Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-15


forbidden to share in the making of the laws.
Look at the picture this page represents the average
good woman taking of a family
What man will dare say that this woman to vote
or that she has not THE RIGHT to vote?
She brings the children into She cares for them
She endure the dudgey hardship monotony home
while the man is engaged in work infinitely less trying
The mother suffers the dreadful agony of childbirth in
hnitey worse than suffering the battlefield about which
talk much
And she suffers the pang of anxiety and when her
children ILL., she goes through ordeal which
conceivable when one of her children dies.
The whole load of the world is upon back She
creates the entire race the and the
Unjust laws weigh heavily upon her.
Bad laws and failure execute the laws destroy the char
acter of her sons and she suffers.
Inconceivaby stupid and brutal those who would for
bid women the vote
Nothing admirable could be conceived than the
deru courage shown by those England protesting
in starvation and to the point of death against mans injustice
Did you read the description of that noble old woman,
Mrs Panhurs tried by judge and lot of other MEN aud
sent to Jail for three years?
You talk about the courage of Where has
shown the courage that old refusing deanty
telling her judges that she would of prison
DEAD OR ALVE-and proving the courage to live her
declaration9
Don you know that that woman was only asking for HER
RIGHT? And they released her from prison because she
would not Jail food
Suppose she old MAN brought before twelve
WOMEN and one female judge.
What would you think if you old man. Judged by
exclusively puly asking for the right share the
making Of the laws that sent him to Jail9
Have not the women of the country right to defy laws
WHEN THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO SHARE IN THE
Have not men from the beginning done infinitely worse
things than the uagettes of England ever did in the effort
to get the vote and freedom?
Did not the socaed noble patriots OF this country in the
early days that cannot be described
when they were protesting against Engands give
thRua Sha in
We all talk with admiration about our Revolution and
THE RIGHT TO VOTE AND CONTROL THEMSELVES AND
WE FORGIVE THE FACT EVEN THAT IN BOSTON THE
PATRIOTS" DROVE NAKED WOMEN THROUGH THE
PUBLIC STREETS
Why do show of that admiration and sympathy
forgiveness for the England and for the
of other countries their desperate effort to obtain for them
selves justice and fair treatment?
To the man who opposes suffrage at the
of noble gain their right ask these questions
Why do you despise women and think them unfit to vote?
WAS YOUR OWN MOTHER UNFIT TO VOTE? Have
you poor opinion of your mother of your sister of your
daughter you think her less worthy exercise her udg
ent and share in government than some miserable creature
soaking himself with whisky in a saloon?
Every bit of genteness insled into you child you got
from your mother Every man born savage and it the
mother patiently and gently dmnishe cruelty and VIC
lence and nstils kindness and gentleness into him.
What an infamy for man to say that the woman who is
fit to direct him in his childhood to govern boyhood
and to inspire him in his manhood is UNFIT TO CAST
VOTE.
Women to-day heavily class The used
to be laid by ON MEN Men paid the tax
To day the chief taxes are laid BY TRUSTS ON WOMEN
The Oil Trust the Coal Trust the Beef Trust, the Sugar
Trust the Flour Trust the Ice Trusthese forces OF gov
eminent that without representation, AND THEY TAX
WOMEN WHO PAY THE HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES.
you think that the who pays the taxes Of the
would have intelligence enough to vote to stop this tax
alton?
the good enough to educate the boys and
girls good enough advise her husband patient and kind
enough the hard lot of good and intelligent
enough to share in the government of a country?
Woman Drawer than man; she has proved it a thousand
million times childbirth Woman devoted than man;
the viii sacrifice her life for her child
ception.
those fields of courage of which the boast
the prove themselves courageous than the
ought vote, and they will vote The who op
poses suffrage disgraces himself casts
eproah upon mother and upon the other
he known.
unfortunate enough have unfit
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT and let others