The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-17

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she could Put Into The City? Any
slight spark of justice in your
breast will compel you to answer:
The Woman" Yet the laws of
our land say that she has not
the efficiency to cast ballot.
| Because our present day woman
has undertaking to think like men
if not more profoundly-the brute
of the sex rises up in his wrath and
cries out feminine emotionalism"
and he Will not attempt to strike
balance between impulse as he
calls lt-and principles, for he
knows that principle will be on the
credit side. A commonplace mind
confuses the possible with the flu
tile and cries out anarchy, and the
cry is taken up by a feeble minded
mob, debauched into a creed and
used as barrier to woman prog
ress.
Not catching the vital signif-
canoe of the woman movement"
the loftiness of its ambitions, aims
and ideals we cry out against it and
imagine we are elevating ourselves
by so doing. When we do catch
it's fullness, it's intention, we will
find that IN elevating ourselves we
only did 50 one notch-from idiotic
insignificancy, to the dignity of a
fool.
Everytime a woman tries to emu
late man prejudice springs up;
that prejudice was born back in
the stone age and it has been a drag
on her progress through the ages.
The man brute of today is begin
ing to open his eyes, after years of
blindness. We do not try so
strenuously to retard woman's prog.
ress in these latter days. We have
grasped part of the new truths that
are being born every day. We are
beginning to feel that great deal
of glory is to come thru women,
and feel sure that they will solve
most of our perplexing problems.
The enlightened humanitarian
ism of today realizes that it needs
workers. The world is tired of the
sheer rotleness brought about by
Big Business The world wants
patriotism-not only entire country
patriotism--but patriotism in mu-
nicipal matters; patriotism in all
human activities-in all our rela-
tons, ethical, artistic, social, econo-
mic and religious patriotism.
The world has sent out the call;
new truth has been born; woman
has answered the call, has grasped
the new truth for developments are
increasing all thru our states in
spite of the weight of tradition and
constitutional barriers. Do not
| call it a fad, vain notion or a
mere programme = it is not any of
these things, it is a principle,
brought on by evolution, and when
men finally grasp it's entire concep-
ton then they hasten the day of it's
ultimate triumph. We may call it a
ridiculous assumption, an absurd and
idle dream; we may hurl scorn and
contempt upon it, but in spite of
all it will grow stronger, gain great
er Roadway because it is truth it.
self, and, as we all know, Truth
crushed to earth shall rise again"
Some morning we will awaken to
find that what we crushed yester-
day is today the greatest force for
good the world has ever known
since the days of the Nazareth
Jew.
Some time ago Chicago was
shocked by a painting, called Sep
TENDER Morning." A Chicago po-
liceman saw the picture liz an art
store and he hurried home to tell
his mother in-law just how l..
shocked him. (Imagine if you can
any condition that would shock a
Chicago policemanD Suppose that
mother-in-law had said that she
would never, never have anything
to do with art; would not such re.
mark be foolish one? Well, just
so is our cry against Woman
Suffrage" in the United States, be-
cause we do not sanction the mill
tant methods of Europe.
An artist may create art, and
then create style so as to give voice
to his art. Style cannot create art.
If we are shocked by one painting
:, We should see more beauty in an