Show u I I SUFFRAGE I There was a womans woman's suffrage e convention held in hi Louisville Ky Icy last year oeal Col Colonel nel d de declares de- de dares clares s that he gave the proc proceedings edings a full and fan fair account but he was reviled for it and called names and he e is angry o. o He Tie must be growing old because in ancient days daysI I he lic would have haye laughed at all nIl those things lie Ic calls the suffragists Don and he lie compares compare giving ing them the franchise with the giving of the franchise franl fran Iran l chi chise e to the blacks in the thc south surel surely i is no not I like Colonel Watterson It is a wonder to us how men can be so bitter 01 so plain a subject Women do tio half the work of this world If Ifa a man is rich the the- chances are arc t tw two wa to one that his wife made half the monc money Thai Ihal is it was I the influence and support of the wife which enabled him to accumulate the mOil money C and if women want suffrage we wc cannot see why men hold back themen thomen the thc men who have haye given the I lowest west colored man tho tim lowest immigrant from the old world except thu the Chinaman a right to become citizens citizen and to have bave a vote that counts for just as us much as President ent Tafts Taft's Why they should recoil before t the he prosPect prospect prospect pros pros- of the w wives wes es and und mothers and sweethearts of or ori i the United States voting is and always has been a m mystery to us l The o example of California makes malic an nn argument for a g gr great t many but the truth h is that there is a mighty contingent in ill California of men who arc are no more fit to vote than so many chimpanzees They care nothing for this cO country If H an ignorant man is a patriot there is a 8 spirit behind him bun which makes him cast an honest vote awl and tho hon hont t votes are arc what save this country but hut a great greatman of those in California have luve wives man many A t great m many of them belong to a breed of mortals who nearl all thc their lives lm had to speak nearly 1 so no political HI rights at all and in this country i they cannot di dis distinguish i between liberty and license I t 1 cast cust a good ninny many foolish votes in Utah but n not tn nearly arl so many as ns the men It is the same 1 way way aY in Colorado On Once c in a while a woman is ledi led ledI 1 I i away b by poli polities politics ics and docs does imprudent things Wo We have seen a man who has been president of the United States for seven years do the same Bame thing There here arc are some women whom politics seems seems' to develop develop develop de de- de- de into mannishness but if that is true then politics only anticipated what would have been inevitable inevitable in in- evitable without it Strong minded minde l women generally generall generally gener gener- all ally marr marry weak minded men We often see a ayoung ayoung ayoung young couple marr marry we see the man year yea by year advance arid and make a name until in twenty years he helas has las grown away from the wife who has been at home lome and absorbed in the cares of home and the duties of home borne and the tho difference between them now is apparent enough In the same way another couple marries and in twenty years the man has stood tood still and find the woman has advanced and she is what Mr 1 Roosevelt Rosevelt and th the rest are declaiming against so fiercely this year year she she is the boss Had suffrage ge been the rule role twenty years ago there here is many a married man who would not have married narried the woman that finally captured him because because be be- cause ause it was in her soul and the thc primaries would have brought it out and he would have understood hen what he has learned since The suffrage women of London those who ate are knocking the hats off of policemen and throwing stale eggs at the lord chancellor and who make himself merely by their races faces at the premier are acts showing how they were brought up If a person person peron per per- son on wants chaste English ho does not go to a fish market in London to obtain it if he hates someone so o badly that he wants some English Engli h that is not chaste haste he goes to the fish market to hear the re- re narks And it is that class of women that are rais- rais ing ug lug thunder in London and that ra raises es thunder any any- where But when suffrage i is given wom women n and i it is ac- ac accepted accepted ac ac- as the rule all that will pass away and the women themselves though tough ones will have an influence of good on the tougher men in their wards yards Colonel Watterson should not liOt worry The rhe world is moving This is iR a progressive age We Ye rc do not believe that all aU the men in the world could drive Theodore Roosevelt out of his lis campaign campaign cam cam- aign j we believe that if there was one woman to ollow follow him and just repeat his history to the crowds that hat inside of three weeks he would go back to Oyster ter er Bay and thank God Goel that he was alive So we would say to Colonel Watterson let the movement go o on The Thc country is not going to be smashed by bythe the he women Possibly it will be saved sayed by them because because be be- cause ause looking over the list of candidates candida cs for this year car on all aU the tickets the first thought that comes to o a a a. sober ober mans man's mind is Is this the best the country can do 01 and How long can the country stand tand it 7 |