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Show f our Klife .attd Other USmm j I musings by tbe editor 1 Shall Ok Eettbem Uote 1 of tpe Bronco -Outside of Utab j (Copyright, 1304, by J. W. Mullcr.) A LARGE Pro Bono Publico flavored with a Inferior grade of bar whisky hns Just fallen hastily downstairs from our editorial sanctum. He had dropped in to explain to us in a loud tone of voice that wo was a scoundrel for taking tho female side of the woman suffrage question. Before he succumbed to the delicate Irony of our heaviest paperweight ho managed to get In a remark that woman was not the equal of man and as wo viewed his form and snuffed up the glad free smell of alcohol that ho left behind we thanked heaven that ho was right Thero are three kinds of men In our midst that object to woman suffrage. Ono Is the man that was Intended by a all wise nature to be a hen but was born a human being by a unhappy accident Women Wo-men can beat him so easy In tho race for a living that ho don't want to Boe any handicap taken off. A other objector Is tho human puffball that takes up two seats in a car and loto women stand. When ho marries It is because he thinks his scrubbing and washing will be dono cheaper that way. Tho third kind comos out strong In gatherings whero respected fellow beings be-ings that was born with a dress suit and a lncomo toll Just how to wipe out pauperism. pau-perism. This kind fears that It would degrade de-grade a woman to go to the polls on election elec-tion day. Wo have denoted in our pll-grlmago pll-grlmago through llfo that the man who holds this vlow does not hesitate In a no-tlceablo no-tlceablo way to swear In front of his wife whon the carving knlfo Is dull and on cold mornings ho rarely .fears that it degrades hor to get up and see that the house 13 wanned up before ho thrusts his sensitive toes out of bed. Superior man will open barrooms all around a lono and defenseless woman's houso but ho would fool dreadful If she was to bo pormitted 30 far to lower herself her-self from her pedestal as to vote on local option. Son3 of sunnier climes than ours enter this land armed with little In tho way Of accomplishments except a dagger and a still moro dangerous breath laden with personally conducted garlic, and In a year they can go to tho polls and dccldo what kind of laws shall bo passed to govern a qulot natlvo American woman who has supported tho church and helped her neighbors ever elnco she was born. A tramp dressed In a costumo that would make a scarecrow feel that civilization civiliza-tion wna a falluro can voto In almost any community that has ambition enOugh to ralso a fund for the sacred cause of freedom free-dom and Jones for constable, but a woman wo-man In a tailor made dress and with her faco waBhod ain't considered to bo equal to tho exorcise. Woman suffrage would bo a hardship no doubt to tho malo Items that are men only onco a year when a candidate needs their votes, Many a creature that Is beaten by his wife regularly as if he was a rug, go-s out on election day and lays tho law-down law-down to the nation In tho corner grocery and woman suffrage would tako away the only gleam of light that he has. But ho would possibly soon habituate himself to It with tho same air of settled resignation with which he permits his wife now to support tho family and pay the rent. We suspicion that It Is true enough that a woman would obstruct tho polls by refusing re-fusing to vote until 8he was sure that hor hat was on straight, but we also suspicion sus-picion that she would moro than mako up for this by seeing that her conscience was on straight too. which Is a point that Is absent-mindedly neglected by many a Imago Im-ago of his maker that wears pants. Some persons that mistake a bad liver for cynicism often hint around rthat women wo-men would bo sure to voto for the handsomest hand-somest candidates only. In iooklng over the portraits of tho respected fellow citizens cit-izens that ran all over tho United States this year for offices of all klnd6 from constable con-stable to Congress, It struck us- that if women waited to cast their ballots for handsome men they wouldn't bo llkelv to roll up a real heavy vote anywhero In this country Wo never could prevail on ournelves to tako much stock In tho theory that women wo-men like handsome men. Thoy certainly don't scorn to marry them. It Is true that women would be handicapped handi-capped !rr politics "because they1 can't well hong over a bar; and we denote that few men can get a real close knowledge of the Issue of tho day until after the third drink. Many a man who was on the r.oaJ to hell and the opposition ticket when he took tho first cocktail has been saved to hie country and enrolled on the right side by tho time ho got ripe for shifting to ginger alo high balls. Woman might have to use Intuition Instead In-stead of tho moro rollablo and better known brands of rum to Ilnd out Just how she ought to voto. Intuition Is a femalo talent that Is despised by men, but it Is a good deal less noisy than his talents and docs not produce nigh as bad a taste In the mouth next morning. When woman has the suffrago It Is not likely that she will make election bets never to wash or to comb her hair or to wheel a other woman through town In a barrow If her candidate ain't elected. She also will probably be content to consider that election Is over when the votes are counted. Perhaps she will feel bad for a whllo and say that the other side is a mean thing, but after that sho will seo that tho children are dressed and sent to school as usual and sho won't spend tho rest of tho week In a glnmlll explaining how it happened and tapering off. If woman should bet a hat on the election elec-tion and lose she would probably pay her bet. Wo admit that this would bo a outrageous out-rageous Innovation and a blow at the bulwarks bul-warks of tho republic. It Is the only danger dan-ger we can seo In woman suffrage. |