Show Carry Suffragists' job hot done By BARBARA PAGE Today as women stand poised on the threshold of new it is well to analyze briefly the progress that women have made during the past In 1840 only seven types of employment were available to women keeping working in cotton mills and book type-setting and domestic It is immediately self-evident that all of these if they can be dignified by that have one thing in The very nature of man has been to leave to women the the tedious and to assume for himself the glorious or adventurous type of Beginning in Oberlin col- lege first admitted women to its people were Soon Antioch and Iowa fell into But still women were bound by prejudice and law from exercising their full In recognizing these Elizabeth Cady Lucretia and Susan- B. Anthony organized a mass suffrage movement that eventually was to encompass the entire And as when there is no logical substantiation for men have turned to It is interesting to examine their reasons for opposing men use these same arguments when women run for political office or apply for new positions previously not available to women on our Here are the arguments against woman suf- J 1 must be protected 1 against They think they want to As a matter of they do not want to and being aware of this is obliged to prevent them from getting the ballot that they I do not j ballot would degrade j the man would care to marry a female The churches gravely insisted on female Among their dogmatic declarations I is There exists a created a divinely arranged and appointed subordination of woman to is the crowning glory of In it she is bound for all To her husband she owes the duty of unqualified The arguments continue ad Until women receive full there can be no cessation to the suffrage As usual men will ridicule and But firm in the knowledge that this ridicule of men arises from fear of being shown women can continue in their quest for the equality should be their |