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SUFFRAGE NOTES
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Glides ) 7 8 ' Fl0renCe Bayard !
Equal suffrage is another "men- L
ace" that has ceased to be a live
issue in California. Fought even
more bitterly than the Initiative,
Referendum, and Recall, it has
now taken its place with such ac-1 î
cepted facts as meals, climate, and ; 1
babies. A journey from border to : ®
border failed utterly to disclose
any male person who would admit
that his home had been ''broken
up" while a search through the
records proved that the women
had not plunged into office seeking. ^
there can be no question, how
ever, that they have been active '
politically, for there is general
agreement that the following laws j
are due to the woman vote and fern
inine ^insistence: joint guardian-1cent
ship, red-light injunction and
abatement, raising the child labor
•ge from twelve to fifteen years,
mothers' pension, teachers' pen
eight hour law for women,
minimum wage board, immigration
commission, state training school
for delinquent girls with most ap
proved correctional methods and
thorough vocational training, re
quiring fathers to support illegiti
mate children, prison reform, and
argus-eyed statutes with reference
to weight and measures.
The women have also wiped out
gambling of all kinds, and, taking as
complete possession of the local
option law, have succeeded in
placing onerhalf the territory and
one-fourth the population on the
T * 'dry" side. In his authoritative
"Story of the 1913 Legislature,"
Franklin Hichborn makes this
comment: for
one
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of
What Women Have Done
Up to the 1911 session, the or
ganized gamblers were, on a moral
issue, the most potent group at
legislative sessions. They actually
directed committee organization
in their own interests. With the
institution of women's suffrage in
1911.
however,
the
race-track
gamblers were practically elimin
ated from California politics, and
organization of worn vu.
the
_ the Gen
~ i$ïhbV'V lJ ne most potent
power in the state. The members
of the 1913 legislature gave re
peated evidence of appreciating
this fact thoroughly.
The specific instance that we
had in kind was the "red-light"
law which places the responsibility
of disorderly houses upon the prop
erty owner instead of the wretched
inmates. This bill, first introduc
ed in 1911, was killed with
ard dispatch, Senator
Wolfe wielding the principal ax.
This notorious politician had serv
ed for years, and was deemed a
• fixture by the male vote.
In 1912, the very election in
which women participated, Wolfe
was cast into the discard, and E.
E. Grant, his successor, was hand
ed the abatement law as his Mes
TKV, 0 ,|'^¥ session the Cal
ifornia ^deration of Women's
Clubs maintained headquarters in
Sacramento, and when the measure
came up for consideration the
I word went out to fifty thousand
I female voters, and the storm of tel
and letters commenced
ll
in
ease
'Eddie"
egrams
and continued until final passage.
In point of argument, facts, au
thorities, and statistics, the wom
en made such a showing against the
horror of the "necessary evil"
theory that, when Governor John
\ son announced a public hearing,
\ f oounercialized vice could not
-Lauster "one speaker.
?
'While it is a record that shows
\ger emphasis on the moral and
,ne than has been customary,
/ the most prejudiced can
yrcely urge that it is "hyster
cal." There is also one thing to
remember—the women are not in
the majority in California. Many
of -the measures had to go before
the whole people for approval, and
their majorities in every case must
be taken as indication that male
sentiment backed up the women.
Only Prejudice Survives
Summing up the objection that
one finds in California against all
four fundamental changes—Initia
tive, Referendum, Recall, and
Equal Suffrage—it simmers down
ill the final analysis to personal
prejudice rather than public at
tack. Even while a certain les
sening class admit that direct leg
islation has not failed nor injured,
they still grimace and shrug and
mutter, vaguely resentful of the
idea that the whole people can
possibly be as intelligent as a
choice few.
In its recent biennial report the
Kansas Board of Control gives
interesting statistics regard
the. State institutions. They
ought to be reassuring to people \
who still fancy that equal suffrage j
An article in October Everybody's
by George Creel.
Suffrage and Prosperity
some
ing
would prove too great a strain on
j women 's health, or on the nerves
! of hteir husbands.
L 1 " 86 , ou i° f the 105 . counties of
the Sta ^' there are f . no m f ane P er '
sona ' Eleven counties have one
f c *V ^"e c0 + UQt ^ have no
feeble-minded inmates; 93 counties
î iave ^ children m public mstitu
; 1 \ on8 ; 29 coun f es have no P au P ers *
: ® leven aunties have no poor
Iar .
Phis does not look much as if
women suffrage had hurt business,
In Kansas all women have had
municipal suffrage since 1887, and
^ proved so satisfactory that in
1912 the men of Kansas gave them
the full ballot.
