Do working women have time enough to exercise their political rights? This is the talk of the dean of Barnard College at Columbia University, on the occasion of the approaching elections.
"A woman fights madly and boldly when she sees danger closing in on
her home and her children."
Politics, for woman, is a necessity and a principal task which she must not neglect. Woman cannot hold aloof from taking part in government so long as she enjoys the human rights that make of her an independent personality in her own right.
Dirt, disease, treachery — all these rob a man or a woman of reason once they invade the home of either. No sacrifice is too great, and no effort too large, when it
comes to crushing these enemies that threaten the family's happiness. Our social development bears witness that when these enemies threaten our society, they threaten our private lives and shake our houses and our homes.
Woman has been, and still is, slow to accept a governmental task, and this because our country does not leave this matter to men alone, but entrusts it to men who are neither competent nor worthy to undertake it. "Politics is a dirty
business" — a phrase mouthed by every individual in our society, so much so that most of the population refuse to vote, because our government, as they put it, is in chaos. Our failure to take part in any association, and to vote in the primaries, goes back to the nomination of machine politicians who know full well how to sing the praises of their cronies and their friends.
We witness all around us that the result of this negligence proceeds from ourselves: rulers who have no connection with governing enjoy all their rights, while other individuals, worthy of assuming the offices of government, are kept far removed from it. We have been heedless of correcting these errors; now, however, we must face these matters and do our utmost to set them right. We as women have
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