The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-06-11
Why is Woman Restless /?
By w o. LelwIa.

BY w D. Lewis.
President Texas Farmers Union.
Why is woman dissatisfied? Why
uoes she grow restless under the
crown OF womanhood? Why is she
weary of the God-given jewel OF moth
ernood! Is 1t not 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
imam 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 graft.
fying to woman's heart than the pat
ter Of childrens feet
Woman lie Ruler Over All.
why does woman chafe under re-
straint OF sex? Why reyiIe the hand
OF nature? Why discard the skirts
tnat civilization has chung to since
the beginning of time? Why lay aside
this hahowed garment that has wiped
the tears OF sorrow from the face of
cnlldhood? In its sacred embrace
every generation has hidden its face
In shame; clinging to its motherly
folds, tottering children have learned
TO play hide and seek and from it
youth learned to reverence and re-
SnARf nh HoN
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 her 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-inlaW was one of
the most powerful political bosses in
the country, that his distinguished
grandmother was one of the ablest
f1libusters in the Genate or that his
mother was noted warrior and her
name terror to the enemy? Whittier
are we drifting and where will we
land?
God Save Us From a Hen-Pecked
Nation.
follow the pillow for a living and
my views may have in them the smell
of the soil; my hair is turning white
under the frost of many winters and
perhaps | am little old-fashioned,
but | believe there is more moral in.
fluence in the dress of woman than in
all the statute books of the land. As
an agency for morality. | wouldn't
give my good old mothers home
made gowns for all the suffragette's
: constitutions and bylaws in the world
AS a power for purifying society.
wouldn't give one prayer of my sanity
|
, Christendom. AS an agency for good
government, / wouldn't give the plea
of a 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 fol
good government in her family Of
laughing children than in the cab
met of the president Of the United
States,
, The destiny of this nation lies II
! the home and not in the legislative
halls. The hearthstone and the fam
ily Bible will ever remain the source
Of our inspiration and the Acts OF thu
Apostles will ever shine brighter thai
the acts of Congress.
This country is law-mad. Why adj
to a statute book, already groanini
under its own weight. the tysterica
cry of woman? II we never had
chance to vote again in lifetime AM
J did not pass another law in twenty
. five years, we could survive the OF
deal but without home. civilization
would wither and die.
God save these United State
from becoming hen.pecked nation
helm us keep sissies out OF Congress
and forbid that women become step
fathers to government is the praye
? Of the farmers of this country.