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Hundreds of people on the street will know that a girl is dressed in a brazenly immodest manner; but she has not the faintest idea of it herself; proving that she is short in mentality and in the greatest attribute of allâ€" Modesty. Not only this, but we have thousands of women in this country who do not read and keep posted on the current events of the day; and yet this great mass of women are enfranchised and sent to the polls to vote as same wardâ€"heeler tclls them. in order to exercise her franchise pi'(;fi-éle);â€"afig the proper sphere of woman and enters the sphe chief charm and her chief quality as a woman. The very fact that young girls and women lack the sense of modesty, to such an extent that they do not know when they are dressing in a foolish and ridiculous manner, proves that their minds are not sufficiently developed to allow them to weigh the questions of the day, and enable them to vote, as every holder of a franchise should vote, intelligently, and with a true knowâ€" ledge of what he or she is doing. The unfortunate part of the whole affair is that there is no chance for the women to develop in the political line without losing her femininity. My own opinion is that the women of toâ€"day are in a far worse position than the women of fifty years ago were. regarding their ability to exercise their franchise properly. for our country «Now, if thought and study, and experience and knowledge, are qualifiâ€" cations for the proper exercise of the franchise, there is a large percentage of the girls and women of this country who have never given a single thought, and never studied a single moment, on what is right, and proper, wise or fit, Women of Fifty Years Ago The qualifications that go to make up a man‘s or woman‘s ability to exerâ€" cise the franchise wisely only comes about by thought and study, experience and knowledge, and by an earnest desire to see our country developed in a right and proper manner. My experience with men is that not over seventyâ€"five per are entitled to the franchise; and my knowledge of women le2 that not over twentyâ€"five per cent. of them are entitled to t] made fools of themselves by extending the franchise far ‘555:'01.1&5;;11‘; vfiézeg;i.'t;r of the case, or the wisdom of it. The more I study the question of the fra,nchisé, and the more I study the citizens of our country, the more am I convinced that our legislators have What attracts a man is modesty and true femininity in a women or girlâ€" so that the girls who dress, exposing a part of their person, with the idea of attracting the admiration of men, are making a great mistake;â€"because women or girls of this kind, are a joke to most men and an object of ridicule only. And the Franchise The funny part of it, to me, is that to this large volume of women who do not know how to dress themselves decently, we have granted the franchiseâ€" the most sacred and most valuable thing in the possession of a British subject I have noticed many girls, and especially in the cities, who were dressed in a most ridiculous manner. with the object, I suppose, of attracting the adâ€" miration of men; but if the silly creatures only knew it, they attract nothing but the ridicule of the menâ€"because even the worst of men are not attracted by this sort of thing in women. Quite a lot of talk has been going on. lately, about the dress of women, and girls;â€"one lady, in Hamilton, going so far as to state that the employers of girls, in shops and offices, should compell the girls to either dress decently or go home. I do not think it is up to the employers to tell their girl employees how to dress. The women, themselves, ought to have enough sense to dress decently and properly without beng ordered to do it on pain of losing their jobs. ‘The Dress of Women | FACTSa® FPANCIEs . | wGueGe oTe eB eBecZeaZeaTe aBe oBe eBe aBo aSe eB aZe Be aBe cBe Be aBe oBe aBe aZe aBe aZe oBe aBe aBe aBe aZe aBe abe aBe ofe oZe obe aBe eSeaSe aTe ce ce aBe abe aBeofaoP +2 «22+ ce e2+ +i TW O The woman who takes sufficient part in the political life of the country MOORES THEATRE, SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY Issued every Wednesday from the Office of Publishers, Main and Oak Streets, Grimsby. THE PEOPLE‘S PAPER ESTABLISHED 1885 JAS. A. LIVINGSTON & SONS, Owners and Publishers. THE INDEPENDENT J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, General Manager J. A. M. LIVINGSTON, Business Manager HlLs, Nib nb wine Ni ts tarca i tarcbyett,. Anlndutintn t dnb on dnc Rrrctunt e t chys ind l ie c Br a r franchise propgrly and intelligently, gets away from TELEPHONE 36. Frank Fairborn sphere of the masculine; losing her _per cent of the men i leads me to believe to the franchige. enc 1 mm D Ist. THE SANITARY FARM We‘ve bathed the bossie‘s tootsies, we‘ve cleaned the rooster‘s ears, We‘ve trimmed the turkey‘s wattles with antiseptic shears, With talcum all the guinea hens are beautiful and bright, And Dobbin‘s wreath of gleaming teeth we‘ve burnished snowyâ€"white With pungent sachet powder we‘ve glorified the dog, And when we have the leisure we‘ll manicure the hog! ® If you do not like a town and are sure that it is going to retrograde, the proper thing to do is to leave; but if you intend to live in town, do all you can to boom it, to build it up and to make it a desirable place to live. This is the way to insure progression, and to increase the value of your possessions in the town. 20 3 o Mn . 