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WOMAN SUFFRAGE
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ernment —the ballot. And under that
great Statesman, Thomas Jefferson,
the right of suffrage was extended to
the laboring men of the country and
the word “tax payer” was stricken
out of the Constitution. Then anothei
political party arose and said, ‘‘A
man is not a good citizen because he
is white, he is a good citizen be
cause he is a man.” So they rubbed
out the word "white” and left the
little word "male,” standing alone,
by itself. They could not think of
another qualifying word to write be
fore it. There was no man left out,
they were all in, black and white,
rich and poor, wise and otherwise,
drunk and sober all men were in,
and for the first time the little word
“male” stood all alone. All that is
meant by the woman suffrage move
ment lies in that first divine utter
ance to man, “It is not good for
man to be alone,” either in the home
or the State, or < veil in the Carden
of Eden. Therefore, women as ask
ing that the word “male” be .strick
en out of our State and National
Constitutions, and that these shall
read, as they ought to have read in
the beginning: Every citizen twenty
one years of ake, possessing the neo-
essary qualifications, may each one
vote at every election and have that
vote counted. That is all suffragists
are asking. And yet, from the bitter
ness of the opposition and the hor
ror and indignation of anti-suffra
gists, one would suppose that to en
franchise women would be to uproot
the foundations of the Government,
would be to invite women to leave
their homes and forsake their chil
dren, to cease to love their hus
bands and to become so absorbed in
politics that they would never again
think of anything in the world.
Really, all that the suffragists are
asking is that men be true to the
fundamental principles of democracy,
and to take in their day the steps
that belong to their time as their
ancestors in their day took the steps
which belonged to their time in the
evolution of a republic out of a
monarchy. We are not yet fully
evolved —there is one more step to
be taken; and no state as a part of
the United States as a whole can
be taken; and no state as a part of
the United States as a whole can be
come a republic until the word
••male” is stricken out of their re
spective constitutions and the word
“citizen” is incorporated; untit] all
citizens are alike free. When ever
a government calling itself a republic
prescribes qualifications for voters, |
the qualifications must be such as to
apply equally to all citizens of the]
republic. When the government says
that the citizen, in order to vdte,
shall b* twenty-one years of age,
that could apply to men and women
alike. When it says that the voter
must have been a resident of the]
state for a certain length of time,
that too applies to both alike. When ]
again, the government says that
voter must be either native born or
naturalized, men and could'
eqaully meet the condition, imposed.
The government might even go fur
ther and say that, in order to vote a
citizen i* t be able to read the bal
lot and vi. w for whom he or she is
voting, and that also might apply fair
ly to all. Nor would women object
to such qualifications, for there are
more women than men in the United
States who could read their votes.
But the government has never im
posed such a hardship upon the citi
zens, because the government has
been careful to protect male ignor
ance. But when the government says
that in order to vote the citizen shall
be a male, that is not a qualification,
that is an insuperable barrier be
tween one half of the people and
their rights as citizens; and no gov
ernment calling itself a republic may
erect an insuperable barrier between
one half of its citizens and their
rights and privileges and remain a
republic. A government which does
that is not a republic; it tfs an aris
tocracy, and.we.must.say the poorest
kind of an arisotcracy on earth, an
aristocracy of sex. We are told that
man's chivalry makes him unwilling
that women should soil their skirts
in the dirty pool of polititcs, that
she should descend from the lofty
pedestal upon which his love and ad
miration has placed hr. Without
bitternes* I desire to ask, if love
and.admiration.placed.upon the same
pedestal with woman all the male
idiots, insane men, male criminals,
all male children and all aliens. They
talk aboul our honored position on
that pedestal. If there is any womai
who wishes to stand on the pedestal
with that group she ought to do so.
She belongs there. 1 must say I do
not. 1 have always resented the
company in which we are placed and
I have really resented nothing else.
Like I)r. Anna Shaw, 1 want to come
down from the pedestal. I want to
get into the place where opinions are
crystalized into laws, which are made’
to govern me and to govern the lives
of other women who are fighting out
in the world life’s battles. I’d love
to stand beside the men who are
warring today against the forces of
evil and vice and ignorance and po'v
erty, to strike such blows as can
be struck by free men and women
only against the injustices which are
dragging us downward as a nation.
I’d love to be in the fight with men
and women worthy to fight sucli bat
tles; and the pedestal is no place for
the warrior until after lie is dead.
