Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1913 — WHILE THERE WAS YET TIME [ARTICLE]

WHILE THERE WAS YET TIME

Mean Man Made Hla Suggestion jsjnd Departed In Some Haate Meeting of Indignant Women. With tense, eager faces, the great audience of women leaned forward in their seats, eagerly drinking In the noted speaker’s every word. “Mere man,” she was saying, "is wont to belittle woman’s ability to enter the fields already usurped by him. As a matter of fact, she is capable of filling any post of public or private office now held by him, and, if appointed to it, could even perform man’s tasks with greater faithfulness and greater daring. “Name, if you can, one post for which she cannot fit herself L Name one office to which she would not, could not, give the greatest measure of capability, the highest-degree of courage, the —” A mere man, who hadsllppedunnoticed into a back seat, rose at this point, and the light of sudden inspiration gleamed in his eye. “Rat catcher!” he shouted. And then he fled.