The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-12-29
If Its Right for a Man. It's Right
for a Woman.


A California paper Of recent date
contained the following:
Let the women vote. Yes by all
means let them vote, let them do just
as they please. put them on their hon.
or and / will guarantee they will up
hold 1T as well as men, pull down the
bars, If they want to come down to
equality with just a little old mere
man let them do it.
Ii they want absolute equality by all
means give it to them. but be sure it
is absolutely equal. Quit criticising
them in matter of dress, let them dress
to suit themselves (they will do it any
howl let them wear the plain skirt,
the ruffied skirt, the thin skirt. the
thick skirt, the divided skirt. the hob
BILE skirt. the Frouser skirt, the harem
| skirt. or just plain old fashioned
breaches if they choose.
Give them the exact privilege in
everything as a man, (f they consider
it privilege).
If they want to get out and get full
and paint the town red, let them do it.
If its right for a man it's right for a
woman. If they want to drink whiskey
and smoke cigarettes let them do it.
woman. If they want to play poker,
shoot craps, bet on horse races, a base
ball game or play seven up for the
drinks with an old greasy deck, let
them do it. If its right for man it's
right for woman.
If they want to carry a pistol in
their hip pocket and dirk up their
sleeve, let them do It, If it's right for
man its right for a woman.
If they want to get knocked down
! do it. If its right for a man it's right
for woman.
If they want to get into a real
knockout and drag out fight for talk
| ing about their neighbor, let them do
it. If it's right for man it's right for
a woman.
If they want to stand on the corner
and make eyes at the men, let them dc
it. If its right for man, its right for
a woman.
If they want to go to the club every
night and get full and come home in
the wee small hours, let them do it..
If its right for man it's right for a
woman.
If they are on street car and mar
| e
him their seat. If it's right for man.
its right for woman.
| If they meet man in muddy place
on the street, let the woman step in
! the mud half the time, and let the
| for man it's right for woman.
If man takes off his hat to a
woman. let the woman take off her hat
/ IN, m 49, 4
for woman. And so on and so on, et
cetera, al finitim, Eplurihus unum,
and ct ais.
Pull down the bars let them have al
the equality they are looking for, but
be sure it is equal. Give them every
privilege as men, but be sure that they
get no more. for they say they DOM
want any more, for God made man,
male and female, made He them and
gave them dominion over all the works
of His hands, but man Immediately set
woman upon pedestal and has kept
her there for the ages, and she has
been begging from time immemoria
to be taken down. Now let the mar
take her down. And see how soon she
will beg to be put back.
A mule will always jump the fence
out of good pasture into a dry field,
and will never rest satisfied until he
does.
| So woman, like the mule. will never
be satisfied until she gets out of the
good pasture into the dry field and the
sooner the fence is taken down the
better for all parties concerned, for
she will never be satisfied until she
| tries it and wont be satisfied then.