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“VOTES FOR WOMEN.” 
1 am glad you have taken up the "votes 
for women” subject, and as usual, in a 
perfectly fair way. It is very true that 
many, perhaps a majority, of our east¬ 
ern farmers’ wives do not care for the 
ballot, because they have given but little 
thought to the matter. Those of us who 
have tried to do something along moral 
reform lines have found that - education 
without legislation is slow work. We 
would like to sit at home election day 
and lot our husbands and brothers "pro¬ 
tect” us at the polls, but we see that the 
odds are against them singlehanded, and 
so, like good wives and sisters, wo want 
the chance to go out and help them. 
'Our brothers need us, not only in the 
family housekeeping but in the town. 
State and National housekeeping as well. 
It works well where it has been tried. 
Some say it would only double the num¬ 
ber of votes without changing results. 
The brewers and liquor dealers’ associa¬ 
tions do not seem to think this, as every¬ 
where they are among the bitterest oppo¬ 
nents to votes for women. They are 
wiser and far more experienced in poli¬ 
tical matters than we and I bow to their 
judgment and believe the liquor men have 
reason to fear the women’s vote. 
HATTIE E. MILLER. 
liver since you started out to get the 
opinion of the women, in regard to this 
question. 1 have wanted to criticise your 
method, and the wording of your ques¬ 
tions. It is not a question of “whether 
THE RURAL 
here and there where some strong work¬ 
ers are to be found. The Democrats in 
('ongress have decided to consider this a 
Stale question. This means that under 
the present Administration there is not 
likely to be any National legislation on 
the subject. 
Our Suffragette. 
Last Spring, when we began feeding 
our new calf, she was so very militant 
that we named her for rnat leader of mili- 
tantism in England, who has so recent¬ 
ly visited our own land. 
It was not long before our two-year- 
old daughter was entertaining all visitors 
by saying: ‘.My bossy—name En’line 
l’ankhurst say Ma-a-a—Votes for Wom¬ 
en !” As the Summer passed she said it 
more and more seldom, till we supposed 
it was forgotten. In November we took 
her home to New England to exhibit her 
to her grandparents. While waiting in 
the Canadian Pacific Station in Mon¬ 
treal, thi‘ young miss, now 2%, discov¬ 
ered the lovely echo in the waiting room 
and amused herself for some time by 
shouting “Oh” and “Ah.” Suddenly the 
room rang with. “Votes for Women” 
vociferated with all the force capable from 
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"THE MAII) WAS IN THE GARDEN HANGING OUT TIIE CLOTHES.” 
we would vote if we had a chance.” It 
is whether the women of New York State 
should hare the privilege of voting, 
whether they wanted to or not. I for 
one want to vote; if for no other reason, 
because I brought a daughter into this 
world and taught her the duties of citi¬ 
zenship. She is now living in Illinois, 
having the privileges which I am denied. 
I never have heard of, or seen anyone 
through this part of the country who 
was trying to find out what percent of 
l he women wanted this privilege given 
to their sex, so how was the result ob¬ 
tained when the conclusion was reached 
that “only 10 percent of the women 
wanted equal franchise?” They didn’t 
ask me or any of my neighbors and I can 
tell you right now, this country is just 
throbbing with eagerness to cast a 
mighty ballot, to help right some of the 
wrongs existing everywhere throughout 
this broad land. At all the former elec¬ 
tions, the op-State counties have been 
factors to bi i reckoned with, so don’t say 
again that “only 10 percent of New York 
State women want to vote,” until you 
hear from little Warren, for there are 
many hundreds of women who have for 
many years been anxiously praying, wish¬ 
ing, and working, for this end. 
EMMA B. WILKIE. 
We have had long experience in learn¬ 
ing the sentiments of our readers, and 
naturally we will follow our own plan in 
this case. There have been several very 
long and bitter articles sent us by the anti- 
suffrngists. We cannot print such long 
documents. It seems a remarkable thing 
to us that women should indulge in such 
fierce denunciations as these “antis” do. 
Their favorite argument seems to be that 
immoral women in town and city would 
be most likely to vote and control elec¬ 
tions. At the recent registration in Chi¬ 
cago over 1 “>.'5.000 women registered. Our 
private reports from Western States do 
not show any such conditions as these 
"antis” claim. As one on the other side 
puts it. “Anyway, it is no worse for such 
women to vote than for the men who 
profit by them !” What we make out of 
it thus far is that “votes for women” is 
at present in the East, largely an indus¬ 
trial movement of city working women. 
Country women are not yet specially in¬ 
terested so far as we can learn, except 
a tiny pair of lungs, till to our embar¬ 
rassment so many eyes sought our direc¬ 
tion that we hastened to the platform 
thus diverting our young suffragette. 
A. G. I. 
Little Brown Baby. 
Little brown baby wif spa’klin’ eyes, 
Come to yo’ pappy an’ set on his knee. 
What you been doin’, sub—rankin’ sail’ 
pies? 
Look at dat bib—you’s oz dirty ez me. 
Look at dat inouf—dat’s merlasses, I bet ; 
Come hyoah, Maria, an’ wipe off bis 
ban’s. 
Bees gino to ketch you an’ eat you up 
yit, 
Bein’ so stick v an’ sweet—goodness 
Ian’s! 
Little brown baby wif spa’klin’ eyes, 
Who’s puppy's darlin’ an’ who’s pap¬ 
py’s chile? 
Who is it all de day nevah onces tries 
Fu’ to be cross, or once loses dat smile? 
Whah did you get dem teef? My, you’s a 
scamp! 
Whah did dat dimple come Tom in yo’ 
chin V 
Pappy do’ know you—I b’lieves you’s a 
tramp; 
Mammy, dis hyeah’s some ol’ straggler 
got in ! 
Let’s th’ow him outen de do’ in the san’; 
We do’ want stragglers a-layin’ Toun’ 
hyeah; 
Let’s gin him ’way to de big buggah-mnn, 
I know he’s hidin’ errouu’ hyeah right 
neah. 
Buggah-man, buggah-man, come in de do’, 
Ilyeah’s a bad boy you kin have fu’ to 
eat. 
Mammy an’ pappy do’ want him no mo’, 
Swaller him down f’om bis haid to 
his feet. 
Dah, now, I t’ouglit dat you’d hug me up 
close. 
Go back, ol’ buggah, you sha’n’t have 
dis boy. 
lie ain’t no tram]), nor no straggler, of 
co’se; 
He’s pappy’s pa’dner, an’ playmate, an’ 
joy. 
Come to you’ pullet now—go to yo’ res’: 
Wisht you could anus know ease an’ 
cleah skies; 
W isht you could stay jo,s’ a chile on my 
brens’-— 
Little brown baby wif spa’klin’ eyes! 
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