Arizona republican., 1912-03-03
Woman Suffra qe.


The Republican has never opposed
 W oInen's suffrage It has not been vi olently in favor of the idea because | it has recognized the fact that there are two sides to the question. It has
 reco 3gnized the fact that many, very ! manly women, are not themselves ad- vocaRing the use of the ballot: but l in tt e face of that condition it has
 not D cen averse to the experiment. At
 the le ast it has been perfectly willing
 that lso far as Arizona is concerned, there should be a test vote on this mattet to determine the will of a ma
 jority of the people.
 But it has to be confessed that once 2 awhile something happens to
 shake the confidence of this paper in
 the justice and wisdom of this propa- ganda. There was such an instance i Friday. It occurred in the city of London, the largest city in the world and one which is universally claimed by the English people to be the cen ter of the worlds civilization.
 Now, take a glance at the happen ings in that city. On the occasion mentiosad some hundreds of women proceeded to perform acts of van ! dalism that if performed in this coun- try by men, would send them to the penitentiary. These women, in whom the spirit of lawlessness and destruc-
 ton suddenly became rife, proceeded to tear things wide open" in the
 heart of the London shopping dis
 trict They smashed the windows of business houses, of the government offices, and of private residences. In
 the craze of the moment they created panic They destroyed property worth thousands of dollars. They de- fled all law, all decency. They as sumed the role of vandals, neither more nor less, and they enacted that
 role to perfection. So far as the rights of property were concerned they |
 placed themselves for the time being | on a par with the notorious Jesse James. of our own country, and others | of his kind.
 These women were not burning from any sense of suddenly enacted wrong. | There had been no new invasion" of their rights" There was nothing to
 fire them with this frenzy of insanity. And vet a mob of full fledged luna
 tics could not have acted any worse.
 And to what end? Why. to secure the ballot This wanton destruction of property. this exhibition of the spirit of the Bowery tough" was un- dertaken for the purpose of demon- strating the capacity of these women for self government.
 It is just as though a man went into a business office for a job, and when told there was no job for him at that time should proceed to kick over the tables. upset the desks, and throw the typewriters through the
 
 windows. And in the face of this hoodIumism these women cannot un- derstand why they are not given the ballot forthwith.
 And let it be borne in mind that these women are not from the dregs of society. If they were there might be an excuse. They were from the best families',-and at least one of them has the word Lady prefixed to her name Hereafter, she should ( be known as the "terror from the slums'
 It is perhaps enough to say these women-females is a better word did not demonstrate their capacity for a sane use of the ballot On the con- trary they demonstrated their fitness for long terms in jail at hard labor, / and deprived of the visits of others as vicious as themselves who. on such occasions, have made "heroines" of , ,l-- |.