Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-08-21
PROPHETIC VOICE
FROM THE TOMB ON
WOMAN'S VICTORY
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20Ou1uuea FROM rage -
has thrown her glove into the arena
and smilingly challenges the chiyalry
Of man. who does not dare, because
it covers an iron hand.
"IIe cmplains of III uppishness and
impishness of the women and their
attitude of insolence ever to ST. Paul.
What of it? ST. Paul himself said
and seemed to regret he had not
known Christ. So do we. Christ's
attitude to women was sublime 1t
is true He consented TO the death of
one, but He made terms of fitness for
4 competent executioner so hard that
il is recorded all the men who brought
her 10 trial skunk away Paul did say
something about the women who la
bored with him in the Gospel. He
sent his love to them and said they
were TO be greeted with a holy kiss.
That's a coin in which women have
always been paid, and il passes cur
rent in every cline. Every man loves
the women who labor, who do some
thipg. Men have said the war could
not have been won without them; but
ii made no impression. Suffrage will
be won without these same men.
Women have to forgive very much,
Mr. Editor, and even TO comfort you.
II seems you have forgotten, or, may
be. never known, that the earliest
form of government in the world was
matriarchal, not patriarchal, so
women are just coming into their
own. Unfortunately, there are no rec
ords of this, so we know nothing of
the passing of the sceptre, nor how
ever in the world man succeeded in
placing himself in authority and es-
tablishing a government excluding
women But history tells us that man
has many times in the history OF the
race overrun and wrested power from
the hands of a civilization greater
than his own.
THAT the earliest form of govern
ment was an excellent one can be
proved from the editors own fine
words He says woman is far more
inflexible, pertinacious, resourceful,
untiring, agile, subtle and enthusiasts
tic than man Everyone must allow
these are qualities necessary for sue
cess. That she did not lack the high
est quality, fine courage, was proved
in the cave age. A suffragist, whose
home is Virginia but whose realm is
The world, has written of that period
'WomIE and child formed the first
family; the cave was the home in
which in pain she bore the child,
sucked II. carried 1t IN h arms or
upon her back; covered it with leaves
while she sought its food; taught il
that fire would burn and water drown
wolf or tiger came she ran with it if
she could, and if not, turned and
fought for it to the death. The child
did not know it's father; the father
neither knew or care to know his
child" But it seemed the mother
know and, true to her instincts, en-
larged the border of the family and
took him in, not only because he could
supply more food for the child, but
the fnotherheart went out to him
She was perfectly capable of grading
him, too, upon her generous bosom,
nursing him in sickness, caring for
and comforting him in sorrow, pick
ing him up when he fell from grace,
forgiving him all his transgressions
and setting him on his feet again
Through a long period of privation
and sorrow did the race struggle up,
woman always to the front, first and
last, in any crisis.
"Who can imagine that the love and
infinite tenderness that SO held in
pain and suffering, and sometimes in
deep disgrace, will automatically fall
away at the dropping of a piece of
paper in a ballot box, 1t is true one
piece of paper did turn the world up
side down. but the hand behind it was
mans! Well may you say, Mr.. Edi-
tor, that man has made sad botch
of things from the beginning, and,
that he should thank his stars bet
ter administration is coming in" Ii
this be a despotism. it will at least
be benevolent 1t will probably be
of the same kind under which the
first two decades of his life are spent,
and if he had always run true to that
form of government, it would from
many an error freed him and foolish
notion
BE of good cheer, Mr.. Editor. The
wiseacres who framed the Constitu-
ton inaugurated government under
which no deposition can hold. 1t is
of the people, for the people, by the
people, and its basic law is no taxa
ton without representation. Human
ity is said to be right in that which
it affirms, wrong in what il denies.
Humanity has been wrong in denial
of woman's place in all human en-
deayor.
LAS for the dishwashing men IL
the new dispensation, of which the
editor speaks, why, if need is found