The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-29
VOTES FOR WOMEN.
By Mrs. 3. A. Bowman, Of Bluff Springs.

ures up to the responsibilities Of to-
day and one that win measure up to
the possibilities of the future, but you
can hasten the coming Of q universal
brotherhood by giving woman the bal
lot. With the ballot ii her hands this
nation need not be ;lfiong the great
nations of the future, but will stand
as the great nation senind which all
other nations will follow.
Had woman been granted the bal
lot hundreds of years ago do you sup
pose that rs per cent Of the world
would today be engaged in a war Of
determination, do lseu suppose it
would be bowed bensath the weight
of armament and that the millions OF
homeless, fatherless, friendless chill
dren Of Europe would have no greater
hope than they now have-merely the
hope that they may ind refuge with
a generous posterity. This heritage is
directly chargeable to man, but we
must say in justice to the American
man that his ballot has had fiaught to
do with this condition end for that
matter the ballot of ito imam has cree
ated the condition. is due to the
man not having the ballot and since
this is SO then can yot; not see that If
the soft and generous impulse of a
whole nation is for the higher, better
and Brighter things that weinafi's ten
der mercies and always sympathetic
heart mixed in with mans ambition
must create:
From the wool and warp Of bitter
tears
The bright hopes Of future years"
Men have always looked upon
women as being wheedlers for what
they want and If ani not mistaken
they have taken this tho literally and
are assuming that she now viii be cons
tent to wheedle for the ballot, but in
this a great mistake is made, fer
woman is now demanding the ballot on
tenable grounds.
FirstiAghe must share equally all
the III of life theoretically, but as d
matter Of fact, tshe bears the major
part Of the burden. Her duty is, the
perpetuation of the race, the instiliing
Of morals, the meldinlg Of the charA
after and last, but not least, ii. Is she
who stands at the bedside when life
is ebbing and is the lait to look upon
the loved one whom God has called
home from his suffering in a world
of sorreys. And she has never been
permitted to have voice in the regula.
tion in this world of sorrow. Had
she been given that privilege many 81
the spotted places Of evil would moi
now be permitted to shed this flooc
of sorrow.
Woman must work, for 'notwith.
standing man has accomplished much
in the. way Of legislation in the bet.
termeAt Of his own working conditions
he has not made the same advance ID
the distribution of what he has pro.
NuNC0 Will NuC ECSAlt ANAHES nAZn cos
has made it necessary that woman ii
many cases has had to become partly
father as we'll as wholly mother. Thil
fact has stood in the way of many
women marrying, but because the.
have not married it does not follow
they are any the less unit Of thu
worlds producing capacity.
the home will have been past, but hei
ballot viii give her future protection
in that she will be able to demand
legislation that will give to her meT
folks a wage that will provide fol
themselves and for her 700, as it wal
intended to be in the beginning.
There is no one within the sound oi
my voice that equal suffrage can fai
to give aid to, but it is true that no
all women have asked the ballot
Woman Of leisure, who by accident Of
birth have had the strong arm of pro
lection thrown around them and know
nothing Of the dangers and hsrdshipl
confronting the working women cal