Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-08-07
LEADING ", VA,
PAPER FOR WOMEN
CHARLESTON GAZETTE IN GREAT
EDITORIAL SOUNDS BATTLE
CRY FOR SUFFRAGE.

The Charleston Gazette Is one or
the leading Democratic papers OF
West Virginia. It's editorials are care
fully written and have much weight
with large constituency. The follow
ing editorial appeared In the columns
OF the Gazette:
There comes to the editorial desk
a copy Of The Remembrance, peri.
odical published in Boston opposed to
the further extension of suffrage to
women, accompanied by a letter in
Yiting our attention to the paper and
stating that The Remonstrance' would
be glad to receive q copy Of our paper
containing any reference TO the afore-
said periodical. We shall certainly
take pleasure In sending a copy con
tanning our reference.
In the first place we wish to hum
bly, state that in our opinion the sew
enteen thousand women of the 'asso-
+ citation should have lived in an age
when women-often with an infant
strapped to her back plowed the
ground with a crooked stick they
should have lived in that age when
women were considered mainly as a
beast of burden; when women were not
allowed to eat at the table with the
men Of the household They should
have lived during the period when
women were not allowed to sit in the
temple with the men. but were as.
signed to a loft or gallery which was
later given to the black slaves. They
should know something about that
age when women first began the heart
breaking struggle for education.
DO you know, o Seventeen Thou.
sand Women Of the Massachusetts As
ISOLATION Opposed to the Further Tx
tension of Suffrage to Women that If
your mothers and grandmothers had
not fought the fight for women's edu.
cation that You would not now be pub
fishing a newspaper? You would prob
ably not be able TO read one There
was a time when women were not al
lowed to read; when they were not al.
/ lowed to address the male members Of
their households. but must wait in
humble silence until they we're spoken
to- And we say il with all due regard
for the good intention Of the 'associa.
ton, that no credit is due your type
Of woman that the sex is not now
! dwelling in a state of ignorance and
seryitude
What has all this to do with equal
suffrage ?'-Eyeryt Suffrage is
Just one step in the march of female
progress. When women gained reeog-
milton as an intelligent member Of the
home and was allowed to eat at the
table, she took her first step In prog
ress, The right to education. her en-
trance into the active work of church.
of educational institutions. and later
her advent in the business world
these have been milestones along the
way and the next stone will be IN
scribed Woman Suffrage The equal
suffrage movement is not an accident;
it is not crazy scheme evolved by
any one sect or class Of women. 1t is
the natural result Of all that women
have been and achieved down to the
present day.
Did it make women less womanly
to sit at her husbands dinner table?
Did it make her less womanly to be.
come an intelligent and enlightened
comrade Of man. Did she lose any OF
her womanly qualities when she be,
came mans helpmate in church and
school? Did she become less woman
" when she entered the business
world, and from its experiences coined
the gold OF forceful. resourceful indie
pendent character
Does it make woman less womanly
to be mans cqual?'