The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-20
EQUAL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN,
Rev. Anna Shaw Booked to
Lecture in Cities of
California.
Manager Hester A. Harland Speaks
of a Recent Trip Through
the State.

Mrs. HesterAA. Harland, manager for
Rev. Anna Shaw's lectures, returned to
San Francisco Wednesday evening, having
made tour of Northern California and
closed engagements for Miss Shaw to speak
in various places.
The progressive manager was seen at
the Sergeant residence, 1880 Folsom street.
yesterday. She was in good health and
high spirits after her arduous trip, and
predicted for the eloquent advocate of
woman suffrage a most entertaining and
animated campaign.
Plans were effected for Miss Shaw to
speak at Santa Rosa, Napa, st. Helena.
Suisun, Sacramento, Marysville, Chico,
Red Bluff, Yreka, Willows, Colusa, Stock
ton and Vallejo.
Mrs Harland leaves for the south to-
day for the purpose of completing ar
engagements for Miss Shaw to lecture at
Fresno, Bakersfield Santa Paula, Ventura,
Los Angeles and adjacent towns.
In every town where the programme of
the course permits the lecturer to remain
over Sunday an invitation has already
been extended for her to occupy a pulpit.
The desire to hear the able exponent is
universal. In nearly all places visited by
Mrs. Harland leading society ladies and
the foremost men in educational work
manifested enthusiasm in the forthcoming
lecture season. In some places subscrip-
ton lists have already been circulated with
success.
The organization of county and aux Hilary
societies to advance the cause will engage
the attention of Mrs. Harland on her next
Journey over the course. When the or
ganization is effected throughout the
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convention to assemble in San Francisco
next spring. The manager will visit the
leading towns of California which are not
embraced in Miss Shaw's course. Leading
lights of the suffrage movement will come
from the East to speak at the State con-
vention, and so it is thought that great
enthusiasm on the subject will be
awakened.
In several towns visited by Mrs. Harland
preparations have been made for the run
ming of special excursion trains to enable
people in other places to hear the noted
lecturer.
Rev. Anna Shaw is now in New York.
AT last accounts she was IN good form and,
to use her own expression, able Ito shout
louder than ever" She will arrive in this
City Septemb Der % and lecture on the "In-
! justice of Chivalry" at Golden Gate Hall
the evening of September 20. The next
evening she will lecture in Oakland. Re
/ turning from her tour of the State she will
reach here November l and leave town for
the East the following day.
| Yesterday Miss Sargent and Mrs. Har-
| land received some of the latest campaign
] literature from the National Suffrage Asso-
citation and this document was regarded as
! pointed and pertinent:
FEW LEADING QUESTIONS.
Q.-Under q representative form of Govern
ment, such as ours, who should make the laws?
| A.-The people.
! Q.-Do the people make the laws? A.-No;
half OF the people are relieved ~ from max
! ing the laws.
! 0.-Who make the laws? Amen.
! Q.-Who gave the men the right to make the
| laws? Amen.
| Q.-Do the laws concern women? A.-They
! certainly do.
! Q.-May women not take part in making the
| laws which they must obey? A.-They may
not. Men alone make the laws for women and
men.
| Off woman trangresses the law, who de-
| cides the penalty, tries, conYfcts and Furnishes
! her? Amen.
Q.-Who sit on the juries before whom men
and women are tried? Amen only.
! Q.-Is this what the constitution means by
"the judgment OF his Tor herl peers?" A
| Manifestly not.
Q.-May not mothers help make the laws that
decide their legal relations to their children
| A.-No; men make the laws, and in only six
States of the Union has the married mother
the legal right to her children.
Q.-Nhy is the law so one-slQed! Abe
! cause one sex alone has been making the laws
Q.-Who make the laws that decide the rights
| of husband and wife in case OF separation?
Amen only.
Q.-When husband brutally assaults his
wife who make and enforce the laws that pun
! ish him? Amen.
Q.-Who make the laws concerning the prop
erty-rights Of husband and wife? A.-Men
Q.-Who pay taxes? Amen and women.
Q.-Is the property OF women taxed the same
as that OF men? A.-Higher as a rule.
Q.-Who make the laws governing taxation ?
Amen.
Q-Who may say how tax money collected
from men and women shall be used? Amen
only.
Q-May not capable woman who runs her
own farm or other business have vote in cleo.
tions that concern her interests as much as
those OF any man? A.-No; but the most in
capable man in her employ may.
Q.-May not woman of education who un-
derstands the questions of the day, vote? A.
No but the most ignorant of men may.
Q.-May not women who teach the boys in
our sch ools vote? A.-No, but the boys they
instruct, when 81 may vote,
O-May mothers who have given sons to the
State and nurtured them in the fear of God
and love of country-may they not vote? A
No.
O.-Why does q conscientious woman want
IN voter A-So she may help to enact laws
that will better the conditions OF society
O-Would women vote If the privilege were
granted them? AIN Wyoming greater per-
too, when it is often necessary to walk or
drive many miles TO the polling places
o.-Who may vote? ALL men, white or
black, native or foreign, rich or poor, educated
or ignorant, drunk or SOBER, may vote.
The Sanchez Street Grade.
Mrs. Mary P. Hogerty has petitioned the SUI
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