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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 I 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: i “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. -> 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. . 4 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. [ NAPOLEON By THOS. E. WATSON * THIS BOOK IS REGAROEO AS A STAIVQARB, I sy EMINENT SCHOLARS Limited Edition PRICE, 51. 50, I Tfff »#EfF£!ftS(HV!/lftl PUS. QfS., TThoms&n!? 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Awful brand of licker they’re sell ing in Tennessee since prohibition got there; nigger filled up on some, ran into an automobile and the auta owner had an awful bill to pay — for repairs to the automobile. Also, the Carnegie Peace Endow ment continues to get out real sweet looking in pink and greea and other pastel shades of parfaeft covers, telling us all about universal peace, which so far, is purely Mrs- Harris. f It’s an ill wind, etc. Mr. Schwab, whom you may recall as being in terested in a little matter of Steel, 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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