The Washington herald., 1915-01-24

which government rests. Otherwise the
rich would rule and the poor be slaves,
as has often been the cas-. before men
learned that it is the nun be. of men
and not dollars that deteru mes the di-
rection governmental policy shall take.
OF course money still plays a part.
There are mercenaries as we'll as patriots.
men who will sell their votes and SOL
diers who will betray their country for
a priCe-but they are in the hopeless mi
nority.
Women and War.
But what about women? Don't they
take part in war as nurses and produce
the soldiers. and shouldn't they have a
chance to say whether their sons shall
be sacrificed in battle? Yes, they do
and they should have a voice in the ques-
ton of war and peace. But as the nurse
is not less but different from the soldier
and doing a different duty, so the woman
is not less but different from the man.
and her duty is not on the firing line of
partisan pOlitics-but behind it.
The woman in war as a nurse is a nom
Combatant; her part is not to strengthen
but to soften the strife, to soothe and
heal, not to shoot and kill. And in rela-
tiOn to government, woman's part Is not
to join issue with the political parties
fighting modified warfare for the ad-
ministratiOn of its forces, but to be be-
hind the battle of ballots, the moderator,
the nonCOmbatant, the nonpartisan in
spirer OF men in the fields where force
is spiritual, educational. moral, instead
of physical.
Here the hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world" Woman is not mans
physical eCual, and as long as human
government rests on force. political equal
ity must he based on approximate ply
Sical equality. In assuming the one with
out being able to assume the other, the
women is asking for a privilege for
which she must sacrifice protection. And
protection she must have in order to
mother the race. The different physical
relationship to the child establishes a
vital and natural difference between man
and woman. mother and father that no
amount of theory can alter. Sex differen-
tiatiOn and limitation is not a matter of
mere training. the feminiSts would
have us believe, but matter Of physical
difference
For instance. the man may become the
father Of the largest family. and never
lose a day from the hardest manual la
Dor, whereas the woman certainly can
not become a mother without great or
GaniC changes, both physical and mental.
during which she must have rest and pro-
lection. And II the decision recently
made in the teacher-mOther controversy
namely. that a woman needs two years
leave OF absence to mother one child:
and the statistics showing that the aver
agc woman must bear 4.5 children to per-
petuate the race. and that 20 per cent OF
all women over fifteen. 50 per cent of all
women over thirty-five, and 20 per cent Of
all women at fOrty-five are married mean
anything, it is plain that our politics and
ha rr11al h,-
considerations, and not by the theories
Of a few feminists
As for Taxation.
As for taxation. the taxpayers chief
interest is not in voting but in getting
the cheapest and most efficient protection
This. whether man or woman. the tax
payer does best under male suffrage. Colo
rado. with tw"nty-One years OF woman
suffrage has the weakest State govern
ment. hut the highest perCapita tax rate
in the niOn. Wyoming, with fortv-hve
years Of woman suffrage. has a higher
percentage Of public servants than any
Other State. and even distances the Dis
triCt in this regard. California and Ore
Con. with only three years of woman
suffrage are complaining Of increased
taxation from legislative fads. an emo
tional electorate. and a mechanically
doubled vote
And the women do not want the vote.
and want il less. the more they become
familiar with its real use. Where they
have school suffrage. as in Massachusetts
and North Dakota, we find increasing in
difference at each election, and corre-
spOndingly growing anti-sufTrage Senti-
ment In Chicago. the wompn's vote has
shrunk at each election since they got
partial suffrage in Illinois.
And though tho la
woman suffrage have been all on the side
of increased taxation and expense, with
out any corresponding benefit. without
any good to women or the State, femin-
lists demand an extension of the expert 4
ment throughout the country. The
woman who influences man a thousand
fold more than men influence each other
in the higher and nObler things Of life.
who is represented in her sons as well
as her daughters; at the throttle of the
locomotive. the wheel OF the ocean liner
and in the administration Of the ship Of
state by manhood which puts women
and children first" is told that she has
no representation unless sh" votes She .
has taxation without representation -
she is told and therefore, the feminists
would double her taxation and plunge &,
her into politics she cannot hope to CON /.
troll, in order to give her representa-
ton on a piece Of paper without respon- .
sihility or power to physically uphold it. /
She is asked to surrender her first-class /,
womanhoOd, and pay more taxes, to be
come "the political equal of the second
rate man. And because they are asked .
this is the reason so many tax paying
women are anti-suffrae eists One of the
hest informed suffragists announced n
year ago that the taxation argument .
had been abandoned by all "up-to-date'
f'minists. but apparently not many are
'up-to date because We meet 1t con-
stantly. in print and on platform. as
excuse for votes for women" /
ARCADE AUDITORIUM'S /