Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-02
GIVES HER REASONS
WHY SALOON MEN OPPOSE
WOman's Suffrage The U S. Needs
No Pattern For Its Own Ideals.

Company.
The suffragettes argue that women
should be given the vote because ALL
saloon men aud brewers are OPPOSED
to womsn's Suffrage.
If their statement be true the e
must be rea on for this UNANI
NOUS opposition to equal suffrage
and it would be well for rs to consider
! this reason namely, these men see
vastly more of the women of the un-
derworld land sad 10 acknowledge the
women of the underworld are with US
in large numbers) and seeing them,
knowing them, they fully realize the
power for evil these women can WELD
If given the vote
These men, though they are willing
to make living in such an ignoble
way, though their traffic is in human
souls, may still be able to see and ap
preciate womanhood in her proper
sphere.
If we as anti-suffragettes should
blush because THESE men espouse
our cause, then the suffrsgettes should
blush more deeply because FALL So
CIALISTS, and all FEMINISTS are
ardent supporters of the suffrage
cause.
The socialists advocate votes for
women. We are not surprised be-
cause their policy is to disrupt every
thing.
the feminists, ], being a woman,
decline to discuss their movement, but
il will suffice to say their doctrine is
even worse than the liquor traffic
Please, do not think am not in
favor of National prohibition, as /
am most eagerly waiting to see this
stupendcus amendment ratified by the
required number of states.
Then will we come nearer making
our country AMERICAN, as we sll
know that the liquor interests are
principally in the hands of foreigners.
Every legislator who votes against
this amendment is an ally of The
Kaiser, as everything that tends to
lessen our man power, that robs our
country End the countries of the Allies
of the needed grain is aiding the foe.
Let US be Americans.
In looking over the roll call of the
sutfrsgettes we find the large majority
of them to be foreigners. We are
finding it difficult problem to cope
with the foreign element in many
ways at this time. We are learning
that we are race of moDgrels, and
it would be we'll for Americans to con-
slider seriously the motives of this for
eign element. The suffragettes want
the vote because the Englishwomen
have been given the vote. In 1776
we declared our independence and
have been thinking all these years
that our form of government is super
Tor to that of England, and have prided
ourselves on our advan:ements, and
achievements. Are we to retrograde
now?
Have we House of LoIds' to sit
as check on our politically ambitious
women?
They tell US that Russia has given
the women the right to vote. Poor
Russia! Do we for a moment want
OUR men to have so little respect for
US and the marriage VOWS as the aver
age Russian men have for their wo-
manhood?
If you read the history of Russia's
social life am sure you will not want
our men to be like hers.
should look for a pattern where
brighter threads we're woven in the
fabric of manhoods' ideals and resrect.
AS to Norway 1t has been said by
one who knows that Suffrage instead
of working for good has been turned
into opposite channels because voting
women of the uneducated class and
those Of bad character outnumber the
higher type. This has caused disas-
trous results, and now the higher class
women are bitterly opposed to uni
versal woman suffrage"
We Of the United States do not
have to ask of any other country a
pattern for OUR ideals. and to ask for
the vote is an acknowledgment that
women have not grown to the fullest
ralization of the worlds conception of
her ability am worth without it. it is
to belittle cur splendid mothers.
Have our women not given TO the
world men of the most lofty ideals
Washington, jefferson, Alexander,
Hamilton, Franklin, Scott. Taylor,
Calhoun, Clay, Webster, Stonewall
Jackson. Lee, Grant. Lincoln, a long
line of inventors, jurists. etc., down to
the present day.
Our women did not 60 abroad for the
fathers of these men, and neither do
we have to go abroad for the ideas of
how to govern men now.
We do not need the vote, as
1.-THE hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
Was not an American woman the
mother of him who is recognized as
the foremost statesman of. today
Woodrow Wilson? IL the past is so
full of such beautiful, success why
seek to change the regime for one cal.
cuIated to rob woman of her oppor-
tunities and thrust upon her the duties
and responsibilities that rightly be-
long to man?
1t has been said that the Maryland
legislature will pass a Woman's Suf-
frage Bill. do not believe this, az |
feel sure that majority of our repre-
sentatives are descendants IF the old
settlers of Nd. who are proud Of the
part our women have always taken in
maintaining her dignity. do not be-
lieve the msjority of our legislators
are foreigners either by birth or SYM
pathy.
Hoping the dignity of our woman.
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