Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-27

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 a SC; that which may be pursued with safety by women having t4, honest support of men, and tha- which is the emanation either oI fanatical exploitation or organized selfishness; because, iH all agita- tious appealing to pOpuler emotion masculine no less than feminine the sinister elements of ambition and vanity and greed, arrive soon or late and to play upon the passior and credulity, too often the igno rance of many. In every great a, fair the character of the leadership even as much as the justice of the cause, has a deterninate influence upon results.
 Absolute equality of birthright can not be denied There is noth- ing vested" which may be claimed as exclusive and exceptional by either men CT women. If the man wants to fashion the gowns and rock the cradles-if the woman wants to lead armies and dig ditches-why, who shall say them nay? Women have lead armies. There are men miIliners. Yet one could scarcely be blamed for wish ing to avoid intimacy with a she soldier or a he-EurseTy maid. We dare say that Joan of Arc was a little tTyins for everyday compan 'ionship, whilst Mir Milksop does not stand as q type for the admiration of women
 1 In a period of universal move nent toward the Characterization oI w.th the rest of the revolutionary features aimed at the regeneration of society. The conditions of mod ern life, improved as they be, are none so good that they may not be bettered, and the claim that woman suffrage will better them rests upon plausible, though, we think. mis. taken and sophistical argument If the Courier-JoUruaI believed that tfe admission of women to the franchise would purify the ballot. or elevate woman in the scale of humanity, u would not hesitate to advocate wo- man suffrage. It is our opinion tha it would do nothing of the sort. 1t would the rather aggrayate than mend the conditions of which wO- men justly complain.
 The mistake of the suffragist equally with the suffTagette is ia eXaggerating the virtues of suffrage. There would be never a drunken. idle husband the less; no avenue, or vista, of feminine opportunity the more. Two bad or foolish wo. men 10 one good, wise woman would swell the sum of corruption in the elections. The single objective point if any objective point could be reached. would be 10 rob the wo man of her grace and charm ana 10 brutalize her; and when thus brutalized. she should take the field as the direct competitor and antas. hist not the mate and helpmate,
 man his chiyalry. derived from 4.otherhood and sisterhood and swosthearthood. withdrawn froa heF-We should become a world ol 5rutes. she. being physically the weaker. to get the kicks and the ruffs. and 10 go down in the strife,
 Certainly God and Nature seem to have directed otherwise. 4 good and wise man and woman--even two well-intentioned people joined together in honest wedlOck--l lind a..