The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-05-27

pan out as we'll
TO say that these people realize the value,
the dignity or the worth of the ballot, other
than as a ticket of price, is to say that the
negro of the South did, when it was thrust
into his hands in the Cos.
There are some of u.s. women born to work
and to think, who have studied the problem,
who have worked under the same conditions
as men, in the business world who have real
lied as bitterly as any sweat-shop worker. the
deplorable condition of women in this coun-
try, and abroad, and who can no more recon
clle themselves to the worth Of the ballot as
a lever to alter those conditions, than they
could see the sense in the compulsory wearing
of a certain style of hat
Conditions are bad, but qoOnaero haze made
those conditions, and they are continuing to
maize thena
When woman took from man the right to
govern his house. she laid down the greatest
right she ever had granted her. When she
began to run after strange gods, when she
devoted most OF her time to the qualification
OF her vanity and her pleasure; when she
turned the training of her children over to
hired people; when she substituted the canned
goods of the store for the home-cooked food
her parents thrived on: when she tried to de-
ceive herself into believing she wanted things
she didn't understand the meaning of. she laid
the foundations for just such conditions as
now exist That all other women have to
suffer for it, is the penalty all must pay
The strldent voice of the sweat-shop keeper
demanding "votes for women is only
equalled In pitifulness by the women of the
sveat-shops echong him, while they pass up
the home life they can not afford to live, and
make more dollars, by their labor. for the man
who plays on this string Of their vanity.
No less illogical, blind and stupid are the
women of the immigrant class, who know
nothing Of conditions outside their own cir
Gle. who have benefited by the great advant-
ages this country has offered and given them,
and who are exploited by the very women
who have made the conditions against which
these women rebel.
For the Irrational Woman Suffrage Asso-
clatlon" to have introduced this element in
their propaganda. is the worst break they
have yet made, and proves beyond the possible
chance of reasoning. their illogical, ill-advised
and unbalanced mode of operation.
Why don't the Suffragettes turn their time
and their talent to conditions which thew can
better. without the ballot? Why not see to it
that the laws of every State are so made that
the wife will have the protection of the State,
IN every sense of the word? Have the Georgia
Suffragettes taken thought on this yet? A
man may desert his wife and children, in the
State of Georgia, do it on the ground of "re-
hglous scruples," and the State does nothing
to him.
Women would benefit by actual prohibi-
ton; California has granted suffrage, and the
prohibition bill has been defeated by the
greatest majority ever rolled up in State
measure.
Nevada has granted suffrage, and the
women have voted to maintain the pest spots
like Reno, where "six months residence is
sufficient ground for divorce"
Let the suffragettes cut out the abuse, and