The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-17
Chicago Anti-Suffragists Charge
That Mormonism Has Ascend
ency Here
HUSBANDS WHO GIVE
WOMEN THE BALLOT
Are Considered Hopelessly De-
graded, on a Par With the Dis
sipated Dukes Bought by Multi
Millioniaresses

People of the state of Washington
are inclined to look upon themselves
as Intelligent, progressive and decid-
eddy above the average Of other, states
In the percentage of hteracy. In
Decd statistics bear the mout in the
latter contention at least, for only
the smallest fraction Of the people
of the state cannot read or write. In
North Yakima in particular. with Its
university clubs and its branch of the
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Its
splendid school facilities and Its
large number of former professional
men among it's ranchers, the idea has
gained credence that this was a par
ticularly we'll educated, not to say
cultured community.
| In for q shock
1t will be something Of a shock
for North Yakima men and women to
learn that in the belief, or at least
in the printed arguments of the Illi-
nois Association opposed to Woman
Suffrage, Washington is one Of the
five "least organized and least civil
lied western states" 1t will be a
distinct surprise to learn that Nor
monism has gained an ascendency
here.
OF Small Consequence
| The statements in question are
contained in the annual report of
this state organization Of "antis' just
published in Chicago. The para
graph of particular interest read as
| follows: Before time had elapsed
to give this colony Gin Australia)
fair trial it (woman suffrage) came
across the Pacific and Joined hands
with the remnant of woman suffrage
left by Populism and the two, to-
gether with Norm onism, which still
cherished it's doctrine Of plural wives,
gained an ascendency in five of our
least organized and least civilized
Western states. None of these states,
however, Of small consequence both
as regards their population and their
influence, seriously alarmed the more
conservative east by their radical ac-
ton. But when to the list was added
California, although the majority by
which the bill was carried was much
smaller than that of the other social
istic measures which accompanied it, an
energetic opposition was aroused, the
result of which cannot yet be conf
has given many hitherto careless OBJ
servers serious pause"
i And the document goes on to re-
mind the world that 1.-The female of
the species is more deadly than the
male"
There's blow for self-complacen-
cy, if you will.
Worse to Come
But there is worse to come. Ac-
cording to the Illinois women who
object to allowing their sisters to
vote, the husbands and fathers and
brothers of NORTH Yakima are pitt
able objects, unspeakably degraded.
Voting and law-ma king is the heav-
en- given prerogative Of the male and
when it is rendered no longer his
exclusive right. according to the ants,
there is very little left about him that
is manly. The power to rule Is
spoken of as 1.-The uttermost gift of
man." Womans ultimate status is
to be the mother of men. Since It IL
physiologically impossible for her to
transfer this function to man, it isn't
fair to take away his particular func-
ton, which the antis seem to think
is voting. Such is the argument.
One Point of View
And where it is done, what has
man left as his distinguishing trait ?
He sinks at once to the level of the
working woman's inefficient husband.
the commercial woman's errand boy,
the worthless dissipated duke of the
multi millionaires heiress. What
true woman would ever, even for
bread and buffers sake or for the
sake of strawberry crown, marry a
man so shorn of manhood" asks this
astonishing document.
"Oh, wad some power the giftie gle
US" Well, now, the dissipated dukes,
the errand boys and the inefficient
husbands of North Yakima know