Connecticut western news., 1912-04-04
Letters From the People
Take That, Harris l
itor of The News :


 Please allow me to ask few ques- tIohs suggested to my mind by MT liar rls' last article in The News. "The American women, one and all, God bless them ! In what way, MT. Harris? In the same way that He blessed, equally, both male and female in the first chap ter of Genesis, 27th verse? and also in the 18th verse, where he gave dominion to both, lover every living thing that mOveth upon the earth ?" "The Lord gave THEM," means Him or Her, doesn't it? Or do you want women blessed in St. Paups way, which is mans way and therefore selfish and fal- lible? MT. Asquith prefers St. Paul's to Gods way, where women are concern ed; most men do; there's where they think God made His first mistake in creation, blessing both male and female alike and giving both equal dominion and power, and men have been trying to rectify the Divine mistake ever since. Odd, when you come to think of it, how consistently men have overlooked those very significant verses in the aforesaid chapter of the word of God but not a word of St. Paul about women has es- capped them
 Whence comes this idea that woman who wants to vote does not care for the home? What possible bearing can voting have on the fundamental nature or ties of either & man or woman What utter foolishness ! Are the women living i'll trees or become rowing gipsies in the states where they have the ballot {?
 "In your own home with hubby you are queen if you will only have it so." On the face of it, this IS a grotesque statement was 1t meant to be humOr- ous? Is the queens consort (the man) always king in the home? What hells on earth the drunkard can make of home Is the unfaithful husband a fit consort fer the queen of the home Perhaps the morals of kings in general are considered all right for hubby to copy If he happens to want to.
 "Get 8 mate," MT. H. says. Does that mean any lonely widow or spinster of 50 or 60 or only little past 30 eau get married if she wants to? Would MT. H., if single, accept such matrimo- nial advances even if he knew that any one of these elderly females would ever want to vote. believed in St. Paul, and would make @ model queen for hubby 1? Why didn't Lord DecIes and J. J. Astor marry women of their age? Men are the worst cradle robbers in the world I suppose 8 female infants brain more nearly matches an old dotard's than does 8 mature woman's sort of mating the second childhood with the first, you will observe.
 Six million women are working be- cause most of them have got to there is no call to be semi-fippant about it i; life is tragically real and terribly hard for the woman whose hubby is drunk en. worthless brute and whose wretched children the queen of the home has got to support it is a sad fact that the more worthless the king of the home is. the more children the poor queen has to bear and rear. If only all men were fit to be kings in the home how much easier for women to be the queens
 "Drop it, Ladies |" Not until we are where God first meant us to be. Them, means the Divine idea of Equality be- tween male and female Equal in their dominion over the earth, equal in their virtue, chastity, morality, parenthood and the law. Not until we are made equal before mans law, which should never have been placed by him above Gods, shall we drop it." Politics will not take women from the home ex- pect to vote once in four years for the president 1 may be gone from home possibly fifteen minutes shall not sit by the roadside for four years waiting for the next presidential election to turn up, neither will any other woman we shall all go about our business the same as a man does. What a lot of incredi- ble rot is written about politics, woman and the home Marriage and a home Is safe and desirable harbOr for both men and women, but let the gentleman from Two Harbors remember that it should not be the only harbor for women, while men, even good nice hub bies, may be permitted many other fair havens of refuge. Men have been known to smash windows for breath of fresh air ; perhaps the suffragettes feel like sense of suffocation under the stale air of Asquithian justice.
 Politics for women does not disrupt the home other things do which woman's indirect influence has never been able to prevent. Hubby and wifey voted together to retain civic decency in Seattle, and If that is desire in women for pleasure and notoriety, let us have more of it, for it helps man efficiently to protect the home. WOman's power to mould character in the home by indirect influence too often proves futile why should only men have direct influence Tn politics or in anything? Do men SUD- pose self respecting women enjoy the, too often, sneaking, deceitful, wheed- ling, almost degrading methods they must take even to gain honorable ends? To say the least iU-is undignlfied to have to act like slave if you are not one. Woman's character needs re-moulding on the more dignifed basis of direct in fluence the other is mouldy with the antiquity of Solomon and his harem. One thing more. When the world adopts the Eugenics plan and takes as much pains with human stock as it does with animal, there will be no Child Labor question.
 Truly yours,
 B. A. HITCHCOCK.
 Pres. Canaan Equal Franchise League.