Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-30
ChivaIry and Votes.


| crowded street cars and in various 9th
| er ways show Difference to wemen- or
| every possible occa sion. The idea OF
course is to prove that there is no in
trinsic diseordanee between ehivalry
| and suffrage; that women need moi
choose between subway seats and
/ votes. The women no doubt will fee
| that members of the Mems League
are doing more than their share and
| prefer that if any tired business man
must give up his seat for them, ii
| should be an Anti. However, the public
| may vet be made to see that a man $
| courtesy for a woman is based on
something more than her votelessness,
Just as il may in time possibly learn
| that votes and babies are not incom-
patible. But perhaps this last is too
much to hope.--Maine Woman Suffrage
Assn Bulletin.
Year by year woman suffrage is ad-
being accomplished through the Gem
mon sense and true worth with which
the American woman is proving her
self to be splendidly endowed. And 1t
is being accomplished in spite of the
hosts Of evil led by the liquor interests,
and their constant holding up of old no
tons and sophistries, all as out-of-
date, as silly and as dishonest as is the
billion times repeated assertion that "a
The very idea that woman is to
forfeit any part of the respect OF intel
liyent manhood the moment her voice
is recognized in her own vital affairs,
is as idiotic as the most benighted of
the dark age superstitions and falla-
cies. 1t is shameful reminder OF
mans world-long egotism and selfish
elineing, through eowardIy excuse, to
the might is right regime of apes and
alligators. How disgustingly silly IS
the pretense that man cannot respect
as much and be as chivalrous to woman
when she has as much weight in max
| irg the laws that govern her property
rights and the future of her children as
he!
Woman has ever been the chief vic
| tim of, the greatest sufferer from, the
LIQUOR evil. She has borne the home
| battle for bare existence while useless
towards of men (who vote and make
| the laws perpetuating their swine-fke
habits and handing the disgusting evil
down to their sons) have posed as the
lords of creation.
Woman has always been recognized
as competent to earn the living and
hold the family together. but never
capable of throwing slip of paper
voicing her desires for public welfare
into a box. If she should do that she
| would forfeit the respect, the admlra-
ton. the tenderest feelings of her lord
and master.
The liquor interests still appeal to
the monkey in man-and it works!
| They tell him what he must do to be
"manly"-expend his energies for
| booze-and they tell him that could
1 woman vote she would make laws rob-
| bing him of this man building perqus-
| lite. They tell him to hold woman down
| to her place as family drudge and
plaything. and 50. in his wisdom and
superlative conceit, man tells his help
mate that if she should share IN regu-
1 l.; h np,1lA M love her
| any more; she would look coarse and
| .'unwomanly'' to him; she would lose
| that indefinite smething" which has
always held him; he would Just have
| always to associate his thoughts of her
! with the most disgusting scenes OF
boozing, fighting, swearing, smoking
| tobac squirting, that he had ever
l witnessed at polling places.
| Is not that the situation and the pre-
| tense, exactly? And ISN'T il disgusting
", sickle ningly beastly and caanibalis-
tie?
The LIQUOR interests have leng &C.
i feated woman suffrage. 1t was the rum
| trust that prevented Maine from giving
the vote to women, last winter. IL II
the rum trust that is financing Dem
ocratic leaders ard providing the break
in Republican ranks, because II heeas
men like Pattangall, who will vote FOL
i its interests, in Washington: because
4 with the next Legislature Demncraii'
it can not only defeat woman suHras'
Iagain. but can do away once more WIFI
all restraint of the liquor traffic
The father of all evil is King Aicohoi
and every minor evil turns TO IL Oh
!, springs from it in some way. It's RAM
, fications enter every avenue and fNu
let of human life, and 1t VIII never ID
doyned or in any effective degree reg
ulateda until woman has the ballot AM
wages unceasing and relentless wa
upon 1t. That is the secret OF woHia'
serfdom and delayed rights ana PRIV
a leges. The sooner they awaken TO Tn
f truth and stand up together the soon
er humanity viii take maghiHeeh