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necessary 70 submit constitutional amend
~ menL nn Inese results certainly are In the line
~, vogid o. Commend 70 your attention the eres.
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All OF this advance along, legal. educational
and Industrial lines has been made in the
face OF exactly the opposition, and objections
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petitions from both sides have been bT presented
70 To- LEGISLATURES L or conventions. those In ia
opposed. The petition for suffrage to The New New
YORK Ge55sititpt.onal 95 Convention In 1894 CON
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can. can have ao part An soEy e the RED oFSs.
have Itays done OF their own Instinct % and veton. don
ing and to the homo in the absence Of our men.
In this division OF duty the woman's part was
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disfranchised because they did not 20 to the
front; then there 2 Infinitely more reason for
who insist that the necessity Of force under
member. that when women are eniranchised
the fighting strength OF our Goyernment will
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military status will be in nowise changed.
The feminine lime Tass earning Of this country I. IN,
tbs. On her present knowledge and capacity
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:. most cruel chargel No woman, willingly
struggling to obtan bread 0f Tor ris herself and
must take what she can get. and ID that % Is from @
one-hali to two-thirds OF what Is, paid to man
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than what it is o-day. Woman cheapens the
labor market and degrades her own position in
she cannot help il. When the unions take up up
her fight, as they will be compelled to do even,
they do not win their Ha battes tie By buets lie
by ballots. Where Is her ammunition2 II she
| labor union as man is.
Her continued advance lies already in her own
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| it has in tie past.
| Not bit more-it could not II the franchise
a representative government? Where is it's
superiority over monarchy or an aristocracy ?
When men oppose giving the ballot to women
1t is easy to surmse a variety Of reasons for it:
dislike to divide power. a fear lest It be used
against what they call their personal liberty. q
Discrimination to share the political rewards
but this anti-sufftage movement. among
women. II is difficult to comprehend Their
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changes are rung over and over. are that II will!
impose duty which women will feel obliged
not want it. The former they refute them selves
by citing triumphantiy the large number OF
already possess. thus failing to recognize the
duty. The latter was answered years ago by
| George William Curtis. when he said:
| The assertion that when majority of women ask
for equal political rights they will be granted is q
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thsir emission rsh;fniiy depend mon The ma:
70 vote prevent the Voting Of her nciGSbor Who doesi
why should a hundred girls who are content to be
the choice OF single one who wishes to be a woman
and do what her conscience requiresf
| At Wellesley new departments will be estab-
lished for the study OF foreign relations.
diplomacy and colonial policy. One OF the
most popular courses in this college for women
Is that OF economics. including study OF the
evolution and present conditions Of wage labor
classes. commercial and financial legisla-
The University, OF Chicago has 7e5 women
to them. and they receive the regular univer-
The kev. pr. Lorimer. in q recent Sunday
sermon in fremont Temple. Boston; said: II
Board. II It should be composed OF sixteen
women. 10 for the School Board needs touch Of
In Omaha at the late election 1000 women
exercised the school suffrage. all they possess
in Nebraska.
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three women on the trial jury.
Toledo's Mayor Jones was elected on plat:
form declaring for minimum wage OF Sl.5C
per day. Does that mean for women or only
Miss Sarah Cooper Hewitt has lately been
elected School Trustee in Pompton township
Hewitt. wrote a letter to the New York ,Consti.
tutional Convention against woman suffrage.
In the same issue OF THE SUN containing the
long manifesto OF the anti-suffragists showing
cause why woman should not have a vote is O
column article from New Orleans relating
how the women OF that city have brought
been granted to taxpaying women and the as.
sessment rolls show that they, comprise about
ne-third Of the taxpayers. The special elec-
be petitioned for by taxpayers and 1t was Sc
cured through the signatures OF the women
who also called public meetings and worked
says: The Woman's vote viii carry the tai
and may start female suffrage boom. Ac.
| cordng to the antis these women would have
had more influence WITHOUT the franchise
| prUnn FoR wTgNTNa HIS Case