Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-02-23
FROM MIR. HILBURN.
Grounding Day and Sun Shining.
STROUD, Ark, Feb. 2, 1911


tionaE Daily of Jan. 81 appears a
we'll written article from the pen
Mrs. Frank V. Garrett, answering
some so-called objections to
woman suffrage. Her article was
written for the Ladies' Home Journal
which refused it publication.
"How utterly silly and vapid," "
she says, "are most of the argu-
ments in your January issue. In
fact, they are not arguments at
ALL"
For instance, Kate Douglas
Wiggan says, whenever the vote
is restricted to men of fair educa-
ton and some modest property
qualification, then l will consider
the suffrage for the same class of
women"
Now, Mf. Editor, the question
naturally presents itself, what is a
fair education and what is a
modest property? Should one
have attended high school or be a
college graduate? What is edu-
cation, anyway? I read of an ap-
plicant for citizenship in Cali
fornia who, when asked, "Who
makes the laws of the state?" an
swered, "The Southern Pacific R.
R." and was denied the right to
vote; and yet, | doubt if a much
better answer could be given.
And I am sorry to say that Cali
fornia is no exception to the rule
that the laws are made by
the Interests" Education is
knowledge and whoever has
knowledge is educated to the ex-
tent of his knowledge; and it
doesn't matter when, nor where
nor how he obtained that knowl-
edge. | am sorry to say that most
of mine was obtained in the
school of adversely. Too much of
the education of the world is
founded on fiction, romance and
false deductions; false because the
major premise had no foundation.
To be educated must we have a
knowledge of the law? Even the
lawyers can't agree on that vast
network of cunningly devised
technicalities.
Should we have a knowledge ot
medicine? What of the Allopaths
the Homeopaths, the Osteopaths
and the other divisions and crooked
paths that the medical world is
trying to travel? Ones head gets
in a whirl.
Should we have a knowledge o1
religion? Lord save us from the
hundred and one only true and ac-
cepted faiths!
Must we have a knowledge Of
politics? Then begin at Dudley's
"blocks of five" and figure up tc
the thousand-d dollar votes fol
Lorimer and study Bassey's guide
to divine purity, Hinkydink ant
Bathouse John of Chicago, and 6
few lessons from Tammany Hall
and your political education will
be complete.
We have learned so many
things in the past only to unlearl
them and cast them on the scral
heap as science demonstrated thu
weakness OF their foundation
And SO great has the scrap heal
grown that men of learning speno
whole lifetimes coming it's forgot
ten lore.
And what is modest property
Mr.. Rockefeller, Mr.. Morgan ant
Mr.. Carnagie would no doub
think several millions a very
modest property; and the lady
who thinks $4,000 necessary tt
buy the clothing for year woult
probably put the figures mucl
higher. But the man with fami
ly of six, living on St.50 per day
what would he consider q modes
property? And, by-the-way, hi
will have something to say abou
the property qualification TO
voters that will in the near futur,
make the planets sit up and tax,
notice. Fortunately for him, h,
has weapon compared to which
the ballot in its present limited
capacity is like Krag rifle com.
pared to the old army musket 0
the Civil War. Did say wha
that weapon was? Well, it's tht
general strike. It's the most eff
fective weapon known to the SON
Of men. Only let the workers lay
down their tools for a single week
and the plants will be eating thei
own shoe soles. And labor hal
begun to learn it's power ii
solidarity.
So let those who fear the powe