Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1911 — Woman Suffrage Plea. [ARTICLE]

Woman Suffrage Plea.

“The feministic movement today is the last stage in the struggle upward. Woman proposes no longer to be just the pet, the Idol, the slave, the queen; she wills to be the equal of man; she feels in herself that power, and she now claims her birthright Civilization as we know it has meant the moving upward to light of one social stratification after the other. The French revolution meant the upheaval of the lowest stratum. Our own movement is the final step in the achieving of complete democracy. Democracy ik averseJto war. A whole people does not flame up in hate against another people. It needs the incendiarism of the few or the brutal autocracy of one to force a_ conflict. The Roman republic is not a counter-argu-ment My democracy is a democracy of millions, not of thousands. And the millions, who know how painfully they have to piece together all the little elements that go to make up a life, are not disposed to smash and destroy their handiwork.” —Madeleine Black.