The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-09-26
HELLO! OKLAHOMA
Here's Our Message to You. We'll
Watch for Your Answer on
November s, 1918.

November 5. 1918.
Culture Is dust and ashes II the spir-
itual foundations are not well laid, and
II takes two, man and woman. TO
lay those foundations. - DOROTHY
cANFiELD.
Women are enduring taxation with
out representation, and morally. polit-
ically ard economically we are on an
uneouailty with the man who cleans
out the furnace or sleeps In the back
Of a wharf saloon.-FANNiE HURST.
! have been asked why I believe in
Woman Suffrage. One might as well
ask why believe In the sun or the
stars or the ocean. I believe that wo-
men should vote because they are wo-
men. just as believe that men should
vote because they are men.-BRANp
WhITLock.
regard the enfranchlsement Of wO-
men and the extension Of suffrage to
them as the next step. and one Of the
most Important steps toward the reali-
mocracy is more than a political faith.
II Is u religlon.--DR. FRANK CRANE.
II the anti.suffraglsts really think
that their sex as n class Is SO deficient
In moral competence, would they not
better give their energies to educa-
tlon and social working campaigns
designed to improve SO deplornble
condition? 1t seems to me that would
be bigger and finer work than
fighting to block of political self-ex-
preston from millions Of Woodworking
and intelligent women. women who
need this expression. want 1t and ought
to have it.-HENRY sYDNoR HAR-
RIsoN.
Women ought to vote because taxa
tlon without representation Is tyranny,
whether the individual who pays the
taxes wears trousers or pettlcoats. and
because all government must rest upon
the consent Of the governed. It Is fol-
ly to say that women are represented
by the votes of the men of their fami-
ly. No man Is willing to sacrifice his
suffrage and let his father or brother
vote for him. Women should vote be-
cause every question Of politics affects
the home.-ooRoTHY DIX.
To ask whether women should have
the vote Is Just as absurd as to ask
women whether men should be allowed
to eat or not. Women might grant
them the privilege or might not. but
the negative or affirmative decision
would have as little to do with the es.
sential justice Of the question In one
case as In the other. - KATHLEEN
NORRIS.
1t gets clearer every day that We
can't work out lasting civilization on
this tortured earth under any leader
ship that has been tried thus far. The
! only remaining possibility Ii to bring
women wholehenrtedly into the game
of governing the human race. The
women need the discipline and devel
| opment of wider responsibility the
men need women's practical sense to
help them keep things headed right
Every bit of ability must be brought
out and used. and at least We shall
find out, with women sharing the
responsibility, whether real civilization
is humanity possible. 1t ought to be
worth the trying. - SAMUEL MER'
WIN.
1t hasn't been q very great while
since the populace's mental picture oi
the typical advocate Of equal rights
was modelled along the general lines
of the iron -jawed lady In the circus
the rambunctious female demon
half-freak and balf-pest. wearing
her hair and her skirts short and heI
tongue and her feet long. This per
son never really existed at all. We have
done little advancing along this line
our education has been broadened. VIZ
have seen some Of the best-looking
best -groomed, smartest women In the
land getting behind the Cause and
showing 1t until today we all know
whether or not we are willing to &C
| knowledge II, that before many year,
pretty much all over this country the
suffrage is going to be enlarged at one
end and narrowed at the other-en
larged to take lot of worthy and In
telligent women as voters and narrow
ed to exclude host of unworthy and
ignorant men.-IRviN 8. coee.