Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-05
Says, Let Race Bearer
Help Make Its
Laws"

illustrations of the fact that when it
comes to having any say in govern
ment, in taxation or in the care of
their children women are not persons
before the law. When the question is
one of paying taxes or of being subject
to punishment for breaking the law
they are legal persons
LAS one of my fr. md put it, All the
privileges we m taxpayers have is
to pay up, shut up, and look as pleasant
as possible during the process
IF you women are SO well off you
don't need the vote; If the men you love
are so good to you you don't feel OPP
pressed, that's all the more reason why
you ought to fight for it and for your
sisters who need the ballot that they
may better their condition. Don't put
the small, sheltered class of women up
as an excuse. I wish these women
could be swept from the earth for a
time SO that man would be, confronted
with the other class.
I'VE have all the struggle before us.
It's going to be the salvation Of the
race Everything we have done so
far mas benefited the masses of the
people. There was danger of race de-
cay. but women came to the rescue.
There will be no decay for years now.
We have always been the spring
cleaners of the world, and now we're
going in to clean politics. 1t is part
of a great world movement, the great
est the world has ever seen. VIII you
women OF New Jersey be content to
sit stpine and let other women fight
the battle for you?
Mrs. Abraham Van Wrinkle, president
o. the Woman Political Union of New
Jersey. the local chairman, introduced
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch, of New
York city, who gave q short address.
She said that New Jersey wome had
mTde q mistake in asking Governor
Wilson If he is a believer in suffrage,
that the question is not does he believe
in it but does he not believe that the
question should be submitted to the
voters. The slogan should be, Let the
voterc decide"
Three hundred dollars was given in
personal donations before the meeting,
and a collection of $3.50. in cash and
several additional pledges was taken
at it's Close.
The hall was gaily decorated with
American flags and suffrage banners,
and on the platform with the speakers
were Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
Mrs. Everett Colby. Mr.. and Mrs. Cham
pain Riley. of Plainfeld; Rev. Henry
r. Rose, Rev. DR.. John ]. Moment. Rev,
Walter Reid Hunt. of Orange; Mr.. and
Mrs. George I. Vickers, of jersey CITY.
the latter president of the New Jersey
Equal Franchise Society; Mrs. Caro-
line b. Alexander, of Hoboken; Mrs.
Frank Fl. Sonlmer. Mrs. Charles e.
Latham, president of the Civic Club,
of Arlington; Mrs. Charles Neymann,
of New York. who was a co-worker
with Susan B. Anthony and Lucy
Stone; Mrs. Samuel Clark. Mrs.
Maurice S. Decker. of Orange; Mrs. T..
c. Geery, of Bayonne. vice-president
of the Political Study Club, OF that
place; Miss Margaret e. Howard,
president of the Good Government and
Political Equality League, of Summit;
Miss Emma L.. Richards. president Of
the Essex County Equal Suffrage So
ciety; Mrs. Clara Laddey. president of
the New Jersey State Woman Suffrage
Association; the Rev. Dr.. Hare. OF
Jersey City; ]. c. McEwen. of Jersey
City; James Pope, the Rev. DR.. Weirs,
OF Montclair; Mrs. Jennie De Witt. first
president of the ESSEX County Equal
Suffrage Society; Mrs. Judson Reed, of
Boston, Mass; Mrs. D. Thomas, of
Montclair; Mrs. Powell Macy, of
Bloomfield; and Mrs. Marcellus Walker,
of Montclair.