0 anFnnneaai n ce 5 . 01 0 RLmn ns | EOeC Aby CULEU RMALO : EGUILLULIULU paid his grocery clerk, the clerk paid his board, and the landlady paid a debt she owed to the man who found the bill. He took the bill to the bank and deposited it, but the banker threw it out as counterfeit. Now who was the loser by the deal or was anybody? The man who discovered gasoline died recently at and the man who discovered America has been dead : Rockefeller who now owns both is still alive and wel u3 _ C1EX IHCL OLALU, CYVR in IOC2L meéetInNngs, ai and these men were ‘the biggest czars that could be it they help up the flag of democracy wth one hand, in the sceptre of autocracy and tyrannyâ€"the democracy a ‘blind to cover their real feelings and intentions. Democracy is the twoâ€"edged swox};fl&t is put in the hand of the anarchâ€" ist, nihilist, and socialist; and then the franchise is used, not for the purâ€" pose of the betterment of the people, but for the purpose of putting into power tyrants, worse than any duke, prince, earl, or baron ever born. & In the masculine line, I would except every man from voting, who was not a worker in the vineyard. Every loafer and bum, and shiftless pleasure seeker. I would disfranchise; every man who neglected to poll his vote, if he could reasonably do so, I would disfranchise for so many years; and every man who sold his vote, I would disfranchise for a series of years. There is only one set of women to whom the franchise should be extended ; and that is widows and old maids, who can show that they are properly acâ€" quainted with the affairs of their province or municipality, in order to be able to vote intelligently and for the best interests of their country. "eowe ue ue ue owk o6 otk owe se se on And when I say old maids. I mean old maidsâ€"women of forty or over. These women are untrammeled by the affairs of family and can enter the whirl of politics along with the men, wWithout neglecting their families, or husbands;â€"but young girls without sense, and married women with a family, have no business with the franchise. Democracy is a fakeâ€"and a false alarm. In no c or seen, or heard tell of, has demo0Cracy worked f people; but always for the smashing, _a-I!d_inJ'ury and Nobody ought to be allowed to vote who est interest in the welfare nf his munininalit And the worst feature of the whole thing is that the more democratic the mob is. the more autocratic it is; and the more tyrannical; because no aristocracy that ever existed in any country in the world was as brutal and as tyrannical and as fiendishly cruel and ovenbearing as the democracy of mobâ€" law in the United States, and even in Englang, QooBe Ee ts n +2 e% S is n ot S CR anapeat t C O0C A2C9L C2L ANVUDNAC, TVACEC LLLL= liongs of people were murdered simply because they were industrious and fruâ€" gal and worked their little farms or carried on their little stores, intelligently â€"but democracy, in the form of Bolshevism, rode rampant over the country, and stole and pillaged, and murdered and outraged. in order to fulfill their idea of freedom and democracy. The fruits of democracy can be seen in turn a woman into a mare or a cow, to be m or another man, as some evilâ€"minded officia Turk is a prince of systems compared with regard. People talk about democracy; and ahout the benefits of democracy; but if they look at the United States, they will see the grandeurs of democracy in the raw;â€"where a mob of criminals would starve the babies by keeping food and milk from them; and would freeze innocent women and children by preventing them from getting coal; and would break up the whole commercial structure of their own country; where the Government is practically powerâ€" less against mobâ€"law, invented and carried out under the spirit of soâ€"called democracy. ux: .A 2 °i 9 htiiith Alimants diiiiet ioi eriinetontratsie uds ttor rtnctot. Ailihacticthretcssicncace â€" Th c pass laws as a means of bribery, in order to catch more votes at the next election; instead of passing laws towards the stabilization and development of their country. i And Demecracy. This is Democracyâ€"with a vengeance. It is not necessary for them to have any C property to hold a muricipal office, and every fcol girl and woman in the city has a vote;â€"and left at home, and the scallawags will be elected With the present state of the