Don't Agree With Capt. Manly

To the Editor: With your permission and on behalf of the women who want to vote, I wisb to say a few words about the report of Representative Manly's speech. He asks: "Who are the women who want to vote ?" He does not heliere the ladies want to. The latest report from Topeká, Kansas, ays: "A very large majority of the votes cast were by the refined and cultured ladies of the city." "Do our wiveg and daughters want to vote? No; the women who sign these petitions and urge this bill do not know what a home is. They are not wives or mothers." I could cite a number of personal acquaintances to show the falsity of that statement. The most eminent woman euffragists are wives and motherg, or have been. Among others may be mentioned Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe Julia Ward Howe, Matgaret Fuller Ossoli and Lucretia Mott. "The place for women is at home." Then, why blame her for wanting to make it as good aplace as possible? Can she protect it by unjust laws, gambling and drunkeness without the use of the ballot ? I do not think home is the place for all I women - some have a natural faeulty for making home life pleasant, and some have not, any more than all men have a faculty for one kind of budines-!. If home U the place for women, whv is Florence Níghtíngüle so honored? Certainly not beeause she slaid at h me. ' Such a law would ilisiupt the hotnes," It i hard to understand why ít should iu Michigan, vchile it has not ín Wyoming or Englnnd. Dr. T. H. Hayford of the Laraniie City Sentinel says : "I have never known a case of domestic infelicity errowirjg out of it" (municipal suffrage). There are similar repnrts trom all parts of Wyoming. It is quite evident that. if domstic infelicity does not result from municip 1 suffrage, divorces will not for they are the resnlt of domestic infelicity. '■ He do not want our wives out all night tiying to nomínate some man." But, we do not care how long they are out huntirig up a drunken husband or son. If we did we would have given them a chance to vote on the nmendment. The women in Wyoming do not generally go to caucases, political managers, however, know that they must nomínate their best man, if they secure the votes of the women.