Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-06-01
MAN AND WOMAN BOTH BELONG
IN THE HOME, BUT BOTH
MUST HAVE PLEASURES
Miss Flora Dunlap
President of the Iowa Equal Suffrage
Association.

ASSOCIATION.
Someone has said that woman's
suffrage is with most people mat
ter of emotion rather than intellect.
That people feel about suffrage
rather than think about it.
The old arguments against suffrage
which are still heard in some places
prove this; women belong in the
home; women have not time to vote;
women will be contaminated by going
to the polls; women are represented
by men.
Such arguments are largely the re-
suits of prejudiced feeling, not think
ing Women do belong in the home,
and men belong in the home also.
Both leave it at times to carry on
other duties and professions.
Women leave their homes for mar
keting, for church going. for mis-
sionary meetings, shopping, visiting,
for any number of duties and diver
sions Leaving home once or twice
year. for the purpose of voting will
not add materially to the number OF
times women go outside their homes.
They will vote in the precinct in
which they live and will be no more
contaminated by meeting the men
than in meeting them on any other
occasion.
II politics are so dirty, women are
the scrubbers of the race, and should
be on their jobs.
long article appeared recently
in an Iowa newspaper, in which IL
was said that women are not class,
they are q sex, whose interests are
represented inevitably and automatic
ally by the men in their social group.
III the interests of women are rep
resented automatically and inevitably
by the men in their social group.
ought they not to bear any financial
losses of the women of their group
which may come through bad invest
ments. Ought they not in case the
women of their group are sued or i'm
prisoned or suffer any misfortune
whatever, inevitably and automatic
ally to represent them?
Taxation especially is govern
mental function and If men repre-
sent women automatically and in
evitably in the governmental function
of voting should they not in the other
of tax paying?
Men have gained suffrage by sue
cessive steps. One group of men
after another in various nations of
the world have been given suffrage.
1t has always come after a struggle.
No where, so far as l recall, have one
group of men voluntarily given suff-
rage to the next group. and no where
have all of the men of the disfran-
chised group asked for the ballot.
The history of mems suffrage
through the centuries of the develop
ment of democratic forms of govern
ment has been much the same as the
gradual granting of suffrage to wom-
en-. No man today has the right of
the franchise but whose ancestors
sometime, somewhere, struggled for
the right and won.
Eleven states in the United States
have already granted full suffrage
TO women. In none of these states
has there ever been an effort to dis
possess the women of the vote. Each
of these states borders on another
suffrage state. Neighbors have not
been afraid to follow the example of
their womans suffrage neighbors.
Women's votes have not in any of
these states brought the millennium.
Nobody ever believed they would.
Women alone do not vote in any of
these states, in no state are they a
majority of the electorate. So that
the results of elections in all these
states are joint results of man and
woman suffrage.
Iowa may become on June 5th the
twelfth state to give equal suffrage
to its women. Almost every organ
lied body of women in the state have
endorsed suffrage and have pledged
their members to work for 1t. The
tnta 30 y, t..lN
with 1900 members, the State
Teachers association, with $4,000
women teachers. the State Grange,
the State Federation of Labor. the
w. C.. T. IT,, the Registered Nurses.
and other organizations made up
wholly or in part of women have
asked for the ballot.
The men and women who live In
Iowa are back of the suffrage cam
paign and for this reason the result is
hopeful. Every county in the state
has a group of workers, and these
workers are representative men and
women In their own communities
Much help has come to the State as
ISOLATION from neighboring states,
and in the last month of the campaign
a large group of well known men and
women will tour the state speaking
i'm every town.
The Iowa Mems League for Wom-
an Suffrage promises to help for the
election day work.
The men and women OF Iowa are
alive to this issue and the suffrage
workers of the state and the women
of the state as whole have every
reason 10 be hopeful of the result on
June 9Th.