Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-02
0g||N 70 WOMEN
RR0 RIGHT % VOTE
coLoNEl ROOSEVELT FAvoRs
oALLoTs FOR WOMEN 40
GENERAL PRINCIPLE.
NO USE ron svFFaAo,sTs
o. MILITANT PRocL'v'T'Es
cissse, Them . Among Undesirable
citissns- Faith 70 suMrasists Of
julie Ward Howe Type-Littis Ad.
vantaas II vetins PriviIssss-citss
States Having Suffrage.


States HAVING suffrage.
Especial correspondence.1
Sew York, Feb. 3.-Theodore Roose-
welt discusses ''Women's Rights; and
the Duties Of Both Men and Women"
In an, editorial in the current issue OF
Tho outlook. He says in part:
Much. indeed. has America owed TO
the fact that her two greatest men.
Washington and Lincoln. tho they dio
not neglect rightA we're eevn more con-.
cerned with duties.
II believe in woman's rights. be-
lievve even more earnestly In the per-
xn..ranre NJ dufyshT both men ano
women: for uniess. the average msn
ana the average woman live lives OF
duty, not only our democracy but civil
ization itself will perish. heartily be-
lieve III equality Of rights as between
man md woman, but also IN full ana
emphatic recognition OF the fact tnat
normally there cAn not be identity OF
between them. ana the effort to ignore
be complete dissimilarity OF function
between them, and the effort to ignore
this patent fact is silly. ! believe III
woman suffrage wherever the women
want 1t. Where they do not want It;
the suffrage should not be forced upon
them. think that It would be well to
let the women themselves and only the
women, vote ct some special election as
/ "a whether they do or do not wish the
vote as permanent possession. In
other words. this u peculiarly a case
for the rofsrendum to those most d.
rectlv affectsd-tl,at is, the women
themselves. 1 should be entirely con-
tent to abide the decision. either way;
51or +hn Z do not think that the damage
nronhssied from wonnan's voting would
co1lax xost OF las4 come where 1t has been
j S4TsSd II aiao; think that very much less
eaect. would ne produced, one way or
.fh4 other. than the enthusiastic be-
lievs IN other words. do not regard
sthe movement as anything like as im-
pcrtant as either It's extreme friends
az Axtreme opponents think. It Is so
much less important than many other
reforms that i have never been able to
taks = very heated interest in 1t.
..Tf: the woman sufIra~ = movement
were to be judged only bt.hose advo-
oates Of It who discref themselves
ana their sex by disordssly antics in
nnhltc and who assafl the foundations
. - rrivate and public morality in their
.r6Aavor not to raise the sense Of
moral duty I'm man, but 70 lower tne
.ense of moral duty in woman, should
certainly oppose the movement But
AZ not believe these undesirable
anost,es are in any way to be accepted
:. ernonents OF the cause, and I call
attention ia the fact that they are
nromfnent not in the region where
woman suffrage does not exist, but in
rsginns where Il does not exist.
4 pn;n<. 70 Juija Ward Howe.
.1spin my faith to woman suffragtsts
!, tha tvme of the late Julia Ward
rJov. I,,lia Ward Howe was one Of
tnn foremoat citizens Of this republic:
-. rsndereA service to the people such
. ..sr..,sme,r in any generation render:
.rd vet she did. frst Of all. her full
49,. n the intimate home relations
that ,nI,.t aver take precedence Of all
s.h., re,ations
~. G,r western states where the
- has been given to woman I
-. ,,,nanle to see that any great diff
1900 ha. heen caused, as compared
nth neighboring states in similar So
cial and Industrial condltlons "nere
women have not the suffrage. Yet what
.,iY1,t changes have occurred have
,,eeI- Tor. the. better, and not for the
wo1rse. 3 s.
- most earnestly desire to empha-
Size nv feeling that the question of
5,vorn.n suffrage Ii unimportant COM
Y - .g.s.s...f JAa..I %,ndar entail cues.
a,,cA 1lons !. re rersrds 81 both men and women.
a,,tiss I'll INT not identity OF function: and
n, sti,et man. as with the woman, the
rr,nne duties as those related to the
tnne and the family.