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The Manly Woman, and the
Womanly Man
In a recent issue of The Atlanta Constitution,
Miss Irma Dooley, one of the foremost women jour¬
nalists of the State, deplores the fact that in Atlanta
one sees men selling flowers on the street, and sees
women running the elevators in the public buildings,
stores, etc. '
The Sunday issue of the New York Times had
an interesting article on the tactics of the suffra¬
gettes, in their efforts to “bring pressure to bear” oq
those stubborn (?) members of Congress who abso¬
lutely refuse to see things relating to the casting of
ballots, as the suffragettes want them to be seen.
The two items, from so widely separated sources,
open a field for thought and discussion, which can
*not be ignored. The fact that women are doing
men’s work, is bad enough, but when one calls to
mind the men Miss Dooley speaks of—real men—
not handicapped tin any way by physical disability,
doing so fntile and so fripery a thing as selling
jonquils and violets on the streets, it gives one a
feeling of disgust at the two classes represented.
During the War. it was of course necessary for
many women to do openly, what many of them had
been doing secretly—become the established bread¬
winner instead of “adding to the family income”
on the quiet, with no publicity, but with a very great
necessity back of the work, as so many of them had
been doing.
The fact that there are men willing to do the
work of women, is not so much a thing to blame the
men for, as to blame the women for accepting. It
isn’t a question of making the women elevator
runners give, up their job, for which they are prob¬
ably getting more real money, if they are married
women, than they have seen since they said “I Will”
to the preacher.
It is the fact that our decadence, as a people, is
actually on us, that will cause the thinker alarm.
When Pompeii was destroyed, there had -been
warnings days and days before the grand slam came.
There, had been, first the trickle of dry ashes over
the city, from the awakening volcano. The cloud
was light, small, and scarcely to be noticed, and then
the inhabitants got used to it, and did not notice it
at all. The cloud grew thicker; the volume became
more active, and it was not long before the molten
lava engulfed the city and all in it. 1
The husky young men selling jonquils and violets
are the small cloufl of ashes. The men who dance
afternoon after afternoon, and drink soda water and
ginger ale, day in and day out; with no visible
means of support; always faultlessly dressed, and
up to the minute on all the small graces that make
the.“tango lizard”, are another part of that small
eke id. ,
The hTeii who traffic in women and young girls,
and whbse trade never seems to lack for victims, are
part also of that cloud, and that brings it squarely
up, or down, to the women of the country.
Just what are we doing about it?
Part of the answer is: we have grown so tired
of conditions as they have existed for women for
so many years, we have, like the old woman with
the broom who wanted to sweep back the ocean-r
taken the wrong weapon to accomplish what we
know has to be done, and which must at least be
attempted.
The old like of argument about the woman and
the home, is just as good, as an argument, as it eve
was; but with the times and the customs, we cu:
even strengthen that with the aid of the women'
clubs, and the associations of women that have kepi
the greater majority of us posted on all that is of
importance to the world at large.
The ballot itself, in the hands of the average
woman, is just as futile as the old lady’s broom.
We hate to admit it to ourselves, we fight if any
one even suggests it, but the real reason why we have
never gotten anywhere with suffrage, as suffrage, is:
we are only half educated. For so long a time, jusc
one lobe in woman’s brain has worked; the other was
dormant. The working lobe was developed along
the line of what our grandmothers called “womanli¬
ness”. This consisted of. first, as a young girl, being
modest, retiring, gentle, and willing to go the whole
length in the marriage service, as soon as a man
who measured up to our family standards came
along.
Did any of us in the past ever balk at the word.
“Obey” when the preacher came to it? Not much
we didn’t; we said it out, as loud as we could, and
from that day on, we were tremendously sorry for
the poor spinster who never had a chance to say she
would obey, for ever and ever amen, the man who
would “lead her to the altar”.
And right, now, in the back of the head of every
woman who is clamoring for the ballot, freedom
from the shackles of domesticity, equal rights, and
all the rest of the junk women have been worrying
about, is a feeling of more or less satisfaction that
personally, would not be so greatly affected by
ballot, but other women are talking about it,
/rfnd she might as well help.
