The Woman's Journal, vol. 43, no. 7, February 17, 1912, p. 50

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THE HE-MALE OF THE SPECIES

By Marion C. Smith

saw an o1 cow ranin o by a stream; er mouth was full of grasses and her eyes were full of dream. watched her tail, For Kipling says the female is more deadly than the male. But the day was warm and sultry, and while gazing at the cow, With a red bandanna handkerchief 1 wiped my heated brow, And—presto—came a raging bull, and drove me up a tree, For the he-male of that species is more deadly than the she. And when at last I got away, full well I used my less; 1 jumped a fence, and scared a hen who sat upon her egss. With cacklings wild she waddled off, 1 felt myself grow pale, For I feared the fearsome female that's more deadly than the male! : But the cock came running up, with wrath and ruffles on his brow; HMe saw another rooster, and he blamed him for the row; And the way they made the feathers fly was terrible to see, For the he-male of that species is more deadly than the she. Then a frenzied turkey gobbler sot mixed up in the fight, And I turned to leave the barnyard, when I saw a startling sight— A wild-eyed, wondering nanny-goat— she really made me quail, For I thought “Suppose this female should be deadlier than the male!" So I tried to shoo her off, but I reckoned without Bill, Who salloped up, and butted in, and helped me down a hill, More mussed up and discouraged than I felt that I could be; For the he-male of that species is more deadly than the she. Some sheep were feeding near me, and 1 caught the old ram's eye, So I went and begged for shelter at a little house near by; And there I saw a woman, and my courage 'gan to fail, For here was Kipling's critter who's more deadly than the male; But as she let me in, I heard a person raging round, Whose intemperate actions filled me with astonishment profound. And I1 fled before the aspect of Tim Sullivan O'Grady, For the gentleman of the species was more deadly than the lady! —The Independent.

CALIFORNIA SENATOR TELLS OF SUFFRAGE

Says Southern Pacific Railroad and All Corrupt Influences Fought It, But it Won, and is Helping the State r U. S. Senator John D. Works, in an address given before the Stanton Club of Washington, D. C., recently, said in part:

There are some women in this country who think that they are too sood to become American citizens. There are some men who believe their sens and their daughters are too good to become American citizens and to go to the polls and vote, but I want to tell you, my good friends, that there is mo man or woman in this country who is too good to become a good American citizen.

They tell us the place of the woman is at home, and that she should stay there in order to rear her sons and bring them up as good citizens. But the society woman gives over the care and education of her sons to a hired nurse or tutor, who not infrequently is a foreigner, while the working woman, who they used to say out in California should not be allowed to vote, rears her own sons and daughters at her knee, and brings them up by her own effort to be good American citizens.

it Dignifies the Mother What is the result of sranting women the right to vote? It elevates and dignifies the mother, because she becomes the teacher of her daughters as well as her sons in the lesson of citizenship. Is it not a beautiful thing when mother and father, brother and sister, can study the affairs of government together, and when the time comes to vote for them all to gotogether to the polls and cast their ballots? Polls Not Respectable

They used to say that the polling places were such that respectable, refined women would not be able to take part in voting. Well, if the polling places are so indecent that respecta-

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ble women would not want to there, whose fault is it? Not the women's, certainly. It is only a proof that we need the influence of the good women of this country to make our polling places decent and respectable. Something Is Wrong We are living in an age of unrest. The people are not satisfied. There is something wrong in our political life. We have been trying, out in California, to reform our politics so as to make it worth while to become an American citizen and go to the polls.

Government for the People These great reforms which are now being established all over the country are beginning to place the affairs of government in the hands of the people themselves, and to take them away from the moneyed interests which have governed the politics of this country for twenty years. These reforms will make it possible for women to accomplish something with their votes, as well as the men. Paving the Way

Before the women were granted the franchise in California, we had written into the constitution of that great State of ours the direct primary, the initiative, the referendum and the recall. We had provided for the direct vote of the people. We had prepared the way for the women. Woman suffrage was only one of the reforms. We teok the position that the people were good enough to govern our State, and had a right to do so. Then we went a little bit further, and said that the women of the State were an important part of the people, and that, therefore, they should be given the right along with the men to govern its affairs.

The parties who are striving to prevent reforms here are the same who tried to prevent the women of Califormia from getting the franchise. We meed the women to help us. We have been trying to secure woman suffrage for many years, not only because we believed the women had the right to vote, not only because we believed that it would help the women themselves, but because we believed that it would be good for the State of California to have the women vote. Problems Not Political But Moral

1 am advocating this reform not only for my own State, but for all the States, because I believe it will be good to have women in politics. The great questions which are confrouting this country today are not political questions. They are great moral questions in which every woman should be interested. The question of child labor, the question of women's labor, pure food, and the right of the individual to cast his vote with perfect freedom, uncontaminated by political influences, great as they are —all these are great moral questions, which women are just as capable of dealing with as the men.

