The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16

the laws. For instance. thousands of
blind men vote at every election. No
to vote ought to be limited 70 those
mon who are able and willing to
perform military service. Either the
power to bear arms is necessary
qualification for suffrage or 1t Is not.
II II is. those men who lack II ought
to he debarred. If 1t is not lack OF
II is no reason for debarring women.
Regulation of Wages.
Mrs. Henson says suffrage Will have
nothing TO do with the regulation Of
wages.
The reason women are cheaper than
men is because they are more helpless.
women is because they are still more
helpless. Only the animals more
so. and it is because they are the
most helpless. 1t has become self
evident in this country that the people
who have the ballot get more con
sheraton than those who haven't il.
They have weapon with which 10
defend themselves against oppression.
1t is known that in the equal suffrage
States the laws protecting women and
| children. regulating wages and labor
hours are more favorable than any
where else in the country.
In most of the States of the Union
| women are Obliged to struggle for
their ends indirectly. Indirectness is
mans situation and woman's nature.
ECONOMIC slavery as the occasion of
| that inulrectnesS that noneScombS
every phase of womans life.
That "a business career is often n
Tnakeshift, due 10 woman's antici-
patton of marriage, can be attributed
her sex as an asset Ages ago wo-
mans sex became the means of her
obtaining n livelihood. 1t is still with
the girl who is brought up with the
lidea that she must marry we'll
| Mrs. Henson claims that Sin Califor-
mia, where suffrage was defeated by
popular vote, the salaries of the wo-
men teachers are the same as the
mems"
Suffrage in California has not been
defeated. The popular vote will pass
instrumental in gettipg the legislative
votes for suffrage were the same who
secured equal pay for teachers.
York for equal wages with men in the
public schools only resulted in mems
wages being. cut down to theirs y
that in the elementary grades new
teachers of both sexes. doing the same
work. receive the same pay. this being
a slight increase over the former sala :
| ries of women and a slight decrease of
| the former salaries of men. In tho
high school salaries of ali new teach
ers are equal and are an increase over
those of the past. In no case has the
duced
"The laws of nearly, if not. ALL of
the states of the Union arc even moro
| favorable to women than to men"
| Every married woman is the Joint
guardian of her children with her ius-
band. She has now equal rights with
the father over her children" So says
| Mrs. Henson.
In only thirteen states are parents
equal guardians of their children. In
Colorado and nowhere else in the
world is the mother equally with The
father, next of kin to her own chill
6ren. She may even inherit jointly
with the father property left by n
In Virginia the husband has the
primary right of control of the chill
| dren. and he inherits the deceased
chiid's real estate. If there he no
| father, the mother. brothers and sis
ters of the decedent take share and
share alike. In Virginia the right of
courtesy entities n husband to n life
interest at tho death of his wife in
all her real estate. and the eight of
dover entities the wife at the death
of her husband to life interest in
only one-third of the husbands real
estate.
In Virginia the mother has no right
to the earnings OF. her child ex,ept by
express contract with the child
In Virginia a husband can divorce
his Wife for having led a licentious life
previous to marriage without his
knowledge. while the wife caniot dl-
vorce her husband for like cause
The salaries paid women teschers
are from one-third to onc-half of,those
paid TO men.
Women fill no positions onS the
ARoards of control of the various schools.