Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1911 — Women to Be Supreme Must Overcome Difficulties Just as Men Did [ARTICLE]

Women to Be Supreme Must Overcome Difficulties Just as Men Did

By Mrs. GERTRUDE ATHERTON. Novelist

ts - F I should go back to the British isles in fifty years Pm CON- . ■ VINCED I should find the British isles being governed by ■A t women. Of course the women will have to FIGHT to attain such SOVEREIGNTY. But I’ve met all the chief militant suffragettes in England, and they are capable persons. MEN HAVE HAD TO FIGHT FOR ALL THEY HAVE GOT. WHY SHOULDN’T WOMEN EXPECT THE SAME DIFFICULTIES. Until today, when families are much reduced in size, women have lacked leisure and time to study and instruct themselves. As they gain more time for improvement—fewer hours in shop and factory, more labor saving devices for the home—they will PROGRESS accordingly m capacity and power.