The Redwood gazette., 1916-12-27


ing the law permitting husbands to fog
their wives for faults of commission or
commission. This reform read ''No wom-
an, over the age of FL years, shall be
whipped by any one, husband and father
included, unless sentenced to be lashed by
public magistrate; then she shall be pub
licly chastised in.the gaol yard as warn
ing to offenders and she shall not be
stripped lower than the waist when such
whipping is administered"
Our great, great, great grandmother
appeared in opposition to this reform
measure and is reported to have said, my
father whipped my mother when she was
obstreperous; my husband, a righteous
and cody man, rightfully and scriptural
ly, soundly whips me when | disobey his
commands and my daughters are no bet
ter than my mother was or better than l
am. How can harmony be maintained in
household if the head is deprived of the
power of enforcing his orders by the ad-
ministration of reasonable and proper
punishment
"That is the kind of doctrine that hits
us right in the midrif and we are sure
Maud C. and her sister ants agree with
me- We are certain if Maud C.'s husband
comes home at one a. M, with chalk on
his sleeves and his breath smelling Of
cloves and she pouts or threatens to go
home to mother, she believes he has per-
feet right to make her go out into the
yard and cut gad for him to switch her
with till she squeals like stuck pig. That's
the doctrine Maud G. and we believe in
implicitly. ~
great German Kaiser has declared that
1o I'D fn hn1
kitchen, her children and her church" ;"
yet there are those who think this viceroy
of Heaven don't know any more about the
matter than a mother who has raised a
large family; we will leave it to Maud c.,
if such heresay is not simply awful?
eff women voted, they would be COM
PEELED to leave their homes at least one
hour every four years. It is appalling to
think of how much hell her sons could
raise and how many Of her daughters
might go astray during her absence, es-
pecially if they were away from home par
ticipating in the affairs of life. We ants
must work this home racket to the limit.
It is true it don't amount to much but it
is the best card we have got and we must
play it and play it hard.
"There is large number of women who
don't want to vote and who would not ex-
ercise the right of suffrage if they had it.
This must be true for Ex-President Taft
says so-how cruel it must be to force
something they don't want on these inno-
cent creatures. Of course there are lot
of men who don't vote, but that's differ
ent we dUnt know why it is different but
we ants insist that it is so, so it must
be so.
"Women are so constituted that they
are incapable of understanding govern
mental problems or political subjects. Make
this strong. What the devil would become
of us men if we publicly admitted that
our wives, sisters, sweethearts, mothers
and daughters, although college graduates,
writer's, lawyers, teachers, preachers, doc
tors, and successes in every field OF hu-
man endeavor knew as much about gov
ernmental matters as male foreigners who
can neither read or speak our tongue, CO.
caine-eating, whiskey guzzling nggers
that crowd our cities or noble 1njuns who
are only one generation removed from the
tomahaWk, scalping knife and breech clout !;
our masculine intelligence shudders at the
thing.
1T is utterly horrible to contemplate
what social, moral and political revolu-
itons might be wrought if the she-stuf
were given an equal voice with us men in
governmental affairs. They might secure
equal wages for equal work; the guilty
might be punished in court of law and the
innocent acquitted; an honest person
might stand as much show of being cleo
ted to office as CRATER, libertine, or a
snide; man who betrayed girl have no
more standing in society than the trust
ing maiden he betrayed; the pimply nOsed
aristocrat who visits sporting house be
placed on the same level as the habitues
of the same; public monies would be spent
on public parks and Fairgrounds instead
Of for campaign expenses; officials might
have to work for their salaries; and in
strict confidence, my dear Maud c., we
honestly think that if the women had full
right of suffrage in every state, in five
years time, there would not be a spot un-
der the dominion of Old Glory where a
man could get legally drunk.
Gail our life we have been run by wom-
en- AS child our mother governed us
!, a