Equal Suffrage Doctor Helen a Sumner

Suffrage cannot ameliorate that sad fact e. Can only accentuate it, as indeed it does. One of the great american women leaders claims that woman is entitled not only to equal pay, but that she ought to be legally entitled even to the pay of her husband. Failing to support her, he should be put in convict stripes, and his earnings in prison be collected by his equal wife. Nothing is so dangerous as the dissection of a fetish. If we have outlived the time when such heresy was punishable at the stake, we have not outlived the narrow spirit of condemnation of those who dared differ with accepted notions. Therefore, i shall probably be put