Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-27
Woman Suffrage

SIR. Voter
The November 9Th e,sc,,o,
close now, and II Ia To he I'm b " v.ry
YOU are giving this Eubt.p"eu ha,
carcful study in order n ryv. YOU
decision due 10 the women tai
conscientious,y opposed n "mo ar'
suffrage. Ninety percent NJ Soma'
men OF this great countrv , ,ns NO
the utter and absolute unconJi,i mat
defeat OF Germany Ia the ,uonai
Issue before the whole woriS SSprems ms
ana all else should be quay
subord mated to It. Women wSeN
not suffragists see this bur ,s a'
f!sh shffraglsts seem TO be unnS," 's "I'
remove their minds from IN" ~. 70
narrow guage track on which 'sue ,t
are running. 'pey
or course, those strong rt,,
women who have found =, ,nuec nn.u,si
10 order their lives without N rnsnN
any kind, will not haye mncS SVn OF
pathetic comprehension n, n I'm
bJection in any measure s"my s"my
Il for the present thai ses,nn I'IlH
mans bonds are neither poIi,Is,, w.
economic. and not to be broken s,,.t W
a ballot or n job, both The "ho m,@ m.a
chaslng and the "economIr.In .InS.
pendence" lure are to be oondana.'s, ',is,
us unscientific and misleading, h1y,
ing no proper place in a constructyI
pan for woman's real emancina,,.,
Both her subserviance to man .nt
her lack OF interest In abstruse arr"
lions nave their origin in fund.-.
mental sex differences; and the Oh.
Jectton 10 her as an ignorant sub.
servant voter is, therefore, a con.
slant abiding one.
me only woman in America TO-DAY
with anything like a mans Erasp a
/ economic and governmental nroS
lens Is Ida NJ. Tarbell, an avoW,a
ahu-suttrayist, whose writing abog,
the trusts was one OF the potent fac.
tors In recent tariff legislation. Mn
Iarbell thus gave practical demon.
stratlon OF a truth which the sui.
fragette intelligence continually
lslurs, namely. that any woman with
the ability to express herself in gov.
ernment Is privileged to do so, and /,
precisely the same way A man does,
and. that II she hasn't the ability, IN.
ballot can't bestow it, which iS also
true OF man.
Now the average woman will mol
be able TO control her own vote, and
as for influencing that OF other Wo-
men-well the woman leader is nor
yet born who could hold any con.
siderable number OF women yoteu
In line. against the influence OF
male politician OF like calihre who
chose to put his mind TO the busI.
ness of outwittins her.
On the other hand II seems most
inexplicable that women should b,
making all this uproar about IN.
vote just as man is discovering tha,
IN practice the ballot meant very III.
tie TO him. Whether the woman votes
with her man or against him sh.
cannot alter the net results; IL 10
wasteful duplication. II violates IN.
principle of a division OF labor 10
government-a principle found 50
conducive to efficiency and economy
in the conduct OF any business. The
manager OF any industrial concern
who should set two persons 10 DO
what one could do in the same tim.
for the Same result, but at double III,
cost, could not hold the post OF man,
ager for long.
A fact which the suffraget intel.
lect wilfully rejects. Is, that voting
Is not the only, nor even the mos
important function OF goveEnmsnt
The wisest pubHcists have declared
the family to be the true unit OF So d,
ciety and the homo the cornerstone
OF the state. Woman's potential
val0e to the family being greater
than the mans. It was reasoned that
the influence she could WELD In gov
ernment through the family would b
much greater than any she could eX'
ert as a voter or law giver.
Hence the duties OF the govern
ment were apportioned between men
and women in accordance with their
different sex capacities: the HON,
government being assigned to tF
woman and the state to man. Please
read that againi Since the home gov.
ernment antedates the state in every
case-all men having served an ap'
premiership under some womanS
tutelage before graduating 10 the
service OF the state--and since It
the unanimous verdict OF all stu
dents OF social problems that the
conduct OF a nation very accurately
reflects the early social environ
ment OF its individual units. 1t FOL-
lows inevitably that mans failure IN
state government presupposes WON
ans failure in home government
Yet no glimmer of this soclologlca!
truth illunHnes the suffraget phil
osophy, which argues that a vigorous
arraignment Of mans administration
Of public affairs somehow carries q
complete vindication OF woman's ad'
ministratlon OF her domain"
reveals a peculiar twist in womans
reasoning faculty as well as in her
conscience that the suffrage oFato'
appears to think that whenever she
can score against men she scores fo'
glaring reversal OF tho logical Sc.
quence OF cause and effect, and thS.
have been allowed 20 pu1
It over'-int he vernacular-is Is party
due to the masculine conspiracy VI
silence" and partly to the moral COW
ardice of women - whether euL.
fragists or antis-in refusing 10 taG'
their own responsibility "
the premises.
Few voters have given this move.N
ment much thought and having Oee"
only approached by those Wild os
lot seekers, will be interested "
learn, that by reading the previous
facts, that after all there Ia some
thing else moro important than nv
mere ballot" 1t Is TO be hopeu
the voter will not allow this snitras.
issue to pass by defaul: but WIN WV
solidly against il.
EhIRI ann MAY BE WITHOUT