Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-23
ARGUING WITH THE LADIES.

4 voting. their time and energies 10 tue
cause they have so ardently espoused, !
will talk in Americas tonight in ia
for of equal suffrage for women.
The subject of one of the addresses
will be America Safe For Democracy
! Through The Democratic Party"
We suppose that an effort viii be
made to show that the Democratic
rarity should endorse equal suffrage,
and work to secure it, and that by do
ing so the panacea will be found for
all political evils,
We do rot believe the Democratic
IIarty will ever align itself with equal
suffrage, not become the sponsor for
It, not so long as the South is the
dominant force in the Democratic
party
Still, if these suffrage sisters desire
10 make politicing their business, it is /
no personal concern of ours. How
ever, we do not mind saying theirs is !
an example that will not inspire other
women in this section of the country
to follow in their footsteps. Nor
vii, it impress the menfolk. Repre-
centing as they do the more militant
aspect of suffragism, the pickering
phase Of it. they are least calculated,
anyway. to appeal to sympathetic
ears.
They are too deeply stepped in their
doctrines to be moved one whit or jot
by any argument or logic, but for the
purpose of filing editorial space, we
dc not mind saying to them just this:
TO demand for women suffrage and
civil rights equal to those exercised
by men, is equivalent to demanding
The end of your power. The exterior
aspect of woman reveals that she is
l.ot destined for hard physical labor
nor prolonged intellectual efforts. Her
sphere is another, but not less beuati-
full one, She puts poetry into life By
the power of her grace, the glance of
her eye, the charm of her smile, she
dominates man, who dominates the
world. Man has strength which you
cannot take from him; but you havai
seductiveness, which captivates his
strength. Of what do you complain
Since the world began, you have been
queens and rulers-and you are to-
day queens and rulers of every home
in which you live Nothing is done
without you. 1t is for you that all
fine works are accomplished. 1t is to
make the world safer, better for you
and for your children, that this war
alter all, is being fought. But the day
on which you become our political
equals you become our rivals. Take
care, then, that the charm which CON
s.ltutes your whole strength shall
not be broken. For then, as we are
, incontestably the more vigorous and
: the better equipped for the sciences
: and the arts, and peculiarly more sol
Tor the struggle in the muck and
mire of the political arena, your in
fcriority will appear You now have
ilne role to play, since for men you
represent the whole seductfveness of
life, the illimitable illusion. the
eternal reward of our efforts
= But these ladies, who are here with
US this evening, are not interested in
that They want the vote, and they
won't be satisfied until they get lit,
and in their efforts to obtain it they
do not in the least mind leaving their
, homes, their work, their families and
going into strange places and anon
strange people. Nor do they mind har-
assing president who is engaged in |
the mos awful, the most responsible,
; the most awful the most responsible.
! f"onted the executive of any nation.
=" NO EARLY PEACE IN SIGHT.