Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-07
A REVOLUTION, BUT BLooDLEss.

Sufragists are pointing out that women in securing
the suffrage have achieved great moral reform
without riot or bloodshed Is nothing they ask that
in world where every other effort for human freedom
has been at the expense of thousands of lives and bill
lions of dollars have their liberty by moral
effort alone? Is not such element of value to the
electorate?
"The triumph of woman suffrage is one of the most
significant social phenomena of the present generation
declared Rev. ReynoId E. Blight of the Church of the
People in Los Angeles California, recently. "It is lit
tie less than revolution and no less revolutionary
berause it came quietly. The emancipation of wom-
is fraught with the most farreaching influence and
will produce benefits beyond calculation. The woman
suffrage propaganda for decades treated with
and ridcule, its proponents ostracised and its
speakers were mobbed, The women advocates were
abused and every scurrilous ephet applied to them.
We shall never know the bitter agony of soul suffered
by these of gentle breeding and sensitive re-
fnement women like Susan B. Anthony, Frances Will
lard and Anna Shaw but bravely hiding the quiverng
wounds, they fought courageously for the of
justice trusting in God and in the heart and reason of
the American people Their faith has been vndicat-
ed, the the nobly espoused is marching for
ward to early victory"
Mrs. Jacques Futrelle of Atlanta, who has just
come back to her native city after having achieved
success novelist playwright, and photo-pay seem
aro writer, says that she Indifferent to women's
acknowledgements until the New York women got the
ballot and she scrambng over the fence to the
suffrage side.
"Snce have seen the women of New York." said
she, 81 realize what wonderful practical politicians they
making. Women are better housekeepers thar
men, and they will make better voters because they
know better how to keep clean houses and more eco
nomcal in the distribution of funds and have bet
ter understanding of their political obligations Jacques
Furele in favor of suffrage for he said seven OF
eight years ago that women would carry higher ideals
to the political life and he believed they would make
successful politicians. You may add that every in
teigent l have talked to is for suffrage The
others do not count
You did not wait for woman suffrage the late DIR
Anna Howard Shaw once argued to the men of the
South "but disfranchised both your black and white
women, thus making them politically equal This she
said IN answer to the men of Louisiana when she was
asked to answer from New Orleans platform the fol
lowing objection to giving women the vote: "If you
give the ballot to women, won't you make the black
and white woman equal politically and therefore lay
the foundation for future claim of social equaty?'
IF political equality is the basis of social equality
and if by granting political equality you lay the foun
dation for claim of social equality you have already
laid the claim" was her answer. "But you have done
more than that You have put the ballot into the
hands of your black men, thus making them the poll
teal superiors of your white women Never before in
the history of the world have made former slaves
the political masters of their former mistresses
"The women in the South are not alone in their
humiliation-all in America share it with them
There IS no other nation in the world in which
women hold the position of political degradation our
women hold today, German women are governed b,-
German men; French women are governed bv French
men. But in these United States American women are
governed by every of men under the light Of the
sun. There is not color from white to black from
ed to Yellow there is not nation from pole to pole
nat does not send its contingent to govern American
7omen
IF American men are willing to leave their WON
in position degrading as this, they need not
surprised when American women resolve to lift
.aemseves out of it."
In our four Southern states Texas, Tennessee,