Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

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judgment and puts the issue in the
background, in the charm of its pres
entation, for is not the indirect in
fiuences about which We hear so
much, the playing of the influence of
SEX" The wheedling, the cajoling,
the twisting around the little finger
influence which has been the tool of
the Kings favorites from the La Pom
padour down?
Responsibility An Educator.
Responsibility is the greatest educator
in the world. 1t makes strong capable
men out of thoughtless boys. 1t makes
splendid mothers out of frivolous, selfish
girls. Give women the responsibility of
the ballot and make them stand behind
the laws under which they are poverned
and we shall have better laws; this repre-
sentation by men argument sounds like
an argument until you analyze it. A man
cannot represent all the women of his
family unless they all have like opinions.
In regard to the argument that the
ants make that women will be less at
tractive to men, Mrs, Whitehouse said:
The Old Ideal.
THE old ideal of womanhood was
founded on womans incompetence, her
weakness and her insipfdity The nearer
she could approach beautiful, backbone
less imbeciie, the nearer she approached
the ideal woman. Man was her lord and
master. she was his chattel and play
thing. touching one side of his nature
only, awakening no response to his higher
attributes save perhaps his tenderness.
Gradually this ideal has changed and who
shall say that men as well as women
have not benefited by the changer
Mrs. Whitehouse showed how man had
worked out of his troubles by means of
the vote. Why not give women the same
chance? With every decade women have
attained their rights more fully, the wo-
man movement has swept mighty surg
ing force as impossible to stem as the
flow of Niagara,
In spite of the woman movement, wo-
men are no less home makers. They are
not unsexed by virtue of their calling, be
they professional women and neither the
franchise do any of these things, for 1t is
only part of the inevitable evolution of
woman.
In speaking of woman's place in the
home Mrs. Whitehouse alluded to the fact
that Mrs. Thomas r. Marshall, wife of
the Vice President, who is an avowed
anti-suffragist, believing that woman's
place is in the home, had made between
1900 and 100 calls in seven months and
she stated that she believed that a wo-
man who could do that was quite strong
enough to cast a vote.
Cry Against Suffrage.
The cry against suffrage has fol-
lowed the woman movement ever
since the world begun: in this cry we
recognize the egotistical male and the
sheltered gentlewoman, the same cry
which has pierced the centuries when
ever any break from reigning customs
have been suggested. 1t has shrieked
its protest against college education
for women, it has shrieked against
the professions for women, it has
shrieked against industry for women.
and it has shrieked against the wo-
mems clubs, and yet none of the dire
predictions have come to pass.
We have been having a surplus of
seEtimentality on platform and in
press OF late In regard 10 woman
biological and religious position in the
universe.
Mrs. Whitehouse said she had never
attempted to minimize either, but she
does not sympathize with attempt to
emphasize both. The idea that a wo-
man should be exempt from the du-
ties Of citizenship on account of her
sex is a fiimsy excuse. Mrs. White
house showed how the force of evil
are aligned against woman suffrage,
and she answered the argument as to
the barring Of arms, and told how tbs.