Show 0 OUR U R PUBLIC FORUM PORUM hon elihu root on womans Is an issue before the question lon of woman suffrage have adopted its it the Ameri american caa people twelve it this elates states fall and anah it Is 13 strongly to gly tour four more states vote upon demand of the national urged that it become a platform and the duty political parties it Is therefore the privilege lion ron ellhu of ever N oter to stud study y ca carefully this subject constitutional hoot in discussing this q question on before the convention of new lork ors recen tIT said in fit part 1 to the granting of suffrage to women I am opposed all to because I 1 believe that it 11 would be a to oman believe bellee it because I 1 women and to nery eiery woman and and to to aery every man and to the state 0 o j would be an IP jury II 11 would auld be useless to argue the state evory every woman in this if it the a natural right it if it were mere a natural right i light ight of suffrage were ere be one there any dut but if then though the heavens tall fall women should have it Is not a thing settled in the lone long discussion of 0 this subject it Is that su suffrage to natural right but Is simply a means or government and anti the sole question will wil I 1 be discussed la Is vil lether government by the suffrage of men and women be better 2 government sovern overn ment than by the suffrage of men alone info I rity of 0 element of ilie lie na no into my sir air there enters woman it Is not that woman unman Is I 1 to nan out it J that woman la Is different dIff elent from man that in the distribution of howera of cala capacities cities of quail ties our maker baa has created roan man adapted to the performance of certain bunc cons in the economy of nature and society and woman adapted to the performance of other functions IN oman ruled today by the sv sweet act and noble influences of her character put woman into the arena of 0 conflict and she abA abandon thea gnat weapon which control the world and she taken into her b hinds ands feeble au aul I 1 ner eless for strife weapons with which she Is 1 untim lilar and which she la to unable to wield ionian in strife becomes hard harsh unlovable repulsive as far fat removed from that gentle creature to whom nhom we ae all owe ovie allegiance and to whom we ue confess subin submission isslyn as the heaven hemen to I 1 removed froni front the earth the whole science of government Is the sconce of protecting life and liberty and tle pursuit of happiness in the divine distribution of powers the duty and the right of protection tests with the reale male it Is so throughout nature it Is so to with ith men and 1 I for one will consent to part with wife n daughter the women whom hom I 1 love the divine right of protecting my and the women whom I 1 respect cercle ng the birthright of roan man and place that high duty in the weak and ner nerveless cless hands of those designed by god to bo be protected rather than to engage in the stern warfare of go government ern ment in my judgment this whole movement arises from a false conception of the duty and of the right of both men and women nomen the time will never come when hen the line 0 of I 1 demarcation between the functions of the two sexes will be br broken down I 1 believe it to be fale falte phi lo sophy I 1 believe that it Is 1 an attempt to turn backward upon the line ol 01 social development and that if the step ever eier be taken talen we go centuries back v ward ard on the march towards a higher nobler and purer civilization which aich must be found not in the confusion but in the tile higher differentiation ot of the sexes why not have your printing done at home |