Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-04-04

| Phoenix, Arizona.
 Dear Sir:
 We have read your editorial on Woman Suffrage" and cannot let it go unchallenged because of the poor reasoning it contains. Carrying out the instructions of the Yuma County Equal Suffrage League we make re- ply.
 You say that suffragetts in Eng land destroy property and infer that therefore they are incapable of req soning or of using the ballot right. To quote what women in London are doing is no argument to shake the con- fidence in the wisdom and justice of the propaganda in America. By the same line of reasoning every man iD the world would be disfranchised; yet we do not hear of any such propOsi- tion being made. Mobs of men com init depredations, run riot through our cities, at times, and destroy property with impunity Filth, rottenness and corruption under the protection of men have in the past held high carnival in many of our municipalities, robbing the people, debauching the electorate and debasing manhood; a few days ago a band of ruffians-all men-went into a court of justice in West Virgin ia and shot down the judge, the off cers of the law and several of the jurors because friend and relative had been lawfully convicted of crime and was being sentenced to term of imprisonment in the county jail the McNamara brothers are in San Quen- tin prison, Clarence Darrow, their counsel, is under indictment and is waiting trial for bribery and the pros ecution claims to have uncovered 8 nationwide plot to destoy both life and property, throughout the country by means of dynamite, the most gi- gantic conspiracy in the worlds his tory, if the prosecutions report be true-all planned and to be carried into execution by men, MEN-not women-yet neither you nor any one else ever thought of giving up the right of suffrage or of taking it away from any of your fellows because of the shortcomings and wickedness of men Why don't you be consistent?
 We need not probe far into the his tory of the English government to find that men are commonly known to smash windows and similar acts of violence to manifest their disapproval of certain candidates for office. And men are not thrown into prison or punished in any way for these acts of vandalism connected with their regu- | lar elections. It is all a matter of | course. Now when the women, who | have for generations endured the suf fering and injustice, commit an act | of violence-which is not half so bad |! in the light of their history-you say | that they by this demonstrate incapac- | ity for self-government or a sane use of the ballot.
 This is the evolution of women in | England It is the souls awakening to sense of injustice that has obtain ed so long as to cause callousness on the mind of the majority and inure them to the discomforts of injustice that have been their lot for genera tions past No. We concede that | there has been mo invasion" of their rights for they have had no rights so far. The condition has been one of | servitude and the giving of honor to the men; a quiet acquiescence anl to the will of the mas culine for ages. Again, we say it is not a plain display of outburst of 'e1rper as would be conveyed by your article.
 History proves that women have rot ab:is, d the privilege whenever tt.y have Leer $ ven the right of Gae bal let.
 Yours for equality,