Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-02-10
From Mr.. Hilburn.

Editor Register-I am always glad
to get the REGISTER and 1 always
read it with interest.
In your issue Of January 18th I find
an amusing article from the facile pen
of w. D. Lewis, president of the
Farmers Union of Texas. He extolls
the skirts of women as if he thought
voting women wear trousers or over
alls. Woman's influence is also
greatly extolled by the worthy presi-
dent. In reply l quote from an article
by Jesse Lynch Williams: 'As a
single instance the whole world has
heard of Judge 1indsay's children's
court The whole world is now adopt
ing his idea. According to Judge
Lindsay, himself, the whole world
owes this to the women voters OF
Denver, without whose aid the ma
chine would have prevented the
Judges dream from coming true. If
we calculated the far-reaching effect
of this one thing, which most of us
can't calculate, it alone would be
enough to justify woman suffrage and
even suffragettes."
"Why," he exclaims, ''does woman
ehafe under restraint of sex?" Well
we'll cite another incident in answer
to this query. And this time | quote
from memory and | think it happened
in Mr.. Lewis own great state otTexas
A certain worthless fellow forsook
his family and their care and support
deVolved upon the mother and the
Oldest boy, who was later injured, |
think by railway train, and the
mother brought suit for damages and
was about to win when the husband
and father turns up, compromises the
suit, collects the money and again
disappears, leaving the crippled son
and worse than widowed mother to
shift for themselves.
The above incident could not have
happened If the laws Of that State
had not made the father the sole
guardian of his children. That law
/. was made by male voters
And then farther down in the same
column, whether from the pen of the
same author is not clear to me, ap'
pears the following: "God Almighty
gave Eve to Adam with the pledge
that she should be his helpmate, die
he? Well, let's see, Genesis 1;27-2S
$50 God created man in his own
image. In the image of God created
he him; male and female created he
them and God blessed them and Goo
said unto them, be faithful and multi
ply and replenish the earth andssub
due it, and have dominion over the
fish of the sea and over the fowls Q
the air and over every, living thint
that moveth upon the earth.n
And then, if you will turn owe
to the fifth chapter of Genesis, yo'
will find the first and second verse
read like this: "This is the book OF th'
Generation of Adam. In the day tina
God created man in the likeness Q
God made he him, male and femal
created he them, and blessed then
and called their name Adam in tn
day when they we're created.o
Yes, there are are two accounts 0
the creation and you can take you
choice; you can believe that Go
made pair of human beings equa
partners for life, having dominic
over all the earth, or you can .believ
the rib story, that woman was an at
ter thought, and that if God hadn
noticed that Adam was lonely h
would never have made woman q
all. That the joys of mother lov
that have filed the world with son
and story and create the most hol
and noble feelings In the huma
breast are the results Of an afte
thought of Godl
Yes, you can believe that if yor
head and heart are constructed jul
right, but as for me I can't. / mu
believe with the first account thI
God created them free and equa
that he didn't give Eve to Adam an
more than he gave Adam to Ey
They we're friends, Comrades, con
panions and lovers. And the man
woman who seeks to boss the oth'
is abnormal.
F. P. HILBURN, Lewisville, Ark,
January IA, 1916.