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But Cardinal Moran of Australia, who has lived under Equal Suffrage for very many years, has this to say of the political emancipation of women as it works out in actual practice In his official organ, The Catholic Press of Sidney, he says: “What does voting mean to a woman? No longer a mere household chattel, she is recognized as man’s fellow heplmate, and credited with public spirit and intelligence. As a mother, she has a special interest in the legislation of her country, for upon it depends the welfare of her children. She knows what is good for them just as much as the father and the unselfishness of maternity should make her interest even keener. She should deem it one of the grandest privileges of her sex that she can now help to choose the men who will make the laws under which her children must live, and exert her purer influence upon the political atmosphere of her time. How can she sacrifice any dignity by putting on her bonnet and walking down to the polling booth? Women think nothing of transacting ordinary commercial business, of working along aide men, of playing their part in the practical business of life. Thewoman who thinks she makes herself unwomanly by voting is a silly creature.’’If the Dispatch-Demoerats is under the delusion that Father Gleason of Palo Alto is the only Catholic of note who believes in woman surffage, it ahould be undeceived. Here are a few names of wider significance: TheRev. Thomas Scully of Cambridgeport, Mass.; Miss Jane Campbell, a Catholic, is president of the Philadelphia Woman’s Suffrage Association ; Bishop Bernard J. J. McQuaid; Bishop John Lancaster Spaulding; the Rev. Edward McSweeney, Mt. St. Mary’s, Md. “The first woman on this side «f the Atlantic who demanded the right to a vote,’’ says the Rev. Thomas Scully, “was a Cathoic— Margaret Brent of Maryland on January 1st, 1747.’’ J. J. Kean, the head of the Cathoic church in Wyoming wasrecently in San Francisco and came •ut unequivocally for woman suffrage.July 27th—“Women Do Not Need the Ballot.’’ Do they not? Ask the women school teachers of New York who have, for a quarter of a century, petitoned the New York legislature in vain for the simple justice of equal pay with men for equal work. Ask the 40,000 shirt waist makers who struck eighteen months ago, for eight months, Tor the right to unionize in New York City, and were treated as no trade of men under like circumstances have ever been treated in this country, and this, although they were absolutely peaceful and guiltless of any depredations to property. “Women in industry is not the normal woman.” Then one-thirid of the women of America are abnormal. This is a charge against American Womanhood, which, if correct, should bid us despair indeed as a nation! “Women should not take equality -they need protection and privilege.” Well, they do not get it. The men of this country cannot, as a whole, support, that is “protect,” the women of this country, else there would not he one-third of the latter engaged in “gainful occupations” at pitifully low wages,—and half the rest supporting men and children by being the unpaid cooks, nurses, charwomen, seamstresses and laundresses of laboring men, farmers, clerks, etc., which women must be when their husbands try to support five or six people on less than one thousand dollars a year. The average man’s wages in the United States is $600.00 a year.If democracy cannot give every person an indirect participation in government, then our government is founded on a falsehood. Nobody ever said that democracy should or could give the people more direct paticipation in government than is implied by a free vote as to who shall represent us in government.August. 4th—Mrs. Caswell, President of the So. Calif. Asss’n. Opposed to Woman Suffrage, as quoted in the Press Democrat of August 4h, gives a series of “I believes” unsupported by any data or proofs. Anyone can say I beleive women are better off without the vote, etc., but it is not so simple to support one contention’s with facts. When she says, for instance, “A large majority of women do not want the ballot,” How does he know? No house to house to canvass has ever been made on ths question except in Denver by Miss Helen Sumner, Ph. D., for scholarly book,‘ ‘Woman Suffrage, ’ ’ where the majority of women were overwhelminglyfor it. In rough computaton there are said to be 400,000 adult women in California, and of these in another like computation, 100,000 are enrolled in clubs at this present day actively working for it, either by passively paying dues or enthusiastically spreading propaganda.In conclusion Mrs. Caswell says that she has too much faith in the wisdom and judgment of the men of California to fear that they will vote against her judgment. Well, we can say exactly the same thing, we do not fear that men will refuse to the women of their state political emancipation.The Dispatch-Democrat of August Uth, ip its article, “The Female Politician,” says, not unlike Mrs. Caswell, a series of “they woulds” and “it woulds.” All priori arguments are unnnecesary when there are demonstrated acts to draw on. Coloado has had Equal Suffrage for seventeen years; it is a young state, a mining state, which draws a typically pioneer and rather lawless population, yet none of the scandals, that the Dispatch-Democrat assumes to be inevitable under Equal Suffage, has occurred there. “When women are fairly inside politics,” says the Dispatch-Democrat, “The sensational press will reap a harvest of scandals more lucrative to itself than profitable to public morals.' ’ Why hasn’t this happened in Colorado?There has certainly been tjme in seventeen yeurs, or are we to understand that there is in California an inferior brand of womanhood to that of Colorado? The Senator of Ukiah is most amusing when he is most inearnest. M. Fay Couhglin, Chairman Press Committee. College Equal Suffrage League.R. L. Hutchison was a business visitor in Willits last Wednesday. .
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Ukiah Republican Press
Ukiah, California, US
Fri, Sep 22, 1911
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