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

methods are just style of proceed
ure and not the Art itself. Suffrage
for women, in Great Britain. IS less
advanced than it was year ago, in
fact it has lately been defeated.
On the other hand Suffrage in the
United States is steadily gaining
Roadway and why? Simply be-
cause law and order is the motto of
our women. Their policy is to be
ever watchful, they are waiting,
ever alert, ready to seize any OPP
portunity in which they can drive
one of their platform planks into
the wooden heads of the man
brute. That platform is built upon
righteousness anG is for the benefit
of the people, individually and as a
herd.
The Suffrage movement is a
process of development that is
world wide in sympathetic ideals,
united in one ultimate aim. The
methods of one class are to be
deplored but that should not con-
denim the movement as a whole.
One method-like September Morp-
ing-is style, the other and finer
method is the Art itself.
This new spirit-new truth-has
set many a social worker to learn
ing practical politics--for the
movement demands such knowledge.
Beyone the Alps lies Italy" Con-
stitutional and legal impediments
are the Alps that must be sur
mounted by woman. She must
enter into her Italy for her belief
in progress is a religion within it.
self, and it's the religion of women
that brings happiness to race, edu-
Gates and reforms it. New Thought
is around us, every where. When
we begin to live the fullest life we
will be able to sense its pres
ence. Arthur Brisbane, the high
est paid editorial writer in the coun-
try, has come out lately in sup
port of the Suffrage Movement"
He says: II am ashamed in that l
did not champion the cause years
ago." Arthur Brisbane has grasp
ed the New Truth
Man or woman reaches the noun.
tain-top of nobleness when they are
stoned for principal. If they
see truth and dare to stand before
a synagogue to utter that truth be-
cause they know it to be truth
they need not fear the crucifixion
it's only the aristocracy of God
that are crucified.
From the ranks of the women of
tomorrow will come a Harriet
Beecher Stowe and she will write a
slave novel that will bring shame to
the people from one Portland to
the other. She will tell you Of the
Southern turpentine camps" the
New England canneries- even
have courage enough to lay bare
the secrets of your department
stores. She may be crucified for it.,
but in ONE BOOK, somewhere. it
will be marked Supreme Service"
The leaders of the Suffrage move
ment are members of the master
breed. They realize that when
they start revolution if race is
not ready-they must suffer cal
vary. We don't cruelty nowadays
like they did in the days of Herod;
we haven't the courage of an Iscar-
lot; we cruelty with sneers, with
bitter words and with the printed
lie. We cannot boast of the one
redeeming trait Judas Iscariot had !
we are not sorry for placing another
in Gethsemane garden and we have
not the manhood to say i have
sinned."
We may as well try to stop ma
ture itself as to try to stop woman
from coming into her own. She
must win eventually, for behind her
is sacrifice, in front of her the OPP
portunities for supreme service and
it remains with you and me to help
or to hinder. If you help then
yours Will be the reward. If you
hinder then on that day the Lloyds
that they keep above will post YOU
wreck.
Deride the woman cause today
and you will raise them upon the
pinnacle of truth tomorrow. Call
them meddlers today and you will
call them liberators tomorrow. At
ter the desert of neglect, after the