New Britain herald., 1918-10-04

their cause with all the power of his official weight; and few will deny that he spoke well. I believe his words to the senate will go down in history as a speech cchoing the amen of leading men and women of the nation. The question coming up in wartime, the president naturally dealt with it as an important War-mtaSUrc; but his speech is plain, strong, and sound from principle, and therefore it will remain q lcuVen for equal suffrage as long after the VIC [ ;S 1t is needed; and on the question of suffrage, his tory must find Wilson in the galaxy of such great men as our immortal Lincoln.
 Contrast with these great men our honorable senator's reasons for op- posing the Anthony amendment! His argument, was, ill substance, the age old, thread bare lind,-the bartIe- field being no place for the gentle sex. women should not be given the fitted by nature to handle the bayonet should also bear the burden of the ',allot".
 This implies, if it means anything, that the kaiser and his animal hordes are better fitted to vote than are our American women.
 Surely all senators will admit that it requires intelligence to vote wise ly and that intelligence is both male and female.
 Up to the present, in the world at large, the female portion of intelIi- gence has been held under foot.-at least in politics,-by the bayonet- welding male portion: hence the present male-War. It appeals to me as quite possible, that when women, in spite of the opposition of men, win tnoir way into politics. government will be so clean and well-balanced that there will be no more need of the sword or the bayOnet; but long after these carnal weapons have been beaten into plOWshares there will be need of intelligent voting, and then, in this moro worthy sense women will prove that they can fight as well as men. When the senator argues that the Creator did not intend that women should vote because Miss Rankin, who now, apparently by ac- cident has a voice in the senate, voted against war he forgets that pacifism proves, that at present there are many men in the world who should be in skirts,-or who, at least, should not be allowed a vote.
 All argument that the right of franchise belongs to men for any spe- cially-endOWed reasons, or, in such limited ways, to women, as men see fit to allow it, progress will put down by the very intelligence which cOm- DeIS progress. Equality of intelli- eence justifes equal rights and the enfranchiScmcnt of women. From this standpoint, if either sex were to be given precedence in voting, wO- men should vote rather than men, for the moral and spiritual represented first by women, surely is superior to the greater physical strength of which men are proud,--~a mere ami nal superiority, but a self-DrOVed weakness. when compared with the suffering women endure without com plaint while men moan and groan
 May I then ask those who base their opposition to WOman's more di- rect participation in all activities that make for the progress and we'll being Of mankind, and who still cling to their time-WOrn ''fetish",-a woman's sphere is the h0me,-to re- member, that the woman who serves her country is not as a rule, the wo-
  she is, on the contrary the woman who provides well for, and loves and defends the true home
 These more unselish home makers now regard "home", in the larger sense of nation, country earth itself, where heaven, not hell, should reign, and they are determined to share with man, at whatever cost to them selves the larger morality of wO- mans ideal.
 As the forces of intelligence exist uncognizcd by mortaIs, so does the power of loves silent unfoldment in and through woman go on in her Icavening life of unseen self-Sa crifice, patience, and endurance. Instances of this fact are acknowledged by all great men. Benjamin Djsrael, aft erWards Lord Beaconsfield, conspic- uOus for his peculiar foresight in great events, attributed his success in tremendous achievements to the sup port Of the mature qualities of his wife. Gladstone, likewise, openly aVOWed his inability to maintain his i hold upon the good and enduring, 1 under trying ordeals, had it not been for the never faIling resources of his 1 beloved partner. What great son i may not trace the nucleus Of his i ability to the nobility of his mother? 1
 History records many striking in 1 stances of the true WCman's ability to 1 demonstrate her right to serve, in any ] sphere, shoulder to shoulder with l man. Indeed, 1t is safe to say that if | man excels along certain lines of the l masculine. this excellence, by com | parison, is always easily offset by Wo- l mans leading points in the feminine. 1 No man can ever take from woman 1 her hOnOrs as a leader in reform, or 1 as a cha mpiOn in the great field of l mercy
 Here man proves to be the equal of 1 woman, only insofar as he lends his