El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-20
Dorothy Dix on 7o1 ssgs. LACK or

+, as I could endure it. when man tolo
! what he said he saw Of the working
/ out Of woman suffrage in Colorado re
1 openly declared that none Dut women
: Of the underworld voted in that stare
in spite OF the election statistics thar
/ show that practically all CGlOraoo
I women vote; he affirmed that ne saw
/ women by the hundreds sell their votes
for money and sham eleSsly introduce
sex into politics
{ He described the Colorado woman
voter as such a monster OF graft ana
guile as made the most abandoned
ward heeler an angel Of innocence be-
side her. Had the picture he drew
been true OF the Colorado woman, II
was "a ming T. make tHat TIE aIer a
SlaCc Of Wailinz and tears and bow
every woman's head IN shame, and yet
there were women there who sat up
and loudly applauded every fresh at
tack Of this man upon their sister
women
they were actually willing 10 pay to
hear man tell untruths that reflected
on Other women and that relegaIed
their sex to a par with the lowest OF
WAen you come right down TO brass
, tacks, the real reason that so many
women oppose women suffrage, or are
, Indifferent 10 it. is because they have
absOIuteIv no pride In themselves. and
no sense OF the dignity OF woman
I hood And this is the most inzxpliC-
able phenomenon in all nature
The Humble Rich Woman
Take. for instance, the lien WOMAN
+ the woman who has houses and lands
and stocks and bonds You would think
I that the mere fact Of her possessions
would make her a suffragtsr- stnd shat
she would feel that she should have
/ the right to say what taxes were filed
against her property. But she does mt
I She Is humbly willing in the vast ma
! JOrity Of cases for her foOtman and her
] Ha oh rrf IAN =
( the male beggsr 10 whom she gives
! aims, TO vote what taxes they please
/ upon her. She doesn't presume to set
l tie such affairs herself
/ You would think that the educated
1 women Of the country, the college
! women the high school graduates, the
] club women. would Writhe under the
I knowledge that they are not supposed
I TO have as much intelligence as the
/ most Ignorant male foreigner or Hit
/ crate male negro. But they don't
I Every day you can hear women say
/ that they believe that questions Of pol
/ tiles should be left to men TO settle
You would thing that the mother
J who has gone down into the Valley
I OF the Shadow 10 bear a child, and
J who has given her nights and days
{ entitled to have at least g half inter
est in its guardianship. But she
I doesn't She tamely submits to a law
I tnat gives IL to the father Just because
You would think that the women
who give their lives to good works
ana upllrUng humanity would feel that
( they are desirable citizens-quite as
desirable. say, as the pardOned con-
( Wet. Not So Mrs Russell sage, Miss
/ Helen Gould. Miss Anne Morgan have
/ no vote, but tens Of thousands Of
I drunken loafers who have served work
I mouse terms have Yet women have so
| little pride that they do not resent
this scrimination against them
I Ihat the trouble with women. They
{ nave no pride. They have so little
| pride that in marriage they do not
/ even presume to pick out their mates:
I they nave so little. pride that a good
/ woman considers a man with any sort
| Of past good enough for her TO
marry so little pride that wife
/ doesn't demand any reeompense for
her work IN the home but her food and
| clothes, and In business she viii take
/ any KIND or wages she can get Women
1 nave so little pride that in the churches
! they VIII 90 all the work and let men
/ 90 the posing and in philanthropfes
I they VIII raise the money and be con
| tented TO tag along as "women's aux
/ ilaries, they have so little pride that
IN politics they are content to be reIe-
| gated to the company Of the criminal
/ the idiot and the insane
/ repeat all Of WOmen's failures are
due TO her shame Of her sex. and she
| VIII never succeed until she becomes
! proud of II, and realizes that She ia
woman. and that she is enfitIe5 "a
{ stand side by side with man not 70
[ have to trail along in his wake If1-e
/ a humble slave INV