Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-16

Y,
when he wants another four years in the
White House, you can take your ballots
In your hands and go quietly to the yot-
ing booth and tell him there just what
you think of him and how entirely you
disagree with him. We can't"
Miss Ray Costeioe. an English suf-
fragette. who is referred to as the most
teautful woman in the congress, also
spoke from an automobile.
We don't ask for votes,' said Miss
Costellce. because we think we are bet
ter than men,. she asserted. I'VE just
want You men TO be fair and let us have
the voice in tie management of politics
that We are entitled to.
Why should a woman haves all the
good things because she looks nice and
en- ugly woman have nothing? We just
want division Of the power; we want to
go to the polls with the men and vote
for what we think is right.
In England they say women ought to
Re at home attending to the babies Well,
we can attend TO the babies all right
when they are little. but how about when
they grow up and begin going to school ?
We want the vote because We can care
for the babies better than without It."
Viewpoint of Socialist.
How socialist views the woman suf-
frage movement was expressed to the
convention by Mrs. Meta l.. Stern. She
declared that any one could be a suf-
fragist without being socialist, but de-
elared il impossible to he socialist with
out becoming a suffra gist. Socialism she
declared an untried theory. but suffrage.
she said. had been successfully tried in
many places.
Mothers need voice in educational
matters" said Mrs. Stern. The argu-
'ments advanced against woman suffrage
are never directed against that which is.
but only that which is to be. At present
the anti-sunragists favor higher educa-
tioa for women and other things that
are achievements of the woman's move
ed when they were untried as woman SUI
frage II TODAY. Every proposed reform
was greeted with the outcry: You will de-
etrnv the home and the family!
yet none of the prophesied disasters
ever occurred Socialism, like woman
suffrage, has been accused of seeking to
destroy the home and the family. yet II
only seeks to bring about a more perfect
civilization In which all members OF hu.
man society may enjoy true home and
family life.
Necessary to Socialism.
1.-THE socialist ideal Is utterly inconcev-
able without world In which all men
and women shall be free and equal be-
ings. One can be a suffragist without be-
ing a socialist. but one cannot be a So
cialist without being a suffragist So
ciaiism is still an untried social theory,
hut woman suffrage has been success
fully tried in various parts of the world.
and everywhere women have continued
to marry and rear children.
80 we can prove from facts that wom-
an suffrage does not destroy the home and
tas fa d,rs There ,se time IN tn;
when we believed that the woman ques-
ton would be solved with the social
question: We have since learned that
and women. That 10 why socialists stand
for woman suffrage"
Situation in England Reviewed.
Alice Paul. speaking on woman sufYrage
In Great Britain, presented an exhaustive
review OF the situation In England. She
declared that the cause has been misrep-
resented and distorted by the press OF
England, and compared the criticism OF
the suffra ststs there to that Of the aboli.
sttouists in the United States.
She said in part:
THE essence of the campaign Of thu
Ouffragettes Is opposition to the govern
rnent. The country seems willing thai
the vote be extended to women Thii
by. passing their franchise bill through iti
second reading by three to ono ma
jority. But the government. that LITTLE
group which controls legislation, woulc
not let 1t become Law. It is not a wal
of women against men, for the men are
helping Loyalty, but a war of women and
men together against the politicians a
the head, who. because OF their own DO
litical interests. seem afraid to enfran
ehise women
To Be Copied Here.
THE suffraRists have gone with peti-
tions to the head Of the government, a.
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