The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-30
WILD WOMEN
and OTHERS"

Following is an editorial from Chi
cago Record-Herald: The wild women
nave been at work again in London
Ihey have slashed pictures in the Ma
tional gallery. They have harassed the
ponce. They have covered a judge with
hour and confusion in his w court.
These are not pretty acts, nor are they
wise. They serve only to destroy SYM
PATTY and to foment sex hatred. They
make it difficult for those who wish
the suffrage movement well to keep
its main issues clearly in view and not
TO be diverted toward antagontsm by
such malicious mischief. y
1t is unthinkable that conditions SIM
liar to those in England should eVer
arise in America. The s~uffragists Of
this country have conducted them
selves with restraint and dignity. They
have commanded respect. Here in Chi
cago, where suffrage may still be said
to be in an experimental stage, women
have long taken an honorable part in
our civic life. They have proved their
capability for citizenship.
1t Is impossible to have followed in
diligently and with an unbiased mind
the development of the so-called wo-
man movement for the last twenty
years without realizing the great
ually in poise, clarity of vision and
mental ume These are valuable
qualities in any body polite. 1t must
not be forgotten that the community
- AA~NN ~ VI - - IL INV wiz
from the individuals who compose it.
It's Intellectual average is theirs.
The Record-Herald believes that the
time is not long distant when the suf-
frage movement, ever in England, will
be purged; stripped of its eXcrescences
] its fungous growth of militancy and
irresponsible feminist v~aporings. These
are the expressions of the fanatics who
attach themselves willy-nilly to every
cause-nature's instructive advertisers.
Just as opposition to the higher edu-
cation of women died away before the
wise use to- which women put the pri-
willing colleges and technical and pro-
fessional schools forty years ago, SO
those who now see in the further dew
elopment or women a menace to society
as the great body Of women demon
strate their sanity and their ability to
rise to higher opportunities.
1t is ~salutary to remind this gener-
alton, whose daughters are sent to COL
lege as a matter of course to be given
the same training as their sons, of
the trials n hardships of the pioneer
college girls. 1t seems incredible, 80
far have we journeyed on our way, that
Lucy Stone admonished by the wives
of the faculty at Oberlin for address,
ing the student body, was told that it
was unWomanly and unscriptural to
Brown was appointed delegate to the
Worlds Temperance convention in
New York; somewhere about 1855, the
other delegates, mostly ministers, yell
ed and shouted for two days to drown
her voice; or that when Elizabeth
Blackwell was studying medicine in
Geneva, N. Y, the other women in her
boarding house refused to speak to her
and drew their skirts aside when they
passed her on the street.
Woman's right to education ceased
to be questioned long ago. Her right
to vote will as inevitably be conceded.
Our community life is many sided.
There is work in Illinois for all its
citizens; in Chicago for all the forces
that make for light and justice. Place
aux DANES is a good enough French
phrase. But gallantry was it's father.
The u~p-to-date English version has a
better ring. Make way. Here come
the women.