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SOME OF THE SUBJECTS TREATED

AGRICULTURE INDUSTRIAL AND CHILD
ART LABOR

BUREAU 01: JUVENILE COURTS

LEGISLATIVE
INFORMATION
CIVICS LIBRARY EXTENSION

LITERATURE
CIVIL SERVICE MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS
CONSERVATION MUSIC

EDUCATIONAL PARENT—TEACHERS
FEEBLEMINDEDNESS POLITICAL SCIENCE

HISTORY AND RESEARCH PHILANTHROPY
HEALTH PRESS
HOME ECONOMICS PRISON REFORM

HUMANE SOCIAL HYGIENE
ILLITERACY SUFFRAGE

“World’s Greatest War” Service of
The American Red Cross
W‘oman’s Council of National Defense
National League for Women’s Service

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 MINISTERS ON VOTES FOR WOMEN

According to 1771's. Home’s Census of 06/33sz in Equal Suflmgc’ Sfafcs

By ALICE STONE BLACKWELL

Mrs. Julia \wVard Howe, a short time before her death, sent a- circular let—
ter. asking whether the results of equal suffrage were good or bad, to all the
Episcopal clergymen, and to the Presbyterian, Congregational, Methodist and
Baptist ministers in the suffrage states; to all the Congregational Sunday
school superintendents (the other denominations do not publish the names of
the superintendents in their religious year—books), and to the editors of the
newspapers. In all 62% answers were received. Of these, 62 were opposed,
4-6 in doubt, and 516 in favor.

The replies from the Episcopal clergymen were favorable, more than two
to one; those of the Baptist ministers, seven to one; those of the Congrega—
tional ministers, about eight to one; of the Methodists, more than ten to one,
and of the Presbyterians, more than eleven to one.

Of the Sunday school superintendents, one was opposed and one in doubt:
all the rest were favorable.

The editors expressed themselves in favor, more than eight to one.

The ministers and editors are practically unanimous in saying that equal
suffrage has made women more intelligent companions for their husbands and
better able to instruct their children. Almost all are agreed that it has broad—
ened women's minds and led them to take more interest in public questions.
A large number say that it has helped to obtain liberal appropriations for
school purposes and for humanitarian objects, and has made it harder for
notoriously corrupt candidates to be nominated or elected; that equal suffrage
does not lead to divorces, and that women enjoy increased influence because
of having the ballot. Most of the ministers emphatically deny that immoral
women control the elections.

The testimony is practically the same from all four states and from all
parts of those states. Some of the opinions are as follows:

REV. FROST CRAFT, Methodist Episcopal, Denver—Woman’s influ—
ence is far stronger with the ballot than without it. Practical politicians are
obliged to take her opinion into account. The great majority of the women
go to the polls quietly, cast their votes and return at once to their homes.
Women show a greater tendency than men to scratch bad candidates. The
vast majority of women who vote are women of good character.

REV. LEON C. HILL, Presbyterian, Cheyenne, VVyo., former chaplain
of the House of Representatives—\Vomen are more independent voters than
the men. Equal suffrage has been beneficial to the state in very way.

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 REV. ROBERT ROBINSON ADAMS, Methodist Episcopal, Pueblo,
Colo—As a result of fifteen years’ residence in Colorado, possibly with some
prepossessions against woman suffrage due to a life in Philadelphia, I heartily
endorse woman suffrage.

REV. C. E. HELMAN, Methodist Episcopal, Shoshone, Idaho—I was
opposed to woman suffrage when I left Ohio. I have been in Idaho for four-
teen years, and am convinced that it has been an excellent thing. No right—
eous cause or good person fears woman suffrage.

REV. CHARLES H. POWELL, Episcopal. Rock Springs, \Vyo.»~The
fact that women vote in this state has helped to put politics on a higher level
in many particulars.

