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Show Women's Sufferage Women's suffrage has not done "all the good I hoped it would but it has not done the harm its opponents said it would," declares de-clares Miss Alice Stone Black-well, Black-well, veteran in the fight for suffrage and now 68 years old. There can be general agreement agree-ment with her pronouncement. Like most people, interested in a reform, the women leaders were sure that, once they got the vote, they could change the customs, cus-toms, morals and behavier of mankind. It just does not happen hap-pen to be possible. The women are not the only ones to make this mistake. You an hardly listen to a spread-eagle spread-eagle speeh on any subject without with-out being assured by the orator that adoption of his recommendations recommen-dations will ease the world of all pain and create a new era. The women of the nation had a right to vote, as a matter of justice, regardless of whether their sufffage resulted in general improvements or not. They got the right and matters have persisted per-sisted ever since, in about the same way as befor. |