In the article of the New York Times, there are
some amazing revelations as to the workings of the
woman lobbyist, in the efforts of the suffragettes to
put over, through fear mostly, those men who have
been fearless enough lo stand bv wjiat they consider
their principles, in the matter of universal suffrage.
A lobbyist by any other name, soimds as bad.
but a lobbyist always has been classed as “a person
who tries to influence the votes of members' of a
legislative body”.
When .women will take it on themselves to estab¬
lish a bureau, with everything a body of ward heel :
ers would have, from a card index down to the
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
utmost detail and data of the individual legislator,
does it seem that the “purification of the ballot box”
was any nearer, than it was when men alone were
the users of these tactics?
It is again a case of the men flower sellers, and
the women elevator runners; the men and women
have not only swapped jobs, but they evidently have
adopted each others’ tactics.
What good can be accomplished, if numbers are
to be added to what is already "a bad situation?
If you are a woman with a home, it stands to
reason that there are at least two men in your com
munity with whom you come in closo contact. If
there are objectionable methods in operation in your
town, relating to any of the public utilities—the
school, the general civic operations Of the town
itself, and you have given the matters earnest, sin¬
cere thought, is it a hard matter to get these two
men to listen to you ? Is it outside the line of reason
to suppose they will listen; that they will invseti
gate the charges- you make; that they will tell
other men in the. town who are husbands, fathers,
brothers ?
In this way, can you, or any one, measure the
strength and the breadth of your influence?
On the other hand: if the ballot were given you,
have you taken thought of the fact that the immoral
man cannot be kept from voting? The immoral
woman cannot either; and in the cities and towns,
do you realize the hold the professional politician
has over these poor creatures ? Do you suppose that
a community, ruled by grafters, would ever bo voted
out of office if the negro women and the women of
the restricted district were herded to the polls, and
made vote as the bosses bid them?
Where would your individual vote count?
And when you line the home up, against the
ballot box, and ask for the right to assist in tlio law
making, I contend that your best chance, your
weightiest effort will count, when it comes from the
home, no matter how you may picket, starve, rail
from soap-boxes and cart-tails, in your demand for
“rights”.
God only knows what the measure of sorrow,
tragedy and broken homes will be, when it is
counted up; and the real reason for it all is, our
women have been chasing the shadow, and ignoring
the substance.
There is no need in these days for any woman,
with even a spoonful of brains, to be a slave to any
man’s caprice. With proper understanding, she can
control her house, and all in it—but she must learn
how first. i
The War has, unfortunately, been the means of
taking from the home many who belonged there,
but whose desire for change, excitement and money,
drowned the claims of wlmt was their duty, at hand.
Greece became decadent when her men became
effeminate, and her women masculine. And History
has a way of repeating itself. xV. Ij. l.
The Pope, the President, and
Fatty Taft
It was William Howard Taft who went to Rome,
fell at the Pope’s feet, and capitulated to the Pagan
Pontiff in the matter of the Philippine Islands.
In those Rome-cursed Islands, the natives had
been cheated out of their#lands by the popish Friars,
had been loaded down with extortionate taxes, and
had had their wives and daughters debauched by the
bachelor priests of the Pope.
The Islanders rose in rebellion against these
abominable oppressors, and they helped us in our
War against Spain.
When, by their aid, we .had thoroughly beaten
Spain, we turned our guns upon the Filipinos, beat
them into subjection, and then handed them over
again to the pitiless, corrupting rule of the Roman
hierarchy.
In all of this infamy, the chief instrument of
Rome was William Howard Taft.
He knelt at the Pope’s feet in Rome, agreed to
pay $7,000,000 for the lands tho Friars had cheated
the natives out of, and he bonded the largest Island
to raise the money for the Pope.
He thus enslaved the natives; and the American
army, stationed at Manila, is kept there to insure
the Pope's supremacy.
This is the man who now comes to Georgia, with
his cast-iron , smile, and his perfidious heart, to per¬
suade the Protestants of the South into the
Pope’s League of Nations.
Taft knelt to the Pope, and Woodrow Wilson
has followed suit.
Woodrow Wilson went to the Vatican, had his
secret consultation with the Pope, and then went to
the Peace Conference virtually as the Papal repre¬
sentative.
Woodrow Wilson’s is the Pope’s voice at the
Conference.