REV. M. BRAMBLET, Ilaptist, Moscow, Idaho—\Voman suffrage has
been a great blessing to our state in every sense of the word. Women do not
vote for bad candidates if they know it. '

REV. FRANK L. MOORE, Congregational, Cheyenne, \Vyo.—It would
be political suicide for any man or party to raise the question of repeal.

REV. J. G. COWDEN, Presbyterian, Caldwell, Idaho—None but poli—
ticians of the baser sort would think of doing away with woman suffrage.

REV. S. W. GRIFFIN, Presbyterian, Littleton, Colo—The more I see
of the results of woman suffrage the more I am convinced that the cleansing
of politics demands that it should be nation—wide.

REV. ORRIN W. AUMAN, Methodist Episcopal, Pueblo, Colo—In no
case have I found a wife or mother who was less efficient in household duties
because she was interested also in the public welfare and was privileged to
cast her ballot. Much good legislation has been accomplished in Colorado
from the initiative of women since they have had the ballot.

REV. J. C. ANDREWS, Baptist, Salt Lake City—\~\/'ornan"s influence for
good is largely increased by the right to vote. I wish every state in the Union
would give suffrage to women. I believe it would be a power for good.

REV. C. A. QUINN, [Methodist Episcopal, Heyburn, Idaho—I cannot see
any evil of any sort connected with woman suffrage. I long to see the day
when women will vote in every state of the Union.

REV. G. M. DU BOIS, Episcopal, Canyon City, Colo—The feeling in
Colorado, so far as I can report it, is of satisfaction with woman suffrage and
a conviction that it has come to stay.

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 A Suffrage Answer to An Anti Platform

PLATFORM ADOPTED BY
CERTAIN ANTI-SUFFRAGIST S.

We, American women, citizens
of the State of Maryland, protest
against .the proposal to impose the
obligation of the suffrage up0n the
women of the state, for the follow-
ing, among other, reasons:

1. Because suffrage is to be re-
garded not as a privilege to be en-
joyed, but a duty to be performed.

2. Because hitherto the women
of this state have enjoyed exemp—
tion from this burdensome duty,
and no adequate reason has been
assigned for depriving them of that
immunity.

3. Because conferring suffrage
upon the women who claim it
would impose suffrage upon many
women who neither desire it as a
privilege nor regard it as their
duty.

4. Because the need of America
is not an increased quantity, but
an improved quality of the vote,
and there is no reason to believe
that woman’s suffrage by doubling
the vote will improve its quality.

5. Because the household, not
the individual, is the unit of the
state, and the vast majority of
women are represented by house-
..-h01dsufirage.

6. Because the women not so
represented suffer no practical in-
justice which giving the suffrage
will remedy.

7. Because equality in character
does not imply similarity in func-
tion, and the duties and life of the
men and women are divinely ord—
ered to be different in the state as
in the home.

8. Because the energies of wo-
men are engrossed by their present
duties and interests, from which
men cannot relieve them, and it is
better for the community that they
devote their energies to the more
efficient performance of their pres-
ent work than divert them to new
fields of activity.

9. Because political equality will
deprive women of special privileges
hitherto accorded them by the law.

10. Because suffrage logically
involves the holding of public of—
fice, and office holding is inconsist-
ent with the duties of most women.

 

PRINCIPLES FROM THE PLATFORM OF
SUFFRAGISTS

We, American women, citizens of male suffrage states,
demand that we, as well as the million and a half women
of the six equal suffrage states, be admitted to the right of
suffrage for the following, among innumerable other,
reasons:

1. Because suffrage is a duty of such transcendent im—
portance that it should not be shirked by any patriotic
citizen, man or woman.

2. Because the conditions under which women might
claim exemption from this duty have changed. Impure
foods, sweat—shops, child labor, polluted water, inade-
quate schools, dark tenements, fire—traps, the spread of
contagious disease, lack of parks and playgrounds, unequal
pay—all these are adequate reasons for the use of direct
political power by women. Most men do not find the duty
of voting burdensome, and neither do women in equal
suffrage states. '

3. Because, while giving women the right to vote does
not impose upon any one of them the obligation to vote,
it does arouse in them a sense of civic responsibility and
does make them desire the suffrage and regard it as a
duty, as proved by experience in equal suffrage states.

