The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-04
Tuesday January A.
1910


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To the Editor OF The Times. mi
what way will the American woman
be benefited should she secure the
right to vote? In what way win .thei
American man be benefited? VIM do
nestle relations be more pleasantly Dol
you not think woman Is getting morot
through courtesy than she can hope
to secure by means OF the ballotf(
Should those who cannot be canodj
upon to defend the laws and treaties
OF country. clamor for the prtvtleSel
or making laws and treaties? There
are women (but they are by no means
In the majority who are neglecting %
improve themselves In what mAko91
for true womanliness, but let no CD
portunity pass by which they may Del
looked upon as elbowing asserStve{
male Ewes. Frederic Sheldon was. mi
all probability, In conversation WITH
an extreme suffragette when he saide,I
You wish to create Eve over again.
or rather To call forth a femalel
Adam" Bovee uttered O great truth
when he said: ''Womans power n
over the affections. A beautiful DO
main Is hers, but she risks It's for.
fixture when she seeks to extend it,
Mrs. Butler, noble married lady, de-
clared that maids must be wives and
mothers TO fulfil the entire and holiese
end OF woman's being" A woman In
public life IL not married before en-
tering such life should not even con-
template marriage: because there are
so many obstacles in the way OF which
IL would not be proper to speak.
leave them TO the women to con over
among themselves. Since history be-
gan to record events, men have been
foremost because physically and men,
tally they are more thoroughly
equipped. But men OF sense do not
forget that man must be born or
woman. II was the pride and boast
OF Letitia. mother OF Napoleon the
Great. IL am the mother OF Napoleon"
Who ever takes the Book seriously.
and more especially II taken literally,
should make no mistake as TO the part
women were to play in this life. II
Is Just as necessary, just as indispen-
sable as the mems part, and IL they
neglect TO play their part the whole
world Is the loser Those better ac-
louainted with the worlds history than
II am will fail TO find the Court OF
: Queens freer from vice than Court
; OF Kings. In England the suffragette
has even descended TO the mob to car
! ~ her point. which will not result In
good to her cause. In the city OF
Bayonne, New Jersey. a Mrs. Sulzier
demanded OF the mayor and council
that they place women on the police
: force. Women would. without doubt,
! he highly ornamental in such position
! II not compelled to divest themselves
of their immense hats. their nuns
and all the pretty things so dear TO
their hearts: but they would have TO
do this, and submit TO uniform
which could not be that OF the male
policeman. but to one that would
transform them into something but
. little short of the freak. What duties
could be assigned to this strange in
, novation? For the life OF me can sec
none that the male policeman Is not
competent to perform and Is perform
ing in all the hours OF the "a, and url.
der all conditions OF weather. But
Mr.. Sulzier is Prominent suffragette.
at least. so | am bound to believe. for
has she not said THE ballot for vO-
men. or blood" Mrs. o. II. p. Bel
mont says. THE ballot or no chill
dren." Still worse. Speaking for my
self. only. will say. | have no fears
as TO the result, should our mothers
and sisters secure the ballot. because
there Is nothing that can so trans
form women as to enable them to
displace men in any department OF
science. invention. or as heads OF the
great enterprises and schemes of this
. life. The truly responsible places
that men have occupied from Adam
to President Taft have required quail
tiles that not many women possess.
: II requires Drawn as much as brain
TO make the world move. will
quote from John Todd, and nothing Is
more true: Woman Is the highest,
I, hottest. most precious gift to man.
) Her mission and throne Is the family"
DANIEL w. COLE.
Detroit. Mich. Jan. 4.
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