Bellona Times
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perhaps alone they might not even do as well least of all is it any accusation that there has been on the part of men intentional injustice toward women or intentional blindness toward the moral questions and issues for which women have cared we are willing to allow
as indeed we feel we must allow, do credit for all the devotion to the ideals of public morality and decency and efficiency, for which great men have times without number splendidly sacrificed themselves, for which many men have striven nobly, and for which the average man has, with average constancy, done his average best.
We admit, moreover, that women are politically inexperienced, that they have much to learn in the matter of playing the game, that they will doubtless make many blunders in the progress of their learning.
We admit, if you like, that women have upon many occasions been very silly, very hysterical, and very impractical.
Also that they will probably be so again.
We admit that utopia will not come at once when women vote.
Perhaps utopia will never come anyway.
But we do claim that the men facing these new old problems of public ethics
as applied to concrete public facts and conditions, cannot afford, if they wish to solve these problems intelligently, to ignore one half of the people who might assist them in their work, a part of the people just now deeply stirred to great endeavor, who would bring a new and unfettered moral outlook to the electorate, and a new and vital force to the public service.
in the early days of the movement for woman suffrage it was met by many arguments against its fitness against its possibility and against its inherent righteousness the day of these arguments has gone by and in their place we are met with an almost endless array of more or less practical questions half-veiled hostility
half real inquiry we are asked whether the undesirable and criminal women will not make more use of the ballot in proportion to their numbers than the respectable women whether the number of the ignorant foreign voters will not be increased out of proportion to the increase of the electorate we are asked what has been the effect of woman suffrage where tried on various economic questions such as equal pay for equal work
we are asked whether as a matter of fact the woman voter will not sooner or later find herself because of her inherent temperament in the ranks of the conservatives and stand patters and so will prove a drag on human progress and not a help to it
We are asked whether, as a matter of fact, nine-tenths of the women voters do not eventually find themselves in the ranks of the socialists.
We are asked innumerable questions, some silly, some wise, all of them answerable, we believe, to the satisfaction of any fair-minded citizen.
But to answer them would require space and time, not now, at my disposal.
End of Woman Suffrage by Bertha Rimbaugh This recording is in the public domain.
The Autobiography of an X-Colored Man Chapter 1 by James Weldon Johnson This is a LibriVox recording.
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Read by Bologna Times Chapter 1 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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