The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-25
A GREAT COMMOTIONIN
THE POTTERY WORKS

To the editor of the Sun-Sir:
Surely your turning Of things upside
down shall be as the potter's clay for
shall the work say OF him that made IT,
He made me not. or shall the thing
framed say of him that framed It, He
had no understanding. Isaiah XXX
16
Tho above verse suggests a great
commotion in the pottery works. Tho
kitchen vessels are very indignant AT
their lowly service and want 10 sit on
the parlor mantels as bric-a-brac; the
fine china deplores her uselessness and
wants 10 90 out on the street for lamps
and plate-glass windows; the lamps
and plate glass are Justly incensed at
their constant exposure to Eind and
storm and clamor for the sheltered
places so the commoton and racket
continues until they all forget that
they are only potters clay and framed
for the Masters use.
So when l see our women all In a
turmoil OF unrest and trying 10 turn
the world upside down my thoughts
revert 10 the rebellious pottery YES
sells. The women are clamoring for
the ballot, for mans Offices. for his
work and wage, until often wonder
that our long-suTerlng men don't rebel
also and clamor to rock the cradle.
cook our dinners, demand the crochet
hook, ETC.. and send their restless
women to the hoe, the ploy and the
harvest fields, tho battle fields also
II they dosire more complete UP
heayal. Hath not the potter power
over the clay Of the same lump To
make ono lump into honor and another
into disbonor Romans, IL. 22.
The wise Ruler Of the universe made
man aud woman both vessels of honor.
hut for different uAes-the one for the
outside world and work, the other for
the home and the tender care OF His
little ones. and distinctly gave His laws
in regard 10 them; that, first. las
Christ ia the head Of the church, man
Is the head OF the woman" That
women are 10 be diRcree, chaste, keep
ers at home, good, obedient to their
own husbands, that the Word Of God
be not hlasphemed. Titus. 81, ).
Does It evpr occur to you. o We rest
less women, that you are trying to up
set Gods words and laws? Let MS
glance at some of the dangers from
universal suffrage, Our country ia
already burdened with a vastly ignor-
ant and corruptible vote. for sale to
the highest bidder. Are we to increase
that purchasable vote? With citizen
ship comes its duties Of Jury duty. In
California the women serve side by
side with the men; many cases are I'M
fit for their ears. Would you like your
Innocent young daughter to try such
cases? .- ..-.-
The women claim that they need leg
tslation about the educational laws OF
their children, etc. BY their influence
and calling attention to this, wouldn't
the fathers Of these children remedy
these evils? The suffragettes claim
that they will be for temperance. Why
didn't they give California prohibition
when they had 1t IN their power? They
not only defeated 1t, but prevented its
consideration for eight years. In Reno.
New, when the men had repealed the
SIX months residence for divorce law
the women put II back So they failed
most lRmentably in those two great
states to remove those fostering sores
OF intemperance and easy divorce. /
hear of certain towns in California so
given up to graft and grafters that they
are nearly ruined. Surely, with some
good men, the women could arise and
put out the grafters. but the fact re-
mains that they do not. So what OF
their claim that they will purify poll
itics? Doesn't It rather prove the re-
verse, that while many women have
high ideals, the masses. who are the
majority, have not?
u we can trust our men enough 10
marry them, shouldn't we trust them
TO vote for US? II as mothers We had
the rearing and molding Of them, and
they are such failures" would we do
any better ourselves? So let me beg
the Christian. men and women 10 stop
and think, and not rush forward TO
hasten those terrible days predicted In
the Bible, when the women are to
rule over then.'
A THOUGHTFUL MOTHER.
/, EkinS. ". Va, Oct, 16,