The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-02

Gated. 1t has been found that education
does not tarnish their purity or destroy
their innocent loveliness. The innocence
OF Ignorance has deprecated.
IL has been demonstrated. furtner-
more. that women can lecture, write
books and even practise medicine and
law without unsexing themselves and
without disqualifying themselves as
wives and mothers.
These things are being done. and ] am
told that women have actually lone very
creditable work a. poets and painters.
II has come to me from reliable sources
that one woman by the name OF Rosa
Bonheur painted some pretty good pic
lures. Also 1t has been noised about
quite n good deal in recent years that
n certain Nine. Curie in France discov-
cred radiurn and opened up the only
gateway for understandings the true con-
stjtutjop of matter. Another woman.
whose mar ! do not recall for the mo-
ment. was, I believe. about the most
capable mathematician that ever made
astronomical calculations.
II seems rather curious to me That
women who ha We shown themselves capa-
bic of such intellectual prodigies shouid
now he excluded from the franchise,
while the merest scum and sCurt OF INC
male sex may vote.
Stem after step women have been ad-
vancing In recent years. Barrier after
barrier between them and Justice has
Yielded TO their assaults. and now they
are battering at the last tntrencnfnent
of male ignorance and injustice lying
between them and equal rights with men
Let us hope and let US vote FOR them
that they may win.
When ! write a speech or writ" n book
or do any piece Of business. my best.
most conscientious. most helpful and
most capable counsellor Is my wife. !
consult her on all subjects.
II were Governor of any State or
President ~ the United States. she
would still he my chief counsellor and
my chief helper.
Consequently. when I go to the polls
to vote. aud take my place In the line
in front of the ballot box with Ratty
the town %drunkard. with Billy the Bum.
with Black sammy Souse the hod car
rier. and with Skinny Jack the human
derelict, ] cannot help linking that my
wife would he able to vote quite as In
diligently and honestly as those dihpi
dalian specimens Of human architecture
Would 1t not he n big, Esrerous thing
OF the men OF New York state 20 enfran-
chlse their woman folks? Let us see
When a maynard husba nd. hrotha. son,
steals the purse Of wife, sister. mother,
and under pricks of conscience returns
It. we do not look upon the returned
money az "a gift or the act as "A gener-
Gus thing. II Is n felonious thing to bar
women from the ballot box. The right
TO vote is already theirs. The extension
of the franchise to women is not a dona-
ton. II is not a favor. " IL merely
Justice. II Is "A duty to them and to us.
IL IL possible that justice to women can
he Injustice To men. that woinan's rights
/ would he mans wTDuus'
II Is high time for us to write In the
history Of New York state that the men
of the state have e~nfranChised the
women. and thereby taken the final step
forward from a government still par
TALLY barbarous to a government with
tho last big relic Of barbarism elimi-
mated. "A government i'm keeping with
modern ideas OF civilization and en-
l~ghtcnnent. HUDSON MAxfA.
RRooKLYS, November I.