El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-18
WOMEN FIGHTING
FOR VOTING RIGTS

| Continued From Page One.)
| ticote off of de clothes line next do
Furdermo' de meat trust puts up de
/ price Of polk chops hits de women dat
] has got TO squeeze de eagle on de dol
/ lar ontel hit boilers a little louder, an
pare de potat0e peelin's little thinner,
| an DAT makes US women Jest a achin'
| to have a finger in day government pie
an see Il We can't put in a little mo-
sWeet1n In hit. an make hit little
/ lighter. so dat hit won't get so heavy
| an ondigestible on de stopachs OF dem
| what ain Z nsiliiCnaires
Want the Franchise.
"Yassir, wese just hoanin' for de
| franchise an we might have had hit
! any time desc last 40 years ef we'd had
! enough backbone TO riz up an fit one
good fight for hit, but insted eff dat ?
| we set around a hOldin' our hands, an
all we'se done is to say in, a meek voice,
| Please, sir, l don't lax to trouble you,
but ef you'd kindly pass me de ballot,
| hit sho'ly would be agreeable 10 me-
An instead of givin' hit to US men
| has kinder winked one eye at de odder
an said. Lawda she don't want hit, or
else she'd make row about hit. OATS
| the way We did We didn't go after de
on
De True Word
-Yasstr, OATS de true word an YOU
listen to me-de day dat women spunks
up, an rolls up dere sleeves. an says
TO dere husbands dat dey amt gwine to
do no mo- cookin' in dis house, nor
darnin' Of socks. nor patchin' of breeehes
entel dere is some female votin', why.
dat day de ballot viii be fetched home
| 10 women on a silver saIver. All dat
stands between women an suffrage is de
lack Of spinal column
-.YaSSn00 Of do II :;
world day women has comes along Of
dere bein' born wild a wishbone insted
Of a backbone but / lay dey can't
! help hit Hits all de fault of de way dey
was made, but what I'd lax 70 know
is why women didn't get a show at
Adams backbone as well as his chiss
protector
Another Author Heard.
Alice Duer Miller, the novelist, pre-
sented a dramatic argument for woman
suffrage. Mrs. Miller is the author OF
The Modern Obstacle" Less Than
Kin and other works and is treasurer
Of the Equal Franchise society of New
York OF which Mrs Clarence Mackay
is president. Mrs Aillerssaid:
If thousand years from now 1 wers
writing the history of the woman suf-
frage movement in this country I SHOULD
say something like this: America was at
that time under the dominion OF two
ideas. borne by two currents. often oo-
posing One her respect for effective
ness, her love for practical achievement:
not only, as one of her foreign critics
said her admiration for q slick man.
bUt an honest desire whenever a piecs
of work was to be done to help to do
H. The other, and many people won't
agree with me, is the enlargement OF
democratic idea The woman's suffrage
movement is in complete harmony with
both of these tendencies. No one denies
20 = n md
glad OF Ii, for / believe Ideals without
work are almost as pernicious as work
without ideals We have plenty of work
to do, but 1t is not that, it is not the
organizations and the growth OF MEM
bership and the spread OF theories that
makes me confident OF success Il Is
the extraordinary spirit that anfmates
the women"
"The War Bugaboo.v
Mrs Lucia Ames Mead, who will pre-
sent the cause OF international peacs
for the first time at the biennial meeting
OF womens clubs in Cincinnati In MAY,
presented report. During the last year
Mrs. Mead had given addresses in six
European countries and in six states.
She said in part:
While all women hate war; many
are hoodwinked by the clamor of vested
interests and the naval and military
class into supporting the war system.
When they read war scares they do not
suspect, as representative Tawney de-
clares, that these are due TO the ship
combine
''Suffragists should be alert and in
formed OF the greatest obstacle to their
efforts. 1t is the increasing reliance
on force at time when substitutes
Tor force have been provided, and in all
consistency should diminish
Given a republic that has never been
attacked. that began every foreign war
% or Il, n and hsa.- Loaf
men by foreign bullets. all told: given
country that has not an enemy and
with whom probably no country would
refuse 10 arbitrate, why should II be
allowed to spend one-third OF all its
natural revenue on preparation for
war?
Women are conservative naturally.
They should set their faces like a flint
against the new, ambitious policy that
would delude us into thinking our huge
and costly navy is a national police.
Police never fight each other; they take
men 10 court. Navies fight each other
and never aim to secure, judicial de-
cision- An international police must
replace rival navfes."
Guest for Legislation.
Harriet May Mills described the quest
of the suffragists in New York for legis-
lation for their cause She recalled
their experiences with the legislators at
Albany but declared her confidence in
victory in the end She said in part:
-'In New York state our lawmakers are
determined to give us plenty of ex-
perienee before granting us the vote
To strike that small word of four let
tiers from the suffrage clause Of the con-
stitution is a Iaborious process at best
Tie legislature has shown signs OF
sympathy and signs of alarm never be-
fore manifested.
ION the day of the hearing of our
petition the legislators repeated the
oft urged plea that women were too
feeble 70 bear the strain of political
life: that they could not be mothers and
voters mt the same time One woman
solenrly assured our lawmakers thst
while they might make women voters
they could never make men mCthersH
TRAIN DERAILED; NO ONE HURT.
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