4. Because the need of America is for an increased
quantity as well as improved quality of the vote, since
true democracy demands the participation of all the people,
and actual experience proves that giving the vote to women
raises the quality of the electorate.

5. Because it is impossible for men to represent women
—even the women of their own families. The household
is not the unit of the state. If it were, the father should
cast a vote for his grown sons—who would then need no
vote ,of their own and aywidoygshould cast a vote for

w, herself and er c ildrenfand a bachelor should “cast no

vote at all. One man—one vote, is the rule of democracy.

6. Because there are 8,000,000 women in industry who
are suffering from injustice that only the ballot can
remedy. In 32 states, women are not legal guardians of
their own children; in nearly all states, marriage and prop-
erty laws are unfair to women. Nothing but law can cor—
rect this, and nothing but the ballot can elect law—makers.

7. Because experience proves that the interests of the
state are best served when the special gifts of both men
and women are brought to bear upon the business of the
state as well as that of the home. Voting is a human
function, not a sex—function.

8. Because the energies of women are required now,
as in the past, for certain traditional duties, and unless
they follow their work into the world and do it in the way
made necessary by modern civilization, men will have to
attempt the impossible task of doing it for them. Women
can achieve the efficient performance of their present work
only through the use of the best tool yet devised by so—
ciety—the ballot. The ballot will not divert, but direct the
energies of women. '

9. Because women need the justice that is accorded
from equals to equals, and will gladly resign the privileges
accorded to them as dependents and inferiors. These have
mostly been given by custom rather than by law, and the
few that have been secured by law have not been with-
drawn in the equal suffrage states.

10. Because only through the suffrage can women ac—
quire the right to hold those offices which require wom-
en’s particular abilities. The few who are fitted for office-
holding are quite as able to adjust their duties to meet the
occasiOn as are men, which is amply proved by the hun—
dreds of women already holding office to their credit and
the nation’s betterment.

National American Woman Suffrage Association

505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

 

 A Woman Suffrage Catechism.

(QUIis'rIoX. “hat is the difference between the property laws that 1401'—
ern men and the property laws that govern women in Iowa?

ANswiau. The laws consider that all the property accu111ulated after
111111'1'i11ge, by the united efforts of the husband and wife, belong to the hus—
band. The wife whose time, labor, and ability are all spent uponand with—
in the home, has no legal right. to anythin1a1 but maintenance during the
life time of l1e1'.husband If she work outside of the home, she can re-
ceive the pay iherefor. But if hex husband becomes possessed of it, she
cannot make him refund it. if she had acquired propeity before c111arriage,
or inherited property after 111111'1'i1114'e, provided she kecpsitin herown name,
such property is governed by the same laws that man’s is.

(,2. Is property in which the title is in the wife's name liable for the sup—
port of the family?

A. Equallv with that of the husband’s. And at the same time she is ad-
diner all the products of her labor and time to the p111pcrty in which she
hasD no shale while he lives

(.2. Can he sell the real estate that is in his 11111110?

A. Not without her sif4111 1ture 1'ele1 1sin1r her “thirds.” But she cannot
sell her “thirds.”

(,2. Can she claim one-third of the proceeds of the land sold?

A. No. If the husband likes he c1111 giveaway, gamble away, or drink
up every penny of it.

(,2. Can he sell personal property without her consent?

A. Yes. He has absolute control over it.

(,2. Can she sue and be. sued by her husband?

A. Yes, for 111ai11te11ance or divorce. .l“ornotl1i1114 else unless she own
property of which the title is in herself.

(,2. Can she make a contract with her husband?

