Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-17
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Wow whoopl mon compos mentiz
sic semper tyramas" bless my sancti-
fed Stats, if Aunt Mary amt blam-
ing the public school system Of our
country, for causing women to want
to vote. Now wouldn't that bile a
goose egg?
Now my dear aunt, don't you know
that you Anti-suffrage women are the
delight of judges who declare that it
is unconstitutional to protect work
ing woman against mans brutal covet-
BUSINESS you are the protector Of the
legislature who devise and support laws
to make women and their children
work dougble hours because profit de-
mands it. You Anti-Suffragists are
the best friends of the whiskey man
ufactures count upon you to keep the
vote from women. 1t is the whiskey
dealer who willingly supply money
for your antisuffrage campaign. You
want to fasten little girls to machin-
cry in cotton mills, ruin their bodies
with nerve exhaustion and curse the
generation of which they are to be
mothers. You want to harness wom-
en- to machines that will wear them
out before they are twenty. When
you anti-suffrage women dress your
selves neatly, powder the lips Of your
noses and go to your meetings you
supply the whiskey sellers and the
rotton politicians with ammunition To
fight against votes for women. Do you
favor this class Of men? You want to
keep women harnessed to cooking
stoves, serving machines canning fac
tories, cotton mills, and scrubbing
brushes. And you say she should be
happy and contented. Where would
you be if the working men were not
allowed to vote? there was a time in
the United States, as you know, when
the working men was not allowed to
vote, and that day existed long after
the Decoration Of Independence. The
worken once had to own certain
amount Of property before he could
vote, and on that day when the ordi-
nary working men was not allowed to
vote, his "betters" gave the same ar
gument against women voting. For
one prosperous man, there are ten
workers. For one anti-suffrage lady,
with nine kinds Of jewerly and seven
teen kinds of perfume to make her
nuisance, there are ten women, wives,
daughters, and mothers of working
men. Don't you think the woman who
runs into the street to keep her child
from being crushed ought to be able
to vote as regards the central Of
streets? Don't you think the women
who scraps together the money to pay
the rent, while her husband lays
around drunk, should have vote to
help remove the curse of hight rent,
high taxes and drunkness ! say give
the women the ballot, add to the in
telligence of the voters by including
women, make this county really re-
public, by freeing one-half of the pop
ulation from a condition of slavery.
You said if the men did not have sense
enough to run this government they
had better get out. Well ] hereby
extend hearty invitation to the pres
ent class of men in office now, to hit
their feet so the women can come in,
and fumigate the offices and clear
away the muss the men have made
Now aunt you know excuses are the
easiest and cheapest things to find,but
for goodness sake don't let your dis
eased mind get the best of you, and
blame it all on the public school sys-
tenn.
Yours for equal suffrage,
WOLF RUN WRITER