The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-17

The women who favor equal Suf-
frage are congratulating themselves
very considerably since the defeat of
Mayor Gill in Seattle on Tuesday, a
result said to be largely of their
achievement. 1t may be that they
are responsible for the recall of that
very Objectionable official; but if
there were not enough decent men
in Seattle to accomplish the same
result, then Seattle must be a very
peculiar place, and badly set in the
ways of wickedness. From the re-
ports that have reached here, Mayor
Gill was about everything that a
Mayor should not be and very little
that he should be. The trouble with
our fair and unfair suffragette
friends is that they are beginning to
feel that there are very few things
that men can do, although history
records several successes that have
been enjoyed by human beings of the
male persuasion, possibly without
very much assistance from the wom
en- of the family. Shakespeare, for
instance, was no woman, though it is
claimed he was Bacon, and yet he
produced some very readable stuff in
the way of plays and poems. New
ton is said on good authority to have
been a man, and yet he saw without
the aid of female eyes the apple fall
to the ground. George Washington
crossed the Delaware with ne'er a
woman in the boat. The pictures of
the crossing prove this. Jefferson
rough-drafted the Declaration of In
dependence in his capacity as man,
and it was indorsed in committee and
n1o tn
single female vote. The makers of
the Federal Constitution doubtless
held the women of their day in high
esteem, and sought their advice up
on questions of housekeeping and en-
tertaining, but not concerning the
proper way to prepare the country's
fundamental law. The railroads of
the country are peculiarly the pro-
duct of mans mind and mans labor,
and the Panama canal having been
planned by men is being dug by
them. These are just a few things
mentioned at random that men have
done, mentioned here for fear it may
be forgotten, in the excitement of the
news from Seattle, that they ever
accomplished anything, and without
intent to cast any reflection upon the
grand accomplishments of glorious
woman. Doubtless all the things
mentioned would have been mucn
better done if she had showed man
aside and done them herself
She it was that in creations early
dawn discovered the apple, and but
for her enterprise we should be liv-
ing, perchance, in an appleless world
today. She it was that set the fash
ions in fig leaves, and has been busy
setting them ever since; the peach
basket, the hobble skirt, the hat pin
these are but few of the immor-
tai things linked with woman's name.
She has furnished the best theme for
the poets pen, the most inspiring OBJ
! ject for the artists brush. AS a
sweetheart she is irreproachable, as
a wife unrivaled; as mother, in the
words of Mark Twain, "she has few
! equals and no superiors." We are
! willing to give her credit for all she
! has done, for all she is capable of
! doing; but we do ask that she re-
member that there are some things
man can do and has done without her
| help-that man, the good old wag-
on" of other days, be remembered
for and credited with the things he
accomplished before it was found out
that woman can do all of them so
much better baltimore Sun.