The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-09-03
YEA, ANOTHER DANIEL" !"

WATERsoN COMMENTS ON TILL
MANS SPEECH.
kentucky Editor in a Spicely Word.
ed Article Approves Senator'S
Opinion.
Senator Tillman has made a great
speech on the right side Of the most
momentous question Of modern
times. All other questions pale to
nothing beside it. eve can better
afford to have degraded and corrupt
politics" he says truly, than degrad-
ed and corrupt women"
Two classes Of men believe that wo-
man suffrage is inevitable; the min
compoops and the shifty politicians.
There are men who seem to have wo-
man suffrage in the blood; yearn af-
ter it; always did; believe in it, ad-
vocate it. They are the nincompcops.
There are others who think they see
1t coming and want to be on the re-
ception when it arrives. There be
| ing nothing men value more than wo-
mans favor, their attainment Of it
by these is likely to contradict their
efforts. What the best women prefer
in men is manhood. 1t is not always
to be had, and then, or course, they
have to take the best they can get.
It is here that the nincompoops come
in.
The Courier-Journal does not be-
lieYe that women suffrage
precipitate and universal votes for
women, the bad with the good, the
black and the white-is inevitable.
The real question has not yet been
considered except by the women
freaks in band wagons and circus
professions. Real women are bot be-
ginning to take it seriously and to de-
liberate. On it nationally. The news
papers, for the most part; are afraid
to tackle it. The average editorial
writer is not permitted to think; but,
if he does, some power interdicts his
calling his soul his own.
There are women and women. The
he-women themselves are divided in
to two classes: the silly women who
run after fads and the self-exploiting
women who want to be leaders.
Meanwhile, there is world Of good
and wise women who have not spok-
en- nor been consulted but who know
that the crazy James in the band
wagons and the circus professions
are driving straight to hell.
There are, however, fy-up-tne-
creek women as well as nincompoops
men. They have to be reckoned with
also. The average suffragette is
made up mainly from these. AS
rule she is woman who wants some
thing and thinks it's the ballot. That
is still only a partial classification,
however. Behind the shilly-shally
desire for the ballot there are many
different states of mind. There are
women who want the ballot as an at
tractive personal attribute, as they
might want a necklace, an auto, or a
frock, or something they think would
add to their beauty or distinction.
There are others who want it as an
instrument Of power. They want
something either for themselves, or
for society, which, they fancy, wo-
mems votes will help them to get.
They believe that when women vote
it will be easier to induce legislatures
to pass feminine statutes and the
courts to confirm, and the admins
tration to enforce them, and easier to
induce Congress to piece them out
where necessary with Federal legisla-
ton, and easier generally to compel
indecent people to become decent
people. Time was when if a person
became conscious Of sin, he repented.
Now the idea is to get bill through
the legislature. The suffrage plan is
virtue by act OF assembly. The old
way had good points, but 1t Is the
fashion to abandon all the old ways
and hooray for new ways.
Misconduct, let US say, is bad, but
legislation is worse. State rights and
the fabric of government seem to be
nothing to these he-women, and even
parental and family rights seem very
little. Many good women have seen
them so abused; SO much duties that
should go with them neglected, that
their politics is merely pure milk, the
protection of the young, conditions
of life that are not incompatible with
honest and wholesome living. But
when it comes to connecting these
things with women's votes, where Is
she? The relation between women
and voting being mainly speculative
their realization Of the ballot would
prove wholly illusory.
One Floyd Dell, Chicago crank
who seeks to exploit himself, declares
that when women get the franchise
eve shall have an element impatient
of restraint, straining at the rules OF
procedure, cynical of excuses Tor IN
action; not always, by any means, on
the side Of progress; making every
mistake possible to ignorance and
self-conceit. Yet still he wants them
to vote, he Transforming our
politics from vicious end to an ef-
ficient means-from cancer into an
organ. This absurd person finds
Emmeline Pankhurst most represen-
tatiye of real womankind. Mrs. Pank-
hurst, he says, "has enabled US to
see what women really are like, Just
nc lana Addams has. by her magnlh-