The log cabin Democrat., 1916-10-03

ing another a better chance. There is no peculiar alchemy in granting the ballot which will change the nature of woman and it is to be expected that with it women's activities will take the same direction, the only difference being that then they will be enabled to act directly and more effectively.
 While woman's place may have been and perhaps is, primarily, home, her vision is no longer limited by the front gate and the kitchen door. Home now has broader meaning than when it was a clearing in the forest. In the changed condition of society the whole community is home, and I belive that woman has, consciously or unconsciously, gained this new view point. She can see that there is no Chinese wall surrounding each home, lsolating it from outside influence, but she knows that every individual and everything that goes to make up mu- nicipal life is part of the great so- clal fabric, and that each discord or unwholesome element in it reacts in some way and in some degree upon her home. And her efforts have ever been, whether in state where she can vote or not, to remedy these de- fleets. This work is for the better ment of the community It makes a town or city better place to live in; to rear children, future citizens, in: for the husband and father to do business in. Certainly, those who do so much for the state are doing citi- zens' work; are citizens.
 To summarize: The condition of the world has changed so that society IS now organized; government does not rest upon force alone; certain principles and ideals of honesty and right are recognized as being the rule Tor our intercourse with our neghbors. so that the individual is no longer dependent upon his personal strength and cunning for his safety. That woman and her activities are no long, CT confined to the mere housekeeping feature of the home, but has borne and IS bearing her share of the burden ot business and industry and has shown herself capable of doing effec- tive work in civic betterment, in pub- nc ahairs and matters affecting the whole community, are social facts. Man endeavors have all been along materiallstic lines; whereas, the wom- en seem to have on their hearts as special mission the task of makinp the world more human and unselfish They have been, and are. interested In lines of work hitherto untouched by men. There is no conflict, but the two sexes here, as elsewhere, and as It was intended they should be. are complementary. The result will he better world, with higher ideals: where the material resources arc nil ized and developed to high degree of eihciency, but not at the expense of the masses for the benefit of the un- worthy few. This result will not oc- eur simultaneously with the enfran- chisemenc, but will come through gradual developments; a development indeed, in which the granting of the ballot Will show, in the perspective. to be of slight importance.
 The minds of the leaders of tb;s world are too open and too bright to ran to see these things, and they are too honest intellectually to refuse to accord them their proper value, and when that happens, all inequalities regal, economical, social or political except such as the women allow to re- maln-will be swept away.