaho, although women are a
minority of the population, their vote
| is estimated as over 40 per cent. OF
| the whole number cast.
@. Why do women want to vote?
A. First. Because they are Amer
! lean citizens, and the United States
Constitution says: "The citizens
right to vote shall not be denied or
| abridged on account Of race, color,
! or previous conditions of seryitude. J"
| Second. Because they are taxpay-
ers, and it is principle of our govern
ment that taxation and representa-
ton ought to go together.
Third. Because every citizen should
help select those who make the laws
which he or she must obey.
| Fourth. Because every citizen in a
free republic is entitled to represen-
tation, and no person having but enc
vote can represent himself and
another, even with the latter's con-
sent.
Fifth. Because a vote means pow
er. and women need this power to
protect the Interests of themselves,
their children, their homes and So
ciety.
Sixth. Because politics, which is
the government, needs the combined
influence of men and women. With
out the ballot, women's influence is
indirect, negative and irresponsible.
Votes talk, votes count, votes compel
respect. votes decide every question.
Note. This 1eafIet was ORIGINALLY