' ° 0 ' 000 0,110 " omen Want ro
vote
j The anti-suffragists are circulât
|ing a statement that only ten per
of Ohio women want the bal- *
lot. the other day I asked a prom
inent anti-suffragist for her au
thority and she answered that the
figures w r ere taken from the suffira
gists. She said: "We asked them
how many women wanted to vote,
The number they gave us was
two per cent, and we multiplied it
by five to be generous." I do not
know from what suffrage organiza
tion these figures of two per cent
were taken. We have never re
ceived in our office at Warren any
communication asking how many
women were recorded on our books
as in favor of suffrage. As a mat
ter of fact, we had on record in
this State at the beginning of this
year over 300,000 women asking
for the ballot. Furthermore,
since that time we have been mak
ing a house to house canvass
which shows a marvelous movement
for women suffrage. In sixteen
counties, only three of which car
ried for suffrage, we find that two
thirds of hte women give their
names and less than one fourth of
one per cent are opposed. Every
night we have reports like thisj
and out of 35 women asked ig-gign,
30 did sign and out-^î '40 asked!
33 did. It.is-flSnisual to have
" fine opposed vote among 20
.wd for their opinion. It is my
conclusion, based on this straw
vote taken by us in sixteen coun
ties most of which voted against
suffrage in 1912, that 700,000 wo
men in Ohio want the ballot. I
make that statement publicly, and
I am prepared to back it up out
of my personal investigation, cor
roborated by that of my collabor
ators in the campaign field.
a
more
the
Bishop Spaulding Firm Supporter
Bishop Spaulding of Utah and
Nevada, who has just been killed
in an automobile accident, had
had many years of practical ex
perience with equal suffrage in
Utah. He lately paid a visit to
Reno, Nev. ; and while they spoke
strongly in favor of votes for wo
men. He said, as reported in the
Nevada State Journal of May 4:
"I believe in equal suffrage. I find
that women opposed to women
suffrage are also opposed to man
hood suffrage, and believe in an
undemocratic form of government
by the few. Every argument that
can be advanced against women's
voting can also be advanced against
men's voting. Equal suffrage
works well in Utah.
Democrats Show To Show Fair
Although the national Demo
cratic party has blocked the nation
wide suffrage amendment, their
stand is meeting with little ap
proval by Democrats in the suf
frage states.
Of all three recently adopted
platforms in Colorado, the Demo
cratic makes the strongest declara
tion regarding suffrage, as Sena
tor Helen Ring Robinson points
out in a letter to The Woman's
Journal. Their plank reads:
"The Democratic party congratu
lates the people of the Stale upon
the successful outcome of twenty
one years of equal suffrage, and
we endorse the proposed amend
ment to the federal constitution!
now pending in Congress for
fequal suffrage throughout the
Union."
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Action on
been taken
Progressives went still further,
and declared themselves in favor
of giving women the ballot. Suf
frage was the main issue at the
Democratic convention, as the ten
tative platform did not contain
the plank for submission. So strong
a feeling developed among the del
egates, however, that the plank
was carried. It was a ditsnet vic
\ tory for the New Jersey suffra
j gists.
equal suffrage has
recently by political
parties in several States. In New
Jersey last week, tin- submission of
suffrage amendment to the
voters was practically ensured by
the adoption of a plank to that ef
feet at the Democratic and Repub
lican convention in Trenton. The
Parties Endorse In Many States
Although the suffrage cause has
grown wealthy from Mrs. Frank
Leslie's legacy, says the Chicago
Herald, there is no reason to sup
pose it will retire from business.
Here and There
Charles P. Cochran was thrown
from his team in Middletown on
Friday when his horse, frightened
by a party sprinkling in front of
a property on Main street, collid
ed with a wagon loaded with flour
and fell on his head upon the hard
roadway. He was taken home and
treated by Dr. D. W. Lewis.
Canners in the Seaford section |
have been experimenting this year !
with re( j p e pp ers to gj ve co i or to |
tomatoes as chemical coloring is j
barred by the Pure Food Law. I
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Unknown parties on Hallowe'en
morning entered the Wilmington j
and Philadelphia Traction Com-[
pany's offices, 602 Market street, j
Wilmington, and took $235, the
day's receipts for commercial cur
rent, which had been left in the
unlocked safe,
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Rev. I)r. George Edward Reed, j
will resign the pastorate of Grace j
M. E. Church, Wilmington, in j
March next and will likely engage
in lecture work, it is stated.
The reported purchase of 50 j
acres of river front land near New :
Castle by Charles M. Schwab,
president of the Bethlehem Steel !
Company has been confirmed at the j
concern s main offices. Eight build- j
ings tor a plant tor pressing papier
mache cases for projectiles will be !
erected, and a large number of
hands will be employed. The site
selected gives fine shipping facili
ties and is convenient to the Car
ney's Point powder plant,_where
the shells could be IgSdSd/ -
j a
A burglar, while the family of
Samuel C. Vail, a farmer of the
Bear Station section, were asleep j
last Tuesday morning, went thru •
their sleeping rooms and secured ! 0
a gold and a silver watch, five dol
lars in cash and a quantity of
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clothing without disturbing the
occupants.
