The Washington herald., 1915-07-11
THIRD SEXIS
SUFFRAG|ST AIM"
So Says Mrs. Mary B. Mahon,
of District AMT" Or
ganization.
PREDICTS BITTER FIGHT
Declares Men Are Beginning to Realize
Women Are Trying to Elbow
Them Aside.
PREDICTS BITTER FIGHT

suffrasists who clamor for the vote
and all the rights enjoyed by men
really are seeking to bring into exist
ence third SEX" according to Mrs.
Mary B. Mahon. of the District Asso-
citation Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
Mrs Mahon. in a letter to a suffraGist
friend In Florida, declares that a sex
war has been declared. and that women
soon will rue the day they started the
conflict. Mrs. Mahon says:
81 was not at all surprised to kno'-
that you are suffragist I know what
a disappointment your life has been tC
you. Many women disappointed in tia:
wa are apt to turn to suffrage, think
ing it will make up for their disap
pointments.
You como to the crux of the whole
question when you say because / hau
the misfortune to be born a woman For
my part l cannot imagine true woman
rebelling against God because she was
not born man. In all my life and in
all my trouble and worry / have gone
through the one thing I have been
thankful for has been that ! was not
born 4 man. Do you for one moment
think that having the vote will give you
The many attributes you seem to envy:
That as Il man you would have had 4
more successful or useful life? Are you
the laws of man?
Motherhood Feeling Strong.
| Again. I cannot imagine how all!
woman can wish to give up her potential
motherhood. her instructive mother love-
even if she has been denied the martyr
dom of motherhood. The God given in
stinct is, or should be. there. Men love
their children, and are proud of them
' and of heinz no fa pf ho
loved wife has given them. but it is not
possible for them ever to know or feel
the thrill that comes to mother when
she holds in her arms her baby-hers ard
the mans she has given herself to. Part
of herself and of him.
| Now you come to taxation without
representation. the slogan of the colonists
OF NE. There is absolutely no connec-
| ton between the conditions then and
| now. The colonists had no representa-
tives in the British Parliament. and the
| more they taxed the colonies the less the
! Englishmen had to pay on their own
/ property. Now all this is altered. The
| representatives themselves, as we'll as
| their constituents. must pay the tax i'm
| posed in exact proportion to their wealth.
Therefore. it does not seem possible that
| taxes will be laid where the public good
| does not absolutely demand them. No
| injustice is possible. as the men voting
| the tax pay the larger part. Only about
one-eiGhth of the direct indirect taxes
are paid by women of voting age. as the
men who vote the tax pay seven-eiEhths
! of them. how can women be unjustly
taxed?
Feminism and Suffrage.
AS to being a relic of ancient barbar-
Ism. it is not the taxation question but
what some call the progress of feminism
the twin of suffrage We are all like
flock OF sheep and follow the bellwether
| the leading suffragists are femmists, and
hand-in-hand with the socialists. and
could not exist without them. Do you
realize what the two mean and what
they will lead to? If you will take the
time and trouble to look into the matter
and study it well you will see that il
! will lead to barbarism sure enough. It
Is making the men lose all their old time
respect and honor for womanhood. maxi
ing them take the attitude. IF you want
the vote and want equal rights, then
stand up and take it like a man.
THE women even now are doing their
best to elbow the men out of the way,
and the men are beginning to realize
it. and that it is a sex war. and that
many of the women would like to bring
into existence a third sex.
IF you will look up the property laws
in the different States you will find in |
almost all of these the laws favor the |
woman. In few of the man-suffrage |
States can a man sell. will or deed his |
real estate without his wife's consent |
1t is all subject to his wife's right OF |
dover. On the other hand the wife can ]
do as she pleases with her own prop |
erty.
Question of Protection
You say women need the vote for |
their protection. Pray tell me from
whom they need to be protected? From |
their fathers. brothers. husbands or low |
ers? Another thing, if, as you seem to |
think. these men are so bad and that |
We women need to be protected from |
them. how is 1t that they are so bad |
and vile; did not each one have a mother? |
Did not the mother have them from the |
time she gave them birth and have the |
training of them? Did she not give them |
the father they had, and II he was not |
a fit man to be he father. was it the |
fault of the man that his mother gave |
him a bad father. and gave him the bad |
tendencies he inherited from that father? |
cit seems to me, on the whole. the |
women have the best of 1t all around. !
No doubt We women have a hard time |
you find bad men You can find bad wom-
en- to match each bad man. II only |
the mothers would do their full duty
there would be little so-called need of
the votes for women 1t would be much
better to sweep before our own doors |
before We try to teach our neighbors