Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-12-03

Mics Florence Minis Glves HMeI M
Views on Woman's S1Hrages
Dear Advertiser:
Boyleston Street, Boston, is the
most infinitely facinating place TO
me, for no other reason than this exa
cellent one, that it contains the head
quarters of the-I like to pause be-
fore and after, to give it emphasis y; :
The Headquarters of the MassaSh6s
setts Woman Suffrage Association;9
A stern New Englander has just
come into the room as I sit at my
desk, and representing tie good state
of Maine, says that she also belieEss
in the cause though she manifesto
little enthusiasm. Suppressed express
sion of assent but ignites the flame
of my zeal. a
Sometimes when I go to call on
my Massachusetts sisters at, theiI
headquarters land give them greet
ings from my co-believers in South
Carolina, l shall remove the sandals
from my feet before entering the
shrine, and sprinkle the incense Of
my belief before them. If you think
this is preposterous metaphorssit is
not nearly such bad form as anyones
failure to believe.
And now to be serious, thinkSthat
the great virtues, courage, hope,
faith, independence and sacrifice be
long, to both sexes. Great worth,
while a human characteristic, has no
sex. 3
Our government needs all the good
constructive thinking and : worth
while prophetic vision chat either
men or women can contribute: Sure
ly no one, more than I, sees the fact
that State and National government,
is hard job to manage, as, proved
by the colossal and miserable failure
of some of our present United States
Senators to think and act straightly,
and to waver in this most critical
time Of our nations history. / am rel
ferring here to Rthe League Of a al
LOIS
Live issues judged by fossil views
will not stand.
Woman's Suffrage, like the League
of Nations and the present CAM
paigns of the various protestant
churches, is an expression of the un-
iversal law of right appearing at this
time, because the time is ripe. Being
law of progress, it will never die.
If circumstances should happen to
make it so, the cause might disap-
pear temporarily from national pub
licity, but would rise again as truth
always does;> and become again a
great issue.
I do not say that now the time is
ripe for suffrage, because women are
just now ready for it. They have
been prepared for it ever since
Jeanne D'Arc led the soldiers to vic
tory at Orleans, and since Frances
Willard founded the great National
uplift movement of prohibition, and
long before. This latter thing has
never been given its proper place in
history.
/ would rather startle you with al
most radical statements, you who
will venture to read this far through
my article, and then let you settle
down to a happy medium of thinking
than to timidly say to you in uncer-
tain terms what l understand to be
right.
If you want to have individuality
thought, think rightly and that will
make you different eaough from your
fellow man to make you almost a
curiosity.
There can be no compromise with
a question so vital. 1t must of ne
cessity be positively right or wrong,
Which do you think it is, and why?
I thought 1 would recount the
reasons usually given for and against
but I can think of none against 1t,
only a few fimsy excuses and one
slogan with no point and no truth,
namely that "Woman's place is in
the home" I take pains to put that
in quotations, for l did not originate
lit. That is a very narrow view which
the anti's take. 1 go further in that
direction than they do, and say that