Coming And Going.
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recent municipal elections; permit
ted ii r tne first time to participate
in a wider sphere ol poi.tical activi
(ty; end m exercisin' the privilege,
to far as Fairbanks is concern? j,
acquitted themselves wiih credit,
and seemingly appreciated and en
tered into the game with a cousid
eial.de amount ol conscientious en
thusiasm. They went at it with a
diicc.tness and business like way,
which in con.rast with tne average
male Veter, was much in their fa
vor, and this is the experience In
ail the 3ts%tes where woman suffrage
obtains. Women eperywhere seem
to regard the exercise of the fran
chise us teriously as do men and
even more so. And since state after
siaie nas extended to women the
r,ghi to vote, and ihere is as yet no
fitn that any aie sorry or have suf
lei ed because of it, what is to be
come of the stock anti suffrsge ar
guments which are being made to
appear more puerile and rediculous
everyday? The man who in the
light of experience would assert
tnat women do not want to vote- or
do not vo:e with as much inteli.
£ecce as meu, would run a couside
jable risk oi nominating himself as
a candidate for the bug nouse. The
argument that women become »a
womanly and “unsex” themselves
by going to the polls, is played out
and neve, was anything more than
an insult to womanhood, to the in
telligence of everyhody and the
contention to the effect that the on
ly place for women ia the home—
meaning the kitchen or nursery
is of a piece with those mentioned
and together, wilh those and many
other bo called arguments not mon
tioned, is headed straight for ,the
bon* yard where res- unnumbered
disca.ded ideas and contention?
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which seem foolish to us todayf but
which never the less were once
strenuously battled for. The day ot
equal suffrage for both men and
women is at hand, and in the near
future we may expeet to see in eve
ry state, excepting perhaps soma
of those in the South where theyare
afraid unto death of “nigger dom
ination” the culmination cf a half
century’s battle for simple jusfice
to one half the people of America—
tbe political emancipation of wo
men.
Meals For
Scholars
Springfield, Mass, has decided by
a referendum to provide meals for
its school children.
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“Fighting
Plan
Mass meetings are being held
throughout England to protest
Winston Churchiire plans to in
crease the army and navy.
To The
Point.
By the Mad Philosopher.
It is really surprising that a
clever man tike Carkey pays the. a
mount of from t70C to ? 1,000 te
bring in an editor from the outside
to write up so much junk as ap
pears weekly in the Alaska Citizen.
The proprietor of the Alaska Ctti
zen either must be iong on money
and short on braiuj, or may be
long or short of both of them as the
case may be.
Amomg several mentai abortions
we find a ‘fnuny’ artioi^ entitled
“miasdirected Efforts.” He speaks
about moral degenerates and sav
ing them that have gone astray,
instead of those who lost their
pride and seff respect, How is it pos
Bible under a system of exploitation
tion that is based on legal robbary)
tbat of skinning the working class,
where everything is commercialized
from the body of woman down to
the intellect of an editor to produce
anything else than mental or mo
ral degentrates.
In the lette- a woman has written
to the United States Congress, a bo
dy of men not over burdendd with
intelligence, ean be very easily seen
what the real cause of mental de
generacy ia Of course it is too com
plicated for College p'ofessors. Edi
tors rnd Congressmen to see. Only
rough necks iike us can see it.
Such a thing as a “professional”
degenerate only ezists in the head
of the Editor even ff he believes
tliBt He is not subject to the iion
law of ‘economic’ necessity.
The moral degenerates sell them
selves for the same reason that the
intellectual pro-titutes sell them
selves And they all sell themselves
in order to eke out an existence.
Remove the cause that makes'
moxal degenerates, the Bystem of
capitalist exploitation and all the
“pjofcsaional” degeneraies will dis
appear with it.
We agree with Geoyge Bernard
Shew who says, Men who prosti
tute tl^ir bran s are more danger
gub ti.society than women who sell
their bodies .’
JOKES.
We have bpen often aeked lately
if the rumor that Griffin went out
side this winter to have Crosley
canned and that Griffin would then
work for Uncle Louie, was a joke..
Events will tell.
A email Indian boy made a queer
rendering of Mrs. Heman’s famous
poem which he was required turn
into prose. The lines were.
When a band of exiles moored their
bark,
On the wild New England shores.
The Indian’s version was, The
bam'shed musicians tied their dog
to the coast of New England.
The Free
Press.
JOB PRINTING
RT THE FREE PRESS