The Pulaskian., 1915-04-09
MANS VIEW OF WOMAN SUE
 TRACE.


 Ii woman suffrage would do all that is claimed for it; if it would even furnish more adequate means through which woman could get a broader con- ception of public affairs; if it would even add or enlarge the rights and privileges which they now enjoy, l hardly think there would be a dissent ing voice.
 Would the working girl be helped in her earning capacity In all the poor ly paid trades, there is all over-supply of working girls and their wages are regulated by the supply. This has been proven in non-suffrage as well as slf- trage states. In trades where women command the same wages as men, it is due to the facts, first, that there is not an over-supply of women appli- cants, and, second, that their work is equal to that of man. But this is sell dom the case. Women workers have been placed side by side with men in the government workshops and offices and elsewhere, but the work they do does not reach the same standard of mans work in quality or quantity. It is almost physical impossibility
 In Washington, D. C., a non-suffrage district, man earning only ST a week was imprisoned because he would not give two dollars a week of his meager earnings toward the support of his wife, who was wealthy. In contradis- tinctioH to conditions in a suffrage state, where statistics show that in 1910 six men sued for and obtained di- vorees from their wives on the ground of non-support. The latter situation is only found where suffrage exists.
 Where women are disfranchised in order that husband may transfer the title to piece of property he owns in his own name, he must first have the consent of his wife and her acknowl- edgement to the deed of conveyance, while woman can alienate her proper ty without the knowledge, consent or even against the will of her husband However, in suffrage state, husbands also enjoy this property privilege along with many others which they have not now. Truly Woman Suf- frage" means Woman Suffering"
 When woman casts her ballot for one cause and her husband casts his for another, it creates dissention in the family and will continue until hos. tile feelings spring up between man and wife, and then the divorce courts are the only alternative. On the other hand, however should it be contended that woman would vote like her hus- band, it would show her dependence and would leave man as the official lawmaker.
 Again, should woman vote for the passage of particular bill and sue ceed in getting it carried over the heads of majority of men, who re- fused to recognize it, who, then, may ] ask, would be called upon to enforce it? Would women don military togs and compel arf observance of their pet measure? Or would they call on man to have that particular law enforced? Here physical power exhibits itself again. Further, woman would be com pelled to call upon the very men who refused to acknowledge it as a law with, of course, no results. Thus the inability of woman to make laws to govern the country manifests itself.
 When woman lowers herself to go to the polls to cast her ballot, mixing with all classes of mankind, she like wise lowers the high standing of her sex.
 One of the most obvious reasons for corrupt politics today is the ignorance of the voters on current topics and business matters. While it may be true, as contended by suffragists, that their enfranchisement would encour- age an interest in public matters, yet, nevertheless, it would furnish them with no other means of learning than they now have, and If woman would only equip herself with a full knowl- edge of commerce, war, politics, tar ifs, etc, she could, with her powerful influences over man, move the world Rut the moment she attempts to force man into doing some act, her refining influence over him must pass away.
 Would Queen Victoria have been an abler sovereign if she had lived under the rule of equal suffrage? Would Mary, the mother of Washington, have been able to do a better part by her child, who said, All that I am, my mother made me" if she had been a voter?
 It is well known that one of the chief refining elements of society is