Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1910 — Three Kinds of Women. [ARTICLE]

Three Kinds of Women.

Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, the society leader and convert to woman suffrage, said In a recent speech: “In this country I see three classes of women —first, the woman who starts out In life with, the Inculcated Idea that some man must support her; second, the woman who finds out she must do everything that man does not want to do, and through force of necessity does it; third, a grand army of self-reliant, self-supporting women fulfilling all civic requirements; women strong In their own independence, expecting no man to bear their burdens, asking for equal rights, knowing their obligations as citizens and determined to meet these obligations. “We women who demand our suffrage from men ask them to hono- the women of the United States. From the hour the first white woman landed on our shores woman has stood shoulder to shoulder with man. She has been hls equal In toll, in hardship, In devotion. She has been hls mother, hls wife. “I appeal to man’s sense of justice and of honor, for both of these characteristics are the strong, dominant traits of American men or we would not have the .nation we have. ( And I ask, are these men Just to women? To their sons they have given the right of citizenship. They make bondwomen qf their daughters. “Now we women want to be great. We want our Independence. We want to show men how we can stand side by side with them in the open field of life. Then Bhatl the world Judge us, and my faith In my own womanhood has taught me to believe in all women.”