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Show CLEOPATRA AN ENEMY TO WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE Chicago, Jan. 19. Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, through all the centuries since her death, has been an enemy of the political advancement of her sex, according to Prof. Gugllelmo Ferroro, tiro Italian historian who is to lecture. lec-ture. "Tho storv of Antony and Cleopatra, was created and diffuse," he says "not because It was beautiful and n mantle, but because it served the interests in-terests of of Augustus and his political coterie, it wa3 made an antl-femlnis-tic legend to emphasize the danger of fcl'owlng the counsel of women in political po-litical matters or ghlng tnem any share In the government" In refer-erce refer-erce to woman suffrage, the historian sa'd: "1 think men govern badly enough. I am oppoeed to giving the franchise to women. Of course. I only speak for Italy, where I know tbe conditions not for America. Historically, It is a fact that the Influence of woman In politics pol-itics grows In times of peace and diminishes di-minishes in times of war. Thus It hai never made as much headway on the continent of Europe as it has in more isolated England. If a great period of wr.r began the whole movement might ccllapse." |