Semi-weekly herald., 1913-02-06
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE AS
VIEWED BY LEGAL PRO-
FESSION IN OHIO

The time has been so shortened by
the attitude of the proponents of suf-
frage that | have reduced by address,
with some difficulty, within the ten
minutes prescribed. But | beg leave
to ask that / should appear to be
about to exceed the limit that some
"dry" advocate who the other day de-
nounced me, arise and graciously move
to extend my time a minute or two.
A vote for or against this propo-
sition does not necessarily indicate
ones position on the ultimate ques-
ton of the feminine franchise.
Several classes are represented in
this convention.
There are those who oppose suf
frage, but are willing to submit the
question to the people.
There are those who oppose suf-
frage, but are unwilling to submit the
question to the people, because they do
oppose it, and who feel that they can
not in good conscience present issues
to the people in which they themselves
do not believe.
There are those who do not oppose
it, but are opposed to submitting the
question because if may offer to the
enemies of the new constitution simply
another argument with which to de-
feat the document. (These persons
believe that their full duty is done
when they give the initiative and ref
erendum as means through which
women's suffrage may be gotten.)
There are those who do not oppose
it, but believe that the question should
be submitted to the women them
selves. Such men accept the posi-
tion of such noted persons as Lyman
Abbott and Theodore Roosevelt.
Representative government is an
underlined thing. Who is represented
by the representatives? If he is ''un-
pledged" does he represent his own
view? If so, 80 per cent of those
who voted for me are opposed to
feminine suffra Does he repre-
sent the women who did not vote for
him, and who (as in my case) de-
nounced him publicly? Well, hardly.
Why should he not say that he rep
resents that vast mass of women,
wives and mothers who are opposed
to the suffrage? Are they not worthy
of representation
One has extreme difficulty in de-
fining just what is meant by repre-
sentative government.
! stand with Judge Worthington. l
should favor faminine suffrage if a
majority requested it under refer
endum taken by them. You have all
heard great noise in the barnyard,
but on looking it was one egg only.
So with this apparently great clamor
for the ballot. 1t is just handful
of vocally gifted persons.
Are women represented in the
state?
Are women represented in the cabs
of our locomotives? All, yes.
Are women represented in the wheel
nOuStS tIiBllC VI Oui cNNdii
liners?
Are women represented on the from
tiers Of medicine by proper surgeons?
CA woman would not care to have a
woman surgeon operate on herr
Are women represented at the front
in war?
Are women represented by men on
juries? Why, men give her more
liberal deal than any jury of women
would ever give her.
Are women represented on the
bench of America? They know that
they are.
Are they represented in the great
departments of thought and philoso-
ply? All, yes.
Yes, that plain fellow, man, is there
struggling for her.
Represented When did the race be-
come divided? When did our interests
become severed? This severance of
sex interest is not reassuring po-
litical symptom.
Is not man represented In the
home? Yea, verify, and by his wife
and sisters.
Is not she represented in the state !?
Year, verify, and by husband and
brothers.
He is represented in the home by
one of superior sex morality--seN vir-
tue adapted to the maintenance OF the
horne.
She is represented in the state by
one Of superior pecuniary and con-
tractual honor-adapted to the main
tsnance Of the state.
All this ID the divine order. Away