The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17

" -t tA&t V1kAft ana Z
the other private-one TN. sane life
OF nome and family. the other the
mad pursuit Of the light o. love. Here
IN North CaGrolina. one act Of aduI
,ery py the husband Is not sufficient
round for absolute divorce-the
husband must habitual1y cousarf with
d particular oma yet one act Of
adultery by the wife entities the hus-
oand to an absolute divorce. To l,rsr
ana moral men and women. the
ooupie standard Of morals is abhor-
rent. And 1t cannot be b that
a purlflcauon of our legal and moral
code would be- wrought by women
tnrough the Influence and power of
the ballot. George Meredith's bril-
hant heroine, Diana of the Crossvsays,
once Wlttlly remarked: Men NAV
may nave rounded Seraglio Point:
tney have not yet double Cape Turk"
My women soon for ward hat auspi-
clous GoNaSe,
Men of fair mind and just nature
want votes for women To enable them
10 secure equal compensation with
men Tor equal service rendered. Many
men do not recognize or acknowledge
the vital connection between woman's
low compensation and her inability to
vote. / shall never forget the great
debate in the English Parliament over
oman Suffrage; the memorable
words of Lord Haldane. Chief Justice
OF England, still sound their signi-
hcant message: Everybody knows
the position of women, in regard to
remuneration, is not as good as that
OF men, and / cannot get it out of
my mind that this is due to the fact
that women cannot associate them
selves with that force and authority
which is given by the fact that men
possess a certain political power"
The orkln women of the world
realize today, to the fullest degree.
1 4 hn IN ino % r % 49,.
low wages, their social limitation,
their sex dependence, and their Vir-
tual political enslavement. They are
beginning to realize with a sense of
indignation not unmiXed with hu-
mlllaton that the vote is at present
merely an eloquent symbol Of their
implied inferiOrity to men.
A distinguished politician speaking
l IN this State the other day, said that
} he would not assent to giving the
ballot to women until women came
down from the pedestal upon which
southern men had placed them and
| demanded the ballot. [ beg to submit
{ that women need not and do not de-
1 Scend from the pedestal TO which she
has been raised by the chiValry of
Southern manhood, in asking for the
ballot. [ do not favor giving the bal
: lot to women merely because the
L women want it, any more than |
49, Ava c. SLIM Va I1Ai
/ candy to a baby merely because the
I baby cried for it. vehemently main
L tain that economic n social justice,
y and not mere popular clamor, should
: always be the true ground and basis
of political reform. Nor do / think
I it necessary for Southern men to wait
L until all the women in the South de-
mand the ballot before comforting the
S right of suffrage upon them. To para
phrase the language of a great social
= philosopher of today:
I Liberty Untran1nelled.
+ Yes. it is the duty of all whose
q thoughts go before the unconsisten
mass to destroy all that trammels the
4 liberty of women, just as if all wo-
men desired to be free-even though
n we know that they will not fully de-
i serve to be free until long after their
+ deliverance. The harmonious use OF
# liberty is acquired only by a long use
+ and misuse of it's benefits. BY pro-
O ceeding at first to the most distant and
highest ideal we have the greatest
chance of afterwards discovering the
best"
4 By way of manifesting toward wo-
= men a deeper, more genuine chlValrS
: than they have ever manifested in
the pasta chivalry of political &C
ton rathe han of mere social man
, nerism-men today everywhere are
beginning to support the cause OF
: equal suffrage. A lady in another
State recently confessed that she haC
/ never known true chivalry was
until after she had got the ballot. II
u such true chiValry, the men of The
/, South. instinctively the most chivalrit
II in the world. will assuredly not be
g found wanting.
n If democracy does actually meaI
e equal rights to all. special privileges
Is to none: if America rests its claim
Is to democracy upon the assertion tina
Is government depends upon the con
adequately interpreted TO mean: equa
~ political rights to all. to women equal
|; ly with men: special privileges of tn
franchise to none-in especial. to n,
~ single sex
st 1t is to the philosopher, who hold:
S, the thread of history in his hands
that the world looks for guidance an,