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Show GALLANTRY OF IDAHO MAN. From tho Now York World. Of course It Is the youngest member of the Houea at Washington who has prepared a bill designed to permit tho womon of the land to vote for Representatives Repre-sentatives in Congress. Mr. French of Idaho Is entitled to recognition as possessing pos-sessing the courage of his .gallantry. It may be that he will push his measure meas-ure with the enthusiasm of his years. His own State, It will be remembered, Is of that progressive quartette of Western commonwealths In which the full suffrage Is accorded to citizens male or female. However, we may safely expect that the House will be kind to Mr. French without being Indulgent. The 3S6 members mem-bers of that body may not be strictly representative of the broad Nation. They are sufficiently so, however, to respond re-spond to the popular conviction that women in the majority do not want to vote, and that it Is therefore both safe and expedient not to thrust the suffrage suf-frage upon them. There Is an older chivalry which believes In the higher right of women not to vote. |