Milford chronicle., 1919-07-11
TURKEY OR DELAwARE-WHICH?

I DR.. Anna Howard Shaw once made
a wager that the women of the United
States would be enfranchised sooner
than the women of Turkey. If she
loses her "bet" the fault will not lie al
the door of the men of the Sixty-Sixth
Congress, who have done their best
to right the injustices of the past, but
rather to those persons who, though
realizing that the vote must come
eventually to the women of every
State, yet are willing to let their own
State go in the class with "the old
cows tail" and delay the evil moment
as long as possible.
A poll is being taken by the members
of the Delaware legislature as to how
each member stands with regard to
ratification of the Susan B. Anthony
/ Constitutional Amendment and with
results, so far, extremely gratifying
to advocates to Equal Suffrage. One
cannot refrain from a mental God
Bless You" when a statesman replies,
Il stand for Woman Suffrage and al
ways will", or a hearty 81 am for
your cause, no more than one can
entirely stifie a chuckle when one
reads, Sorrow i cant vote for suf-
ferage." For though the entrance of
women into politics may have SEEM
ed a calamity in ante-bellum days, no
one who watched the work done by
women through the war can not con-
scientiOusly claim that when woman
goes outside that sO-called "woman's
sphere" of which sentimentalists are
everlastingly prating, she has in any
way degraded herself. The women
who patriOtically gave her best ser-
vices to her country in time of war
was certainly none the less feminine,
none the less due the respect of man
kind than was her more selfish sister
who spent the time still within "wO-
mans sphere" and feared to lose her
charm by making personal sacrifices.
If the stepping beyond the boundaries
of this mighty sphere was not done
in war work services, surely there
will be no further getting out of
bounds in time of peace. If women,
unframed for the services they rem
dered, threw themselves in the gap and
helped in the salvation of the country,
it does not take the imagination of a
Shakespeare to foresee that if the re-
spOnsibility of the vote be given them
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also
1t is only those who are blind in
deed who do not yet understand that
it is not that women are asking to push
aside the men in order to make places
for themselves, for one can readily
see that there are necessarily many
things with regard to laws and the
making of laws with which the mind
of man is better able to cope than a
woman's, but it is also equally true
that in making these laws which gov
ern not only men but women as we'll
there must be many things which need
a woman's point of view to make the
justice complete.
Just as it is more often true that
the boy who makes his own money to
so to college makes better use Of his
time and comes out a better educated
man than the richer lad who accepts
an education as his rightful heritage,
may it not be so that because women
have had to strive to obtain the priv
ilege of voting they may in time be-
come more interested and better vo-
ters than the more fortunate sex who /
automatically become voters at the
proper age without having had to-
fguratively speaking-turn heaven /
and earth inside out to be allowed to
exercise the right?