A. Not if the contract pertains to maintenance. The law' declares it is
not in accordance with public polic 1 to hold o1e1' the husband 11111 other
weapon than that of appealing to the law, 1111111111101i1les that he shall sup-
ply he1 with the necessities conditioned to the station he occupies. And
as appeal to law' costs mone1, and the law wives him all the monev, it. has
made him tole 1‘11bl1 safe from app11

(,2. 1f the hitsband use fraud in 111aking, or in fullillin14' conditions upon
which the wife has loaned him mone1 1' ,has she lejral teniedv?

A. She can appropriate so much of 11111 securit1 she 111111 have taken as
will rcpav her. But in no case can she cdeprive him of personal libert'.1

(,2. C1111 11 husband force his wife to siu'n a deed or mo1t14a14'e?

A. 'lhe wife in si14nin14 has to afihm that she hasnotbeehintimid: 1ted by
her husband to the 111.t. but as 111.11 1111 without ()1 er t actof intimidation make
her life so 111iser11ble that without peritning‘ herself in the letter of the law,
he forces such per'jut 1' in spirit bv the si14nin14.If. she refuse to chan14e
her place of residen1e at his biddin14', she loses her right to support f11in1
him, and he can take her children from her. 01' he can strip the pr'opettv
of ail the 1111p1o1 1.111e11ts and put them upon a place, which, with the title
vested in a tl1i1d pcison, he 1'; 111 sell without her consent. And monev is
power, and he 1111s the money. ‘

(2.1f11 woman dies s, what: effect does such event have upon the 1111s-
band’s control 11f the prope1t1' the1 ha1c 1 eained in common?

A. It is his now with full title in the real estate. The personal proper-
ty is his as it was before her d ath.

(.2. Could she, h1 will ha1e disposed of 11111 p1 art of it?

A. Not a pcnn1 s 1101' 111 without her husband s 1onscnt.

(.2. If the husband dies 11 hat effect does such e1 ent 11111 e upon the wife’s
control of the property they have earned in common?

A. If he dies without makingr 11 will the probate. court takes charge of
it until the minor children, if. there be anv. become 11f1114e. ()1 if nominor
children, till all indebtedness is paid, and the propert1 di1idcd among the
heirs.

(,2. Suppose the wife has not borne children, how much less than 011e—
third does she receive?

A. She receiv es one -half of all unencumbeied piope c'1t1 possessed b1 her
husband in the state.

 

 A WOMAN SUFFRAGE CATECHISM.

Q. Supposing the husband makes a will?

A. The widow can choose between what the law would give her and
accepting the provisions of the will.

Q. \V hat is the first step to be taken after the husband’s d ‘ath?

A. To seek an attorney who shall interview the court and have apprais-
ers appointed and an administrator. If the court sees litand the widow ca".
give bonds equal to twice the value of the personal property, she can be
appointed zulministrator. Not till an appraisal of the personal property is
made by appraisers appointed by the court, and the appointment by it of
an miministrator, can a dollar be used or an article sold, even to pay the
husband’s funeral expenses. The court sets aside such amount as it deems
fitting for the widow to keep the home for one year. As administrator
she must obtain an order from the court. before she can make a sale of
realty, even to pay the debts of the estate. She must keep an exact ac-
count of all property sold, and what was done with the proceeds, and at the
end of the first six months, and yearly thereafter until the minor children
are of age, tif the funds last till then) must present. through an attorney a
report to the court of all the proceedings, for its approval. She is liable
for all discrepancies.

Q. How is the court paid for its labor ?

A. From the undivided estate.

Q. How the attorney whom she is forced to employ?

A. From the undivided estate.

(.2. \Vhat remune ‘ation has she?

z . An administ‘ator is allowed live per cent. on the tirst $1,000 taken
in by an estate, and two and one—half per cent. on each $1,000 thereafter.
But as one-third of the expenses come out of her, she can get but two-
thirds as much for her work as an uninterested administrator.

