White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-26
OF SUBSCRIPTION:
A RENO VIEW OF SUFFRAGE.

lHe current ISSUE Oh the 4>efdud
News Letter devotes a page to edi.
torial discussion of woman's suffrage
The inference, after careful perusal,
Is that the News Letter is "agin it,
and has but a poor opinion of poll
tees in general. No doubt the state
nia.sz-sts and advocates of the uni
yersal ballot will come forward with
arguments 10 show the editor of the
News Letter that his logic is wrong
and his views out of harmony.
The following are some of the de-
auctions arrived at by the News
Letter:
AT no time have We enthused
over woman's suffrage. With a care
full. or, maybe better said. a deep
study of the question, the strongest
conviction has been established that
any possible good that might come
out of 1t would be offset many times
over by the roughening effect it
would have upon the naturally
gentle nature of woman kind. Man
aGmires a womanly oman and man
never loves an unwomanly woman.
and, 1t is the love as between man
and woman and children that
makes the world go around. Kind
ness and gentleness in woman as
some great poet has said, shall win
my love.
but to gain accurate and true in
formation as to whether the granting
Of suffrage TO m works for
good or bad, one must visit and in
quire In a state which has to date
tended the privilege. Recently we
spent some ten days in California
and took occasion to gain the OPP
inion on this mooted question of a
large number of both men and
women
I'VE learned of the existence OF
a strong feeling among many repre-
sentative men and women that the
whole proposition does not set at
all right; that the majority of the
women do hot go into the merits of
any proposition nor particularly into
the qualifications of a candidate
but vote either haphazard or as their
male relations or friends might
Indicate was their particular deter
mination or choice; and that in the
case of the minority-made up OF
woman of more forward and less
gentle natures-there had been
considerable evidence of d~issension
coming into the open to disturb the
evidence of the home life-a life
FABRICATED In by husband, wife and
Children.
There is n thing certain that
anyone who investigates this matter
in California without bias or preju-
dice will learn that a very large MAJ
lority of the women of that state
do not are one single vote about the
whole proposition.
"Woman serves as a check upon
man. not by the use of the ballot. but
by the exercise of her G~od-given
charms. But a woman must be wom-
AMY. gentle and refined, rather than
mannish, militant and irregular. II
she would bear influence far ore
vast than the dropping of a ballot.
She may not be able to assist in
strengthening the actual reins oil
government, but she can do a world
of good by making more predominant
the better side of a mans nature,
and, In doing that. she Is indirectly
assisting in the establishment of good
government. That We believe Is her
province on earth, and knowing
that there is nothing finer and
sweeter and more eleyating than the
influence Of a good woman, We dc
not want to see that influence dimin-
ished by contact with politics.