The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-01

III l believed the suffrage OF women
was right, / should not be pleading
against It. for seek TO represent the
great silent constituency, the woman
who Is not heard in the street or seea
lobbying In the halls Of legislation. IL
] am wrong I ask Indulgence as son,
husband and q father. believe
that refined and modest women are
the custodians OF the nations purity.
and that they have the power TO IN
fiuence government by modifying and
directing their husbands opinions, as
expressed at the polls. They have the
right to rear children, to plead and
to pray. But the modest woman Is not
the one that ascends the rostrum, TO
which she may send her son. She can
not 90 there without degrading that
modesty which we most prize In her,
Mans idea OF woman is peculiar.
II is higher. perhaps. than they have
any conception OF. IL Is SCATTERING
that idea for them to try TO place
themselves .on alevel with the male
sex. We believe that modesty and
purity should exist, and that vulgar.
ity and vice should not. We believe
that when a woman seeks to step in
to the place OF man. she dethrones
herself.
There are three classes OF women,
the 400, or club class, the middle
class of mothers and wives, and the
tenderloin class. With woman suf-
rage, the foam and the dregs, as II
were, would vote. The greatest and
most highly respected class would
not. The son, who Is now proud of
his mother in the home. will be
shocked by seeing her carried to the
polls in the same carriage that has
| just carried a woman from the dreg /
Those who speak of the lettering
influence of women In politics, should
remember that Hebrew history gives
us a Jezebel as well as Queen
Esther.
1T is argued that 1t Is our duty To
submit this matter to the people. We
have an honest duty which We Wei e
sent here to perform fearlessly. II
you turn II back to the-people, You
are towards. God help the man whose
soul is SO small that heNmust leave
decisions to the people and then 20 4
secret vote"
! Warner said that there was no cry.
ing need for woman suffrage, that
Tlere was a noise, like that OF six
grasshoppers under leaf as compar-
ed with herd of grazing cattle. lie
then apologized for any OF his re-
marks which might have offended any
one present.
Rep. Rankin, OF Ypsilanti, came u
the defense of the suffrage advocates.
"You say that the woman can d.
| rect the vote of her husband or son.
/ What OF the widow who lives next
door to me with her daughters. Whose
vote does she have to represent her.
Rep. Stewart and Mcbride also
| spoke In favor of the resolution. The
members then voted as they had been
lined up before the meeting, as II
there had been no arguments.
1--WE have not given up said Mrs
Huntley Russell. wife of the state land
commissioner, who has led the fgh;
In the legislature. I'VE shall yet be
able TO wrest woman suffrage from
the hands Of those who do not wish
to give Il to us. We are told thar
the liquor interests are against us
That may very possibly be. II SO, we
shall have to fight the liquor in
terests."
The telegraph wires into Lansing
were kept busy yesterday with mes
sages to legislators urging them n
vote against the submissal Of the
proposition to the people. The bee,
and whisky interests are said to have
been behind these kilograms.