The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1915-06-16
WHY IS WOMAN
RESTLESS?
sESTlNY OF NATIONS DEPENDS
: UPON COMMENTED HOMES.
BY w. D. IewIA
{ tPresident Texas Farmer,, Un,o

4r BY w. D. LewIa
q, president Texas Farmers Union.
why Is woman dissatisfied3 Why
2ee she grow restless under the
pwn OF womanhood? Why is she
F1afy Of the God-given jewel of moth
fnood? 1s 1t not sufficient political
eQneVement for woman that future
4lefs nurse at her breast, laugh in
ner arms and kneel at her feet? Can
4mpltion leap to more glorious heights
nan to sing lullabies to the world 8
9reatest genuises, chant melodies to
II master minds and rock the cradle of
human destiny?
III God pity our country when the hand
snake OF the politician is more graft
Tying to womans heart than the pat
ter OF children's feet.
4 Woman Is Ruler Over All.
II why does woman chafe under re-
straint of sex? Why revile the hand
of nature? Why discard the skirts
that civilization has clung to since
the beginning Of time? Why lay aside
this hallowed garment that has wiped
the tears OF sorrow from the face Of
chil:Sood? In its sacred embrace
| every generation has hidden it's face
IN shame; clinging to its motherly
/ folds. tottering children have learned
i to play hide and seek and from it
youth learned to reverence and re-
\ spect womanhood. Can man think of
4 MS mother without this consecrated
garment?
Why this inordinate thirst for pow
er? Is not woman all powerful? Man
| cannot enter this world without her
consent, he cannot remain in peace
without her blessing and unless she
! sheds tears Of regret over his depar.
ture, he has lived in vain. Why this
longing for civic power when God has
4 made her ruler over all? Why crave
authority when man bows down and
Worohips her? Man has given woman
his heart. his name and his money.
! What more does she want?
Can man find 1t in his heart to look
with pride upon the statement that his
honorable mother-in-law was one of
| the most powerful political bosses in
the country. that his distinguished
grandmother was one of the ablest
] nlibusters In the Cenate or that his
mother was noted warrior and her
! name terror to the enemy? Whittier
are we drifting and where Will We
land?
God Save Us From a Hen-Peeked
Nation. s-,=-
l follow the plow for a living and
my views may have in them the smell
OF the soil; my hair is turning white
under the frost of many winters and
perhaps l am a little old-fashioned.
out l believe there is more moral in
n1ence IN the dress Of woman than in
all the statute books of the land. As
an agency for morality, l wouldn't
give my good old mothers home
made gowns for all the suffragette's
constitutions and bylaws in the world.
AS power for purifying society, I
wouldn't give one prayer of my sanity
mother for all the womens votes in
Chrlstendom. AS an agency for good
government. I wouldn't give the plea
OF mothers heart for righteousness
Tor all the oaths Of office in the land.
There Is more power in the smile
OF woman than in an act of congress.
There are greater possibilities for
good government in her family of
laughing children than in the cab
met of the president of tre United
States.
The destiny of this nation lies in
the home and not in the legislative
halls. The hearthstone and the fam
lily Bible will ever remain the source
OF our inspiration and the Acts of the
Apostles will ever shine bI lighter than
the acts Of Congress.
This country is law-mad. Why add !
TO statute book. already groaning |
under Its own weight, the hysterical |
cry OF woman? IF we never had 4
chance to vote again In q lifetime and |
did not pass another law In twenty
i've years, we could survive the Or
deal, but without home. civilization
would wither and die.
God save these United States
from becoming hen-pecked nation;
help us keep sissies out of Congress
and forbid that women become STEP
fathers to government, is the prayer
Of the farmers Of this countrv