The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-17
THE ARGUMENTS WHY WOMAN
SHOULD NOT BECOME A VOTER
1t l. Not Observation-Disclosures Not n-Irodden-N"
Needed For Self -EXpreSsion-Would DO Nothing ID
Strengthen Temperance Sentiment

temperance sentiment Already Go
we have law enough. We need more
la~w-abIdtng men and wcmen. II our
leading women O. society would set
their faces against the use Of wine
our temperance sentiment would
continue its growth IL spite OF 5cer9
against grape-juice.
The Large Questions.
DO North Carolina women need 10
vote i'll order TO fill their time and
thought With large questions? u
Ii spite Of the fact that m~achin7fy
has taken some OF the producing
| power cut Of the home. it is safe to
say hat women have never been SO
rushed. Sc crowded with interests, as
today. The servant problem is put
ting i women into the ccoh-room
where they can do the most Iunda-
mentally important work. he
science tells Us that the underfed or
poorly fed boy is an easier prey TO
stinaulants it would seem that cook
ing should be lifted to the height OF a
noble profession. But for our wo-
men who do not choose wifehood
there are nov SO many doors of serv-
ice and usefulness there IS no need
ior idle days. To those who wish the
ballot az q mea of upliit for the
race. let me suggest that a society for
the promotion of decency in dress
might De productive OF Immediate
good.
Still again: Shall North Carolina
women clanor for the ballot be-
cause Judge Clarke thinks the time
is ripe,
Judge Clark's Views.
Judge Clark's opinion is we'll worth
considering. bat If ~ may be inbu-
enced by mere man, there are some
notablenanes that might be mention-
ed IN rebuttat. There's DR.. Bushnell
who p~ronounces the movement a "re-
form against nature" And this in
spite OF the fact that probably more
: ministers advocate the cause than any
+, other class OF men. Since ministers
see the better side OF oma nature
they make little OF the Trailer
side. [ now one clerical gentleman
. who IS agonizingiy crying: How
: long, oh! Lord, how lcng?" He
thinks the country is going to the
: bow-wcvs unless the women take
OF Chautauqua fame writes thus:
when about thirty years OF age
> accepted for a time the doctrine o.
oma suffrage, and publicly defend.
: ed it.
: Years OF wide and careful obserya.
= ton ave convinced me hat the de.
. Tand for woman suffrage in Americe
is without foundation in equity, and
II other weil-known men who have
opposed this movement, not from
wish TO Cypress CT belittie Womer bu
from q desire to save the highes
: qualities Of woVanhood for the su
preme task OF bearing n rearin:
~ children"
The Greatest Business Life.
And now / wish to speak for myseli
twenty-five ears ago my conviction
would haye been different from VIVA
they are today. Ia my girlhood / re
sented the fact that my school curri
= culum was not SO high as h a OF tn
:, university. Today l resent the fac
, that l came to the greatest bushes
y OF life so Ill prepared for that bust
" ness.
Out Of ~biundering effort. after year
40 OF that schooling which 1ife's deepe
: experiences give us, [ have Teache
= my own conclusions, have acquire
~ my own philosophy. No word {
Judge Clark's, no opinion Of Spencer
can change me. No nan yet has bee
able to measure the needs Of woma
nature. OF all men, perhaps a wis
ia physician might have the cleare:
right to speak. For, after all, "
AZ can't eyade the primal truths Of OF
existence. and whatever the individu;
81 woman may choose to do, the va
~ majority Of wonen must tread the oil
paths. And. treading them, she mu
NJ have quiet, restfulness, freedom. fro1
lifeS greatest strain else her child VI
ei suffer. Any o~bserYant mother know
'eI that excitement cuts down her child
'st milk supply. A trifing matter: As
m your physician.
IS. The Matter Of Birth Rate.
'ut Judge Clark had something to sa
IN. the other day. about the birth-rate
IS rance and Germany. OF Cour
III Judge Clark is aware that our ON
c3. birth-rate is falling. an u~nprecedentt
thing for 81 great nation only one hui
Ell dred and fifty Years old. Along Wi
ENGLAND {,arTp9nV France q md cfha
Up. of the European nations. we are ia
II ing this declining birth-rate. tn
proving that our modern civilizati'
is gradually killing out that quail
Of W~oulanhood before which saint Al
sinner alike have bOWed-self-sacrifi
all ing motherhood.
Does Judge Clark hope to rene
OF this defect OF modernity hy pushi.
lis women further out into the cure
of life? one masculine SuffragiSt II