The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-02

10 pass laws governing their conduct
Eighth it is said that there is too
much filth and mire in politics. and
women should not be exposed IN IL
If there is filth and miro in politics
the men put it there for they alone
nave been running the business And
| II is high time We give the women a
chance at houseCleaning This is ex
actly what has happened In suffrage
| states. The women have caused the
| polling places TO be removed from
the bar rooms and placed in decent
surroundings and then they have pro-
| ceeded To remove the bar rooms therl-
selves out of the community.
Ninth, very popular opposition ar
gument at one time in the South was
| that To permit the women TO vote
would he 10 allow the negro women
| to vote AS the grandfather clause
would apply 10 negro women EQUALLY
with negro men there is no reason to
believe that the "chivalry'' will lie
less able TO keep the negro cooks from
the polls than they have been i'll keep
ing the husbands Of the negro cooks
| from voting. They can rot be chiyal-
rouS if they can do less for their wives
and daughters than they have done
tor themselves Besides there are
only some - 900 adult negro women
in North Carolina and 215.o00 adult
, | white women The votes OF the white
. women therefore will be IS zoe more
than those Of the negro women and
or the negro men combined. if the lat
ter should be readmitted TO the suf-
| fraSe by a decision of the United
Srate Supreme Court under the grand
father clause. Indeed, If the latter
I event should happen the votes of the
= white women will be necessary to
: MAINTAIN white supremacy. ] do not
: say that all the white women Will
vote the Democratic ticket EQUAL
Icy tod
: party lines, and the women would
+ scorn the suffrage if they were not
q | free to vote for what measures and
h | parties they see fit. But | do say that
: the vote of the white women will be
4 | Sohd as one woman in maintenance
4 of the integrity of the white race and
+ of the right OF their children to con-
a troll this country.
n Tenth, it is said thai if the women
z vote some bad women Will vote Men
have never been disfranChised because
e there there are some bad men who
n Will vote. And the proportion Of bad
II men is very far greater than that of
d bad women. The records Of your
le courts and jaiis demonstrate that
d Eleventh, there are those who say
It | that women do not want to vote. The
1t best proof of this is that they have
is already achieved the ballot in 81
] many States and countries and have
s. made such wonderful progress as
m have told you, in the last thirty days
at III the States and countries where
We they vote about the same percentage
Nv of men and women vote. In some
States equal suffrage was carried or
" the first trial at the ballot box. IL
te some States it was voted on twice be
st fore they got it. In others thre
ne times, and in Oregon il was only car
is ballot box for the sixth time. for yOl
Sc ! will remember that only the mel
ut vote on the matter. Wherever tn
KS maSure has been beaten the mex
Id morning the women have reOrganize'
a their lines and started a new cam
Id paign. After the recent defeat Of tn
nd measure in Ohio at the last election
We New York newspaper said that tn
re measure had been overw helmingly de
by feated in Ohio. The editor OF tn
es Springfield Republican in Massac chu
e settS with more experience said tha
es that was impossible, because if a
We earthquake had shaken Ohio up S
sts that no more ground was left tina
Of the size OF cart-wheel the wome
" would be organizing on it the mex
no morning for equal suffrage. When
do man volunteers TO say that the VIC
men do not want the suffrage it re
10 minds me of an instance that too
- place down here in Pamlico at a wee
Ia ding. When the preacher got to thf
on part where he asked the woman WI
he you take thlS man TO De your Wtuoe
no | husband" etc, the response came
-, | q deep masculine voice, Il viii
,er Thinking that there was some mistaE
,ea | he repeated the question and thel
10 was the same response in bass. Ther'
le- upon q ii'lio 1oiio" ~ a oHt II II
10 er 't.oarson she ie deef and I am al
- swereing for her" These men see
la to think that the women are deef an
,to deficient.
i'll Twelfth, il is said that politics WI
lor degrade women IL mas not hha liz
effect in any State, county or tow
ere that mas ever trleo L. IL ~ mao u
not movement Woulo not commune
not grow. Suffrage has not degraded II
alt men but it has elevated and broa'
yo- ened them. 1t will have exactly Il
is same effect on the women WIN th
| I'D the will hrAa