Show I ARE AnE NOT WOMEN O HONEST In this world thero there are somo sorno brave men mn But wo we know of oC nono none that V would have had tho courage to stand before an nn audience of or living people and tell them what Mrs Irs Elizabeth Ellzabeth B B. Grannis told tho International Council of ot Women omon at nt Chicago on Wednesday of ot last week Here Is IR the 1 wa way vay sho she Is la quoted in tho the Chicago Journal of or that date data Women will never noyer vote oto until the they learn to bo honest she declared I If women aha always told tho truth thc they would have obtained tho the suffrage e long ago agoo If It women of ot ability had honesty honest as na well tho they thoy would have havo taken tho the lead lend ore before now There Thero aro nrc plenty of or brilliant women but tha they are not honest and a brilliant woman Is useless I f if she Is untruthful V Women omon aro Just as dishonest as men menn In iii n the tricks of or petty pett politics and wire wire- pulling Somo Some women will vilI go to the legislature and boast of ot lying When hen thor tha they learn arn to scorn this and become rea really h honest women will get tho the sutra cut suf tra frage rage o. o Far be it ft from a mere mero man to pretend pre tend to a better knowledge of wo women men than Is 15 possessed b by bIrs Mrs Irs Gran Gra a a worthy worth laL and very lady an an or or- to her sex But Dut It would h be interesting to know If Ir sho she makes make the thc statement as absolute or If it sho she recognizes rec roe woman as a n. part of ot humanly human human- it it ly and so grants her tho benefit of V comparison Because do not believe beHove that we wo women women wo wo- V men are arc moro dishonest than men V In n a thousand trials of ever every description description tion lon they are aro proved pro to be he more honest hont hon hen est t In the handling of mone money moro more devoted to tho tim interests of or their eni- eni moro more careful in the tho keeping ot of f engagements more reliable more more- dependable One of the richest bankers in Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago o sal sak said ho he had lent monc money mOn molly times to women of good character with no security at all alJ and ami that he never had lost b by it It He added that when men came to borrow he made thorn them give sound security because experience experience ex ex- had proved d that the thc only safe afe war wt V It If ItI Mrs I Gr Grannis means the statement state state- V ment mont absolute absolutely 1 then she Is unfair to women She has no rl right ht to expect ex- ex more of them than of or men Inthis in inthis this matter True all the world In a wa way expects expects ex ex- more of It them and requires more of them in general It is they who stay sober who shoulder responsibility responsibility and never lay it down It is they that make and maintain the moral code It is they that teach lessons of ot sacrifice and loyalty an and service to such men ns fiS are aro capable I of or being made better But in all Justice jus-I jus ins Jus tice tico women should not be bo required to attain an absolute perfection In the matter of ot honesty honest any more than In tim 11 an any other virtue virtue before before they ma may have havo the right that Is enjoyed by men without question und and at that men who cannot claim to even a distant acquaintance with perfection Mrs Irs Grannis Is almost as unfair to her sex as are the men themselves |