The Iola Register

IN WOMAN'S BEHALF

WOMAN AND THE BALLOT

TUNE:-"Mollie and the Baby."

(Dedicated to the Equal Suffrage Clubs of South
Dakota.)

There are patient little women here below.
Whose sons and husbands to the dramshops go
Who would like to gently drop
A ballot that should stop
The wrecking of their loved ones by this foe.

Chorus-Don't you know, don't you know
Where a mother ought to go
When she's got a little family
depending on
her so?
She should cast a righteous vote,
And her loyalty devote
To God, and home, and babies, don't you know?

There are scores of patient women who,
know,
Never get but half the wages that men do,
Though their work is done as well-
And the reason none can tell.
Unless it is that voters make it so

Chorus-Don't you know, don't you know
Where these women ought to go
To kill discrimination which is robbing of them
so?
They should wield a mighty vote
Which would strike a ringing note
For equal pay for labor, don't you know?

Women pay their share of taxes, don't you
know?
And men hang them when they dare transgress
the law;
By a jury all of men,
And a male judge to condemn,
Women bear each burden of the citizen.

Chorus-Don't you know, don't you know
Where all honest men should go
Since the penalties of government descend on
woman so?
They should grant her every good
With which franchise is imbued.
And make her free and equal, don't you know!

-Irene G. Adams, in Woman's Journal