La Junta tribune., 1912-01-06
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Va 'csihH 10 pNfI, NEW
Years day has had its al.
- loted quota of attention: the
subject weather" has been absolute
ly e3bassted-the weather remaining
theJ'same; ard sleigh bells have
become chestnut bells. oh, yes. We
might talk about politics. just among
ourselves. and those OF our species"
who think women should not med
die" in politics can turn aside from
the discussion and take nap or
talk about their neighbors The Sc
ciety Editor has not DECLARED. as
yet. which side of the political
fence she is on; but pauses here just
long enough to state that she is
not socialist. nor yet republican.
Deed" she is kinda like the little
girl who was deeply offended with
her grandmother and who. while play
ing with her kitten In the room
where just she and her grandmother
and the kitty were said. Kitty. |
wish somebody In this room was
dead and ! don't wish 1t was you and
don't wish II was me" That about
sums up the position of the writer.
She stands pat on the principles OF
one party and that party is not the
socialist neither is 1t the republican
party. But high above party in this
day OF reform and enlightenment.
above everything. should loom the
character. the personality-the man,
and We believe. since she has been
endowed with the sacred privilege OF
helping to choose a president for our
magnificent republic. that II has be
come the duty OF every Colorado
Wman to inform herself. systematic
ally and thoroughly as to the per.
sonal charact' ristics, the ideals. the
impulses. and the honest convictions
so far as these may be discovered or
discerned. of the men who have been
or will be put forward and one of
whom will be chosen to become our
national leader. The franchise Is an
honor which some women have
sought and which other women have
had thrust upon them; but souyht
or unsought 1t has become fact. In
some siates.and is a duty as sacred
as any that God has laid upon us.
The writer has AS yet failed to
grasp the Issue with an understand
ing comprehensive and clear enough
that she may determine fully II
woman suffrage appeals to her as In
every way. right and best but she
sees far enough to believe that
supreme and almost the only rca-
son for withholding the franchise
from an American citizen In becausc
impressed with the great privilege
that Is his and has not awakened to
the call OF the noble duty that the
privilege entails. and that there can
be but one supreme justification for
woman In her suffrage-the justif-
cation OF sincerity and OF intelligence.
I'VE are rot advised as To tn.
creed or political sffiliation OF the
society editor. but as she confcsses
TO having been reared south OF the
Mason and Dixon line. II Is quite
natural to presume that she is
dyed In the wool-prohibitionist
Most women are. Most OF the states
In the southland are now In the pro
hibition class. and II must be that
the society editor Is on that side Of
the political fence-notwithS'and
the fact that she II In doubt about
the matter herself She surely would
not deixn to be- dcmocrat--in Colo
RADIO. with all of the political sins
that party will have to answer for
next fail-Rnd writing for the Tri'
bunc. too-and We promise our read.
crH that there will be- no political con
siict between the society editor and
yours truly--As long as she sticks
to prohibition augmentation Ed ]
0ossnA 0oReo Club