francise law, and with the proposed state of the qualifications law, fifteen or twenty men can be elected to a city council, not one of whom owns a fiveâ€"cents worth of property in his city, and every one of them may be of the greatest hareâ€"brained scallawags that ever lived. The whole cursed disturbance of the world, toâ€"day, has been brought about by the extension of the franchise; and the world will probably never know peace again;â€"for the simple reason that when the ragâ€"tag and bobtail can control things, the sensible men and the levelâ€"headed men have no chance. But Hearst was badly fooled, because the women to whom he had given the vote, went to the polls and voted straight against hirrâ€"and rot one in ten of them knew what they were voting for. or what they were voting against, when they polled their political vote; but they simply voted as they were told. World Wide Consequences. And the fool legislators who made our franchise so broad and so exâ€" tended, did itâ€"not because they were studying the welfare of the country. but because they were making a direct bribe to a ceriain class of the comâ€" munity for more votes. Sir William Hearst, late Premier of this Province, did not care one conâ€" tinental bean whether the women of this Province had the franchise or not; but when he made a fool of himself on the prohibition question, he thought ke would, by extending the franchise to the women, use this sop to secure their votes to pull his chestnuts out of the fire. Boomerang to Hearst Seventyâ€"five per cent. of the girls, and younger their minds centered on but two things, and they give anything elseâ€"dress and pleasure. How people of thi vote on the weighty questions in which our country is to me. I have no hesitation in saying that the women of fifty, sixty and seventyâ€" five years ago were in a far better position, in every way, to exercise the franchise intelligently, than the women of the present generation are. "!"!"3**2*2%WWW****W*%@W%’% A man found a ten dollar bill. Hé I_ have heard men stand, even If we want to see what democracy does, let us look at Russia, where milâ€" ove m Te o w e y Mn s o ipy x P C J And it is a direct result of fool legisiators who are constantly seeking to m Niv ce Tss ced ols anesclreie L Nt 1‘ 1 Bs Pn 03 o wiiie T 4 & . oo «BoaBe oBeoBe aZeeBe eZe oBeaBe B oBe aZ+ aBeeBe aBa eB cBe aBeaGe aBn cBe eB aBeaBenBe Bs oBa oBeaZeoBe rBe oBe sBerTa sSaoSeolecte 2 Penned and Scissored THE INDEPENDENT, GRIMSBY, ONTARIO nan in‘to a mare or a cow, to be mated with ihâ€"ifé"flla}i:warrffigt"man, _man, as some evilâ€"minded official may dictateâ€"the harem of the prince of systems compared With the democracy of Russia, in this stt 10 De allowed to vote who does not take a serious and earnâ€" the welfare of his municipality, province, and country. Insurance 4, cigars 2 more, Amusements come to 7 4 A tire, 15; 12 gasoline; That‘s 98â€"Great Heaven! The butcher looks upon his books And forthwith mails a dun; The drygoods man your bill doth scan, And so on, one by one. a Your wages spentâ€"the last red cent, In debt, and there you are, Man toils and slaves but never saves 3 He just MUST keep a car. It costs you 2 to have the fu, And that all went for dope; You owe the nurse, and what The doc, too, lives in hope. THE 1920 FAMILY BUDGET First comes the rentâ€"32 per cent; Your groceries are 20; Your clothing bill is small, but still It‘s six per centâ€"that‘s plenty. of the girls, and younger Women‘ of toâ€"day have ) have any qualifications in the matter of , and every bum and scallawag and every a vote ;_â€"'a_m(_i the responsible people will be local meetings, and talk about democracy 1gs, and they give no thought or study to Bow people of this class can intelligently on the prohibition question, he thou‘ghv't _to the women, use this sop to secure paid his rent with it, and his landlord at c01_11d t_)e imagined;â€"and a.lthcfiiéfi ie hand, in the other they grasped democracy flag only being used as â€"_ In no case that I have ever read»> worked for the betterment of the t_hq soviet laws that practically is worse, to the councils at the age of sixtyâ€"eight ad for centuries. John D. well, and going strong. ruin of the people 3 interested is a mystery Te cTo ols cfe sPecfaofe ofe ols »ta one conâ€" We‘ve done all in our power to have a barn de luxe. We‘ve dipped the sheep in eau de rose, we‘ve sterilized th The little chicks are daily fed on sanitary worms, The calves and colts are always boiled to keep them free i And thoroughly to carry out our prophylactic plan, Next week we think we shall begin to wash the hired man. Our Ads. Bring Sure Results «Be oBe oBe oGe oBe aBe aBe aBe aBe oBe oBe eBe aBe age oBe cBe aBe afe oBe aBe oBe aBe aBe aBe aBe aBe aBe oBe afe aBe aBe oBe oBe aBe aBe aBe oBe aBe abe aBe aBe aBe aBe abe obe aBe aBe oBe ofe se afe ofeof rose, we‘ve sterilized the ducks Wednesday, April 28th, 1920 from germs.