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

%h"s d~A4ISR THESE &lAaA~~ Any man
VINO claims 10 be a proh.oitiouist IS
ungrateful indeed II he does not
realize that without IN. aid or lnflu-
*nee or women the movement would
not nave advanced anywhere. and
mat With their admission to the
suffrage the enforcement Of the law
viii be made more eTl>lent. II their
indirect influence is good why should
they not exert il direct by the ballot
Their votes VIII never hurt any good
cause.
t2f-Wherever there is a compac
well organized political machine
those who belong 10 il are invariably
opposed 10 admitting women 10 the
suffrage. They have the men cor
rallied and know how 10 h ndle tn
put they are alarmed at the advent
an increased electorate which they
are not sure that they can buv.
intinlidate or control
80 There Is in every community
a very iarge element that are onpos-
ed to changes Of any kind Conser-
vatlsn Is a very necessary dement,
of stability. in any government sut
like all other good things il must he
sometimes out Of place. /. was this
element that delayed AMI SUI
frage' for SO long a time and which
has been fGntins every reform whe-
Their 1t has been the construction Of
new railroads., better sanitation or
child labor laws, or prohibition. or
woman's suffrage. This element is the
rear guard of a r~etreatins army. 1t
delays but it can never defeat meas
ures Of intrinsic merit.
Those Who Oppose.
There are those VINO urge in
feigned alarm that if won en- are adj
mitted to the suffrage that their
negro cooks Will vote. But as We do
not deny white men the right 10 vote
lest the husband OF the negro cooks
1 M yoht ~ ID
continue to refuse the ballot to the
white women on the ground that the
cooks themselves may vote. They
forget that not every women by any
means has a negro cook. From the
best data | can get there are in North
Carolina 5000 negro cooks and about
zoe, 600 white women Shall we DENY
the suffrage to zoe. coo white women
because 5000 Of them have negro
cooks?
ca. hen there are those who say
that women should stay at home and
attend to the children and the house
hold and that they have not time to
vote. II so they certainly need the
ballot badly. 1t takes only an L-ur
on an average for any voter to cast
r his ballot. The farmer, the lawyer,
the merchant, the laborvr, and all
other men can take one hour off on
an average once in two years for this
duty. If a woman can not spare one
? hour for the same purpose to Sc
cure better officials and better laws
2 then she is a slave indeed lat needs
acknowledgements.
t go. The last resort Of those who
i are opposed to women having a rig.-t
S to vote is to say hat they would be in
0 favor OF suffrage if the women were.
r no gave them authority to say that
the women do not want it In the
In the States which now possess
- 1l,,o1 c,,f fro eC nlnonSt nyacf1U he
/ same percentage of women and of
men go to the polls. In North Caro-
. lima we have rarely if ever voted more
than TO per cent of those entitled 10
e vote. These who assume to sp@al
f thu fer the women not wishing t.
@ vote reminds me of an incident re-
e Gently il al eastern county. The
minister was celebrating d marriage
and when he got to the point where
d the woman has to respond, a deep
masculine voice replied 4 WILL The
e minister was embarrassed, and OF re-
n peating the question received the
S same response in a deep bass voice
A man on the front bench seeing his
= embarrassment said "Parson, she Il
y def and | am answering for her.
d The men who so promptly RESPOND
e that the women are opposed to suf.
d frage evidently hin that the womer
z are "deef and deficient"
IS | have seen many speakers get Sc
e Interested in their subject OF become
so in love with the sound or 1hel1
own voices, that they pass many gooC
stopping places. Especially Is this s.
> when one has an audience as intelli
" gent and attentive as this. 1t remind
me of what my good friend, Maj. Hale
a now our accomplished minister tc
~ Costa Rica, told me happened TO hin
T in london. There are many ladies' il
~ this audience who have been Their
le and who Will remember that the un
D. dergrOund train goes round am
r. round. Their cars, unlike ours. hav
Mt seats across the track with doors a
id the end like a stage coach. ON on
il occasion as he was nearing Charm
Cross station, near Trafalgar Square
~ he noticed q lady in the little com
le partment WHO became very excited
I'd 1t is not the custom over there I
sneak to any one TO whom you hav