Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-01-27
PEOPLES FORUM.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
A reply to The Wolf Run Phi
losopher.

lOSOpner.
! Throughout the pages of his
tory a woman's sphere of useful
ness, and as a dominant power
for good has been in the home
and it's surroundings. Abra-
ham Lincoln accredited his
/ greatness to his mother and she
was no ranking, "he-woman suf-
/ fragette." / would like to in
form our advocates of woman
suffrage" that there is a posi-
/ tive difference in statistics and
statements as / will later show
| The various parties who are ad-
vocating woman suffrage thru
/ the columns are not students of
history, but more plagiarists
who are appropriating the thots
and words of others without
even regard for the use Of quo
tation marks among the class
who are warm supporters of the
doctrine are found "1opsided
| folks" from the depleted ranks
of socialists, unreasonable and
uniformed prohibitionists and
the weaklings of the masculine
/ family who recognize the SUI
periority of "petticoat govern
ment" in the home and presume
in their narrowness that all
men should enlist under the
"cahco banner
Through all history, even a.
mong savage tribs the prowess
of power always has been and is
a product of strength, and wo-
men by the popularity of her
own creation has been incapa-
citated from enjoying the lead
ership, which has fallen to the
lot of man. The responsibility
of leading from Moses until the
present time has fallen to man
when Lot and his family left
the doomed cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah it was Lot who lead
the way it was the woman who
looked back to sin and regret
thus showing the inherent weak
ness of her race.
The weight of brain as well
as Drawn stands out in the lime
light of science vastly in favor
of man-where among the fam
mine specus has there been the
brain of a Culver, a Webster, a
Darwin, or a Huxley, Lin
or Gladston where great think
ing has been required. What
women have met the burning
needs of the hour; The adco-
Gates of woman suffrage" will,
robably say they have not had
the chance-under "the sys-
tenn" but facts disprove state
ments. The field of Arts and
Sciences have always been and
open as the air we breath, yet
only the brains of Edison's,
Franklin's and Morse's have
plucked the gems from the azure
blue.
Let us suppose women should
vote in West Virginia. God pity
the woman who would place pol
itics above the sacredness of
home, she belongs to that class
who would rather be men than
women, sucking babes must be
neglected in their cradles by
that fanatic class of mothers
who lose sight of all else and be-
come drunken with power. Oh,
mothers of the Gauges your sac
fee to the crocodiles is human
compared to this. Therein is
political chance for the long
haired poet" for women dearly
love such pharaseology, tn e
handsome man, the dude in uni
form and all such misfits among
the "sissifed weaklings of
mans big family stand a fine
chance to win favor among wo-
men voters and men of brains
would be forced to a back seat.
Sir Walter Raleigh completely
captivated a queen by merely
casting his rick cloak in "duck
puddle" in order to keep her
pretty feet out of the mud. The
Queen only saw his beauty
gold was lavished upon him and
luxury was at his feet, he lost
his head in the end-when his
manly beauty began to fade.
She lost interest. Beauty al
ways has, does and always will
play it's role in history, its pow
er did not cease when King Da-
vid lay in the chill of death or
when from the ancient walls of