Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-05-17

woman is apt to have sissy son, and
while it may be pleasant for a dom
mating man to have a nice little sissy
to say @ditto, ditto, ditti,9 until it gets
monotonous, her sissy sons must be a
grieyous disappointment in his ripper,
wiser years. Isn't the price too high?
It is far toi high. And 1t falls
largely upin the high-spirited girl who
has the luck or ill-luck to resemble
such father. She cannot squaeze
into her mothers mild because she is
her fathers daughter and there isn't
a sIavish cell in her system. So while
such men cruelty and blindly hold
their women bond, nature wisely and
cruelty keeps the balance even, and
with every generatiin the free spirit
of such father is enslaved in the
daughter, and the slavish spirit Of
such mohter is liberated in the son,
with the beautiful result that many
responsible women chafe and fret be-
cause they are denied the right to do
their full duty, while many careless
men find that duty so irksome that
they shrink from burdening their ire
spOnsible souls with 1t. This is
cruel but saving law, for If all men
were like their fathers and all men
like their mothers, the female of the
species would have dwindled and the
race would have joined the order Of
extinct animals long ago.
Lord say us from the sissles-male
and femalel Big men and women are
just and generous, but sissies never
are. They are all against us. The
sissy woman doesn't want to vote, and,
like the dog in the manger (what
gross metaphorD, like the pampered
poodle in the parlor, would prevent
other women from voting. The sissy
man rarely bothers about voting, but
the privilege Of full citizenship adds
a few cubits to his feelings, and he
cannot afford to shar the dignity with
his women folks. It would deprive
him Of that fine feeling Of authority
over them. Are they not represented
in his person? So long as they are
not enfranchlsed be. is the Sovereign
Man Of the House. and Lord High
Protector Of the females therein. al
though they may consist Of a widowed
mother and half a dozen older sisters
who are working in a laundry.
This fanciful proxy representation
is deluslon and a snare. If man
represents his wife, who represents
him? Unfortunately, when the one
vote which a good citizen casts for
himself and his wife and his three
daughters and his mother and his
maiden sister is counted, 1t does not
nullify the adverse votes of two males
of the genus hobo. AS a matter of
fact women are not represented at
ALL. We have a government by half
the people and naturally 1t is like all
work which is done by halves.
1t is often argued against the en-
franchisement of women that it will
merely double the vote, for the reason
that men will influence the votes of
their wives. They undoubtedly will.
and women may influence their hus-
bands votes. With at east two votes
in the house it is natural that an in
terest in politics should develop and
political topics be discussed, and it
is not extravagant to hope that under
such conditions the double domestic
vote will be a cleaner one than the
bachelor vote which may still be in
fluenced by the butcher and baker
and candle-stlck maker. II there were
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