Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-02-03
Believes Women Better Not Vote

Wilson Man Examines Arguments For Sui
TRACE and Declares Them Unsound.
News aud Observer.
To the Editor:-The present
Legislature will be asked to sub
init the question of woman's suf'
frsge to the voters. l am opposed
to woman suffrage and l have nc
patience with those who demand
the vote for women on the grounds
t1at there IL no reason why they
should not We believe shat
when a long established custom is
about TO be changed, there should
be some good reason for the
change. Therefore we feel that
the burden of proof is with them
to show some good reason why
they should vote.
One of their leading advocates
has said that d si>gle fact was
worth a ship load of argumant.
We have yet to zee single fsos
that have presented. Yet they
have flooded the country with ship
loads of arguments. For years
their greatest claim has been that
their vote would cad the whiskey
traffic That was the argument.
NV let US calmly look at the
facts. Of the eight States that
we're prohibition up to 1918 wo-
men voted in only one of them.
That was the State of Kansas aud
that was prohibition before wo.
men voted. In 1914 Virginia
without woman's vose went prohi.
bition by thirty thousand nsjori-
ty. In 1912 Colorado voted on
State wide prohibition and failed
In 1914 they voted again and it
carried by a little over eleven
thousand majority, not enough to
make it evective; yet women vote
there In the same year two 9th
or States where women vote, Cali.
fornia being one of them, had a
vote for prohibition aud failed
In the same year six counties in
Kentucky where they have many
distilleries and noted for it's whis
key and where women are noted
for their beauty and not for their
votes. went prohibition.
Again, they claim that women
would purify politics and make
law moro respected. In the State
of Colorado where women vote
there has existed for several
a state civil war between
labor and State officials,
and what ls woman's answer to
this, the same old "If." ''If wo.
men were holding Offices instead
of men things would be different"
They claim that there are bet
ter laws in States where women
vote. We herewith present some
laws recently enacted by Cali
fornia where women vote aud Ohio
where they DO not, a comparison
will show enc to be just as good
and progressive as the ether.
California Workmen's compen.
sation act, Mother's Pension act
Rural Credits Commission to
study European system, Minimum
Wage act, a Blue cloud act, Red
Light abatement act, law provid.
ing for wages being paid convicts.
Ohio, A Blue Sky law, Torrents
system of land tenure, State Bank
regulation with regular inspec-
tion, jury verdict in civil suits by
q three.fourth vote, thirty million
dollars for good roads, a State
Commission for regulating liquor
traffic, q widows and mothers
pension act, a pension act for the
blind, restriction on number of
work hours per day for women,
oonvicts placed under indetermin
ate sentence systsm,
1t has been the pratice of those
favoring woman fuffrage to select
the best from States where WON en-
vose and compare them with the
worst whore men vose. But
wh.n ther, is al honest compari.
Dn there will bs found that there
is no difference. That bring us
back to the question. Then why
should they"
lam not one cf those that think
woman is inferior to man, for
know she is not, and when l hear
men cay women haven't sense