The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-02-21
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A HINT TO suEERAeIsrs.

A HINT TO sUFFRAGISTs.
There must be something in East
crn men not found in those of tho
West and South. Else willy do tho
Eastern women who want votes fee
compelled to demonstrate MARCHING
prowess as a means OF getting them:
Women have won the right to vote in
+, Western States without making pa
thetic efforts to show that they might,
in Il pinch, become Anazons to rise up
and protect land which, without
them, would be open 10 its enemies.
Is there u fear beyond the Alleghenies
that II women are given the right TO
vote they will use 1t to force wars for
men 10 fight, and is the coroiinry OF
that postulate the one that woman
must prove her ability 10 fight her own
wars before she can be safely trusted
with the power OF provoking them?
Well, history does show quite a num-
Der of wars brought on by the intri-
CUES Of women, but putting lovely wo-
man through some of the motions OF
war as a means Of showing her abi!-
lty to back up ballots with bullets is
1getting wearisOme. The story OF the
march 10 Albany, while with an anus
ing side, was pathetic In its narration
of how the ladies faded away under
attacks OF Indictment weather and wilt
ed under the stress OF marching
through snowdrifts. We were glad to
record the end of that march, despite
the fun We had had with 1t along the
way. But now comes another even
more horrifying story OF ladies' Injured
to luxury who, starting out tc march
from New York 10 Washington Tor the
suffrage parade on inauguration day.
are falling by the wayslde OF New Jer-
Sey, and being rescued from snow.
drifts by the automobiles which are
serving as ambulances. In forty.eight
hours their number fell from 200 to o.
4 Why not concede at once that wo'
men are not made for soldering, and
just consider their rights as human
beings? We think the women OF the
East would make better progress by
sticking 10 the old role of the cling
ing vine rather than taking on the
new one of the sturdy oak. The man
wants to be the sturdy oak himself.
He Balks Mt woman suffrage most be-
cause OF his uneXpressea fear that 1t
may transform woman out Of that
/ sweet lovabieness which has always
made her able to do anything SHE
pleased with him by seeming to de-
fer to him as a human rock of ages.
Let the New York suf(mgists look to
LIST. Louis. Here our snffraglsts, when
wanting the submission of their
amendment, did not march to Jeffer'
con City. though the weather was
balmy. there was no SHOW, the roads
we're hard and the walking good.
They went in Pullman cars. And when
they invaded the committee room,
with their hats on straight, their
skirts falling at the correct angle, and
with the bright eyes and smiling lips
they could not have shown at the end
of a 1O0.miIe march, the gentlemen in
the Joint committees surrendered at
discretion and agreed 10 recommend
submission. That was Western and
Southern chivalry deferrlng 10 beauty
adorned. But man is man wherever
found, and it is our conviction that If
the New York women make any i'm
preston ut Washington 1t will be
made by those reaching there in autos.
They may have deserted the army OIL
the march, but when they appear in
action against the enemy the enemy is
more likely to surrender to them than
to any, IL any there be, who debapch
Into the field with all the marks Of
Ibeayy marching upon them. st. Louis
Globe; Democrat. .i,
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