The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-06-17
WOMAN MADE CROSS
BY PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
Female Suffrage Bad for the Voting
and Worse for Sex, MIR. Cald-
well Says.

well SayS.
Special to The State.
So the 40 years struggle of be-
'wailing, beseeching, beguiling and
brawling has effected at least the
adoption by both houses of congress
sof the resolution providing for wo-
21nan suffrage But the movement is
mot yet triumphant. The amend
sment must be ratified by 36 States
before it becomes law. The linden
burg line, composed mainly Of ex-
.cited visionaries, seekers of office
sand notoriety, spitfres, Sosialists, l.
W: VS., negroes and negroists, is a
formidable one truly, but brave
war against it has still a fine pros
pect of success.
A considerable portion Of Ameri-
rcan women have developed qualities
and capacities never attained here
itofore, or elsewhere, except by wo-
men of peculiar gifts or having Pc
'culiar advantages. Their rights and
sthe call for their cooperation have
grown correspondingly, as we all rec
Sgzize in the church, IN the school,
in society; and in some lines Of busi-
ness. But even American women are
not fitted for the function of voting
and holding public office (the two
things being inseparable in Americal
zsnor is the function good for them.
And it IS no disparagement of women
!, TO say so. do not feel belittled when
stold that another man will make a
better banker or physician than 1.
: Our maker, or nature, or whatever
we call the forming power, has fit
rted persons as well as things for GER
: tain lines of action and made them
unit for others. Does not the ply
sical structure of women indicate
largely her divinely appointed sphere
eof action? And do not her spiritual
squalities concur in the designation Of
that sphere? Her constitution, phys
ical, mental and emotional, forbid
her to be q soldier OF a stevedore or
"a policeman. Why should she be a
politician or holder of public office?
The age or spiritual purity has not
yet arrived. Force still rules the
world, in peace as well as in war, and
! the people and persons unequal to
She struggle should stay out Of it.
] forbear to speak Of some of the
faults and deficiencies often imput.
sed to the sex; as the lack Of sense
aof justice, grudgingly conceded by
John Stuart Mill, their ablest advo.
scate; OF their proneness to make the
1end ia view justify almost any
sameans Of attaining it; or the charge
.4aIte prevalent, that they are always
governed By one or the other of the
atwo elements Of sentiment and per-
=sonal interest. take more friend.
Ay position. ie,
The qualities which render woman
tthe most charming being in the
sworad, and its. great benefactress,
aare Just those which disqualify her
Shere. Her delicate sensibility, her
fpastianship, her emotional tempera-
ment, herlovely impulsiveness, render
her unit for the rude requirements
OF political life. Jeanette Rankin,
while violating an imperative politi-
ecal duty, showed herself true wo-
Imam when she sobbed, Il can not
vote for warp We do not employ
sthe emotional race horse to draw a
sdray or pull a plow., No one but
.proflgate Romans, like the sons of
: ~Arrius, ever make food of nightin-
sgales. The spirit that trains the ten
a1er minds Of children, and by its
pure and unworldly ideals elevates
I'd sways the coarser male mental
itRA not adapted to the contests of
thesshse. .ngs or to political strife.
Did, not, Bza>: >:tieally, all our women
oppose~our aute.- ing into the world
war;. When rwe engaged in it, they
helped The lighters moss ,nobly; but
:ez.~~ Men they did not stimn. late the
lighting: 8"
Z RRnt the more serious matter IS
that voting and holding public office
VIII prove injurious to women, will
Gender them unfit for the duties for
which their Maker unquestionably
designed them, win deprive them of
the spiritual influence which they
now exercise, and will lower their