Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-04-19
Woman Causes Divorce.

So says the secretary of the Civic
Educative League Mrs. Terry NorThup,
a great anti suffragist in last weeks
Teller that women in the majority
Of cases are to blame for this common
evil, the unhappy marriage. She
would have girls taught domestic
science and training along all lines as
to the wise expenditure Of money in
our schools.
Well, this is AS it should be GER
tainly. Mrs. Ncrthup believes wo-
man s place is at home and should not
be allowed universal suffrage. Why,
she does not make quite clear and
does not state what the coming lords
of creation should be taught during
this time. She says the modern wo.
man is not trained for her job Of wife
hood and motherhood. and therefore
makes a failure of married life.
Tn ere are failures in both sexes-but
woman is a woman the world over,
and no true wife or mother will
neglect her home and children. How
does the man stand on this question as
to the expenditure of money. Women
are by nature, as rule more economi-
cal than men. In politics we have
never had a chance to see what we
might do. If some of US had the
money some husbands spend in treats.
cigars and to keep up clubs, we might
spend it to better advantage. Some
men will pay all bills their wives run
and never grumble, but this does not
teach her economy. To teach this
give wife or daughter stated sum and
see if she cannot learn to handle the
expenditure of money. She says in
one OF her addresses as other anti
suffragists do, that politics are too
ROTTEN and the voting booth surround
ed by vulgarity is no place for a lady.
Her place is at home, caring for the
home and baking bread. Well we
could arrange our work as men do to
vote. And as to the bread baking,
we could go and vote while the bread
is rising, or buy loaf for cts.
which would only cost as much as one
treat. Now if politics are so unclean
that respectable woman cannot go
and mark ballot and cast the same,
it is time sue took hand. and cleared
up the dirty place, and all respectable
men will be glad to give her the
helping hand to do the same. In a
speech an anti sufragest man made in
Boston last week he said it would
never do to allow woman the ballot,
because the worst element of woman
kind would be elected to Office How
about the noble man; do their best
element always get into Office?
He also said with many others,
women would never agree and would
always quarrel. How about the fights
in the U. S. Congress we read of from
time to time; the grating and land
steals and many other ills we note in
choosing US. officers If women were
allowed the ballot, but would expect
IN time to see the good laws
governing our cities and towns fully
enforced, for the sake of these very
children the anti suffragists are talk
ing about A woman's love of home
is too strong to neglect home duties.
If she has family no political offer
would tempt her to not enforce law
if her boy was in danger. And just
why woman who has to pay taxes
and fill every requirement of a state
law same as men should not be allow
ed the privilege of voting to help
make the laws, I cannot see, especially
when man holding no property is
allowed to vote, even one that can be
bought by a drink of whiskey.
A Woman.