Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-23
Woman Suffrage
cBY ANNE RILEY HAE)

(BY ANNE RILEY HALE)
, THE woman whom Thou gavest 10 be
with me- Gen. .l2.
Mother Nature.
As might have been expected, the
discussion OF the woman move
ment" is marked by the same note
OF mystification and bewilderment
heard in the poetic and philosophlc
reflectbnsJ OF the past concerning
woman, and there Is the same dispo-
sition to post the approaches to the
subject with the sign-boards OF
terra incoRnita. The man on the
street. watching a stupid suffrage
parade or hiking party, remarks TO
his neighbor, "In Gods name, what
ails the women"
What prompted these women TO
feel so dissatisfied has never been
discovered; what dissatisfied her IN
hor individual life, what dissatis-
fled her in her public life. remains
unrccoRnized why wom-
en- were fairly satisfied with their
lives until two hundred years ago.
why this dissatisfaction broke out IN
the cultured parts of the world and
there only in the more cultured
classes, has never been discovered.
This movement, though a sincere
and sympathetic one, and--this TO
It's credit--supported by men as well
as women, has miscarried: and wom-
ans nature. and the origin OF her
discomfort. remains now, as before.
unknown.
1--WE hear Of the mission and the
rights OF women, as II these could
ever be separate from the mission
and the rights OF man. Each has
what the other has not; each com.
pletes the other and is completed
by the other."-Ruskin
The history OF mankind is the his
tory OF repeated Injuries and usur.
pations on the part OF man toward
woman having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute tyranny
over her. was the first count in the
"Decldration OF Sentiments" the
document formulated by the first
womans rights convention which
met at Seneca Falls. y. Y. in lS4s.
and was the first to cast very
frank and vigorous arralRnment or
masculine injustice and inhumanity.
The editors OF this voluminous work
are authorities for the statement
that IL required much diligent re-
search among the records OF the
anti-slavery conventions, reports or
temperance and peace societies, ct
al, In order to get together the req-
uisite number (eighteen) Of griev-
ances for the new declaration"
Among the early promoters OF te-
male education in the United states
were Governor Clinton ofeNew York,
who induced Emily Willard-the
most successful female educator OF
tho day--to move her girls school
from Massachusetts TO Troy in 1921,
and secured for IT an appropriation
from the legislature: DrI Milo Park
or Jewett. who assisted in forming
Ohios common school system
founded 'Judson female institute at
Marion, Ala. in 1899 and n girls
seminary in Poughkeepsie in 1855:
Matthew Nassar. a wealthy bachelor,
who. casting about him for some
benevolent outlet for his fortune.
was diverted from his design OF en-
dowinE a hospital. TO founding the
girls college which bears his name;
and Horace Mann, the first president
Of Antioch college, at Yellow Springs
Ohio, which was the first to admit
women on precisely the same terms
as men.
Whatever part women's rights agi-
tation may have played In speeding
educa tional opportunities to women
and II is quite conceivably entitled
to some credit-the suffraRists'
claim that II Ia all due to their ef-
forts Is neRatived by the fact. among
others, that the three women whose
names loom largest inC the pioneer
work for female education-Emily
Willard. Mary Lyon and Catherine
Beecher-were not only unaligned
with this agitation, hut were not in
sympathy with IL. The suffragists
will have to admit that the results
have come without the woman bal
lot, which they say was so essential
to them For women's colleges
crown almost every hilltop. in the
length and breadth Of our land. and
goods fit Gayly through the classic
shades OF most OF our male univer
stiles.
Likewise, without the aid OF a
single woman vote. professional
doors. once closed, have swung open
10 tho knock NJ the individual wom-
on whom the higher fate had forbid
den tu enter women's highest and
happiest profession; and we now
have women lawyers. doctors and
preachers galore. The demand Of
the last century for cheap labor. es-
pecially in the rapidly swelling vol
ume OF manufactures. lured many
women into factories; while the kill
ing off of many male bread winners
in this country by the several wars
has forced women into the outer
struggle in department stores and
offices. So that today. a woman may
do pretty much what she likes in
the world Of industry-and this
without tho ballot,
ITO he continued