The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1912-09-27

Do YOU know that there are in the
United States about 5000, 600 women
in gainful occupations outside the
home who need the protection of the
ballot to regulate the condition under
which they must labor, and the efforts
of working women TO regulate these
conditions without the ballot have
been practically unavailing?
Do you know that the laws of many
states discriminate unjustly against
women; that, for instance, in only 10
is a mother equal guardian with the
father over her own children?
Do you know that wherever women,
the traditional housekeepers of the
world, have been given a voice in the
government, public housekeeping has
been materially improved by an in
/ creased attention TO questions of pure
food, pure water supply, sanitation,
housing, public health and morals, |
child welfare and education?
Do you know that the movement for |
woman suffrage is just part of the !
eternal forward march of the human
race toward complete democracy;
that in the American colonies only a
very small proportion OF men could !
vote: that even after the Revolution !
only property holders could vote; that
it was only by slow and hard fought
stages that all men finally won the
right TO vote; that in most foreign
countries the franchise for men is
still heavily loaded with restrictions?
Do you know that the legislatures
of some Of the suffrage states, the
Australian Parliament, and numbers
of the most representative people, both
men and women, in all the suffrage
states and countries have testified
time and again n print and over their
own signatures, that woman suffrage
has brought none of the evils which
its opponents fear, but has, instead,
been productive of much positive
good; that it has enlarged the outlook
of women, increased their intelligence
and self reliance, rendered homes
happier, enobled men and dignifed
politics.; hat more than SEQ organiza-
| tions,s state, national and international,
other than woman suffrage associa-
tons, aggregating approximately a
membership of over 800 O 600, have
officially endorsed woman suffrage
since its remarka BILE advance in 1905?
Do you know that in Michigan the
Grange, the Farmers clubs, the
Cleaners, the Lady Naccabces, the
w. G. 7. u, the nurses association,
the Federation Of Labor ihc State
Federation Of Womeu's clubs, repre-
! seutiug total membership OF Isl $50,
J all endorse equal suffrage; that in l9l)
I a petition asking for the franchise
] and sigued by us, coo Michigan wom-
; cn was sent to Congress?
2 Do you know that in Michigan lC0.
I 302 women pay $3.50. 1871 in state,
} county and local taxes on property
{ assessed al Sl17, $50, 65S; that in Van
{ Buren, county alone, l, IA women.pay
I for taxes S32,2+ IS on property as
g ssssed at 81 SIS, SIS; that these figures
0 show how Michigan women are taxed
without representation and also is UNI
denia BILE proof that the most progress
sive women in Michigan believe that
the ballot is woman's right?
1T is unladylike TO vote" The pro-
v tector of women is abroad i'll the land.
He wants her to be perfect lady. Is
it ladylike to scrub, wash, cook, work
4 in a store or factory? Men are will
: ing women should d all these things,
y but vote, that would be unladylike
. Did you ever hear it was ungentle.
manly to vote? If man can be gen
a tleman and vote, why can't a woman
n be lady and vote? Perhaps the re
mark was intended to apply TO society
] ladies. In that case it would have
=, force only if hat society Ladies do i:
: so very nice that voting would &c
q grade them. What 90 they do more
70 sacred than helping to make a bette
I world by conscientious and inteliigen
IN use of the ballot?-EX.
7 When man gets the ballot is h
=, asked if he will use the vote; if al
. men want to vote; if lie thinks tht
y laws need changing; if he will prom
=, Use to make better laws; If he can still
= be good father; if lie thinks it gen
tlemanly to vote; if he viii "temaii
j.. attractive" after he votes?
b. Do you believe that women will low
their homes less because they use tn
I'd ballot TO make other homes purer anC
cleaner That women will love thei
children less or cease to care for then
because they vote? OF course you d.
-, not.
y. The type of woman who talks ony
nv OF her rights is going out of fashion
wv Women have rights just as men have
A but it shows the good sense and con
"a scientiousness of women that by com
mon consent they are talking less o
90 their rights and more of their duties
%. They want the ballot because the
ia want to help in the promotion of hu
a. man welfare. Even those wome
ra who have led such carefully protecte
lives that they do not see why the
need the ballot and do not care for
will not be so utterly selfish an
- careless of the needs of their less fol-
tunate neighbor as to refuse to hel
them obtain that ballot which painfu
experience has taught them is of price