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Show EQUAL RIGHTS. Figuros drawn from census reports and other statistical tables show conclusively that there are more women than men in the world. The suffragettes suffra-gettes insist upon the franchise being given to these women. They ask it only in the name of justice jus-tice to tho women. And man, being sometimes desirous de-sirous of dealing out justice to the weaker though more numerous sex, sometimes feels inclined to give them what they ask, just as the happy father will give the baby just once more stick of candy over the protest of the mother, who has to take care of the child all night and all day, too. But there are more women than men in the world. If the suffragettes are given votes and other equally valuable things asked for, may it not occur that in a few years the women will by vote deprive proud man o fthe prerogatives he now enjoys and which he Is being sued to oonfer upon the women? Might it not occur that In a few years the women will oontrol the destinies of the nation, to the exclusion ex-clusion of mere man in matters of state? Might they not tnke upon themselves the solution of world problems and leave mere man at home to tend the baby and get the dinner 1 Might we not in a short time have policeladies, and lady ofSceTs cf infan-tryladies infan-tryladies and cavalryladies and artilleryla.li, Guided by a lady president as the commander-in-chief of the army and navy, surrounded by a,r ,. visers in the cabinet, would it not be just possible that man, proud man, who now jauntily holrU ?h big cigar between hi3 teeth as he goes to the -tHo for the day, will become the dependent fragette who now with rare intelligence is uldii-the uldii-the good ship of state by the more subtle ru.Uor 0f cookery ? 'Tis idle speculation. Women can never hone to rule as long as they insist upon looking uiApt the bed to see if a robber is hiding there. |