The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-03
FRANCHISE SAFE
IN HANDS OF
EVERY WOMAN


Widespread has been the discus
sion relative to what possible effect
the placing of votes in the hands OF
women would have in the State OF
Illinois. Many have eontended that
women are not safe to be trusted
with the ballot as they are too radi-
eal and the result would be revolu-
tionary. Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout,
the Chicago suffragist, is president
of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Asso-
citation and her advice is based on
wide experience in dealing with con-
ditions as they exist in politics.
Ina discussing the matter yester-
day she said as follows:
"It is amusing to hear suggestions
made that because women are to
vote there will be hostility between
men and women of Illinois, or that
women are going to break up into
separate parties.
"If there is anything that the be-
levers in equal suffrage have al
ways sought after, it is the working
together of men and women; not
their separation.
1T would be great mistake to
have any attempt of this kind made.
Men are meeting us half way, Offer
ing to help us and expressing de-
sire to work with us in coming elec-
tions
"The pessimists, who are pro-
phesying dire consequences as re-
suit of letting women vote in Him
ois, we might answer in the Ian
guage of the small boy who was eat
ing an apple. Another youngster
asked him If he could have the core
and tho answer came promptly back,
There haint going to be no core
Nov there hain't going to be no
dire consequences, There hain't go
ing to be no business evolution.
Women More Conservative.
Women are sane, and perhaps a
little more conservative than men.
1T has been the province OF
womep for ages 10 serve, an all Of
tbas experience viii be utilized now
in the'r handling Of political qaeH~
tions,
"a man congratulated me recent
ly in the name OF the women OF III
inois on the passage of the suffrage
bill, but he said | was the first
woman he had ever seen who wanted
to vote. | told him to 90 out and
investigate a little among his friends
and he would find there had been a
| tslumbefing desire in the hearts OF
the women, even the women he
knew, to help and take part in the
Isettling Of those great questions that
laffected the welfare of their chill
Idren, and affected the general well
fare Of everybody.
| "Many womn have expressed thei1
lopinion on this subject, but a
woman recently told me with tears
in her eyes that she had watched
land prayed and scanned the news
lpapers every day, lest by amy
chance the suffrage bill should fai
of passing.
"Still, that woman was mo-
known to her friends as a suffragist
Wanted Mother to Vote.
"A gray haired old man also tx
ipressed himself In the followin!
Imanner He said: 81 thank Goo
| for the passage of the suffrage bill
for ever since | first cast my ballot
over thirty years ago, l always hat
| a feeling of resentment against III
government that would not allow m,
mother to vote at the polls with me
"This man. without any question
voiced the sentiment of thousands 0
men In Illinois.
"We have been told that the iquo
men are going to make us trouble
Now, this is absurd. for the interest
are, many of them, with us.
They believe in the enforcement
of the law and In wise regulatio
the same as the rest of us. aad the
are just as opposed to low dives an
questionable places and the allowin
u of minors to go in these places 9
d the other men and women of ulinot
. are
< "0ne objection. advanced to equs
y suffrage before the passage of th
l. bill was the fear that good wome
. would not go to the polls and yot'
y and that bad women would.
LAS matter of simple justic'
bad men vote, then why not ha
women?
"But as matter of record, yer
A. few of these poor women of the u