You will find, when you come to fight the battle of woman suffrase, that the saloon interests will be always against you. Every evil influence is against woman suffrage. Now I hope the women here are not seeking suffrage as a privilege. 1 hope they are not even demanding it as a right. I hope every good conscientious woman who is granted the franchise will feel that it is a sacred responsibility. “Too Good to Vote"

Some society women will feel that they are too good to vote, and that they would be coentaminated by any connection with the great reforms of which I have been speaking. But the woman who appreciates our government and its institutions will feel it a great and sacred duty to vote. If a society woman does not want to go to the polls, if she feels that she does mot care to assume these great responsibilities, she need not go, but why should she try to prevent every other woman from assuming her share of the responsibility of citizenship?

Pays Respects to Antis I heard of a gathering here in Washington yesverday of women opposed to the further extension of the franchise. These same women did the very same thing in California. They even did a little worse, for they sent emissaries from the East away out there to influence our people against this great reform. But in spite of them we won the vote for women. Women will win the franchise in every State of the Union. The sentiment in faver of

woman suffrage is srowins, and srowins, and growins.1 mis were not true, we could not have established it in California. It was contested there just as hotly as it is everywhere, but no good reasons were advanced against it. I never yet have heard a single reason given for denying the ballot to women which appealed to me as being reasonable just. Rescuing California

Now let me tell you just a little more about some of these reforms. No State of the Union was so controlled by corrupt politicians as California. They controlled both the Democratic and the Republican parties. They mominated whom they pleased. The individual voter had no choice when election day came, except between two evils. The elections were controlled by the Southern Pacific Railroad. They openly bought delegations in the political conventions. At the last State election before the one when Gov. Johnson was elected, the Southern Pacific Railway Company paid Abe Ruef (now serving a term in the penitentiary) $14,000 for the California delegation, and the Governor, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Congressmen and every State officer were nominated and elected by the downright purchase of votes by that corporation. How were we to meet that situation? Respectable Republicans inquired of themselves what they could do under this condition of affairs to redeem the Republican party or raise up a new one. They undertook to reform the Republican party. Some of us had grown up with that party from our youth. We believed that the sreat principles of the Republican party, as they had been, were fundamental, and so we resolved, instead of going out of the party and attempting to establish a new one, to redeem our old party. And so we established the direct pri mary as the first step, followed by the initiative, referendum and recall.

After we had purified politics, after we had placed the power in the hands of the people, we invited the women to step up and take part in the government of the State. Our citizenship has been redeemed. We must depend upon the people, in a free Republic like this, if we want gcod government. The Ballot an instrument

Now what are the women going to o after they get the vote? I hope hey are not working for this reform ione, but that they regard the ballot simply as an instrument with which o accomplish other great reforms.

The ballot has been denied women ul along, but men are now beginning to wake up to the fact that it is unust to withhold it. When that princiole is established, we will be able to set politics out of the corrupt influonces which dominate them in many States. To my mind, the men of the country need the women to help them.

CONCERNING WOMEN

Emma V. Sanders, a brilliant young L.L. D. of the University of Amsterlam, Holland, will be the guest of the Boston E. S. A. for Good Government next Tuesday, when she will speak on Ellen Key and the Woman's Movement." Dr. Sanders is a personal trriend of the Swedish writer, and is trusted by her to interpret her writings. The meeting will be held in the New England Women's Club Rooms, at 3 P. M., and will be free.

Carrie V. A. Lucas of Clarion, Iowa, Recorder of Wright County, writes: “I am very much interested in the cause, and never miss an opportunity of boosting' it. We are going to have suffrage in Iowa in two years at the most. The bequest of our beloved Mrs. Coggeshall takes the money problem from our minds.' On Mrs. Lucas's letter-head are the words, “Irene Tuttle, Deputy." They are evidently not afraid of women in office in lowa.

Mrs. J. H. Slocum of San Bernardino, Cal., in sending in a subscription for The Woman's Journal, says: “Having won the fight here, we turn to old Kansas as the next battlefield. little dreamed when I came te California that I should become a fullfledged citizen before the women of my own beloved Kansas had acquired the ballot.' One of the most reassuring signs of the times is the disposition of the women voters in the newly-enfranchised States not to stop

with the victory in their own State, but to do their utmost to bring victory to the women of other States. Women who have taken the suffrage principles to heart are doing two sisnificant services for the cause. They not only mean to prove their fitness for the ballot by fulfilling well their own civic duties, but are determined not to rest with victory until it is complete for the whole country.

