The farmer and mechanic., 1915-02-23
Washington's Pot=Bouille
IN the Boiling Pot you have all the news
From Smart Set gossip to lawmakers views.
ALICE MOQUF.
BY ALICE LEE MOQCE,

work equally well"--that it is not |
oiifcuit now to prove to Mrs Dodge.
and other amiable ladies, (who know
and care nothing for the wage earn !
ers struggle for existence,') that
women "unsexing themselves by de- |
serung their homes to compete with
men in masculine employments, is not
a matter of choice, but of stern neces-
sity. OF the women who work, it
mas been found that more than IS per
cent are forced to leave home by be-
ing compelled to support themselves
and others. Every woman who does
not need to earn a livelihood has a
responsibility to every one Of her
sisters who has to work That re-
sponsibility is certainly nothing less
than to look upon the suffrage ques-
ton in its broader aspect. Not as a
personal matter Of what she herself
| wants, but as to what the woman who
| lost work needs to make lighter the
| handicap endured by the weaker sex,
who of necessity must earn her daily
bread.
Representative Richmond Pearson
Hobson states that he is constantly in
receipt of letters penned by school
children in many different states ask
ing him to give them points about
suffrage, naively stating, I'VE write
you, Mr.. Hobson, because we know
you are on the right side, and we
want to win in the debate, so please
tell us all you can"
! My little girl just ten years old and
the others in her class were recently
told by their teacher that they might
ask any question they wished Voleta
after much thought held up her hand
and said, Teacher, please tell me at
what age does a boy become smarter
than ?''-adding emphatically
| 4 iCva'f iv,f hn ~ a III,
at big boy, neighbor's son, who
although three years older, is in her
class. Later at recess this young
man taunted her with the cry, 81
wouldn't be suff! l wouldn't be g
suff." "Of course you wouldn't Jack,
replied Noleta pertinently. mo one
who sits on the back row ever iS.''
). a few weeks later. there was a suf
frage debate in the Sth grade school
: and one of the young debaters uset
the pertinent argument of the small
y advocate of votes for women as on,
1 of his arguments with most tellin:
:, effect
l. The New York Times in it's recen
: diatribe against suffrage insists tha
{ the vital point at issue against per
l. mitting women to enjoy the privilege
e of citizenship is that ''it will max
II women more like men," Why drop
: ping a ballot in box should S
change women it is difficult to under
i stand. 1t is not at all likely that wo
men as a class will rush into politics
even if they are allowed to vote, al
though they are expected to do SO b
: the unselfish gentlemen who feel S
'i keenly the awful damage to thei
y morals of having the vote. Gentle
y men who, many of them, care SO httl
i to uplift politics themselves, tha
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/ they rarely attend primary meetin.
n. Isn't 1t Dreadful? James j. Monta
gue's Latest Rhyme.
g when women write, or paint, or &C
l. or fly in aeroplanes,
H. Or practice medicine or law or us
l. good business brains
10 And do a hundred things besides ths
u men can never do.
H. The world reluctantly admits they'N
en learned a thing or two,
lS But when they say they'd like TO vot
rs as we'll as cook and sew,
SIS The New York Times bursts into tea
and murmurs No, No. No!,'
rk
as Rev. Dr. Joseph Silyerman, of Ne
en- York, declares that the basis Of go
Isl ernment is force, and that its stabl
IN ty rests upon it's physical power
OF enforce it's laws. adding, therefore,
ne is inexpedient to give the vote
a. women" This feeble and hoary co
ne tention about women comes to t
wv front most inopportunely, at tf
no proving themselves the equals of m
tn even in physical endurance and da
" ing. on the bloodiest battlefields
o the war.
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