El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-09

ment as rolling a stone up htl- Time
and again, after putting forth all her
strength and all her skill, and when II
has seemed to her that she was about
TO achieve victory and land the stone on
the top, she has seen 1t strike some OBJ
satcIe and roll all the way down to the
bottom again.
Right VIII Prevail.
But. unlike Sisyphus, she is undis-
MAYED because she has the right, JUS
tice, and truth on her side, and she
knows that in the end justice. right, and
truth must prevail.
The curse was upon Sisyphus and he
had to do the same work in the same
hopeless way, but the light Of new
day is on the woman suffragist, and
every time her stone rolls back, she
learns from 1t where she made mis-
takes before, and better way OF doing
it, so that in reality her stone has new
er quite rolled back to where 1T was be-
fore. She has always gained little
1t may be only the fraction of an inch,
but she has scotched the stone before 1t
got quite to the bottom of the hill.
Every Defeat q Gain
Some prejudice has been broken down
Some public enlightenment has come
Some recognition OF woman's rights
have been gained. Some new adherents
have been won. Some way the great
campaign of education has been broad
ened. The stone is a little bit nearer
the hilltop.
The cartoon which is here republished
from Punch has a special reference to
the recent woman suffrage bill in the
English parliament which, after being
passed by the house of commons was
practically made imperative by the Jug
Cling of the politicians opposed to IT.
Tremendous effort has been made by
the suffragists, the fiercest battle in
the whole history of woman's fight for
freedom had been waged, and the de-
feat was bitterlenough, but nobody will
claim that the woman suffrage question
is where it was before
1t has been given an enormous impe-
tus. 1t has become the burning issue Of
the day in English politics. and its bit
terest opponents only hope to stave off
the hour that they know is coming,
when woman will stand equal with man
before the law.
Time and again in our own country,
in the various states, have woman SUI
fragists tried to induce the state legis-
latures to grant suffrage TO women
They have used all of their eloquence.
all Of their power. all of their money,
and in the end the suffrage amendment
has been defeated.
Much Has Been Achieved.
Year after year delegations of the
foremost women in the country. women
who represent hundreds of thousands OF
other Intelligent and tax-paying women,
go to Washington, and remind our au-
gust congress and senate Of the very
first provision of the constitution of the
United States that taxation without
is tyranny" and that all
Just government must rest upon the
of the governed" but gall
liant committee, appointed by the senate
and congress. listens to the woman's
plea for justice, and then heaves "a
sigh and shelves their petition. Nothing
Is ever done.
All wasted effort you say. Sisyphus
rolling his stone, that rolls back again
Not so. Something is gained every time,
even if 1t is no more than working leg
islators up to the fact that there is a
new power in politics. that women are
no longer content TO be negligible fac
tors in government, and that they are
going to keep on demanding until they