Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-03-02

questions? Co they not more init
mately concern the home than any
other interests? Then, il the true
sphere of woman is thu home, should
che not have the ballot in order to
decide how the mental and physical
health of the city shall be conserved?
In q slightly larger sense the coun-
~ affairs are siso home affairs. Coun-
II governments look after the health
Of country districts. They provide
the roads, good or bad. The children
have to use these roads in all sorts
Of weather in going to and from
school. All that applies to the inter-
est OF women in city government also
applies to her interests in the cleo
ton Of proper county officials. Con-
servation Of health, Of energy and Of
public money is at least Of equal I'M
portance to both sexes.
State affairs are even more vitality
the concern Of women. The laws Of
West Virginia forbid women to have
charge Of institutions which care for
the mentally AFFLICTED and physically
ailing Of their own sex. Il II not
monstrous that only men may be In
charge Of those public institutions In
which only women are cared for by
the state? During his term. Cover
nor w. e. Glasscock desired to ap-
point q most capable woman to be SUI
perintendent of the reformatory for
girls at Salem His investigations
had shown him that there were GER
tain relations between the inmates
and the institutions head that could
only exist decently between woman
superintendent and the girl inmates.
Yet when he sought to name a most
efficient woman the law forbade. The
reason given IN the law for this pro-
hibition is that heads of all state in
situations must be voters. Such glar-
ing stupidity in the affairs OF our
state would be automatically remedied
by the extension of equal suffrage.
Let the male voter ask himself il he
would be willing to entrust the moral.
mental and physical welfare OF his
daughter to the care of any man.
In national affairs the revenues Of
the government are derived as well
from men as women. The burdens OF
the tariff bear as heavily upon one
sex as upon the other. Women are
BY NO means exempt from payment OF
income tax Thousands OF women
who gave their husbands and sons 70
the government in times Of war can
not even fill the places Of the lost
ones at the polls. Their money and
the blood of their loved ones are
equal before the law with the money
and the blood of the voters loved
ones. It is only when women seek
10 have voice in the expenditure OF
that money and that blood that they
are denied. The most ,nsitive nerve
IN the makeup OF a man Is the nerve
connecting with his pocketbook. On
the other hand the most atrophied ana
useless nerve which the lord Of crea-
ton possesses is the one concerned
with his neignbor's bank account.
Therefore, in self protection if for no
other reason women demand the vote.
They understand all these public
questions as well as the men. They
understand the inequalities even bet
ter for they are the victims Of injuS-
lice. 1t takes the victim of oppres-
sion to thoroughly understand the
merits of conditions which cause his
helplessness. Thus sensitized by in
equality national questions have long
been well understood by thinking
women.
There is but one answer in West
Virginia and that is vote for the
equal suffrage amendment in NOv0mr
ber."