The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-05-17
W0AHH IND The BAhh0T.

car trained to the grcun /,
What is the meaning of the
movement in this country and
what are the forces behind il?
AT the risk of wounding the feel !
ingS Of some earnest woman we
hazard the opinion that it is more
fancy than the serious thought
of American wOmanhood.
a number of our women are
prone to fads, they get their
fashions from across the waters,
and votes for women has come
over along with the sheath gown
and hobble skirt.
| There are others, just as there
are some men, who love to be Ia
the spot light, who mistake noto-
riety as something akin to fame.
but they are far from representing
the true type of womcs. For
above every thing else, our wo-
meh are gentle and refined, and
it is impossible to conceive of
gentle, refined women hiking
over the country to the beat of
reporters drums.
We also have the club women.
, There are 40 statistics at hand,
bat its dollars to doughnuts she
is Il sullra gette. Far be it from
the purpose here to cast any re-
. Election on the club woman. She
: is generally Il woman of high
u purchase superior, intellect and
y considerable leisure yet she is
" sometimes wanting in sense 81
- humor. Often, as not, the lead
u ers of the Mothers Congress are
u childless women whose time
; dragS heavily on ter hands.
IL The real mothers have parlla-
: mcnts of their own to look after.
Take away from the movement
the club woman, the lover of
l. fads. and the seeker after notori-
y ETY., and there would hardly he
l. enough lett to carry the banners
7, i'm a Votes for Women par.
y AIDE.
lg This general Indifference i
I'd easily understood. The womel
i'm England, whatever one may
IS thirk of the methods pursued
es undoubtedly have just cause
r. of complaint. They are dcnie'
lie many rights and privileges solel!
nd on account of their sex and arr
IN probably justified in believing
nd that the ballot is their only hop
:. of correcting these inequalltie
+; of the law.
ei With us the conditions are Ell
ry tirely different. If anything
r. our women have far greaterp priv
y ilegcs than the men. In TIN
nd state, with the exception OF tn
vi lnchise, the women have ever
If. legal right that the men hav
by and some rights which are denle
ISIS men A man is responsible Ia
RS. for the debts of his wife; tn
&C, wife is not responsible for til
nd debts of her husband. A ma
ia cannot sell his homestead III
1T less his wife joins in the dcet
ut but a woman may sell her home
stead without her husbands COZ
We sent. Other special privilege
,us could be enumerated.
True men alone exercise I'll
he franchise, but they assum
in special responsibilities Tor IL
nd privilege. They are subject
,ut poll tax, to do jury service,
ID. work roads. They may be ca
re- led out to quill mats or go to wa
wo These are grave and onorons re
ponsibilitIcs, some of whlC
must naturally be always co.
led fined to the stronger sex.
at Again, in an issue betwe'
ses man and woman i'm court of lay
Zee if the merits are doubtful, Il
Iiss twelve men jurors will inval
5 of ab'y resolve the doubt in favor
yed the woman. A lawyer alwa
feels more confident of succe
ella when a woman as his client.
ell, The legal rights, the soc
ok, rights, all the natural rights
vim. woman have been the consta
Ina, care of mon, and if she is
OILS, MED the highest privilege of c
mes izenship consolation may