The Pensacola journal., 1919-07-03
WOMAN AND HER CLAIMS FOR
SUFFRAGE.

The mist is dispelled when a good
woman appears.
In assuming the duty of yindcating
! woman in her efforts and anxiety TO
acquire the same rights and privileges OF
| man, in the field of politics, we feel that
we are confronted with a problem hard
| to solve and reconcile to her refractory
disposition.
Yet we believe that we are taking upon
| ourself, the part of gentleman and scho-
lar, when we take up her cause and we
hope that our views meet with her ap-
proval and admiration.
AS we believe in suffrage to a limited
extent, we do not approve OF the poncy
of excluding her from enjoying the same
rights of man upon certain theories and
issues.
When we come to the school question.
child labor. how her property in her own
right should be bonded, and taxed. and
all issues and theories of like character.
she is entitled to occupy the same status
as man. by every principle of ethics, and
every law, human and divine.
Hence. we stand firm in granting her
ali rights. upon all questions as the FORE
going. and placing her far above the saw
age, who is striving to thwart her in her
attempts to demand for herself the same
rights he claims for himself
While we approve the suffrage, we do
not wish to be misunderstood. We be-
lieve in ii, but in a limited degree. 1t
must be remembered that making it uni
versal. gives her the alternative, of hold
ing any office from the position of de-
tective, turnkey in q Jail, policeman on
the streets. to the magistrate.
To be spying around in the affairs of
others. to be turning the key of cell,
on hardened culprit, to be chasing an
other woman Up a dark alley and haunts
of fnfamy. to make an arrest is repuIsive
TO any man or woman of intellectual re-
finement.
full Influence upon young girls grow
ing up? Are they not SO constituted
that they are ready to adopt any GUS
tom looked upon as correct and justi-
fable.
We believe in elevating the standards
of womanhood and not lowering them.
and trust that the suffrage issue may he
so devised and arranged as to keep her
out of the vocations we have described
These should be confined to man alone.
We are told by the enthusiastic suf-
fragists, that by associating woman with
man. in the fields of politics, it will have
refining Influence upon him Granted.
But 1T is not an axiom in physiology, that
we take on the personality of each other
By constant intercourse and association?
And while she Is imparting that gentle
ress and refinement to the man, is she
not taking on his coarser qualities? And
who wants a virago queen for wife?
Let us ask. Who it is that gives to
woman. that gentleness and kindness, so
charming and fascinating to the man OF
intellect? Is it not the constant inter-
course with innocent children at home?
Is 1t not a more edifying and impressive
scene, to see woman caressing a child
and leading another around the prsni-
ses by the hand. than seeing another with
policeman's club dangling at her side
on the alert and awaiting a chance to
arrest and imprison some violator of that,
thing we call law, for some trivial Of
fense.
The man who advocates universal suf-
fraSe for her. instead of modifying IL so
as to debar her from entering the voca,-
tions we are opposed to. is not her friend.
but playing the part of a willy demagoelIe
to enhance his own political interests
Let us then, exert ourselves, in Keeping
her intact from any of the menial offices
OF government. and raise her to the
level of man in all the highness that
appertains to the protection of her venue,
refinement and motherhood
We hope the time, will never come
when woman will desert and imperiI
the home to mount public rostrum
among boisterous men. to discuss some
political question which viii
destroy her as statue of grace and love-
liness.
This is the attitude she will be placed
in according to the theory of universal
suffrage.
B. J. GONZALEZ.