Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-03-11
A Few Suggestions on Why Women
Should Vote.
published by Request-)


should not. Prejudice and its result
ant effects is the sum total which de-
prives her of the ballot.
No taxation without representation
should apply to women the same as
to men.
They need it for their own mental
improvement thereby making better
mothers
A nation based on democracy such
as ours depends on the stability of
its homes. Home is the unit of the
nation.
Equal suffrage has worked well
wherever tried. Judge Lindsay in
his noble and effective work in the
juvenile courts has been elected and
kept in Office by the woman's vote.
The rule has been that the women's
votes have been independent and out
side of corrupt influence therefore
better men have been selected for the
offices.
Abraham Lincoln said, II am for
all sharing in the government alike
who assist in bearing its burdens, by
no means excluding the women"
The trainers of the proposed law
charter for Chicago last year inserted
clause in favor of equal suffrage.
When we study the question of
temperance and morality we might
well ask who composes the member
ship of our churches? Two thirds or
more are women.
The saloon men as a unit are op-
posed to equal suffrage and openly
fight it.
Ignorance is a menace to good gov
eminent. Statistics show that every
year the schools and colleges are grad
uating more girls than boys
The working women favor it, also
the working men,
On September 80, 1910, the carpen-
tiers and joiners' international union
in convention at Des Moines, repre-
senting 200, 900 members endorsed wo-
man suffrage.
Where women vote they have bet
ter conduct at the polls. Bad women
almost solidly stay away from them.
No wrecking of homes through the
advocates of equal suffrage as is prov
en- by the fact that a large per cent
of the most noted of noble men and
women of this age are ardent work
ers in the suffrage cause. Among the
women we find the names of Frances
B. Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Clara
Barton, Florence Nightingale, Rose
Cleveland and host of others.
! The women vote when an opportu-
nifty presents itself.
In Colorado this year a greater per
cent of the women voted than of
the men.
In government SO called of the
people by the people and for the peo-
pie, by what authority or right has
one class to set at naught and annul
the will and wishes of our wives, sis
tiers, sweethearts and the mothers OF
our children?
No man is compelled to vote, neith-
could the women be.
Put yourself in woman's place in
this government. How would you
like it?
Should it in any state or territory
prove failure, the legislature could
deprive the women of their rights as
citizens to vote.
Voting differently does not break
up homes or divide households as has
been predicted.
If only one woman asks for the
right should she be deprived on &C
count of the Indifference of the others'
An axiom of good government is
"That all just governments derive
their power from the consent of the
governed
Women do not go to war, neither
for various reasons do a majority OF
the men go to war and if at all sci
dom but once in a life time, but
every year many thousands of oul
women helping to perpetuate this
government lay down their lives il
the bearing of children. Let the wal
cry cease.
To sum it all up in one sentence
hear Him who spake as never mar
spake, do We unto others as VI
would they should do unto YOU
MRS. Hannah NJ. LeCompte.
April 1909.