The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-06-02
VHY IS WOMAN
RESTLESS?
DESTINY OF NATIONS DEPENDS
UPON coNTENTED HOMES.
BY w. D. Lewis.
President Texas Farmers Union.

PRESIDENT 4eAdS GCIUetS OLIOC-
Why is woman dissatisfied? Why
does she grow restless under the
crown Of womanhood? Why is she
weary of the God-given jewel Of moth
erhood? Is it not a sufficient political
achievement for woman that future
rulers nurse at her breast, laugh in
her arms and kneel at her feet? Can
ambition leap to more glorious heights
than to sing lullabies to the worlds
greatest genuises, chant melodies to
master minds and rock the cradle Of
human destiny?
God pity our country when the hand
shake Of the politician is more gratt
flying to woman's heart than the pat
| ter Of children's feet.
Woman Is Ruler Over All.
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 beginningsf tine? Why lay aside
this halloweGs carmen. ...:.:.t has wiped
the tears of sorrow from the face OF
childhood? In its sacred embrace
every generation has hidden its face
In shame; clingtng to Its niotheriy
folds, tottering children have learned
| to play hide and seek and from 3ss
youth learned to reverence. and re-
spect womanhood. Can man think Of
his 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
! made ner ruler over all? Why crave
authority when man bows down and
worships her? Man has given woman
his heart, his name and his money.
What more does she want?
Can man find It in his heart to look
with pride upon the statement that his.
honorable mother.in-law was one or
the most powerful political bosses IN
the country, that his distinguished
grandmother was one Of the ablese7
hlibusters In the Senate or that his
mother was a noted warrior and her.
name a terror to the enemy? Whittier
are we drifting and where VIII we;
| land? cs5sG
God Save Us From Hen-Peeked q
Nation. ;ss sss
I follow the plow for living and
my views may have in them the smell
of the soil; my hair is turning white
| under the frost of many winters ana
perhaps / am a little old-fashioned.
/ but believe there is more moral in-l
| fluence in the dress Of woman than IN
all the statute books Of the land. AS
an agency for morality, I wouldn't
give my good old mothers home
made gowns for all the sufragette.s
constitutions and bylaws in the world
AS g power for purifying society, I
| wouldn't give one prayer of mysaintly
mother for all the women's votes in
Caristendom. AS an agency for good
government, wouldn't give the plea
| of mothers heart for righteousness
for 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 q the 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 brighter than
the acts Of Congress.
This country is law-mad. Why add
to a statute book, already groaning
under its own weight, the hysterical
CRY of woman? If We never had a
chance to vote again in lifetime and
did not pass another law in twenty
| five years, we could survive the or.
deal, but without home. civilization
would wither and die.
God save these United States
from becoming a 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 country.