We would not presume to say what
shall he the profession, education
or employment of women, only give
to her freedom of choice. We deny
the right of any individual tot pre-
scribe to any other individual his
amount of education or his rights.
The sphere of each man, of each
woman, of each individual is that
sphere which he can, with the high
est exercise of his powers, fill. The
highest act which the human being
can do, that is the act which God de
signed him to do. All that women
ask thru the suffrage movement is to
be allowed to prove what they can
do, to prove it by freedom of choice,
by liberty of action —the only means
by which it ever can be settled how
much and what she can do. True
she has never fathomed the depths
of science, but she lias never really
had the opportunity. True she has
never equaled the eloquence cf De
mosthenes, but her energies have
never been quickened by having held
up before her the crown and robe of
glory and the gratitude she was to
win. We only ask that the tools be
given to him or her who can use
them. We only ask that she be
welcomed to man's arena and let
facts, not theories, settle her capaci
ty, and therefore her sphere. We do
not assert that she will enter the
lists and conquer, that will certain
ly achieve all that man has achieved
but tliis we say: Clear the lists and
let her try.
Today in sixty-three counties in
Georgia of the 1958 white teachers in
the public schools, 1,017 are women
and in the remainder of the United
States of 291,777 public school teach
ers, nearly two-thirds —184,9;>3 are fe
males, making an army of willing, pa
tient, weary ones, demanding a uiau’f
work for smaller pay. Male teachers
averaging SSO per month and female
teachers only S3B. Why should not
her pay for the same services be
the same as man’s? Can it be that
a cheap woman is fully eqaul to a
high priced man? Is the work of a
S3B woman equal to the brain of a
SSO man? Is it that 125 per cent of
a man's ability is required to equal
100 per cent of a woman’s ability
Not only is this true of teachers,
but wherever no men are employed.
Suppose there is as much sewing re
required in a city as one thousand
hands can do. If the tailors could
find only 500 women to sew they
would be obliged to pay them what
ever they asked. But when there art
500 women waiting for that work,
unable to turn to any other occupa
tion, and doomed to starve if she
fails to get a share of it.
Just these questions: Has God
made woman capable, morally, intel
lectually and physically, of taking
this part in human affairs?. Then
what God made her able to do it is
a strong arguemnt that lie intended
she should do. Does your sense of
natural justice dictate that the be
ing who is to suffer under laws shall
first personally assent to them? That
the being whose industry government
is to burden should have a voice in
fixing the character and amount of
that burden? Then while woman is
admitted to the gallows, the jail and
the tax list, have you the right to
debar her from the ballot box?
Tne Winder New*, Thursday, March 23,1916.
1 Below is the percentage of the
population over ten years of
H Age that can neither read nor
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VICTORY SCHOOL.
Victory is located in the northern
part of Barrow county, in the section
that was formerly a part of Gwinnett
It is still one of the line schools be
tween the two cpunties, the school
district being one-third in Gwin
nett and two-thirds in Barrow. The
school enrollment is in about the
same proposition. The nearest
schools are Thompson’s Mill, about
three miles north, Mulberry, three
miles southwest, and County Line,
four miles south. Liberty school in
Gwinnett county is three miles north
west, and is also a line school with
the building located in that county.
The present school building at Vic
tory was located about ten years ago
It is a painted, two-room, frame build
ing, and in good repair. It lias a
good well and is surrounded by a
large grove of original forest. The
title to the school property.is.straight
deed, not revertible, is in the coun
ty board of education. The house
was built almost entirely by the peo
ple of the district.
This is one of the largest schools
in the county, having two teachers
and an enrollment of nearly one hun
dred. The public term is always sup
plemented .by a private term of two
or three months and the teachers are
well selected and receive good pay.
There is a splendid school spirit in
this district, the school being a cen
ter of community interest. The pres
ent teachers are Prof. F. D. Twiggs,
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DR. J. T. WAGES, Winder, Ga.
DR. S. A. BOLAND, Statham, Ga.
DR. J. C. DANIEL, Statham, Ga.
DR. RALPH FREEMAN, Hoschton,Ga.
DR. L. C. ALLEN, Hoschton. Ga.
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of Union county, and Miss Maud Al
len, of Hoschton. Col. J. C. Pratt,
D. T. Cooper, Miss Willie Chesser,
Miss Estelle Hutchins,, W. A. Wood
and P. T. Fisher have been among
their past - teachers.
The present trustees are J. B. Ev*
ans, U. G. Sloan and H. T. Wages.