Q. \Vhat relationship to the children she has borne does the law recog-
mzer

A. By taking the children into the care of the state so long as the mon-
ey in the estate lasts, and giving to the children twice the amount that the
mother receives, the law teaches the children that the child or children
have twice the value in the eye of law that the mother has. By obliging
her to fulfill the same conditions to become guardian of the children as to
become administrator of the estate, (the father, however degraded, having
been regarded by law as having an incoutestable right to both estate and
children,) the law not only impresses upon children the sense of inferiority
in which woman is held by law, but takes away the sense of any mean-
ness in them, of trying to appropriate the mother’s funds. The law has ta-
ken from the mother the prop of power to support her love in leading the
child into right paths, thatprop having been afforded the father unquestitmed.

Q. \Vhat are her duties as guardian?

A. She must make a comfortable home for the children, see that their
moral t‘aining is good, provide them with at least necessaries, and submit
an itemized account of all expenditures for them to the court, which itacts
its pleasure in allowing. If the court does not allow thJ account of course
the mother has to foot the bill. .

Q. Is there a guardian or zulministrator always appointed when a father
dies?

A. Never, unless there is property to be administered. The law has
kindly decided that the mother is the natu ‘al guardian after the father, and
when there is no property to pay for looking after her, or when her chil—
dren are illegitimate. the mother is permitted to use all the power which
the teachings of the law have left her in the upbringing of her children,
unquestioned.

Q. Does the court administer in the same way whether there are chil—
dren or not?

A. Except that the widow has one—half the estate. and can by the ad»
ministrator appointed, sell and adjust the proceeds of the estate in much
less time and at less cost than when a guardian is appointed.

Q. Can a husband adopt a child without the consent of the wife?

A. Yes.

(,2. Can a wife adopt a child without the consent of the husband?

A. She cannot.

 

 Humanitarianism and Woman Sufmge.

If the world and woman were made i owed the attributes of his character
for man, —if the function of reproduc- ,1 that made him the leader of his people
tion and of service to man make the ‘ from captivity, the law-giver of a na-
necessity of her existence,—if she has ' tion that has retained its characteristic
not been apowerful factor in the deruindividualism to the present time,
velopment of the human race,~in the:prospering despite oppression in the
world beyond where the spirit is set i measure those laws were obeyed, and
free from the bondage of material j in which from obedience to those laws
wants, there will be no necessity for l a mother was developed that could be-
woman’s existence. icome the mother of Christ, whose

The tradition recorded by Mosesrblameless life and perfect teachings
gives to woman in the evolution of the [ have benefitted the world in proportion
human race the 'I‘eceptt've faculty which f as His Golden Rule has been obeyed.
lirst gathered knowledge that causedl Always, as in the beginning, intelli-
the dawn of intellect. This germ of l gence must be possessed by woman be—
intellect given by her to man destroyed " fore it can be given to her children. In
the paradise of animal content inlthe struggle upward from poverty to
which his senses had been steeped. F wealth, from ignorance to intelligence,

. ”The brief narration of how, in the 1 by a nation or family, woman is Called
thousands of years before the deluge, l upon by man to exercise all her physi-
the powerful physiques and embryonic cal and mental abilities. Ruled over

