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

Justice to that mothers of this country should be
forbidden to share in the making of the laws
Look at the picture this page represents average
good woman taking of family.
What will dare say that this woman not fit to vote
or that she has not THE RIGHT to vote?
She brings the children world She cares for them
She endures the drudge hardship and monotony home
while the away engaged in work infinitely less trying
The mother suffers the dreadful agony of childbirth
fney than any suffering the battlefield which
talk much
children ILL., she goes through ordeal which
conceivable when of her children dies
The whole load of the world is upon womans back She
creates the entire race, the and the women.
Unjust laws weigh heavily upon her.
Bad laws and failure execute the laws destroy the char
acter Of her sons, and she suffers.
nooncevably stupid and brutal those who would for
bid women the vote.
Nothing admirable conceived than the won
deul courage shown by England protesting
starvation and to the point of death against mans injustice
Did you read the description of that noble old woman
Mrs Panhurst tried by judge and lot of other MEN and
sent to Jail for three years?
You talk about the courage of Where has
shown the courage of that old refusing denanty
telling judges that she would out of prison
DEAD OR ALIvEand proving the courage to live to her
declaration?
Don you know that that woman was only asking for HER
RIGHT? And they have released her from prison because she
would eat Jail food.
Suppose she been an MAN brought twelve
WOMEN, and one female judge.
What would you think if you old man. judged by
exclusively pfuy asking for the right share in the
making of the laws that sent him to jail7
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
things than the surage of England did in the effort
to get the vote and freedom?
Did not the so-caled noble patriots country
early days resort to that cannot be described
when they protesting against Engands refusal give
We all talk with admiration about our Revolution, and
about the fights THAT MEN MADE AGAINST MEN TO GET
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 of that admiration and sympathy
and forgiveness for the of England and for the
of other their desperate effort obtain for them
selves Justice and fair treatment?
To the who opposes suffrage who the eff
forts of noble to gain their right ask these questions
Why do despise women and think them unfit to vOte
you poor opinion your mother of your sister of your
daughter you worthy her judg
ment and share in than some miserable creature
soaking himself with whisky in corner saloon?
Every bit of gentleness nsed into you child you got
mother who patiently and gently diminhes cruelty and VIC
lence and instils kindness and genteness into him.
What inamy for to say that the woman who is
fit to direct him in his childhood to him in his boyhoOd
and to inspire him in his manhood is UNFIT TO CAST
VOTE.
Women to-day are the heavily taxed taxes used
to be by government MEN Men paid the road and
they paid stamp taxes and other taxes.
To-day the chief taxes laid BY TRUSTS ON WOMEN.
Oil Trust the Coal Trust the Beef Trust the Sugar
the Flour Trust the Ice Truthese forces of
WOMEN WHO PAY THE HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES
you think that the who pays the taxes of the
would have intelligence enough vote to stop this
ation2
Is not the good enough to educate the boys and
girls good enough TO advise her husband patient and kind
enough endure the hard lot of good and intelligent
enough to share IN the government of a country?
Drawer than she has proved il thousand
million times in childbirth Woman devoted than
the viii sacrifice her life for her child ex
ceptiOn
And in those fields of courage of which the
prove themselves courageous than the
Women ought TO vote and they will vote The who op
poses suffrage dsgrace himself and he indirectly casts
repoach upon his mother and upon the other that
he has known
you have been unfortunate enough have unfit
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