The League of Nations is the Pope’s scheme to
re-enslave Christendom.
The Pope was the secret party and the inspiring
soul of the satanic “Holy Alliance” of 1815.
The Pope is the secret main-spring of Wil¬
son’s League of Nations.
The Pope is the mortal enemy of the underlying
principles upon which this Government is founded.
The Pope is the mortal enemy of free speech,
liberty of conscience, freedom of press, religious tol¬
eration, and civil liberty.
Tho Pope’s laws bind him to monarchy, autoc¬
racy, despotism, and the Divine Right of Kings.
When Taft and Wilson endeavor to bully you
into supporting the League of Nations, they are
betraying you to the Old Bloodthirsty Harlot
of the Tiber. T. E .W.
Laying Pipe for a Third Term
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spread ruin, of Southern fanners , DUE TO THE EJI
barqo on cotton.
Wheat can go to middle-Europe: 8,000 tons of
American food have gone to Vienna: ship after ship
can carry provisions to the Huns, but cotton can
not go.
V hy ?. Because a clause in the armistice terms
prohibits it.
At least, that’s what our Schoolmaster says.
Then, why does he delay the Treaty of Peace?
Why does he hold i (he South, while England
skins her?
Yvhy not, make peace, and then discuss the
L6aguc?
Why does President Wilson coldly and deliber¬
ately sacrifice the South ? (
He did the same thing in 1914!
million t ^t t dollars he South which must Congress pay its share of the thousand
. voted for the wheat
growers, to make good the difference between the
market price and the Government’s guarantee,
l 1 he South is not allowed to have a German mar
ket, or an Austrian market, or a Hungarian market,
or a Turkish market.
771 c embargo cuts us bff.
President Wilson is bent on killing time with
his League, for which we- did not go to war, instead
of making peace, for which wo fought.
“Marking time”, spinning it all out with speeches
in Europe, speeches in America, running over to
Paris, consuming four months in preliminary talk,
crossing over from Paris to Boston; then from this
country he is to return to Europo for more talk__
all ttbihit the League, first.
Tie peace for which we fought, and which cost
us 107,000 of tho flower of American manhood, MUST
wait. \
How long must it wait?
It is an awful thing to see Woodrow Wilson
polities, in this heartless style.
lie is determined to prolong the terrible condi¬
tions into which his League scheme has involved us.
Ho means to spin it out, and carry it over into
1920.
Ho means to be in position to say, next year,
“It won’t do to swap horses while crossing the
stream.”
He means to hold up the troops in Europe, hold
up ( ongress, hold up the people, with selfishly pre¬
meditated calculation, UNTIL THE OPENING OF THE
next Presidential Campaign.
Then he will say, “/ am entitled to finish what
/ hare begun."
In other words, he is planning for a third term;
and he will sacrifice anything and everything, any
body and everybody, to get it.'
Backed by tho servile Congressmen who kiss his
foot: backed by the most elaborate Press Bureau
that the world ever saw: backed by the Corpora¬
tions which piled up billions of profits while the
American soldiers were piling up their dead bodies
on the field of battle; backed by a hypnotized clergy
that endorses Wilson first, and then examines what
LEGISLATIVE ANNOUNCEMENT
We, the citizens and voters of the
125 th District, G. M., Columbia
County, Ga., would respectfully ask
Mr. Walter Jones to announce him¬
self as candidate for the Legislature,
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. I. V. Ballard:
D. P. Paysinger, T. C. West, J. C.
Norvell, J. M. Freeman, P. B. Mul
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In accordance with the foregoing
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WALTER JONES.
LEGISLATIVE ANNOUNCEMENT
Believing that E. C. Lanier Is fully
competent and capable r ot discharg¬
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LEGISLATIVE ANNOUNCEMENT
To the Citizens of Columbia County:
At the solicitation of many friends
I hereby announce myself a candi¬
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the Hon. I. V. Ballard la the State
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Should yoii^'honor me with this
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which has broken the independent spirit of the
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A barage off oratorical benevolence, philan¬
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George Washington respected this law: indeed,
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Andrew Jackson respected this law, and so did
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But Woodrow Wilson has no respect for it, any
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Constitution of the Union.
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