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Show mm? - IZSZZSSSIZZIISZSZZIl That the relations are Btraincd between women and the state few of us will deny, y Ciivtf What the trouble is is another question. ' . Jlt5 Some maintain that women are biologically tO ,Woni6Dj unfitted for active participation in affairs jrr m of government. Others think that it is a case of woman's unfitness, but rather o tution. ' This is my opinion, but I make no quar- By CAI0L1NE J. COOK, rcl with the framcrs of our constitution. Btta Altera. Those were fighting days anil the military v fclZZIZZSZZZSSJSIZZl design appears in the fashion of our gov- ,' crnment. Tho constitution was mado of good stuff, tho kind that wears. The men who planned it knew that wo should outgrow it, and they made carc-ful carc-ful provision for adapting it to our needs. They knew that this must be ftjr i done else the garment would have to be discarded. Some of us think that W-' the timo has come for letting out tho seams. p It is cosier to talk in figures than to state plain facts when one feels fjsc!- deeply about a matter. Isn't tho truth of the caso just this, that our be- l-ii loved constitution needs an employment? Is not its very letter killing its '4' , own spirit? $$! Ideals have an eternal fitness and in tho long run tho idealist is w1 tho really practical person. Equal Buflragists arc tho real democrats. I They believe that when onco a government of the people, for the people, pV, by the people shall have come into being it shall not perish from the W earth. To. hasten tho day of its coming is their aim. JL If our representatives really believed in democracy we should not have ft, to beg for the vote, tho symbol of self-government. p It is because a cheap and shoddy idea of what is expedient obtains that wo must iiecds bo treated as forever unworthy of confidence and rc- Bponsibility as citizens, fr Do thinking men realize how women, nurtured on republican princi- ? pies, equipped with twentieth century ideas, with capacity tested by I: twentieth century, standards, muBt consider the outworn statements about their 'unfitness for participation in affairs of state? It is not we who J Bhould apologize for the situation. It is not wo who should bend the e knee, t Democracy itself is bound by our fetters. The all-important change V which equal suffrage will make is tho quicken- f' ing of tho essential principlo of liberty, tho f, true spirit of 1770 and tho constitution. fry&Tm |