_ mental powers of men wrought outllphysicallg/, only in the degree her
their own destruction by transgression mind has been untrammeled have na-
of physical laws in seeking sensual tions grown out of the barbaric into
indulgence, is no more striking than that l the civilized state. Rome’s prosperity
of how the descendants of the maniin its upbuilding was due to recogni-
“who walked with God” remained toltion of, and respecting the power of
work out the problems that would pre- 3 Woman to transmit virtue and intelli-
serve upon the earth an abiding p'aceygence to prosperity. Rome paid wo-
for man. Reproduction was still man’s l man homage that placed the Roman
governing motive, but the “rainbow oflnation in the niche of fame wherein
promise” against future destruction ‘ benefactors of the race are immortal-
lay in the knowledge that had been ized. But, when national wealth and
gained that abuse of bodily functions} strength had‘ been attained by the
wrought out its own punishment. In ' exertions and talents of mothers and _
the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob , sons, man’s rule over woman physically,
we see a recognition of woman as anj——that curse that from the first re-
individual, and note by the side of this I tarded the world’s progress,—became
recognition a growth of mentality that i aggressive. The spirit of accumulation
evinced itself in improved methods and l still active, pride of possession in-
means used in tilling the land, inlcreased man’s domineering spirit, and,
something of mercantile enterprise,‘accustomed to regard as his own the
and in the spirituality whichwas in- ’ services of his family, the services of the
cited, inducing desire for study of the lweaker of his own sex were absorbed
heavens. Sodom and Gomorrah re- by him when possible. Had right, in-
peated the lesson of the flood,—and stead of might, been the governing.
Abraham laid the ground work of the motive in his own family, it would
laws which Moses afterward embodied have been the governing motive in the
in the decalogue. But men ruling be- collection of families. And Rome fell
cause the burden of reproduction fall- from its high estate to depths propor-
ing upOn woman made her less muscu- tionate to the standard imposed upon
lar, she, as a subject, could influencelits women. The history of every na-
only by the gentleness that often ex- [tion gives in its rise and fall a corro-
cited the passion that destroyed her, I boration of the same producing cause
causing lapses backward toward spirit- and its constant effect.
ual decay in the race. And yet. to the Growth of general intellectual ac-
mother-love which rebelled against the I tivity has ever been slow because op-
murder of her infant and protected his portunities of acquiring knowledge
young life until, in the care of hisihave been sedulously denied women.
sister, she could place him under theiCenturies passed in whichthe promulga-
protection of another woman equally l tion of new theories but subjected the
determined to save his life, Moses f authors to persecution in his ,own.

 

 generation. Christianity llourished and
grew apace because women embraced
it eagerly. Man’s lust of power and

flesh sank its bright star till the “dark 1
Out of 1

ages” lowered over the world.
those “dark ages” sons of grand moth-
ers arose to strike a feeble light, which,
growing gradually stronger, induced

the desire to emigrate to the wilds of.
America “to worship God as theirmon:

sciences dictated” by men and women,
for both sexes were victims of the In-
quisition. Amid dangers and priva-
tions, few in number, man was forced

tory had testified to, so oblivious of
woman’s individualism as controlling
the character of the race, that his own
womankind must meet as competitors
with themselves in all kinds of busi-
ness foreign women, to whom natural-
ization was not even necessary.

With a government where every
man, is the equal of every other man in
political power,——where every man has
a spirit of absolutism cultivated by be-
ing legal king in his own family,—
’ where the foreigner without a drop of
1 blood by inheritance that has been

l

 

to rely upon woman for the protection , consecrated to love of liberty is given
of the family in his absence, to consult l all the privileges of American men,—
with her as to defense. With this new where the foreigner accustomed to see-
stride toward equality with man in l ing women hitched to the plough and
power. woman gained in self-reliance, cart, rushes on return to despotism by
in self-respect, and in ingenuity by her i using the ballot. against American wo-
desire to add to the comforts of her l men who helped so greatly in earning

family. In a century and a half of
outgrowth of these faculties, she had
givento the world the sons who had
demanded and consummated by

shedding their blood and treasure the

acknowledgment; of the demand for

life, liberty and happiness as man’s
inalienable right;—sons whose ingen-‘

uity soon worked a revolution in every
branch of mechanics. In another half-
century the loom and the wheel were
remanded from the homes to the fac-
tories. Women were relieved from
the arduous duties of preparing cloth-
ing from the raw material. Unrest be-
gan.
ing. The demand
sewing girls Very
help was driving
from the kitchen. Foreign mothers
who had had no training to give them
the American mothers’ superiority,
were bringing their children here to
lower the standard of American char-
acter. The next generation had less
executive ability, more nerves. The
hand of woman again pointed out the
way of safety. Her persevering efforts
to stand by the declaration that the
sister was entitled by justice to equal-
ity before the law with her brother
opened the doors of one occupation
after another to women, aided as these
efforts were by the desire of men for
cheaper labor, and the desire of women
not to be burdens at home.

