Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1911 — “Votes For Women” Cry Portends the Coming of a New Nation [ARTICLE]

“Votes For Women” Cry Portends the Coming of a New Nation

By Mrs. MARY E. LEASE,"SiIver Tontfued Orator of Kansas

SUFFRAGE has not eliminated and will NEVER eliminate men. Such talk is all RUBBISH. Despite the unrest, the tumuit and the forebodings of the present, despite the many appeals and attempts at reconB+’mction, which are only fragmentary buildings upon old and outworn foundations, woman is NOT YET AWAKE nor SUFFICIENTLY DEVELOPED mentally or spiritually to bring out of the disorder and unhappiness of our ill conditioned social chaos a NEW ORDER OF PEACE AND HARMONY. The great body of women delude themselves and seek to delude men by their INSISTENT APPEAL of “votes for women.” IN EVERY GREAT CRISIS IN HUMAN HIBTORY THE INNERMOST ELEMENT WHICH IS THE FEMININE COMES FORTH. IT IS THE SIGN WHICH PORTENDS THE NEW BIRTH OF NATIONS, THE GOING OUT OF THE OLD. THE COMING IN OF THE NEW. In this day and age many rush in to serve their OWN ENDS, and, mistaking the effect for the cause, they add to the CHAOS AND CONFUSION by a superficial smattering of “political equality” which they are not prepared to teach and which but few are prepared to receive. Women must learn that within themselves is the power that alone will make them free. It is WOMAN WHO MUST HELP MAN by making the ideal visible.