Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — Women Not Fitted For Great Affairs. [ARTICLE]

Women Not Fitted For Great Affairs.

By ALFRED AUSTIN.

Poet Laureate of England.

OF all national and imperial issues that can arise that of peace or war is the most important, and the preservation of peace, the most, precious of all things, consistently with honor and self protection, is much more likely to be imperiled bv IN- > DULGENCE IN SENTIMENT than, by any other cause. Calm, deliberate judgment, free from all untimely or TOO GENEROUS EMOTION, is its best protection. Will any one deny that in great emergencies men are, as a rule and collectively, calmer and more submissive to sound judgment than women, whose virtues reside rather in another direction ? b GIVE EMOTIONALLY COMBATIVE WOMEN THE FRANCHISE AND IT 18 CONCEIVABLE THAT WAR MIGHT BE BROUGHT ABOUT BY WOMEN, AGAINST THE EFFORT OF MEN TO AVERT IT, AND IN THAT EVENT IT WOULD BE MEN, AND MEN ALONE, WHO WOULD HAVE TO FIGHT AND, IF NEED WERE, TO DIE, ,WHILE THE VERY UTMOST WOMEN COULD DO WOULD BE TO ACT, AS ONE IS PLEASED TO REMEMBER A POET HAS CALLED THEM, AS MINISTERING ANGELS. I own I share the terse conclusion of a French wit: “ONE POLITICIAN THE MORE, ONE MOTHER THE LESS—behold the practical outcome of female franchise!”