The mother at home thinking of her son, the sister thinking of
her brother, the wife thinking of her husband, are as loyally fighting
for their native land as the soldiers in the field, and no soldier is
braver than the hospital nurse, who, day after day and night after
night, watches by the bedsides of the wounded, the sick, and the dying.
No, Mr. Sawyer, it is not a question of fighting or bravery."
During the discussion Alice had dried her eyes and was listening to her
uncle's words. She now asked a question, "When will women vote, Uncle?"
"When it is deemed expedient for them to do so," replied Uncle Ike. "The
full privilege will not be given all at once. They will probably be
allowed to vote on some one matter in which they are deeply interested.
Education and the rum question are the ones most likely to be acted upon
first. But the full ballot will not come, and now I know Alice will
shake her head and say, 'No!' I repeat it--the full ballot will not come
for woman until our social superstructure is changed. Woman will not
become the political equal of man until she is his social and industrial
equal; and until any contract of whatever nature made by a man and a
woman may be dissolved by them by mutual consent, without their becoming
criminals in the eye of the law, or outcasts in the eyes of society.
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