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SHOULD WOMEN VOTE? NO'ii hiTbs question of women voting in one that should be answer**) in the affirmative. There is certainly no reason why women should not have an interest in the making of Is lt;*«the laws, rather than leaving ques- *4*lions to bo settled by those who sell their votes to the highest bidderwA StPL* IAct LiThe fundamental reason (or wo. Ht*tu man's suffrage it the principle cf| lk\0Democracy. Whoever believes in j *jthis principle cannot logically be 1Po*t i uf H*mthe anon or Iopposed to giving woman the franchise For instance, if the manufacturers were allowed to legislate j Ml r for the farmers, the latter would IItIs! feel greatly wronged; but some s|Md • people never tee the inconsistency ; allontof tbs men in a country voting forall the women. said* aAn anti-anffragist seems to think i “I in. , , . . top Faa wrman should remain at borne th*r*tand not do more than look out of '*f whl. _ i » . the »sithe window lest her pure, innocent for tb»soul be blackened A woman who lJ‘thinks only of her own home is LfHielselfish and narrow minded. Doing out to vote once in a while will not interfere with her household duties. As for going from place to place to find out horn some women were voting; that is certainly unnecessary trouble. Any woman with oorumou sense would not bother herself about another's vole.HA’l nan. I uni norHolt*VilBorne say that only those with Appl overbalanced minds are advoca- „t ating votes for women Others ask ^u T • - it. in.if there are not as many ignorantunlearned and sinful women as men In actual figures only one criminal out of every twenty is a woman, and there are a great many more girls than boys graduating from the high schools every year — ALICE HIBBRRTThe writers of the above article and the article on the same question last week, appear to have i\ very poor opinion of the men ns regards voting Iu some cases it is well merited, but the great majority use their vote as tbeir own honest convictions prompt themKirSt.HoiMaiHurBvtdullChe
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Cupar Herald
Cupar, Saskatchewan, CA
Thu, May 28, 1914
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