The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-11

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The next on the programme WIS che
annual address by the president, Mrs.
Hannah j. Bailey.
Mrs. l.. NJ. N, Stevens was called to
the chair during it's delivery.
MRS. BAILEY'S ADDRESS.
Mrs. Bailey first referred to the recent
history of the movement in Maine and
the close contest at the last legislature,
when the lower board, which represents
the people, voted for woman suffrage,
but it was defeated in the Senate, which
does not represent the people, by the
selfish votes of four men, who are elected
by men and who doubtless feared that
they could not be elected If women could
vote, as they certainly would be.
Mrs. Bailey declared that there are
more good women than good men, and
that there are more good women than
bad women, and that this movement by
women TO protect their homes from the
rum shops by votes, is the most serious
danger that the rum shops have.
She said that next year she intended to
make a long journey in Palestine and
the east, and said that new president
must be elected in her place.
Mrs. Bailey quoted from many publ
cations to show the remarkable progress
Of the woman suffrage movement in the
Western States and in Australia and Eng
land. The British Women Christian
Temperance Union, numbering 100000
women has declared in favor of woman
suffrage. Twenty two state legislatures
have taken action on the suffrage CUES
ton during the past year. Colorado has
decided i'll favor of it and now has wom-
en- legislators as well as men. The num-
Der of women in the United States now
engaged in lucrative employment is 2, :
TAT, 1871, yet it is still considered no crime
to burden women with taxation without
representation.
Mrs. Bailey declared that it is not true
that fallen and depraved women will
vote the wrong way. Where it has been
tried in England the women of the lowest
Glasses besotted with vice and drink,
nearly always voted for the temperance
cause, because they knew they were yot-
ing against their own worst enemy.
When asked by Lady II enry Somerset
how she would vote, one Of the fallen
women said: 81 will vote against those
men who make devils of US women.''
Mrs. Bailey declared that it is crime
against civilization and a disgrace to
humanity, that the burden of the social
evil should fall the heaviest upo wom-
en-. The first slip of woman, makes
her permanent criminal, while man
goes scott free and is regarded as simply
weak or foolish. All the DR.. Parkhursts
of the land cannot suppress the social
evils as long as this great injustice to
woman exists.
In conclusion Mrs. Bailey said that she
was persuaded that the cause of woman
suffrage was the most important of all
reforms movements and once gained,
would be more potent in all other reforms
than anything else.
Monlan's cause Is mans cause, always
was and always will be. They must rise
and they must fall together.
The address was warmly applauded.
Mrs. Hamilton reported from the Saco
She said it was pretty hard to ind a
woman or a man in Saco who was not a
suffragist
Miss Mary E. Bishop reported for the
Portland Auxiliary that there had been
two meetings during the past year. Al
the May meeting, the president, DR.. Her
som resigned, and no one else has been
found to take her place.
The report of the Equal Suffrage Club
of Waterville was read by Mrs. Osgood
1t was formed in March, 1914 They have
held ten meetings during the past year.
The auxiliary at Hampden Corner
which was formed during the past year
sent a report which stated that they have