The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-13

Still you can read such stuff as this
sent out from this anti-suffrage asso-
citation:
I'm the first five years of its life, or
even less, while the father is still only
a spectator, though often a deeply in
terested one, of it's growth and de-
velopment, the mother is teaching the
child its first lessons in obedience, the
sense of right and wrong, purity and
self discipline, and all those spiritual
qualities which, as they are more or
less faithfully inculcated, shape the
moral trend of it's nature. This is her
highest and most important work, and
is the outcome of marriage and the
home, and which if neglected in those
early years, is seldom supplied later,
but leads IN the life of the adult to an
honest and righteous, or selfish and
ignoble character. 1t is therefore the
making of the adult citizen, which is
woman's most important and inalien-
able political work. 1t is the work
done or neglected in the first decade
Of child's life, to be followed later by
her ceaseless and vigilant care, which
determines to a large extent whether
he will use the machinery of politics,
| not until then put into his hands by
the State, for the best good of the
| Commonwealth, or for his own selfish
and dishonest ACKNOWLEDGMENT"
Now why should the father be a
mere spectator during the five years
or at any other time.
This putting it off" on the women
| is one of the most amusingly sardonic
phases of the whole anti-propaganda.
The women get it both coming and
going.
This excerpt is from a pamphlet
called "The Making of Voters" fur
Their called "Woman's Best Work"
If women are intelligent enough to
make the voters pray why shouldn't
they be intelligent enough to vote?
If they're good enough and fit
! enough for the one thing, why not the
other?
Isn't it just as much the fathers
business to look after the training of
his child as it is the mothers?
| This thing of shifting all the re-
sponsibility for the making of the man
on the feminine half of the combina-
ton is about the weakest, most sniv-
cling, most contemplate and the
most assinine aspect of the whole So
cial question.
Men don't like the responsibilities
Of marriage.
They want all the emoluments with
out any of the drawbacks.
! And the drawbacks of marriage are
all on the woman's side.
| So the men shift the responsibilities
They all do it.
| They all dodge them If they can.
| There's the occasional woman, OF
course, who is the exception, but the
majority of women bear the burdens
of the world.
| And the trouble with them is that
they have no esprit de corps.
The very ones who pose as the up.
holders of woman's feminine integ
rity are the very ones you'll find, ter
to one, who are the meanest and most
catty to members of their own sex.
Possibly without children but on the
OuLpOSIS 10 Tell Tie WOIu0u WHO nave
that they haven't any business tt
raise their eyes beyond the hub of the
grindstone.
That it is their business to keep thei
noses close thereto and every time
they lift their heads for glimpse O.
sunlight, they'll get soaked from thu
ramparts.
Ramparts manned by members o
their own delightful sex.
Who maintain headquarters wher'
they possibly have stenographers ant
clerks who spend their time writing
letters and sending out literature" o
the above character.
Why are these women doing this?
Why aren't they Gin the home
mauling for the men and raising chill
dren as they should be raised?
Get out of those mahogany furnish
ed offices, you women opposed t.
suffrage" and cease performing thes
unwomanly functions.