The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-22
JUDGE WARNER BOILs OVER


repeated goading of the suffragists.
whether he be outstanding his walls
of wrath until votes are harvested, or
maybe crayenly intimidated, l cannot
say.
I never was a violent partisan over
voting privileges; it always seemed
To me that women had similar native
rights with men in any field. Policy,
and physique may influence, but can
not abnegate, inherent privileges, but
until now | never believed women
really wanted to vote.
Who gave men the right to vote?
Who deprived women of the same
prerogative?
To reply that the constitution of
the United States gave or took away
| is mere tommyrot. Just like going
back to primary rights in land
| titles.
Where did you get the title to your
real estate? Of Smith. Where did
Smith get it? Of Jones. And Jones?
Oh, he got it from his grandfather,
who bought it from the state. Well,
90 on. Why the state / think had a
ceding from Spain. Yes, and where
did Spain get it. Why, er, ah, ahem,
really, yes of course, have it now,
from God.
/ Of all the fiim-f1am games that ever
were worked upon the genus homo
the game called politics is the worst.
The working man is givenSa three
spot in the shape of vote, while Of
| ficialdom juggles the deck. He is told
| to look to heaven-while his pockets
are picked And by working men, /
mean about everybody except gam
/ blers, lawyers and some preachers.
Gamblers like Swift, Armour and
Cecil Rhodes; preachers like Rookie
teller Jr.
If we must get into the game, let's
invite our wives and daughters to join
US, for then we may be shamed into
some semblance of decency, for wom-
en- en- masse are more honest than
men en- masse.
This little dinky planet called earth
is today smoking ruin.
4 At the call of overlords, wives have
i yielded up their husbands, mothers
their children and nations their choice
manhood. Food for Moloch because
a few men wanted to play politics.
, say damn. and in saying it am deep
ly religious.
lie you want to see real courage, &C
and stir up she lion with cubs. The
. old he lion will be skulking some.
where behind her. shaking his long
| hair and roaring-but busy eating
carrion. He won't hurt you, but wher
she comes out you had better go away
) from there. Lester Warner.
The Star is not conscious of being
!, goaded by the sufragists. Our suf
: fraget editor, Miss Mays, has, it il
true, tried to stick few harpoons il
US, but they have glanced. In return
d we have had a little fun with her. W.
: haven't devoted much space to her, be
e cause we didn't think it was wortl
/ while.
The Star has always favored equa
suffrage. IF it hadn't it would hardl.
f have given the suffragets space to sc
\ forth their views. 1t is true the lad.
n in charge of the department hasn't
v in our opinion, made the best use o
lit, but we hope she will improve.
It is true we haven't favored thi
o Susan B. Anthony amendment, bu
n that has been from other reasons
v which we have explained. A grea
i majority of the men among our read
! ers agree with US on this subject. an
we have reason to believe that larg
proportion of the women also. Their
IS is no authority for stating that an
} large number of the women of thi
IS state favor the Susan B. Anthem
n amendment.
Is We are surprised at Judge Wal
ner's lack of knowledge, both politics
and natural. The reason why wome
l. have not the vote is because it onl
N recently occurred to some of thel
t. that they wanted it. 1t is only fe'
It years ago that they told men the
l. wanted the ballot. since which tim
le men have been kept busy giving it
he them. Women have always been alb
to coax men into giving them any
thing they wanted, and if the wome
ID of America had, in the day of Wasl
at ington and Franklin, launched
he movement to secure the vote the
he would have had it probably centur
a. ago.
r. Judge Warner should know tn:
IN women have not .striven for the bale
ut until recently. They did not ask fl
ne it IN the republics of Greece ar
~ Rome, nor in the slow-growing den
ocracy of England, nor even in Il
Hare-up of the French revolution,
is which women took almost as great
r+ mart as men
en- As for land titles, most of the
is came down from the men who orr,
CT inally tried to improve the land. 1t
he true that in many instances land w;
On taken by violence or given by favori
IS, ism. We presume Judge Warner pa
N, for the land he lives on. His tit
he was given him by the state of Florid
ot which received it from the Unite
st States, which took it from Spain, wi
took it from Indians. who took it fro