Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-25
LETTER 10 EDITOR

FOR paper usually 40 fair and Nd
headed 81 the Evening Capital that
was not the most courteous article 81
recent date styled Equality for NO
men. Ii Is true there can be found
therein great argument for Woman's
Suffrage, and women will gOrgfve Al.
most anything that brings their great
question before the public, for Il 4
from public opinion she must win the
right 50 long denied her.
Tie writer Of said articie drew 9
picture 81 an unthinking and selfish
woman, and made her type d 81
women which vas hardly fair He did
NOT reason as To the cause os this
lack Of consideration for others. that
made the woman rush into d post.
once, stare disdainfuIly at . waiting
line Of individuaIa and sweep to tht
front. taking he place of the man 81
the head who had Just purchased hie
stamps, take her own time to extract
her coin from her purse and 10 rel
turn her chgAge. sweep the line again
with disdain and hauteur. and pags
out. That women do such things
oftener perhaps than men. may be that
men have spoiled them in according
Thorn Iii most things, the first place,
but the main reason allowing women
III this great offender, Ii largely from
lack OF good eomradeship and that
group spirit which comes from equal
participation Iii the administration 81
the affairs of life a man gets right
perspective thereby, and learns exact
Iy where DE stands and his right pro-
portion to others, he Is of equal Inn
porsance with the rest of mankind,
but no more.
Only as woman takes her place be-
side him iii civic and political affairs
can she learn her right adjustment
TO the universe and the vast part she
ID to play therein
II she Is guilty as the writer has
shown. oE breach Of good faith and
Fellowship, III h 4 good thing 10 have
this mirror held up to her and show
the hid8ouaness of snobbegy. prasump-
lion, tnBolence and ignorance of those
unwrltten laws that guide as ID our
intercourse with our kind But ia not
the writer most unfair In his sinister
attack on suffrage when he says this
won on ID question had the .'characs
teristfc physiognomy OF suffrage
leaded9" Personally, ] have never OBJ
served any special uupleasantness Ii
the faces og the Suffrage leaders |
have known In these latter days, and
certainly when We look on the faces 81
the pioneers OF this great movement
In the early days we think that the
great minds that CHARACTERIZED thaui
left wonderful impres& on the conn-
tenanee That much abused. but truly
great Susan B. Anthony Nd D face
full Of gentleness and dignity, and 9
manner born of culture and high re-
solve. Lucy Stone. that target for
scorn of her political enemies had the
face and form and manner that We MI
tribute to angelic grace. n
Really there Il nothing ID the ONCE
.of suffrage leader 10 make her
coarse. offensive. III hammered, or sell
ash. she certainly has no monopoly
on these things nor Is II matter 81
sex. Indeed suffrage has passed the
stage 0f ridicule: II engages the high
eEt thought OF the whole world Of men
and women Women are standing on
plane with the best and wlsest men
of this nation, men Of splendid mind
and morals. MI working Tor the mp
lift of life. for the regeneration 0i
mankind, for the coming Of the king
dom right here On earth The race ii
standing lib line as II never has
stood Ia the days gone BY and getting
more and more sorgetful Of self, sn
that even women do not clamor goE
first place. nor ~wither the men with
sc0rn
Suffrage women are following that
magnetic and majestic woman. whose
president of these United States. md
King Of Englaa1 have delightei 10
honor Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, pres
ident of the National American Wo-
mans SufErage Association. and also
og the international Suffrage Alliance
We think We are Ia the company oE the
great. and don't mind asking all men
and women to get on board We nye
not ullliss Ii We do stunts Va have
never been IN Jail. Int we are many
thousands strong, even millions, still
We are only body Of very devoted
women, bringing np men and little
children and United states senator's
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