The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-09-09
MAKE NO CLASS
DISTINCTIONS
No Appeal Made to Glass,
to Sex, to Section, or
to Society.
W0MAN'S PATRIOTISM
Mothers of the Nation Have
Risen to Sublime Heights
in Pure Americanism.
BY WILLIAM HosTER.

r. W AA#Afi y VI NUS / IaAk
with his customary sanity sena-
far Harding went to the heart OF the
pNlge question In a speech a day
o.. Two ago at Marion. when he said
Of don't believe in making a dis
ia.lon by appealing 10 either sex
or .o any class az such. My cam
ls.Eu will be directed 90 the citizen
re lt the United states, and / take
tho view that women come INTO
tina, c.tizenry on he same basis as
r r.'
A lot Of words are being wasted
ir -usculation as 10 the effect that
the granting Of suffrage TO the wom-
ICu OF the United states viii have
ON the political balance Tho only
certain test Of course, will be the
result Of the polling I'm November.
Meanwhile. the cardinal fact which
ls always 90 be kept in mind with
regard TO tho long postponed extern
sion Of the right Of suffrage 70
women. is that they have been given
th. vote not because they arc wom-
,u but because, on every basis Of
right and reason, they are citizens
That in specific instances women
voters may bring to bear a different
viewpoint from men is true, and hap
p.'y true. Such new viewpoint as
the woman voter will bring to bear
upon questions Of politics and gov
rr1mont in the United states viii be
au the more welcome. because for
the first time in the history OF the
nation 10 will accomplish such
rounding out and balancing Of the
registry OF the popular will as is es-
ss0'i3l in any government based
ur0n the right of the people to
rule.
THAT the extension Of the suffrage
20 women will in any way upset our
political balance, however, is scarce
is omen TO argument. We have only
90 consider the part which woman
has played heretofore. In her re-
sfricted way in public affairs, TO he
perfectly certain that upon all pub
lie questions the womay citizen will
be- Just as sound as the male citi-
zen. In matters OF patriotism, in
deed It might with reason be urged
that in the last analysis the mothers
ot the nation have risen to sublime
heights never attained by man. SO
her patriotism as a voting citizen
cannot be called In question. We
do not have TO go any further back
than the period OF the world war TO
establish that fact Similarly in all
other problems, issues and public
policies there is no reasonable ground
for doubt that the woman voter, like
the male voter, will view the ma
tional problems as they arise, not
from the sex, but altogether from
the American point OF view. So that
there need be no fear Of what the
woman voter Will do, understanding
what Wilson's league OF nations
would fix upon the United states.
when she comes TO register her
wishes in November.
The American wdanan is not
mawkish sentimentalist That sub
stiuted national anthem OF four
years ago, Il Didn't Raiss My Boy
20 Be a Soldier" which was used
as an incidental motif to the Wilson
campaign slogan, He Kept Us ont
OF War" never did represent the he
roio spirit Of American womanhood
All good women. like ali good men,
hate war; precisely as they hate dis
honor, sloth and cowardico. BY
the same token all good American
women, like all good American men,
love their country, cherish its insti-