The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-11-25
WHEN WOMEN WANT
TO VOTE, LET THEM



long the sport Of The sleek, fat West.
is challenging the hoastod supremacy
Of the famous apple valleys Of Wash
ington and Oregon Plants Of all climes
are joining iu a merry dance. and under
the skin of Magician Wilson. the Alad
din of Agriculture, forget all their old
time distributions Of tropic. temperate
and arctic in doing his bidding lizs
faithful gcuii Praise God for the re-
discovery OF the farm in our beloved
America!
Great Leaders.
We live in n day of mighty demo
cratic movements, which hinge. not upon
great names. but upon everyday YOU and
me. We have noble public servnts,
! thank God for that, such Republicans
as Taft, Roosevelt, Root, Hughes, La
/ Toilette, Beverage, Cummins and
I galaxy of Democrats like Simeon Bald
1 win, Woodrow Wilson, Harmon, Folk,
Foss, Bryan and Gaynor The positive
Christian character and afiihatiOn of
our foremost statesmen compel the at
tention of the world. But America has
grown so thoroughly into the spirit of
democracy that it no longer follows
great leaders. The people lead. When
man like Governor Hughes appears,
who is wise enough and sufficiently
brave to voice the highest civic think
ing of the people, no position is too
exalted for him. He viii be placed
| where he can serve most efficiently.
The day for popular idols has passed.
! As long as the Nation believes that
Roosevelt stands for absolute faithful
ness to the civic ideals which COM
mand the public conscience, his infiu-
ence and popularity will be unbounded.
/ Let him depart therefrom and show sell
fish ambition or pride of leadership,
! and his day is ended. Jesus prophecy
! has found nation in which fulfllment
is being realized-' Every one that
falleth on that stone ii. e. God in the
hearts of the people, shall be broken
/ to pieces; but on whOmsOever it shall
| fall. it viii scatter him as dust. - Lead
! ership in America is fast becoming
SYNONYMOUS with efficient unsefish pub
! fc service, as Jesus again predicted.
| This is only another way of saying that
the people lead.
"Votes for Women. -
The era of the man with the ballot
has come He is the king. And be-
| cause this is so see no escape from
woman S suffrage. AS long as govern
ment was representative, a woman
might trust her political responsibilities
to man, just as a group of citizens
might suffer their elected legislators
TO make their laws and their chosen
executives to administer them on the
theory of the oldtime debate that
representative is not bound by the will
of his constituency. But that day is
ended forever in America. We have
entered the epoch of the initiative, ref
erendum and recall, where every man
is trained to think and act on govern.
mental questions and not only iegisla-
tors but executives and judges are pub
lie servants, directly accountable to the
people. In a nation where woTfien are
educated, as we'll as men, where they
must because God made them women,
view great interests. such, for in.
instance as the home and the school
not always from the same angle as men,
their ballots are essential to genuine
democracy. / would not force the fran
chise upon them but when they really
want it, God knows they can have it
from us men in any community in
America. You and ! have been too
well trained in our homes not to give
the women what they want.
, To be a part of this mighty move
ment towards bona fde democracy is,
) ! must believe, as grand a prerogative
, as any in the universe. To have an
b. active part in bringing to every man
: his own as n son of God, what more
!, inspiring work can be imagined. And
=. America today offers every citizen this
. privilege. ! never think of it without
!, longing to cheer and fling my cap high
: in the air, and then to get down on
!. my knees and thank God. We were
thinking a moment ago of the splendid
i work being done to beautify our land
!, and develop our natural resources, hui
J. there is something incomparably great
l. err than to make nature yield all hel
!. possibilities to man and that is to bring
:, man himself to his largest stature. Thi
is the meaning of democracy.
/ New Nationalian.
= All the great civic questions befor,
% our Nation today pulsate with this ideal
. To free children from factory, mine
= shop and other labor, what does tina
: meang Nothing less than an education
!, to fit each for the largest place Goo
!, meant him to fill in human society. T,
y compel machinery owners to install
= machinery guards, to secure adequat
a, compensation for injuries to working
: men, to surround unpleasant, repulsiv
y and drudging tasks with conditions o
n, hours of labor and remuneration tina
a shall negative their harmful effects, t
8 secure to every faithful worker wag
N enabling him to live like a sou o
God, to end cutthroat competition b
q large economic cooperation, to save il
II nocent girls from slavery to lustfr
men. to fraternalize industry so tina
capitalist and laborer shall be bona fid
mutual servants, translate this into
language of common terms, it mean
v building larger manhood And thes
are the questions that front us in Anne
lea today, To solve this problem q
how TO produce n higher type of ma
to Roosevelt has drawn from the people
of thinking his procedure termed Ne
Nationalism, and Woodrow Wilson hi
S. which, perhaps he would call. the Ne
I" COnstitutionalism. The chief featur,
ng of both are that they are new, and al
ot the product of the intense yearning
al, all men for true democracy. And II
81. high JOY of it all is that upon You an