Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — Deprived of Votes, American Women Lose Leadership [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Deprived of Votes, American Women Lose Leadership

By the Ray. Dr. CHARLES F. AXED

of Naw York.

.... z> , y i ! **••••>*■»•<»OLITICS is a trade, and one of the dirtiest trades in *! 1I tfie whole world. The misgovernment of American ;j B • cities is a BYWORD AND SCANDAL throughout J; ; the earth. Something is deeded—regeneration in , ’ o conscience, a breath of new life that will redeem pol- < H’lteeeete# itics from the ooze and slime of log rolling and graft This the ENFRANCHISEMENT OF WOMAN will accomplish. I don’t understand how men foreign born may become citizens before they are Americans and yet women who all their lives have been Americans can never become citizens. SEE THE CONDITION HERE IS PUZZLING. WE RECOGNIZE IN THE AMERICAN WOMAN THE FLOW E l OF CIVILIZATION. BHE HAB CAPTIVATED THE WORLD BY HER CHARM. UNDOUBTEDLY BHE 18 THE QUICKEST WITTED WOMAN IN THE WORLD. YET HERE WE FIND WOMAN DISENFRANCHISED, A NEGLIGIBLE FACTOR IN GOVERNMENT OF CITY AND STATE. In countries that have been a standing joke to America women are ENJOYING RIGHTS OF WHICH AMERICAN WOMEN ARE DEPRIVED. In Australia, New Zealand, Isle of Man, Norway, Bohemia, Saxony, Russia and Great Britain the women possess the power of the ballot to a far greater degree than anywhere here in America. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT THE EUROPEAN WOMAN 18 BTEADILY MOVING FORWARD AND HAS DISPLACED HER AMERICAN BIBTER FROM HER FORMER POSITION OF LEADERSHIP. The question, of equal suffrage is a conflict between the tout and the lady. WOMEN ARE AS MUCH CONCERNED WITH THE LAWS AS MEN. They have to abide by them. I should expect women to come into politics LESS CORRUPT AND LIJSS CORRUPTIBLE. Women are less ignorant than men; less women are drunkards. In any woman suffrage state criminality ampng women is absolutely an insignificant fraction. H it at More than this, they are brought up Under the old belief that politics is the happy hunting ground of the boodler and the thief. A NEW SPIRIT WOULD BROOD OVER THE FACE OF THE DEEP. I admit woman’s sphere is the home. But think of the citizens she might raise if sh 6 were given the rights of citizenship herself. BUT DO YOU SUPPOSE BHE 18 GOING TO READ, THINK AND DIBCUBB WHEN HER IMPOTENCE IS FOREVER BEING FLUNG INTO HER FACE? LET US GIVE WOMEN CITIZENSHIP AND THEN SEE WHAT CITIZENS THEY# CAN GIVE US.