James J. Bayne of 1910 Lincoln |
street, Wilmington, taking a short
cut to his home through South
Brandywine Park on Thursday
evening, was attacked near the
Scott street entrance by two
negroes who beat and stunned him
and tore $549, his savings of sev
eral years, from the living of his
nest, disappearing in the darkness
The body of nine-year-old John
Chestnut who was drowned off
Shipley street wharf, Wilmington,
on October 18, was recovered last
Monday near the spot where he
sank.
U. S. Clearing
House For World
The United States comes pretty
near being the clearing house of the
world. Washington today is more
nearly the real capital of the world
than any city ever was before.
Out of the remotest parts of the
globe American diplomatic officers
are doing the neighborly job of
looking after the interests of the
belligerent countries in the capi
tals and commercial countries.
When two nations go to war they
cease speaking as they pass by.
Each withdraws all its diplomatic
representation from the other.
But of course there is a lot of i
hang-over business, and there are
new matters constantly arising, j
that make communication necessary I
This must, according to the eti- |
querite of war and diplomacy, be I
carried on through the diplomatic
agencies of some mutual friend,
some neutral power.
The United States is the one re
maining first-class mutual friend
in the whole family of nations. We
are still everybody's friend,
everybody tells their troubles to
our diplomats.
When the French ambassador
left Berlin he turned over the ar
chives and business of his office to
Judge Gerard, American ambassa
dor, and the French Government
authorized Judge Gerard to attend
as its agent, to necessary matters,
The Britishers did the same thing,
and so did the Japanese and the
Russians. It's about the same way
at the other capitals.
Germany was for a time so com
pletely isolated from the world
that the Japanese declaration of
war on Germany could not be made
directly: it had to be notified to
Germany through our State De
partment. In substance the Jap
anese ambassador in Washington
said to Secretary Bryan:
"Will you kindly notify the most
honorable German Government, in
so ■
behalf of the humble Japanese
Government, that the utterly un
worthy Japanese Government deep
ly regrets the necessity to lick the
tar out of the exalted and ennobled
German Government, and shall
forthwith proceed to the operation.
Secretary Bryan conveyed the
message, adding some regrets on
his own account.
Loyalty Better
Than Cleverness
If you work for a man, in Hea
ven's name work for him. If he
pays wages that supply you your
bread and butter, work for him,
speak well of him, think well of
him, and stand by him, and stand
| by the institution he represents. I
! think if I worked for
| would work for him.
j work for him a part of his time
I but all of his time: 1 would give
an undivided service or none. If
jput to a pinch an ounce of loyalty
j is worth a pound of cleverness. If
you must vilify, condemn, and
j eternally dispar'ge, why, resign
your position and when you are
outside, damn to your heart's con
tent,
1
a man,
I would not
But, I pray you, so long as
! you are a part of an institution, do
j not condemn it. Not that you will
j injure the institution—not that—
j but when you disparge the concern
j of which you are a part, you dis
parge yourself. And don't forget
—' ' I forgot ' ' won't do in business.
—Hubbard.
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: The Modesty Of
!
j "Yes, we're awful modest, like
j mos t country parishes that don't i
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! P ' eir P rea Ç hers
enough to get his collars launder
Country Parishes
more than
ed. We want a man who can
preach like the Archbishop of
Canterbury, and call on everybody
twice a week, and know just when
anyone is sick without being told
j a word about it. He 's got to be an
|awful mixer, to draw the young
A
j people like a porous plaster, and
• fill the pews. He must have lots
! 0 f sociables and fairs, and things
to take the place of religion; and
he must dress well, and live like a
gentleman on the ' alary of a book |
.agent. But if he brings city ways
along with him and makes us feel
.
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Don't run the risk of being "just too late.
Two things are certain when you make a Bell
Toll call; you can't lose time, because your man is
out, and you know you'll get a welcome if he's in.
IPs the brief, low-cost way that enables you
to "see" a whole string of customers in a day. Try
it—take a quick trip to your trade by Bell
Telephone.
The Diamond State Telephone Comp,
b- P* Bardo, District Manager,
601 Shipley Street, Wilmington, Del.
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have five churches, j
like hayseeds, he won't
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You see, we
when we really need only one ; |
and so we have to scrap for each
other's converts, to keep up the in- j
We feed them on sand
wiches, pickles and coffee every
now and then, to make 'em come to
church. Yes, preachin' and pick
les, sandwiches and salvation seem
to run in the same class, these
days."
(From Hepsey Burke—another
David Harum story.)
terest.
Many Prizes At
Poultry Show
With one hundred and thirty
eight special prizes to be awarded
to winners at the ninth annual ex
hibition of the Diamond State
Poultry and Pigeon Association,
all arrangements for the show have
been completed. The exhibition
will be held in Turn Hall, Wil
mington, during the week of Dec
ember 9 and it will be unique in
that it will be a free-for-all show.
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