The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-08-19
THE BEGINNING


we salute you.
You have the ballot.
What are you going to do with It
We will tell you.
You are going to do pretty much
like the men do; only less so.
For while You are going to make
lot of trouble thru uncertainty. for
nobody, including yourselves, knows
what you are going to do. After q
while you win learn most of the outs
and ms Of the political game and
play iii after fashion after d mans
fashion, but not 80 well as man. In
what is beautiful and merciful. wom-
an is inexpressibly above man. In
what calls for strength and skill of
mind and brain woman will never be
equal to man. She isn't built that
way.
If you viii look back to where the
first uncertain pages of history
emerge from the dim past, and fol
low them to the boldly printed tonnes
of today, you win find that of the he
women whose names stand out in the
biggest type. from Semiramis to
Emma Goldman, the genius Of nearly
all was erslaved by great vices. The
distinguished women of history. enl-
presses, queens, the mistresses Of
great men, belonged with few excep-
tions to the scheme Of things which
made divine right its tenet with
which to hold together nations
tenet that the events of the past six
years have welI-nigh torn from the
book I'm the history of republics,
hardly any woman has played any
great part. It is as the wclnanhood
Of the entire nation that they have
done their share in making and saw
ing ii.
Wyoming, in 1889, was the pioneer
state to give its women the vote
Since then, several states and many
cities have bestowed the ballot upon
their women and
They haven't been any better gov
erned than the other states.
No woman has ever yet been q
governor of state; not one has sat
In the Senate; one has been a men,
Der Of Congress from northwestern
state, but was defeated by man at
the end of her first term, and the state
she was elected from has been one Of
the most disorderly and disloyaI m
the Union.
The extreme northwestern states
and Colorado have been strong for
suffrage for years. The northwestern
states have been hotbeds of murder
and riot and few years ago the
government had to take charge OF
Colorado and hold it IN its place until
law and order were able to reassert
themselves.
The women have gained the ballot
at this time. not by the consent 81
the men. nor, so far as anybody
knows, BIZ their own consent. Had
the nineteenth amendment been sub.
mitted to the popular vote, including
the vote Of the women, It would have
been voted down. The women have
received the vote from politicians
who hope to make use Of them. Hard.
ing advised legislatures to give them
the vote because he wanted it for .hs
his party Cox insisted because HI
wanted il for his party. Of the two
Cox showed the least sense. Woman
suffrage will not add TO the strength
of the democratic party; it will add
to the strength Of the republican
And the women know it. They have
received the vote from a democratic
state. but they owe the democratic
party no gratitude; it was simply try.
ing to outbid the republican. ane
there is no virtue in carrying out !
corrupt bargain.
In working for the ballot the won,
en- have not shown the kindness snG
moderation to have been expected
from their sex. Some have had fht
grace to coax men into voting theil
way, but nagging has been largely
their weapon. They have put GOOD
men in the same class with bad. anf
abused both with vigor and peri
nacity that men couldn't emulate i
they would
t is only fair to say that these
faults cannot be laid at the feat n,