The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-10-16
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
AS viewed BY
A MISSISSIPPIAN
C. U. PORTER TELLS OF CALI.
IFoRNlA ELECTION AND DE-
PIcTs SITUATION THERE.
A FAD...A Child OF IDLENESS
Richly Gowned, LavshIy Provided
Women Leave Their Children at The
Baby Asylums And With Abundant
Time On Their Hands Engage In
The Game Political.
A FAD...A Child OF IDLENESS

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 1O.-Today,
with closed saloons, suspension of bus
mess activities and frenzied politics
running rife, California is voting on
the proposed adoption of % amend
ments which include in the list, the
referendum recall and woman suf-
frage
Opposition to the first and second
named is well defined and will be
strenuously pressed by a strongly en-
trenched minority. To the third and
last named, opposition is determined
and bitter. pf six Los Angeles dailies
three are for and three against it,
Only a Vardaman-lead campaign can
equal in intensity, the rancor and bit
terness of the one that will yield up
he ghost here about the hour that
his COMMUNICATION is started to it's
destin ation
While the house of California is
divided against itself in suffrage ex-
tens ION contention, Reno is watching
with wistful eye, the titanic struggle,
in anticipation of the probable impetus
that will be given to its leading indus
try in the event the innovation is
adopted.
We are glad the opportunity has
been afforded us to get an insight into
the handspring of action in a suf-
which the movement is born, Is the
offspring of accumulated idleness Of
wealthy women wanting something
for excitement, aided and abetted by
a certain class of politicians posing as
reformers.
If suffrage extension is the proper
caper, California is pre-eminently the
proper place to cut the caper. In no
other state have we ever found condi-
tiOns so favorable for fostering it. NO
where else have We seen so many
women so lavishly provided with
means and so abundantly cursed with
I excess of leisure, as Che leaders Of
he sutfragette follies here.
The establishment of baby asylums
here, in which political mamas, driven
10 "en-nui" by the exasperating goad
Of domestic duties and household af-
fairs, may enter their cumbersome
Young by paying an entrance fee, and
then, with happy hearts and footsteps
light hasten unfettered to the club,
places, makes this fertile field for
the propagation of suffragette hybrids
and heresies. for the baby asylum
eliminates at least one feature of the
hired help" problem which has become
a standing menace to the ease and
idleness of the favored few
The asylum keepers, for the fee paid
by these fond mothers. agree to take
sare\ ,f the deposits while in their
'uSJOuys No ulOlicIlN hloStS, Stllllt
touch or tender care so soothing to a
ired, sick or fretful child are offered
or requested Rid me of the worry of
my child and ! will pay you your price
30 do it, is the gist of the cold-blooded
proposition.
Think of politician, no matter Of
what sex, teaching a child or any
body. piety such as is inculcated by
ehlfstion mothers in the minds of
their children whom they regard with
holatrous worship. As well expect
" icicles to form in the fues of red
bot boiler.
After watching the antics and con-
contemplating the personality of such
sutfragette leaders as have come un-
der our observation here, We are al
most oppressed with the reverence
,,A feel for true, noble and undefiled
womanhood which glorifies the sex
that gave the Savior birth.
Theirs are the consecrated lips
which kiss away childish cares with
loving caresses. Theirs are the
teachings which first direct childish
boughts heayenward At the knee