Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-03
ANTI-SUFFRAGE
Some Of the Fallacies..a and Danger OF Won-
ans Suffrage Pointed Out BY, the Noted
Author and Historian the Late Francis
Parkr1an.
7'HE POWER OF SEX.

1t has been said that the question of the rights and employment
Be said that those who consider it regardless Of sex do not consider
it at all. 1t will not do to exclude from the problem the chief factor
in it. and deal with women only as if they were smaller and weaker
men. Yet these have been the tactics Of the aghators for female
Whatever liberty the best civilization may accord to women, they
must always be subject to restrictions unknown to the other sex,
and they, can never dispense with the protecting influences which
nature, 81 which the world has never given the fantest sign, women
cannot be equally emancipated. 1t is not a question of custom, habit,
il In, hs', vast number of Of m men n in whom it ! IS note controlled nsls By vi higher
FORCES A. woman is subject, also, to many other restrictions, more
the5respect Of others and yet placing her at a disadvantage, as com
pared4to men, in the active work of the wold. All this is mere
trusmr but the plainest truism may be ignored in the interest of a
theory or a cause" F-E @@Ei1&& .#& 4
Again, everybody knows that the physical and mental consdtu-
ion Of woman is more delicate than in the other sex; and, we may
subtle: " 80 "'
It is these and other inherent conditions, joined to the engross-
ing nature of a womans specified functions, that have determined
through all time her relative position. What we have just said
her greatest limitations are not of human origin. Men did not make
them, and they cannot unmale them. Through them, God and Nature
in aattbb the h 5arshe Conflicts oae of S:t the s" %erld 10 Militant aam 81" Ia is 70 fou He to 3o ;rnere 70 th suI
or try to counterfeit them by political and social quackery.: They set
at naught legislatures and peoples. z%.
CRUELTY or WOMAN SUFFRAGE '@
The frequent low state of health among American women S a
fact as %undeniable as it is %deplorable.
Tie lie. good &C dp of G theif sex? . 10 T"; add t to the g : ex ssae : Mo% tSt a afe WASTING y
them other and greater excitements, and to cares too muc'.for their
work. to require them to add to it the work Q: men, and launch then,
into the turmoil where the most robust sometimes fail. 1t is much as
1t a ma IN a state OF nervous exhaustion were told BY his physician
to enter at once for a footrace or a boxng-n1atch.
POWER SHOULD GO WITH RESPONSIBILITY ~
\ TO hold the mar responsible and yet deprive him Of power is
neither; just nor rational. The man is the natural head of the family,
and is responsible for its maintenance and order. Hence he ought to
control the social and business agencies which are essential to the
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from the responsibilities attached to it. s !"
.1r#e. POLITICAL DANGERS or SURFACES
c%on.s,derate and rash legislation. In inpatience. to be rid Of one evil,
Interior consequences are apt to be forgotten. In the haste to redress
increased oxnmeasuraby if the most impulsive and exciabe. half Of
humanity had an equal voice i'll the making Of laws, and in admin
istration Of them, In politics, the virtues Of women would sometimes
II the better class of women aatter themselves that they can
be outvoted in their own kitchens, without reckoning the aggloner-
atoms of poverty, ignorance, and vice, that form a startling proper
threatens our system with its darkest peris. The female vote would
enormously increase the evil, for it is often more numerous, always
sense: of responsibility Here the bad politician would find his richest
res resources 4sef .o1 hd could 60 d., not rs reach %s the asad better The class s{o Of female "a ,h voters msh but
not urged by some pressing need or contagious passion. would be
moved, not by principles, but BY personal predictions. f#s
,@.<N HI FEMALE POLITICIAN.
in the political arena. They would shum it by an nvincbe repulsion;
and the opposite qualities would be drawn into il. The Washington
f 1Gony t has g s1rsa "s %n ss%s p %Si3s q } If po1te w'a afe We e h bs ps srRssi
BY arfulness, effrontery, i~nsensibity, a pushing sefasserton, and
T female gaG i politician Ne" will BE se richly ih{ e. e n e with all ali thes; gifts If 'e. ""
Thus ACQUIRED for the conflict, she may fairly hope to have the
right Of attacking without being attacked in turn. She may strike,
but must not be struck, either literally or 6gurativey.
II may be said that the advocates Of female suffrage do. not look
10 poidcal. women for the purifying of politics, but to the votes, Of
the sex at large. The two, however, cannot be separated. II should
be remembered that the question is not of a limited and select female
suffrage, but Of 2 universal one.
MEN WILL GIVE WOMEN THE SUFFRAGE#IF THEY
~ .s WANT 1T.
u Again, one of the chief arguments of the agitators is that gov
ernment without the consent of the governed is opposed to inaien-
right. But most women, including those Of the best capacity and
worth, fully consent that their fathers, husbands, brothers, or friends,
shall be their political representatives and no exhortaton or teasing
has induced them to withhold their consent Nor is this surprising;
for 4 woman is generally represented in a far truer and more intimate
sense BY her male relative than is this relative by the candidate to
whom he gives his vote, commonly without knowing him, and often
with dissent from many of his views. 81 -
Nothing is more certain than that women will have the suffrage
if they ever want it; for when they want it, men will give it to them.
regardless of consequences. A more than readiness on the part of
men to conform to the wishes Of the other sex is a national trait in
America. H sE&s N# #
MOST WOMEN AVERSE:TO IT. M
The agitators know well that, in spite Of their persistent in1por-
tunity, the majority Of women are averse to the sufrage.&Hence,
the iidicrous terror which the sufragKis showed at every proposal to !
submit the question to a vote of the women Of the State.
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