The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-03

men cannot understand politics. There
Iore there would be no use in giving
women political power, because they
would not know what to do with it,
On the other hand, If the women were
enfranchised, they would mount rapidIv
INTO power, take all the Offices from all
the men, and SOC we would have wO-
men governors of all our states and
Dozens of women acting as president
OF the United States.
Fifth anti-suffrage couplet. Women
cannot band together. They are in
capable Of organization. No two wo-
men can even be friends. Women are
Uats: IN the other hand, if women
were enfranchised, we would have all
the women banded together on one side
ana all the men banded together on
the other side, n there would follow
a sex war which might end in bloody
revolution.
one more of my little coupIets.
Inc ballot is greatly over-estimated IT
mas never done anything for
Lots or men tell me this. And the cor
responding argument is,-the ballot is
wnaL makes man man. 1t is what
glVes MIN all his dignity and all of his
superiority to women Therefore if we
bt1U" co wGmen to share this privilege,
IVY cou5o a woman look up her own
husband? Why, there would be moth
ing to look up to.
Il have talked to many women suf-
1raglsts and / find them very u~nreason-
ape l say to them, here I am, con-
vince me. I ask for proof. Then they
proceed to tell me of Australia and
Colorado and other places where wo-
men nave passed excellent laws to i'm
prove the condition of working women
ana children; But I say, what of it?
ihese are facts-I don't care about
facts. I ask for proof.
Ihen they quote the 100000 women
OF ne United States who are now sup
porting themselves, and the $4,000 mar
r1ed women in the city of New York
who are self-supporting. But I saw
again., what of it? These are statis-
tics. / don't believe in statistics. Facts
and statistics are things which no
truly womanly woman would ever use.
i wish to prove anti-suffrage in a
Womanly way. That is, by personal
This is my method Of per-
suasion. nee I saw a woman driving
a horse. the horse ran away with her,
isn't that just like a woman? Once
l read In the newspapers about a wo-
man whose house caught on fire, and
she threw the children out of the win
dow and carried the pillows down
stairs. Does that show political acu-
men, or does it not? Besides, look at
the mats that women wear! And have
gov ever knoWn a successful woman
knoWn a really truly successful wo-
man president of the United States?
well, II they could they would,
.d W%ui%nt TN theyI Then. If they haven't
g. IAtCS SShIui L AS
tor the militant suffragettes, they are
all hyenas in p~etticoats. Now do Won
want to be a hyena and wear petit
coats?
Now, I think have proved anti
sutfrage; and / have done it in a. wo-
manly way; that is, without stopping to
the use of a single fact or argument
or a single statistic.
l am the prophet of a new idea. No
one has ever thought of it or heard Of
before. I well remember when this
great idea first came to me. It walked
IN the middle Of the night with a
shock that gave me a headache. This
1T. Woman's place is in the home.
Is 1t not beautiful as it is new, new
as 1t is true? Take this idea away
with you. You will find it very help
tul IN your daily lives. You may not
grasp it just at first, but you will
gradually grow into understanding of
II know the suffragists reply that
al u activities have been AXE out
the home. The baking, the washing
the weaving, the spinning, are ali
IIong SINCE taken out Of the home. But
! say, all the more reason that some
thing should stay in the home. Let it
be woman. Besides, think of the great
modern invention, the telephone. That
mas been put into the home. Let wo-
phone.
I'VE antis have so much imagina-
~ 1SSLAAS ~ "S ItdLI
we can hear the little babies in the
Sums crying to US. We can see the
In factories and mines reach |
ing out their little hands to us, and |
me working women in the sweated in
the u~derpaid, underfed wo-
mem, reaching out their arms to us~I
all all crying as with one voice, Save
US. save US, from woman suffrage.'l
Well may they make this appeal to us.
who knows that woman suffrage
might not do for such as these. 1t
might even alter the conditions under
they live. ~ |
W antis do not believe that any
should be altered. We want
everything to remain just as it Is. Ali
g 3 for the best. Whateyer is. is right.
= misery Is IN the world, God has put
presses harder on some women than
others, 1t is because they need gdisci-
oline. Now, ] have always been com-
Portable and well cared for. But then
never needed discipline. OF course.
am only a weak, ignorant woman
But there-is-one thing, / da-nndsr-