Man’s love of ruling originated in
the bravado of barbarism and nurtured
through the ages by unholy desire,—
caused him to ignore the right of the
mother, who had given him the power
to command liberty for himself, to
the means he considered necessary for
7 the defense of liberty, the ballot. So

for teachers and
limited. FOi-eign

fatally‘regardless was he of the immuta- 1
bleness of Nature’s laws thatmall his 7

N,“ .

To be idle in the home was gall- j

the American girl;

the blessings he enjoys without appre-
. ciating their cost,—where, having come
. hither for gain and without thought or
self-restraint, the foreigners by the cry
of “personal liberty” and the value of
their
means of gratification of habits that
are weighing down the mothers in the
. nation with grief,——when women are
forced to deprive their children of an
inborn love of liberty because for the
sake of peace in the home they must

strive for content in submission,—~
jwhere mothers with the same love of

self as their brothers secure its gratiii--

cation by stealth, deceit, and flattery,
‘ and give those traits to their children
and strengthen such inheritance by
daily example,—where the inherited
ldesrre for stimulants in mothers“ has
constantly increased and is being satis-
3‘ tied with drugs, or rounds of pleasure
land excitement that is debilitating

j' themselves and adding, woe to the herit—

1 age of her children,—wherethe right to
govern being determined by sex has
,i forced mothers to become illogical and
[to fill the country with illogical sons
l that defy the government and theatens
the nation with anarchy because they
i cannot see that it is lack of ability in
E themselves that prevents their accumu-
glating property in a land where one
man is protected just the same as
every other man in its accumulation,
—in the humanitarian interests of such
a government, is it not best to make
woman equal in power with man, that
having that power she may love lib-
erty,—that having equality she shall
not be reduced to using liberty by
stealth, deceit, and flattery,—that hav-
ing equality she can protect herself
and family from abuses now sanc-
’ tioned by law or custom,——that having
equality she shall feel the responsibil-
ity of her acts toward humanity, and en-
dow her children with qualities that
shall make this nation a permanent
3 one,—that having equality she adds to
her influence that which all men and
women bow to, power?
C. HOLT FLINT.

 

Des Moines.

votes to party have engrafted-

 

 The Newspapers On The California Victory

In capturing the important State of California, the 'woman’s suffrage
movement has achieved its greatest victory so far. This’ movement, for
years 'more active in debating societies than elsewhere, soon passed out
of the realm of academic discussion into the realm of actual- test. It is
even now leaving that stage and becoming a real, vital issue in American
life and politics. Its Californian victory has added greatly to its standing
and prestige. It cannot longer be ignored by any thoughtful student of
our institutions and the trend of their development. The result of the
California election carries with it many lessons well worth study and
reflection—Atlanta Georgian.

Whatever one may think of the movement, there’s no denying that
it is gathering force. Next year at least half a million women will be
qualified to vote for President. That is more than the usual presidential plurality,
and if these women voted solidly they might decide the presidency. It is
almost equal to the total vote for Andrew Jackson in 1824. It is as many
women as there were in the whole thirteen original colonies at the time of
the Revolution. .The United States now has one—thirc of the women voters
of the world, the remaining two—thirds being chiefly in Australia, New
Zealand, Finland and Norway. And the fraction will probably grow pretty
fast from now on, in spite of the efforts of scornful men and hostile
women—Boston Traveller. \\-‘

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"San Francisco voted against woman suffrage because San Fraiicisco
at heart still is in bondage to the superstition that vice pays and a wide—open
town “is good for business.” San Francisco opposed the bestowal offlthe
ballot upon women because of a fear that, if women were given the I The
to vote, women would insist on the expression in government of to
decencies and mo’ralities of life. . . . The pro