The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-12-13
INFLUENCE OF WOMAN HAS
LED TO ALL GOOD THINGS

Ihe great State of New York has
followed the example of the Pacific
coast and Inter-mountain states. an j
accorded the suffrage to women. and
now we may hope that the New Eng
land and Middle Western and all the
other states will follow the example
of New York.
The war has called millions of men
from the pursuits of industry and has
opened many avocations to women,
Doth in Europe and America. and wo-
men have demonstrated that there are
Few mechanical trades or indoor ayo-
cations which cannot be pursued by
them as well as by men. A woman
can WELD saw, or hammer, or trowel.
or paint brush; or drive a team or
guide an auto, or ride a plough or a
harvester, and not work any harder
than she does at the cookstove or the
washtub. She has too much con-
science to be a plumber; but she can
work in laboratory, or a telegraph
office, or design house and superin-
tend its construction. She can try n
lawsuit, preach a sermon, write a pre-
scription, pull tooth, be a journalist.
keep books, sell goods, and act as A
photographer, a stenographer, or a
street car conductor.
A woman worker seldom strikes.
and If she leaves a job she will nei-
ther club nor claw another woman
who takes her place. She has not
often proved success as a defaulter.
though some men defaulters have
tried to lay the blame of their pecu-
lations upon peroxide blondes whose
alleged extravagances have started
them on the road to the penitentiary.
this the men have followed the
'xample of the father of the human
race, who said Lord, the woman
hat thou gavest me did tempt me
and | did eat" That was a nice man
% start world with. Why didn't
tdam speak up and say: Eyes, Lord,
I ate the apple and I'm ready to take
ny medicine"
IL NhS WOliiEi1 MCIG lIt
or the slaves of men, but
seldom their intellectual companions.
The Alexandrian library contained
100000 volumes, not one of which was
written by a woman Probably the
Caliph Omar did good job when he
burned it.
Much of the early English literature
is unfit to read aloud; but since wo-
men entered the literary field there
has been a change. Read George Eliot,
read Mrs. Browning, read Harriet
Beecher Stowe, read Charlotte Bronte,
read Madame Dudevant, read any of
the works of the English and Ameri-
can women authors of the last eighty
years, and there will not be found a
or suggestive sentence in
any of their writings. Their influence
and example have acted upon men au-
thors, and upon publishers, and upon
the reading public. so that an impure
book has seldom found an American
publisher. except for the brilliant and
nastiness of some few
French authors.
The influence of woman has up
lifted the social life of modern civili-
zation. To some little extent ii is
going to uplift Nevada politics next
year. II would be a disgrace now for
4 member of Congress or even men,
Der of the Nevada Legislature to be
drunk in his seat or for judge to be
drunk upon the bench. or for a host
md his male guests to remain drink
ng at the dinner table until they
rolled under it. Yet such scenes were
not considered disgraceful a hundred
md fifty years ago.
Two of the most illustrious sover-
eigns of England were women. Eliza
beth. by her statecraft, solidified her
people and humbled the power of
Spain, and by her patronage of litera-
ure she helped to give Shakespeare
md Bacon to the ages. and to lift
England out of the darkness of me-
lieval night into the light of the CEN
uries that were dawning.
Victoria was greater than any of
her ministers. and from her throne
she ruled England actually as well
Is technically. What American will
ever cease to honor her memory?
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