The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-05-05
F0n0ticiSnz Pure and Simple
louisville Courier-Journal)

In public affairs organization and
leadership are of the first import
ance. The great movements of history
l have evolved great leaders, in Church
reforms, Luther and Calvin and Knox;
, in State reforms, Cormwell and Wash
ington and Lincoln. The Revolution
in France being frenzy, produced no
; leaders, and consequently 1t became
an orgy of blood eliminating in chaos.
ridden down at length and reduced to
order by Man on Horseback.
There have been many historical
uprisings that ran their course of folly
and passed from the scene, leaving
nothing behind them but trail of
suffering, ignominy and failure.
The agitation of Woman Suffrage
in America began with the agitation
for the abolition of slavery. Susan B.
Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
were first of all Abolitionists. The
freedom of the slave was to regenerate
the black man and the enfranchise-
ment of woman was to beautify socie-
ty. Those who held to these theories
believed them whole-hearted. They
were none the less the iridescent
dreams Of imagination and ignorance.
Had Lincoln been deluded by them
the war of the Union would have
been miscarriage. Phillips and Gar
rison lived to see that the line be-
tween the white man and the black
man is racial and impossible. Miss
Anthony and Mrs. Stanton died with
out having made much Roadway nihil-
Using the laws of God and Nature.
The present agitation in the United
States may be best estimated by a
survey Of the women at the head of it. !
Taking no account of the queer foreign
women-the imported walking dele
gates-with what aims, or from what
sources. We know not, but needing only
to be excited to betray their inherent
lack of good breeding and feminine
delicacy-they are of three general
types of descriptions, the disconnected,
the self-exploiting and the frivolous.
The woman rejoicing in her husband,
her children and her home is rarely to |
be found among them.
Let us consider them seriatim.
First, there is the strong minded
woman whose life either through her
own lack of daptability-that is, wis
dom and tact-or the evil conditions,
brough about by the insufficiency-
that is, the brutality, or drunkenness,
of the male head of the family-takes
the field as a kind Of redress of
grievance. 1t is natural that she should
judge all men by the one example
best known to her, and should be-
lieve that the ballot will furnish the
woman some weapon Of defense If not
some relief from bondage. She is
much to be pitied. Some of the
States the whipping post has been
prescribed for wife heaters. This,
though no more than just, might be
improved on. In lieu of the Divorce
Court there might be a court of re-
charged with transferring
% the wife the legal power and con-
trol Of the recusant husband. there
after dispossessing him Of all rights,
the franchise.
The Second type Of the Suffragette .
leaders, is the woman Of education, I
whose intellect has been cultivated at
he expense Of her affections-the the I
,rizing woman, the woman who thinks
hat the laws, usages and customs that Q
lpply to men should equally apply to
vomen-that what is sauce for the Z
loose IL sauce for the gander-and I
Who sees In Votes for women" the =
Of the ballot box. help for .
he work girls and the beginning Of the !
md Of the social eviI. society to be up |
fitted out Of the man-made mud in
which Il founders ana The woYnan nro | 7