Miss Grace Sherwood of Ashtabula. the only woman member of a Chamber of Commerce in Ohio, is an officer in the Woman Suffrage Party of her city. BY WAY OF SUGGESTION

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What to Do and What Others Are Doing in Different States for The Journal and the Cause

The Woman Suffrage Party of Minnmesota has just sent in the names of 112 new subscribers to The Woman's Journal. They are sent in by Eliza P. Evans, who sends in for herself eight other subscribers, making in all 120 subscriptions which came in one letter. Interesting and valuable letters of this kind are becoming more and more frequent. The work srows more encouraging every day!

As The Journal becomes better known the correspondence srows heavier, and more and more important as a necessary part of the day's work in The Journal office. For instance, here is the number of letters to different States in the Unicn that went out on one typical day recently: California 3, Connecticut 2, Illinois s, Towa 1, Kansas 1, Kentucky 1, Maryland 1, Massachusetts 14, Minnesota 4, Missouri 2, Nebraska 1, New Hampshire 2, New Jersey 1, New York 12, Ohio 2, Oklahoma 1, Oregon 1, Pennsylvania 5, Rhode Island 1, Tennessee 1, Vermont 1, Wisconsin 2.

A typical answer to these letters is the following

“My Dear Miss Ryan: “I am replying to your letter to my daughter Grace, who wrote you about Miss Pankhurst's lecture here. We will have a series of at homes' in the homes of our members once a fortnight, charging a small admission fee, having a short talk by someone, followed by refreshments. Our first meeting was held last Tuesday and was a great success.

“We sold some copies of The Journal which you sent and took subscriptions from seven ladies. If you are willing to send some sample copies for a time until we get the pecple more interested in the whole question of suffrage we should like it. Otherwise we will buy some and I will notify you in time for them to arrive. Is there an extra charge for those sent to Canada for a shorter period than one year? Kindly reply. I enclose the blanks I have filled out. The other three addresses are given below.

“I find The Journal entirely satis. factory, almost every item of great in terest. I have for a year been supplying six newspapers with cuttings three regularly once a week and the others very often. The reporters are eager nmow for every bit of news we can furnish them about our doinss, and since Miss Pankhurst's lecture the people's interest has greatly increased. If you can susggest any means we can use to further our work we shall be greatly obliged. “Cordially vyours."

A list of 25 subscribers to The Woman's Journal has just been received. They are for trial subscriptions and are sent in by one Connecticut woman. The number of friends of suffrage who are doing sood work like this in boosting The Journal is encouraging. It would not take long to make The Woman's Journal one of the most powerful papers in the country if a good number of women in each State were working as hard for The Journal as a few in tered States are now doing.

If you can not send 25 new subseriptions to The Journal out of your own pocket, send for our cash offer for suffragists. By means of it you can raise money to send as many or as few as you like. More than a score of ardent suffragists are using this cash offer and by means of it are doing good propaganda work at the

same time that they strengthen and support the National Organ. The cash offer will be sent to any suffragist on application to The Journal office.

The suffragists who are today on the “firing line" for the Cause may not realize the large proportion of aged women who are now in the suffrage ranks. The number of discontinuances to The Woman's Journal on account of death of aged suffragists is considerable, and the number of discontinuances because of failing eyesight and old age is a matter to be reckoned with. The following sentence from a suffragist shows how necessary it is to recruit our ranks with young women: “While I like The Journal I am obliged to discontinue my subscription with other valuable papers on account of failing eyesight." Wanted: Two new subscribers for every discontinuance.

The number of dollars that come in attached to a Journal subscription blank indicates that it is very much worth while for suffragists to put Journal subscription blanks into the hands of their friends. BEvery single one helps, and one new subscriber from every present subscriber would materially alter the financial prospects of The Woman's Journal for the coming year. A word to a suffragist is surely sufficient. Thousands of suffragists are only waiting to know the subscription price and the address of The Journal.

Representatives from Delaware and Missouri were the first ones to adopt the suggestion to send Woman's Jourmal advertising slips in their letters. They are not the only ones, however, and it is hoped that hundreds of women frem other States will order them. When we ask for $1 from a suffragist to pay for her subscription to The Journal, and she sends $2, one for her own subscription and one for a friend or relative, we bless her instinctively.

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Ours is a woman suffrage State, yet we do not find women exercising leap year privileges any more than they did before they were enfranchised.— Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger.