The daily telegram. [volume], August 02, 1916, SECOND SECTION, Image 26

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SECOND SECTION
WOMEI
MRS. 0>
WILL l\
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Most Noted Woman in America;
Will Speak in This City !
Thursday Night.
BRINGS MESSAGE IN PERSON j
President of National Suffrage'
Organization Aids West
; Virginia Campaign.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. prcsi1
dent of the National American Wotnl
an's Suffrage Association, who is J
Spending a few days in U'est Virginia.
is one of the most interesting
and remarkable women of the age.
While in the state site will address
a mass meeting of the people of
| Clarksburg at the Masonic temple at
8 o'clock tomorrow evening. She
' will then deliver to the people
i of this state her message. She lias
passed a long life in the advancement
of the cause of women. She has
traveled to every country on the
( globe making a study of the status
of her sex. Every year site writes
10.000 letters besitles making bun'
dreds of speeches for the cause so
-? .? ? woman cer
i) xiear uei uca u. iM.vb .. -
lainly has a valuable message for the |
people who are in the midst of aj
campaign in which the question of
equal rights will be decided for a'
great state.
The Telegram is privileged to pre-J
cut herewith an excellent cut of
Mrs. Catt. She is a woman of hue j
and dignified presence. She Is a
great orator and has that divine gift j
which compels the attention of her
audience even though it may be hostile.
She has appeared before the1
legislatures of many states. Her [
voice lias been heard in the national
conventions of the great political
parties. Always she has been given
the most respectful attention, and]
i always she has given her hearers |
much to tit Ink about. So it will be In i
this city tomorrow night. Those
who arc fortunate enough to hear
this gifted woman will realize that it
is an event in their lives.
' Carrie Lane, who became Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Catt, descended on
both sides from American pioneers j
and pathfinders, was raised on a,
farm near Charles City, Iowa, and
^ her early surroundings and cxper-:
' iences differed in no way from those
' -1.: i. i ?f |, (1|,
of tile average country cmm
ft period. But unlike most little girls
she early delighted to think on big,'
f subjects and among them the probI
leins of women. ".My interest in my
I iv11s born in m<she say . "for
t had no especial encouragement in
n 1 y ideas and no particular incentive
st home."
She was only fourteen, still wear-,
nr short dresses and her hair in a
Draid. when she began teaching
school in her own home district.
With the money thus earned, shej
.omnienced paying her own way at
the Iowa State College, which she
entered when she was sixteen. Later, j
-he earned more money as an assist-1
ant librarian and her four years' college
course cost her father only one
hundred dollars. Looking back on
her college experiences, she says that
i she considers that any power she may
have developed as a public speaker
originated in the experiences she
gained in the college literary society,
The Crescent.
Miss .M. Reynolds give: the following
account of the excitement which
" 1 """ announced
ft pnsucd wnen umt
I (-Continued on page S, second see.) .
I NO POLL
I WOMEN
I Fake Argument of Antis ReI
futed By Constitution of
1 West Virginia.
The Anti-Suffrage organization is
I now proceeding on the theory that
Ihe most sensitive nerve in a man's
makeup is his pocket book. In thousands
of documents which they are
I sending to the farmers of this state
I they are asserting that the taxes of I
the men will be largely increased if'
the suffrage amendment is carried j
; and the vote given to women. They
?nssert that in this event
I ii poll tux must be levied agaumj
E women as it now is assessed against|
m nipii. They even claim that women
could not "vote unless they have paid
I this poll tax.
There is absolutely no truth in
f these assertions. The poll, or state
9 J capitation tax in West Virginia is
I provided for in the constitution, and
I hy the terms of tli.it instrument it is
to be assessed and collected from
W, males only. Hut even the payment
I? of this tax by the men is not a condiI
lion of their right to vote. This tax
has nothing whatever to do with the
II franchise. It is levied on men only
nnd it is collected from foreigners as
I. well as citizens. This is an unpopular
tax and Instead of amending the
constitution to make women pay it
the amendment would doubtless res'
move it from the men also.
Another scaro tale told by these
J false documents has to do with the
K alleged increased cost of holding
elections. Here is what the governors
nnd secretaries of state of several
I equal suffrage commonwealths have
to say on this point:
I WYOMING: "Woman suffrage
hns not increased taxes In this state
nor the cost of elections."
J, CALIFORNIA: "Increased cost
Till
foFw
4RRIE
/lAKE AC
y
WEST VIRl
GREAT
^
Says "Antis" Have Never Contributed
to Advance of
the Race.
HENRY SYDNOR HARRISON!
In Brilliant Letter Shows Why
Pending Amendment
Should Prevail.
Our present system of suffrage declares
that every Greek or Polish pes?f
Hvo vofics residence?-though
ho may have left his own country only
to escape military duty and may
feel so little interest in America that
he has not troubled even to learn our
language?is fit and worthy to share
in the management of our public af-;
fairs.
The same system declares that such
a citizen as Jane Addams is unlit, and
unworthy to share in the management
of these affairs.
I believe that there is something
seriously wrong with a system which
works out to such results as this.
Most people agree with me in tjiis I
belief. -Many people, however, are1
unfortunately not willing to take the
one step necessary to remove the ob-|
vious absurdity and injustice.
Such people, being constitutionally
opposed to and afraid of forward
FAX IF
GET VOTE
MItS. GEXE FOKD,
Of Grafton, Member of the Stato;
Campaign Committee.
I voters is very little."
KANSAS: "Increased cost of
| elections insignificant."
I IDAHO: "Acmea election e*iicuau
; infinltcBtlmal.''
ARIZONA:' "Increased cost of
(Continued on ptigo 8, second sec.) |
f( MRS. CARRIE
j PERSON; MRl
The message from Mrs Fran
slates that accord justico and rei
I they are privileged to meet the s
strengthened by the power of th
with confidence to tho mon of th
that In November they will take
E DAE
CLAUKSBURC
VA.AI
OATT I
)DRESS
PMAN CATT
Soman Suffrage Association, Who Is 1
GINIA'S
NOVELIST
j
steps, commonly say: "It Is a quos-l
Lion of expediency with me. I favor!
reducing the electorate, not extending
it."
That sounds sensible and convincing
enough. Practically speaking, It
is without any value or meaning at
all. it. is no more sensible or convincing
that If tiie.se same people
should reply: "The fact is, I favor
turning this country Into a monarchy."
There is 110 purpose or movement
to turn tiiis country into a monarchy.
Neither is there any purpose or move
inont to redttoo the electorate In this
country. All over the world, as ovnverybody
knows, the "stream of tendency"
is flowing strongly in just the
opposite direction. There is no reason
to believe that the electorate In
America will or can be reduced for
generations to come. And those who
say they favor this step are not lift-1
Ing a linger to accomplish It.
Thus some of our friends, when
confronted with the stupid injustices
of our present syster. half-heartedly
suggest a way out which they know
will not and cannot be acted upon.
There is, of course, hut one way to
correct, the present injustices. That
is, in a country which goes on professing
to be a government of and by
the people, to cease to class one-half
the adult people arbitrarily with children,
idiots and criminals.
In England, where free institutions
were born. It was once the custom to
exclude al! Catholics from the vote.
We look back and smile at that absurdity
now. Just so future generations
will look back and?mile at our
absurdldty. For religion is not a
more arbitrary basis of exclusion
than sex, the women as a class are no
more stupid or unworthy than Catholics
or Protestants as a class.
Of direct arguments against the
enfranchisement of women, there
have been hut two in frequent use.
- - -.1?
One Js tnat woman 5S {JUltC to IIIV
home. But time end the inexorable
processes of economics have long
since answered that argument, and
even passionate antis employ It now
with hesitation.
The other is that women are temporarily,
emotionally, mentally and
morally unfitted for participation In
public affairs, this argument still
flourishes for theer aro people who
never tire of saying what their grandfathers
said before them.
In order to support this contention,
women who dread and fear
change have found it necessary to say
many damaging and distressing
tilings atfout women, I suppose that
never before In the history of the
world have human beings attacked
their own kind with the violence
with which anti-sjiffragists have
sometimes attacked women.
In particular, anti-suffragists, In
the strange fright that seems to ovcrtage
them at times, have tgen a position
which can only mean that
there are more bad women than good
women In the world, and that they
(Continued on page 3. second sec.)
C. CATT, NATIC
I F. M. ROESSIh
ik M. Roesslng, tho national vice pres
cognition to womanhood. Tho entir
lUffrage issue. We have pride in the w
a ballot will be of untold assistance t
e stale. With their standard of cltizi
this,their first opportunity, to enfran
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LY TE]
J, W. VA,, WEDNESDAY, .
'PEAL
own I
IS HE BALLOT
Indian Men Given Vote While ^
Squaws Hold Only the i
, (Work) Bag.
The most lntercstlnc anil possiblyj
the brightest ilop;trtnwin in mo
Southern Woman's Magazine Is that
conducted by Amir Shenlll . Hnlrd.
She calls It "A Little Window in the
World," and It contains pome remarkably
pertinent observations on men
and things. In tlu- August number
she touches up the justice t f equal
suit'rage in tin* following:
At Yankton, S. I>.. recently IS6
Sioux Indians, men ami women, were
given their citizenship by the l ulled
States secretary of the interior. Aa
was befitting so important an occasion,
there was a certain degree of
formality and ritualism.
"As a part of the ceremony each
Indian man shot his last arrow and
placed Ids hand on a plow, thus signifying
that ho hap ceased to he predatory
and has begun anew on the industrial
plane of life.
"Much Indian woman was given a
work bag and a purse, li Is not so
easy to understand the symbolism of
these things. The Indian woman
always worked; that is, she did all
the work that was done. And In;
tills respect she differed not at all
from other primitive women of whatever
race or clime, Women were the
original Industrial workers of tlie
i world. The nam hunted and fought
1 ' 1 - ?< ....... lw.,1 'Cilia lu I lift
ana IUU WUIIimi ?>UI nnt. , ,u I
history of nil pr^mltlvo trlbcB and
peoples.
"Perhaps tlie presentation of tinpurse,
along with the work ling, signifies
that the Indian woman may '
now go nfter the paid Job unless, Indeed,
the purse was empty. I
"The Indian man?who wns always
too proud to work, or too lazy?was
given full right of suffrage with his
citizenship, hut the Indian woman'
was not. This Is entirely In keeping;
Willi the age-long custom of exalting
the fighter above the worker ? of
placing the accent 011 conquest rather
than on Industry. Even an ex-fighter
who has nhol his last arrow 1s regard I
ed as of higher estate than somebody
who haa never done anything more
thrilling than to drudge."
I
MRS. FRANK M. ROKSSINO, |
First Vice President of tJio Nntlinml
Organization.
MR. HUGHES PREDICTS '
II SUFFRAGE VICTORY
In Speech of Acceptance Republican
Candidate Tells
Faith in Equal Rights.
i Hon. Charles E. Hughes, Republi:
ran candidato for president of the
i United States, was oflicially notllled
of his nomination before a great
, crowd of men and women at Carnegie
Hall, New York, on Monday night. In |
I accepting the distinguished statesman ]
' ?1 nionl/ in favor of'
enuurseu mu
! woiunn suffrage and declared thai ha 1
was personally in favor of votes for
women because of her position In!
the gainful occupations. He said that
the granting of the suffrage to women
in Inevitable.
Following are .Mr. Hughes's re-!
marks on this subject:
"I endorse tho declaration of the
platform In favor of woman suffrage.
I do not consider It necessary to re-!,
I view the arguments usually advanced !
] on the one side or tho other, as my
_*i frr\m a ftnme.l
! own conviciiuao jnucccu i>Wu4 ? .
| what different point of view. Some ,
| time ngo, a consideration of our
economic conditions and tendencies
i of the position ot women in gainful .
occupations, of the nature and course
INAL PRES.,
'G, FIRST VICE-Pj
Ident, Is as follows: "The whole counti
e East Is putting its hope In WeBt Virgi
omen of West Virginia, whose reputatlt
x> the state, and a credit to the United S
mship, which Is a high one, they will sui
chlso the women of West Virginia."
LEGRA
AUGUST 2, 1916.
FOR Vt
ATTORNI
REVIEW
HKSt
JPW:]
MR^^S
President ??f West Virginia lOqiin
?f StJitr Campaign Committoe.
WOMEN M
THEY WAP
4
\lo West Virginian Refuses
His Women Folk Anything
that is Just.
WILL GIVE THEM THE VOTE
Jut Women Must Let Their
Wishes Be Known Before
Election Day.
Anri now come Hie opponents of j
Mjual suffrage with the threadbare,
Lud overworked talk that the extendon
of the lranehi.se to womoft will'
nterfere with "women's work." This
to-called argument is ho hoary with j
ige and has been refuted so many
lines in the equal suffrage states that,
t. is an insult to thA Intelligence of |
West Virginians to press it at tills j
.inie.
Kvery woman knows, and most of!
the men know it as well, that any of
the work that needs doing is worn-,
in's work. Ksp'xn.iily do the wornf*n
on the fas?is of this state know
that there is no broad line of dis
linction between licr work and that
at her men folks. Who ]h there Ihut
ever lived on a farm but knows that
every une of the following propositions
Is absolutely true?
livery Woman Knows.
When the uien are late coining'
Dome from the markets she does the
shores.
When they are busy with the bay
the milks the cows.
When an extra hand Is needed in
the harvest time she helps in the
held.
Her outdoor activities are not allowed
to interfere with her household
duties. At Buch times she often
works far into the night, long after
she and Iter men folk have returned 1
from the field. '
And she knows that her dignity]
does not suffer and that she loses
none of her womanliness.
When the taxes are duo she draws'
on her butter and egg money hidden
away In the blue sugar bowl.
To help pay off the mortgage she
spends long winter evenings putting
patches 011 the boys' trousers.
Does this not prove that the farmer
and his wife are partners; If
partners, they work together, and If
they work together why not vote to
gether. I
There is no class of woman in the,
stale that works so hard and whoso
work is so nearly identical with that
of their husbands und sons us that
of furm women. With a practical
identity of work, what becomes of
the "argument" that voting will de-1
I
of the demand, led me to the conclus-)
ion that the granting of suffrage to
women is Inevitable. Opposition may
delay, but in my judgment cannot defeat
this movement. Nor can I see
-nv oHvnntnovc In the delay which
l*UJ **>
(Continued on page 3, second sec.)
I DELIVER HER
RESIDENT SENL
y is looking to West Virginia to lead
inla to set the great moral example to
in for public service is so woli earnec
tatos. As we regard with pride the W
ely appreciate the quality and servico
?
? | | .
.m [
)TE EQl
:y m. f. si
's the fr
I SiifYntgo Asswlnllon nntl Oluilrnimi '
i
1STTELL
JT BALLOT
I
tract from tin* sweet womanly dig- ;
nity of the wives ami mothers? It
cannot be possible that anyone con ]
alders doing the barn chorea any
more dignified than voting. It cannot
be possible that anyone thinks
that an equal partnership Is at all
equal when one can vote bonds upon |
the farm, which Is the common stake j
of each. |'
The men of West Virginia are too 1
chivalrous not to listen to the re- (
quest of the women for the extension '
of the suffniKe to them. The only '
danger is thai the arguments favor-1J
ing the fthu'iidinent may not hei'
brought forcibly to the attention of
many who will be called to vote oil;1
the question next. fall. Wight here 1
Is where the women themselves have '
a work to perform. If they ask for j
the vote they will get It. There is
nothing that the men of this state j
will not give to the women if the men
believe the women want it. 1
Wives, let the husbands know howl
you fool about this question of voting.!
Let him know that you want to he(
1 ??l# U Vilm In Mm I f
(Ill t'lJUUl JJHI lllOi inn. ...
stake which you both "have In tho I *
soil, Let him know that tho votn will |
ho n (Iouhlu protection to you If by! |
any chance tho hand of death should
leave you ulono with the partnership |
thus broken. If you thus lei liliu |
know how you fed about It, he will ,
vote for tho equal suffrage amend-1.
ment In November. (
WOMEN T
THE CAJ
MISS CAItRIE C. ZANE, !
Of an Historical Whoeling Family,
Who is Treasurer of the State Organization.
At Ardmor, III., at tho recent election
moro women than men voted.
Rut the men exceeded the women
more than two to one in ine nunioor (
of voters who cast dcfectlvo bayots. ,
MESSAGE IN !
tS GREETING '
the East into the vanguard of I i
i the other eastem states when I i
t. Their civic and moral work I i
est Virginia women, so we look I
of their women; and we believe | i
I
y
TWELVE PAGES
|
JAUTY
NIDER
ANCHISE
Ioices Opinions of Leading
Clarksburg Men Who
Favor Suffrage.
WRITES AN ABLE ARTICLE
Says Women Should Vote Because
Men Need Her
Help in Government.
It In gratifying that many of the
ending men of Clarksburg are favorable
to the cauho o! equal Hllfrago.
Members of the bench and
jar, clergymen, physlcans and busiic.'is
men generally, those who give
bought to the Important questions
ivhleli cotistHiitly come up for settlonenl
in a democracy have expressed
.lieu \^v.for I he pending amendnow
\mong the great number wno
ire lending their voice and pen for
ntiYrage i: Mr. M. T. Snider, the well
iinown attorney of this city. Mr. Sni- I
Jcr has given much thought to this
juestion. He has imuio a study of
:he way in which men tlryt obtained
a say in the government and from
I hose researches has learned how
women may obtain the sumo boon.
Tn the following excellent article
Mr. Snider expresses not. only his
i)\vii views and conclusions hut tho
Ideas of most of the men of this community
who favor universal suffrage.
The article is one of tho most important.
contributions to the literature
of the campaign. It. is given in this
slit ion because It is well expresses
I he thoughts of (lie thinking men of
['larkshurg. The article follows:
Mr. Solder's Article.
I do not believe that any one oT
-easnnahle Information will question
(lint woman has the same natural
right to life and liberty, the possesdon
of property and tho pursuit of
uippinesH that, man iias. Govern*
110111s are instituted*for tho purpose
>r preserving, enlarging and set/Jlng
hose rights. If woman is oqvaI in
lies.e rights, as a matter of fairness
tnd justice she should have a voice
in- say in providing the means of
preserving, enlarging and settling
these rights. Therefore, she should
iia\r a nay in huvuiiiiiiuiiv,
In Vlrglnln, an well an most of the I
sluice of lIn1 Union, tills "say" was
formerly mado manifest by word of
iiioiiIIi, Ilinl Is, pnrnoiiH voted by anpouncing
publicly tu the commissioners
of election tlm man's name
ror whom lliey voted. Therefore, wo
nave Iho tcrnis or having a "say" or
voice" lii govormnent. That say or
,'oleo is now made manifest by ballot H
jr vote. Consequently woman, to
inve a say or voice in government
oust have a vote. I believe that In
imtlleu and fairness she ought to
lave a vole.
II. Is not only fair and just that '
vniunn should hnvo a yote, but ws
iced her, greatly need her, Ih our
;ovcrnmont. Self government, or
;overnment by the people, la In lta
nfuncy. We nood the beet that is
n bolh man and woman to seek and
Iml the pure and best way of governuont.
Therefore,
Wo neod woman In government. .
Wc need her matchless Intuition.
We need her nimost superhuman
nstinct.
We need her puroncss of heart.
We need her boundless motherove.
We need her fearless disposition
o do the right.
We need her untiring enorgy?she
lever quits until her houso Is In or
Continued on page 8, Becona see.)
0 QUIZ I
NDIDATES I
Will Ask Every West Virginia
Nominee His Stand on
Amendment.
The Bpcakera who are appearing
n West Virginia under the ausplcel
>f the Association opposed to Woman H
Suffrago are wonderful jugglers rl
'acts and figures' It has been wall
>ald that figures can't lie, but that
Igurcs may. The latest spasm of tha
Antl orators as boon caused by thetr H
Ulcged fear that the extension of
ho franchiso to their own sex will
jrlng Into the electorate a great mass
>f Ignorant voters. They claim that
1 great number of foreign and col- H
>red voters will thus be enfranchise).
I'o make their argument sound rea- H
lonablo they say that all foreigners
ind all blacks are Ignorant
As a matter of fact a study of the H
last United (States census report
hows that in West Virginia tne aa- ?
litlon of women to the enfranchised
:lass will materially DECREASE) the
gnorant vote. The ignorant vote In
my state is tho illiterate vote. But
ilnce those who are using this fake H
argument are calling all foreigners H
md colored people Ignorant, we will
show that the proportion of these
will be decreased If the amendment
mrries this "fall. Of course the vote
nas already been given to the colored H
men and naturalized foreign males.
In West Virginia there are 133 col* ' <
ered males to every 100 females. Likewise
there are 263 foreign males to
every 100 females. The colored males
md tie foreign naturalized males have ,
already been given the vote. At present
22,670 colored men and 7,263 naturalized
men are voters. If votes are
extended to women only 16,116 colored ; #8
females will be added and but about'
(Continued on page 3, second sec.lt .'jVijgsl
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