The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-10-16
THE WOMAN MOVEMENT

LdDor Lay, turned the Pensacola
Journal into "Woman's Suffrage
Edition and the number of articles
contributed to it was so large, owing
to the rapid growth of the movement.
that 1t was impossible for the edition,
as large as it was, to hold them all.
and the left over" articles are now
being run in current issues of that
paper.
There is no heading off the "Wo-
man Movement" 1t has come to stay.
More and more woman's influence is
destined to be felt in this and all 9TH
er lands.
II the woman had had her rightful
place alongside of man in the man
agement of governmental affairs the
present horrible wars in Europe and
Mexico would have been averted, and
the world would have been saved
their holocaust of horrors.
Slowly but surely the women are
coming into possession of their own.
and when that time shall have been
ushered in it will be as Paradise Re.
gained"
The following is one of the cleft
over" articles contributed to the Pen
sacola Journal Woman Suffrage Edi.
ton" by the editor of this paper:
Ocala, Fla, Sept 1, 1914.
To the Woman Suffrage Edition, Pen
sacola Journal:
God created the man and the wo-
man equal and jointly gave them do
mln1on over the earth, and wherever
Gods laws have not been contraven
ed woman has made good and the
world has been made better.
If in the economy of nature it was
intended that the woman should SIM
ply preside as queen of the home, do
not the records show that man has
miserably failed in the performance
of his duty in providing her with
home over which to perform her
queenly activities?
The economic conditions are such
that woman has been forced to leave
the precincts of the home and take
her place in the ranks of labor to bat
tie for bread
Some incomplete statistics that lie
before me show the following:
That there are in the United States
half million women stenographers.
That there are nearly half million
women teachers and professors.
That there are more than a half
million in various trades.
That there are nearly one million
women engaged in agricultural pur-
suits.
Although so wrongly understood
for so long time to keep silent in
the churches" there are now seven
thousand, three hundred and thirty
nine women occupying pulpits.
There are over two thousand wo-
men engaged in journalism and as
many more whose names are not
made public.
There are seven thousand women
physicians.
There are more than one thousand
designers.
There are more than one thousand
women lawyers.
And in all these avocations women
have made good and are becoming ev-
cry day more efficient and useful for
the reason that they look net upon
the wine cup when it is red. They
do not waste their time in riotous
living. They do not smoke cigarettes
and defile themselves by expectorat-
ing tobacco juice in all directions.
They do not hang over pool and bill
lard tables all day and late into the
night.
AS missionaries they are carrying
the gospel into all lands, and the
churches throughout the world are be-
ing quickened into new life by their
instrumentalities.
Have these devoted missionaries,
assisting in carrying the gospel into
heather lands, "unsexed' them
selves?
can remember how shocked So
ciety was to see woman behind a
counter or handling the telegraph
keys, or seen at the printers case.
Along these lines she has lived all
criticism down, and now her efforts as
breadwinner are everywhere COM
! mended.
When she mounted bicycle and
rode cross-saddle she shocked society
beyond all reason, but she has grad
ually lived down these criticisms also,
with her modesty still triumphant.
can remember when the women
occupied one side of the church and
the men the other, for fear of con-
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