Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24
BY AMELIA e. BARR

fundamental elements of liberty; but only one Bishop
and even he IS doubtfu-voed in its favor. 1t cannot
votes and thus undoubtedly the suffrage granted to
would delegate to the clergy an immense politi-
cal power have often wondered that this side of the
question has met with little notice. Perhaps be-
most thoughtful people would consider the clergy
better advisers than the ward boss the saloonkeepers
or some seseekng demagogue talking for the interest
of his own class trade. precinct.
1t cannot be denied that the wheel of retributon is
making perfect circle as regards women They have
made their way into the high places of commerce and
literature held sacred to from the beginning, and
doing the work Of such places satisfactorily And
one thing women may be of,-the world will take
good work from whoever can supply it. If women
prove they do the worlds work well men, they
Will share it with men, they prove they can do it bet
ter, they will distance All that have to do
supposed to inherit the earth required to do the
same thing Let men consider the work done by women
during the last twenty-five years and then let them try
to estimate what the world might have been if women
for the last six thousand years had been allowed full
sway for their abilities
Hitherto the advance of has been marked by
an increasing diversity, making them the complement
not the contradiction of each other At present there
tendency to hideous identity between the
It is noticeable chiefly in games and dress. Men
longer play GOLF tennis polo in the comfortable lib
erty of past days. When girl it hardly
thought quite respectable for to visit golf
cricket fields. And no doubt men enjoyed their games
fashionable toggery, and explain themselves and the
games progress in the kind of language that most
relieving and expressive. My own opinion is that
women intrude too much on masculine sports
American women have of wrong and injustice,
they would not complain. Their insurgency is at
and result; and SO far neither ridicule
brutality has silenced them. What is more, these
means never will silence them, until the wrongs OF
which they complain righted Certainly American
men ought to uphold their women in the demand for
suffrage for when they rose swords in hand to fight
American women are now clamoring for-the right of
representation. There is surrender in these women:
why proong the fight? 1t has soldered in England for
century, it is blazing there and for one am not
astonshed at anything that is done
WAS born and brought up in the early half Of the
nineteenth century in nsular town in the north of
England, and have yet vivid recollection of the
wrongs that have driven Engshwomen such desper-
ate reprisals They know Englishmen. The average
American hardly conceive of the length and
breadth of their polite brutality am that the only
arguments Englishmen will listen to those which in
terfere with their small daily. usual comforts and con-
being brave enough to take the game into their
hands. They can, if they choose, by simply willing
temporary but nearly as possible universal divorce:
Let there be no longer demand for wedding rings and
no longer sale for cradles and the DULLES of this
imperial race of the world will make unconditional
surrender. believe something like this tried in
ancient Athens and that it brought even its godlke
to the proper state OF submission
In comparison with Englishwomen- and all other
women-the American wife and spinster has always
been free woman and she would be most ungrateful
woman if in her claim for larger freedom she put
American men any serious annoyance or loss. They
have always treated her kind OF Sacred Sex, to be
Unbalanced taken Of given way to, fatterei, and
adored.
Of course there has been rdcue, and even some
brutality shown but it doubtless came from some of the
coarse vulgar Aliens who in their savsh monarchies
have yoked women with to pillow their fields and
been accustomed to their mothers and sisters
treated slaves and as husbands take daily care that
their wives do not miss the discipline. should
be amazed indeed if any but negligible number OF
native Americans guilty of insulting women even
in street riot
To the American sufragists there is only slogan
No Surrender! In womanly and reasonable manner