The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-09-06
HELLO! OKLAHOMA
Here's Our Message to You. Wen
Watch for Your Answer on
November 5, 1918.

itual foundations are not well laiu, ana
It takes two, man and a woman, 10
lay those foundations. - DOROTHY
CANFIELD.
Women are enduring taxation with
out representation, and morally, poit-
ically and economically we are on an
inequality with the man who cleans
out the furnace or sleeps in the hacl1
of a wharf aloon.-FANNl e HURST.
have been asked why ] believe in
Woman Suffrage. One might as well
ask why / believe in the sun or the
stars or the ocean | believe that wO-
men should vote because they are wo-
men, just as l believe that men should
vote because they are men.-BRAND
WHlTLoCK.
| regard the enfranchisement of wO
men and the extension of suffrage to
them as the next step, and one of the
most important steps toward the reali.
zation of democracy. And to me de-
.mocracy is more than a political faith.
1t is a religion.-DR. FRANK CRANE.
If the anti-suffragists really think
that their sex as class is so deficient
in moral competence, would they not
better give their energies to educa-
tion and social working campaigns
designed to improve so deplorable
condition? 1t seems TO me that would
be a bigger and finer work than
fighting to block off political self-ex-
preston from millions of Woodworking
and intelligent women, women who
need this expression, want it and ought
to have it.-HENRY SYDNOR HAIR
RlSoN.
Women ought to vote because taxa
tion without representation is tyranny,
whether the individual who pays the
taxes wears trousers or petticoats, and
because all government must rest upon
the consent of the governed. 1t is fol-
ily to say that women are represented
by the votes of the men of their fami-
Iy. No man is willing to sacrifice his
suffrage and let his father or broth@
vote for him. Women should vote be-
cause every question of politics affects
the home.-DoRoTHY DIX.
To ask whether women Should have
the vote is just as absurd as to ask
women whether men should lac 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-
lsential justice of the question in one
case as in the other. - KATHLEEN
NORRIS.
1t gets clearer every day that we
can 7 WORK out a lasting civilization on
TITS rorrrred earth udeVany leader
ship that has been tried thus far. The
only remaining possibility is to bring
women wholeheartedly 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 he
worth the trying. - SAMUEL MER-
WIN.
It hasn't been a very great while
since the populace's mental picture of
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 half-pest, wearing
her hair and her skirts short and her
tongue and her feet long. This per-
son never really existed at ali. We have
done little advancing along this line;
our education has been broadened. We +
have seen some of the best-looking, :
Dest-groomed, smartest women in the
and getting behind the Cause and
showing it until today we all know, (
whether or not we are willing to ac-
ii, that before many years
pretty much all over this country Tne
suffrage is going to be enlarged at one
md and narrowed at the other-en-
arged to take a lot Of worthy and in
.elligent women as voters and narrow
sd 10 exclude host Of unworthy and
ouorant men. IRWIN S. COBB.