Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-11-05

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tons in many places where women
work are worse than around polling
places. Professional politicians are
strangely quiet regarding these. Why
| ere they so solicitious about in injury
q woman may receive by dropping a
vote for better government? 1t is
said that in the states that have equal
suffrage the polling places have been
/ removed from bar-rOOms and similar
places, more suitable locations have
been selected and kept clean, while
disorder at the polling places, and i'm
proper language and conduct are no
longer tolerated.
/ Human nature is conservative, ven
more so in women than in men; but
women + waking up to the necessity
of representation and a voice in con-
trolling conditions under which they
must live. Alice Stone Blackwell
says:
MANY changes for the better have
come during the last half century in
the laws, written and unwrittcn, re-
lating to ONE Everybody approves
Of these changes now, because they
have become accomplished facts. But
not one of them would have been
made to this day If it had been neces-
sary to wait until the majority of wo-
men asked for it."
Women's votes are now an actual
force with which all parties will have
to reckon, but also and still more in
the future.
Some of the greatest sovereigns of
h1C%nrrp ryn~A woman. Hh two law
est and most brilliant reigns in Eng
land were those of Elizabeth and Vic
toria. The greatest reign in Russia
was that of Catherine. In Austria
that of Maria Theresa. In Spain that
Of Isabella, who sent Columbus to dis
owe the New World. Only a short
time ago Victoria queen of England
and Empress of India, and Tsian, EN-
press of China between them were
rulers of over half the population of
the entire world. Boadicia and Cleo
patra we're evidently women who un-
Gerstood enough of the science of
government to astonish nations of
their day. The Bible tells us that
Deborah was Judge over all Israel"
One who was qualified to judge a ma
ton was undoubtedly fit to cast a bal
lot, though we hear nothing of suf-
frage in those days. In England q
very small proportion Of the suffragets
belong to the Militant Party, only
about one twentieth, nineteen TWEEN
tieths are quietly, d~eterminedly dig
niled al they are anywhere.
Surely no one would be so unjust
as to denounce the Prohibition party,
because Carrie Nation used a Ratchet.
in her career for ~notoriety. It is not
yet a hundred years since the first
college for women was established UNI
der the guidance Of Mrs. Emma VIII
lard. People who read the history of
that time know that much oppositienI
and ridicule. was brought to bear upon
higher education for women, and so
It was against giving them property
rights and other. ad~vantages< She
has never been. denied the right to pay
her full share in the expenses of the
government! ...ea =, -,
In a recent issue of the Stats lei
tung, Herman Rider says, II confess
to a belief that women should have a
direct voice in the control Of affairs.
The producer should have a say in.
the thing he or she produces. Women
produce human life, and war destroys
It. If woman had a large voice in the
counsel of nations there would be no
dictate. there would be nc shibboleth,
no war slogan, nc dream of necessity
Of empire which would lead her into
the sacrifices of that life of which she,
and she alone. knows the real value"
The advantageous changes secured
for women have not been the result
of a demand from the majority, but
by the continual effort of a persistent
few. The minority are thinking, talk
ing and working, working, working
In conclusion their efforts may be
illustrated by the following story: A
little girl was much distressed be-
cause her brother persisted in setting
traps for the birds. Finally she told
her Sunday school teacher that she
had made the traps a subject of pray
er, and felt quite certain that no more
birds would be caught in them.
'eWhat. did, you say in your .prayer?'
asked the teacher. The little girl an
sweredi .&s.@ t-t
First I asked the Lord not to let
the birds get caught in the traps, and
then I asked the Lord to destroy the
traps, and then I went out and kicked
the traps all to pieces"
LILA RIPLEY BARNWELL.
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