Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-14
owAo GOES SLOWLY"

"wHo GOES SLOWLY"
 Although four out of seven states in which womans suffrage was being upon defeated it, there is no occasion for discouragement among the sunragsts. Rather may they rejoice that they have gained two states this year
 He that helioveh shall not make haste" said the prophet If it best for this country and for the world that women should be admitted to citizenship the same with men, the time of their admtance will come There is no need for any mad rush in the matter and in fact it is better in many that the growth of the citizenship should be slow
 It's just with ideas it is with children and young plants Rapid growth is apt to be weak growth What children and young plants and ideas need is the slow, steady kind. with plenty of good uourishment and sunshine And it's especially true of children and new ideas that if they too quickly they are likely to be misunderstood and the results painful!
 F. p. A. in his clever column in the N Y. Tribune says Woman Suffrage was defeated in Ohio, Nebraska and Missouri-vhich commonwealths might have voted against the steamengine if that had been baloted upon Which is probably true and which pecuarity is not limited to those three commonweaths Most solid cd zens resent political or social newness any kind They are little like the New England woman with new gown. The first year she it shyly and uncom iortably fearing be conspicuous. The second year che feels little more at ease By the third she puts it right on and gets comfort out of it.
 Every innovation since time began has been subject tc the same animostes and discouragements. Most of those of no value have given the fight and slowly disappeared. The ones worth while have slowly made ,her way into popular approval
 What is law? Public opinion crystallized The law which has not public opinion behind it is Of no value suffrage rights in any which is not thoroughly ready for them would be than useless It is much better that those states should wait few years until their populations are more fully enlightened
 Those who view life from a radical point of view arc sometimes in too much of hurry to see our desires accomplished We forget that year or two more or less is tae in the progress of the centuries and that what we begin We may well leave for our sons and daughters to move forward, for grandchildren to finish.
 And that while four five states may have voted against the cause suffrage this November and two o three against prohibition the doctrines of temperance and of equal citizenship for women are slowly gaining ground in all the states the less
 And not by eastern windows only
 When daylight comes, comes in the light
 In front the climbs slow, how slowly!
 But westward look the land is brght!"
 It is well that women should have to work hard an' long for suffrage. IT it too easily it would not b. rated at half its true value. It is well that women shou come to realization of their need of votes through m knowledge slowly and seriously gained, of their re sponsibHity to the community.
 The understanding that individual pioneering days ar over and that this is an era of needs social vice 9 and social virtues is coming. With it will come tn necessary laws-for suffrage child labor or whateye else Before it comes much hard undiscouraged wor {, must be done Nor would the workers forget that
 'Who goes slowly goes safely; t Who goes safely goes far"