The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

would not come, there would H.
meals: that in many stores thar.
would be no one to wait on custonsr.
that the great factories in many I'm.
Of work would cease to move: that
children would find few teachers
receive them; that there would b,a
letters. for the typeWriters would ceas.
70 click; that courts would be withnrs
stenOgra pliers and hospitals wirho.
nurses and in short that the grea-
metropolis would be paralysed as Iy
dagger in it's heart. The argllIner.
that woman's sphere in her home I,
thus completely dispelled.
Besides, if woman;s chief sphere
in her home, as 1t is with many or 49,.
brightest and most useful menb.r-
of the sex. they are there doirg
work for the race whose value GA.
not be estimated in raising the yottl
OF the country in ideas OF truth aTi
justice and morality. Why shouYi
| they on that account be discriminate
| against and denied all share i'm IT,
government because they are TIL,
employed in an indispensable work.
Need For Purer Laws.
| mat many women are thus engaged
in their homes should not reStric.
them there and instead Of being ! ALL
qualification is reason why the Stata
should ask and seek their aid and
| advice at the ballot box in seIer-jr-
servants who shall shape legislation
10 give US purer and better luw>
| statutes for sanitation and again
child labor and against liquor sall;I
and other vices which abound larg,l
because women who suffer from th M
Ills can not vote. They should ilz-
a voice in selecting the public ,.r}
ants who Will see that laws t. c.Ir,.
| these evils are put III force under tc..,
OF incurring the dlspleaSurt Of 50 .u-
telllgent part OF the electors. uh.,#
Will not brook or tolerate public S.rl-
ants who neglect their duty Or chItf..
as some officials do now. with tn..
| vicious element.
The Negro Argument
Finally as a special scareclop ~.
US southern men We are told thar
women are allowed to vote il V.i
leopardize the disqualification oil ue-
groes. Whether negroes ar. quaiIIua
i, or disqualified for suffrage drrt,1d.
! upon the 18th amendment and thu
) federal statute for its enforcement.
which is a matter fof the feder;,l
courts. The admission Of women tu
. the suffrage by the State can have no
bearing whatever upon the suffrage
6 for the colored race That depend.
|
D amendment already adopted. In 3t
! but southern states the white wo.
men are more numerous than the
negro men and the negro women COM
blned. Even in those states the
White men upon the actual ballot al
: ways heavily outYOte the negro men
: and our chivalrous men Will surely
e see to it that the white women ia
those states outvOte the negro women
The suggestion that in some un.
Y tntelligible way, If white women are
r permitted to vote this will permit
. negro men to vote who are now dis
qualified has as its counterpart ne
I very lucid and logical statement that
- the little negro boys tie the ostrich
u leg 70 the cocoanut tree and that aC'
1t counts for the milk in the cocoanut'
t. Omens OF Success.
IL Those who demand that there shsl
n be no special privileges for men Whict
II are not given equally to women, ii
IS sharing the control Of goveTnmen
since there is no distinction IN thel
bearing their share Of the taxes {
lt support government, and the Womet
81 suffer even more than the men iron
80 the evils or bad government. have ha'
&C long and weary road to travel l'l
'e they have made great progress. Th@s
n last few days have been full Of omen
H. OF success. The next 80 days na
le give US proof that the hostile r"~
la are broken and there is before as t-
dawn Of brighter day.
,r In the language Of the poet:
Ill For now the deep dense pIurn.
10 Night are thinned
II Surely with glimmerinG Of the
10 moving wind
LII Whose feet are fledged win - !,
10 ing"
OF We know not the hour but the ~.
te is surely ION its way when ~ iii
OF sun shall sink to rest in thee rims"
ne west it shall throw back its ra
er upon a Union the last Of whose stat
ef in the language of the giftel IT.
IN orator. Curran, ''shall stand forth =
deemed, regenerated and disenthrat
10 ed by the Irresistible night Of unlT@T
On Iemanciaption''-in which women