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The Good, the Bad, the Otherwise
And a Few Laconics By l. a. l.
HAS WOMAN SUFFRAGE ACCOMP
LISHED ANYTHING*?
HE close reader of the daily
papers from every section of
the country, must, willingly
or unwillingly, recognize the
fact that woman suffrage is
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being very keenly contested for by
the ring politicians in which ever
section the agitation has been strong
enough to make the measure recei-ve
recognition.
It will be interesting to take note
of some of the data which it has been
possible to compile, since the elec
tions of November. East of the
Rocky Mountains, the suffragettes
carried no State, and in Illinois where
suffrage was granted two years ago,
fewer women took the trouble to
register or vote, than at any time
since suffrage was granted them.
In those States where women
voted, it will be of interest to learn
some facts: in Chicago, less than
sixty-five per cent of the registered
women voters, went to the polls. In
Nevada, the suffragettes played the
time-honored game of politics, along
the identical lines of the male mem
ber of society, and the steam-roller
was used with almost success, but
in time a “rider” was discovered in
a proposed bill which defeated fo
the time, the use of women as politi
cal assets at the poles. The same
story comes from California, the
women lobbyists who were trying to
put through certain Bills, being suff
ragettes in the pay of professional
politicians.
In North Dakota, a State conven
tion of women’s clubs was in the
hands of suffragettes, who promptly
over-rode anti-sentiment, steam
rollered the Convention, and rail
roaded through resolutions which
will make mftny of the club women
valued assets as lobbyists.
In the Omaha, Nebraska meeting
of the Federation, the session was
enlivened by the epithets “liar,”
“big fool,” and the user was the fa
mous ■woman-preacher-suffragette,
“Dr.” Anna Shaw.
In Montana, the anti-suffrage
movement was headed by a Mrs. OIL
ph ant, and so keen were the men of
some parts of the State for the suc
cess of the votes-for-women move
ment, attacks on Mrs. Oliphant were
published in several of the papers,
doggerel verse being used in many
instances.
In one fact alone can the danger
to the commonwealth be recognized
as a tremendous on©-, if universal
suffrage on all matters were given
to women, and this is from the
women of the restricted districts of
every town and city. This is a fact
that cannot be overlooked, denied,
palliated nor explained away.
The menace of these women has
no offset in the vote of a man, and
it will be well for every citizen, man
and woman of a community, to study
the matter from this view-point, be
fore expressing themselves for suff
rage or working in its behalf.
This element would be a controlled
vote, and those in control would be
the saloon keeper, the police, the
politician whose “ring rule” would
line up the three—the police, the
saloon keeper and the women them
selves. This is not a “pretty” phase
of the suffrage question, but it is
one we must face squarely. These
women are recognized; practically,
they are given a license; every town
official and county officer knows who
they are and where they are; moth
ers know they have ruined the lives
of boys of sixteen and eighteen.-years,
and yet they are to be given a voice
in municipal matters, once the votes
for-women movement is strong
enough to make this measure a law.
There is no way to deny them; wo
THE. JEFFERSONIAN
have no moral standard for the male
voter, and we cannot have one for
the women.
To make this phase the better un
derstood, here is an extract from the
San Francisco Examiner; the “Bar
bary Coast” district is the most noto
rious district this side of the Yoshi
wari of Japan:
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“All the excitement during the day
centered around the booths in the
Barbary Coast district and those in
the uptown tenderloin. McDonough
Brothers, Frank Daroux, ‘Red’ Kelly,
et al., who control the Barbary Coast
vote, were working tooth and nail to
elect Dominick J. Behan State Sena
tor, while Jim Coffiof.li arid Johnny
Crowley were working just as har'd
uptown for Gus Hartman.
“McDonough Brothers had several
automobiles busy all day long haul
ing Barbary Coast dance hall girls
and the inmates of houses on Com
mercial Street to the different
booths, and always the women were
supplied with a marked sample bal
lot.
“Coffroth and Crowley were not
so generous uptown. They let the
women walk.
“The strangest scenes of all pbssi
bly were those around the booth op
posite the St. Francis Hotel on Un
ion Square. It was there that all
the guests of the St. Francis, the
Stewart and other hotels in that
neighborhood voted. There also
voted many of the women of th®
night life, and that the strategical
importance of this booth was realized
by the two factions was evidenced
by the fact that Gus Hartman oc
cupied a soap box on one side of
the street in front of this booth,
whil Frank Daroux sat across the
sidewalk from him all day long.
“From remarks heard around the
booths those women voting against
prohibition were gratly in the pre
ponderance, and many women voted
on that measure alone.”
And there you have the inevitable
consequences of universal suffrage.
If you are the mother of children,
are you willing to take this risk? ■
You cannot get away from it, you
cannot argue around it, and the facts
themselves are not to be denied:
take woman from the home, and she
is no longer woman, as God meant
her to be.
Unsexed, hysterical, stripped of
every feminine grace and charm God
gave her, she makes herself fit com
panion of the men who will use her
to foster and strengthen the condi
tions she thinks she is going to abol
ish or revolutionize.
D’je eat your turkey last week, or
are you saving it for Christmas?
The new “occupants” of Mexico
• City change as often as the styles
in women’s wear.
Another wonderful thing has just
happened in New York: a policeman
has been arrested for beating a man.
The New York stock exchange has
resumed business at the same old
stand, and the same old gamble goes
merrily on.
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And just think, it will soon be
time to get out all those perfectly
good New’ Year’s resolutions, and
nail them up for a week or so.
Iff time of peace, prepare for war,
said the old adage, and along the"
same line, while your Senators and
Congressmen, and State Legislators
are at home, it is a good time to
begin to agitate the things you want
done when they get back on the job.
The reign of terror seems to be a
continuous performance, in New
York now, and bombs, gun men and
incendiaries are having things their
way.
If those in charge can only induce
the sides of the Canal of Panama to
stay put, that little waterway may
be of good use to us in developing
the trade we need just now.
New York paper announces that
“Broadway drinks, in spite of the
war,” and it’s a real relief to
seven or a dozen of us to know that
Broadway only drinks; we had an
idea it soaked.
If Teddy the Colonel was paid for
his silence, since the New York elec
tion on the basis of the Outlook price
per word, he wouldn’t have to worry
about Santa Claus and the coal bill.
It will cause a thrill in the bosoms
of some elderly men, to read that
Frank James, one of the famous
“Jesse James Gang,” is dying from
an incurable disease at his home in
Missouri. .
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Some people are so heartless—but
read this for yourself: a poor, ex
president of a defunct get-rich-quick
scheme, serving a term in jail, was
actually visited in said jail, and a
lot more papers served on him, just
when he had about finished his term
and was ready to get out in the
game of relieving other people of
some more money.
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That captain who tried to butt in
to that Turkish seaport, wasn’t sutit
a stickler for saluting the Flag, as
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Awful brand of licker they’re sell
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Also, the Carnegie Peace Endow
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looking in pink and greea
and other pastel shades of parfaeft
covers, telling us all about universal
peace, which so far, is purely Mrs-
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It’s an ill wind, etc. Mr. Schwab,
whom you may recall as being in
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is quite satisfied with the Europea*
war, and feels sure that business in
his line will be more than fair to
middling.
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