The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-22
Another View of the SuffrageQ Question
By a WORKING WOMAN

10 the Editor oc The Times Dispatch:
Sir.--Iour reporter is 10 be congrat-
uiated on the very entertaining nc
count in Mondays Issue or the politi-
sal lecture delivered or sunday night
nv tho pastor OF Broad street Metho-
'iist Church. The presentation Of the
theme was almost as intcrcstinS rs
the theme itself, and. ii the Speakers
quencc. il would have been an effort
worthy OF 4 modern Dcmosthcncs.
IT Is certainly commemorative for
Young women TO be sober. discreet.
The rest cf IL tscc TITUS ii: 4. ~. though
mtrlStr OF to-day are not 50 par
obedirnGc in wives Hut the "ocen
women, not Titus. were 10 "tcacl,
these thint;s 10 the young women" ana
i Is - be ,supposei tint these aged
ores gave thcr pvN INTERPRETATION OF
what these womarlv duties are.
Thc Cret1ns. Who were under the
oas tor1l chr" of 'ritus we're notorious
toc immurai'ty. instability and lying;
therefore. some other tsNt would hnvc
seemed more aNprorripte as source
from which 70 irow Instruction for tho
Not thRt the reverend gentlemen is
lackiu, in the chivairy hc Urged his
brethren to- exercise toward the "eatct
soy hut in hie anxiety 10 make his
odicusne~s of tie comnrr'snn between
Tl,uss CONGREGATION aud his own
rms auurcSS tNrpN"1Ont inhrpS sod
discerning hcor"~s that his own nc
formed sentiment was almost tho only
%rOunJ Of his co"vioiio"S prd .hrt his
utteranccs Were hnscd on sentiment Is
cN d"rc"d hY the fact that less than
wcct before the sermon MS delivered
ne 7tArm"d that he sad never re1d any
odunl Suffrnrc litcratnrc. VI" fr.ntlv
acknowledged the imno'tarcp &c 80
chief Objects OF equal sunragc--morai
reform single sianda"d Of morals
Tor men and women better sanitary
coNdi;iors, Tho im"rnvcnpnt oC mon
ana women nh"eicnilv and mentally.
insurinr the welfare aud tho inward
evolution rf the entire human IN o.
But is his fear that woman would lose
the throrc unnn which she now "eiGrs
queen fHcavcn save the mari'n il
his Address hc almost lost si~Nt Of
tnoss vital ,noints rs far IS chira'ry
issue in the suffrage question Men
are as chivalrons now ae thrv have
ever been, AVID In cuual suffrage com
nunlfieS they arc quito as niurh SO
as 7re the. men of our Eastern safes.
Not orlv thai. hut in ularrs where men
and women live on equal t"~"'s. 'h"r,
wife. an intellectual CONNIE = on -hiu
that does not usuallv c~ist among. us
ne lecturer must have hern tot'nc
% man. woman ran get every right She
IS entitled to"--or PERHAPS no believes
mat man. and not woman. is tho host
Judge or what those rights are. Per-
maps the 30o0.0nN ana wore Of work.
incwomen IN this country have no
right TO ask for enual my for eoll,l
work. nor for nropc~ sanitary rcgt-
Nations as guarantee for present health
nnd future urcnrrupted motherhood
nor for some other things TO which
they think thcms"lvr entitled. These
women are not striving for mcrc votes
They are only trying TO remedy pres
ont evils and 10 prevent future ones
The lecturer mildly sympathizcd with
the latter attitude. hut lie failed to
remember that never has amy class
been uhlc TO put down an evil until II
has achieved The right tn do SO and
IN this day that RICH, Is POSSIBLE onl"
through the ballot. Women are ind
ing out this. because, in spite OF their