The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-21
P ART|C|P ATE IN
DEMONSTRATION
FOUR WOMEN DELEGATES TO
THE CONVENTION OF THE IN
CIETIES.

who with the three Misses Kangley
of Seattle, participated in the street
demonstration in London on April
II in honor of the release from Col
loway jail of Mrs. Pethick Lawrence,
sent the foregoing cablegram to Mrs.
May Arkwright Hutton, president Of
the Spokane Equal Suffrage associa-
ton. The four women, who are
delegates to the convention of the
International Suffrage societies, rode
in an open carriage, which was deco
rated with the Stars and Stripes.
The message was read at a largely
attended meeting at the home Of
Mrs. Elizabeth Cooling, 227 Ermina
avenue, where Mrs. Hutton, who was
the principal speaker, said in part:
Zone of the various objections ad-
vanced against granting women po-
litical liberty is that if the women
have the ballot the home and babies
may be neglected and that the pub
licity at the polls may mar her chief
charm-modesty. The fact that
election day rolls around once in
two years, or once each year at most,
and that an opinion can be written
and placed in box in about five
minutes does not seem to consume
much of the years time. This duty
of voting is less arduous than some
that have fallen to the lot of women.
"And yet another objection. Wom-
en- might have to sit on juries if they
voted. I think that women who
stand behind counters or in factories
at the cook stove, washtub, ironing
table, dish sink and baby crib would
be mighty glad to sit on almost any
thing for a rest.
81 am aware that at present wom-
en- do not take any great interst in
public affairs, but the average wom-
an is a dutiful member of society,
and as soon as she could realize that
her duty as a citizen would require
her voice in solving great problems
she would not only think and act
but vote intelligently. At least this
is her record where she now possessA
the absolute franchise in the four
free states.
Women who want the ballot
stand for absolute suffrage. If
young mother is capable Of choosing
members for school board VINO
must pass upon the qualifications of
teachers who will guide her children
through school years, how much
more capable must she be with the
added wisdom of mature years to all
in selecting men to make laws that
shall govern her children through
their manhood and womanhood. A
mothers interest in the welfare of
her children does not cease with
their school years. In summing up
this entire question there are no
logical reasons why women should
be deprived of voice in making
laws which she and her children are
bound to obey.
There are two classes of men
who oppose woman suffrage. One
class places woman on pedestal and
worships at her shrine. He would
work, think and vote for his woman
kind, denying her all individual
thought or action. Another class de-
grades women and desires that all
womankind shall be held in subjec-
ton.
'But there is still another class,
composed of the common people,
whom Lincoln said the Lord loved
because he made so many of them.
These are demanding a square deal
for all, regardless of sex. The heads
of families of this class know that
the ballot in the hands of wives and
daughters mean votes for decency,
as an offset against corruption, graft
and ring rule.
''The statement of the Baltimore
American that $4,000 of the $4,000
stockholders of the Pennsylvania
railway, or Al per cent, are women,
whose interests aggregate about
s14S, 100000, may account for the
interest manifested in the woman's
suffrage movement by the Goulds,
Mackays and Vanderbilts, besides
scores of lesser lights in the feminine
financial world.
while the founders of the repub-
lie may not have felt the need of
the ballot for women at the time it
was inaugurated, the public men of
today can not deny that women are
important factors in the financial and
in In Stria1 &C we'll &c tho social