Arizona republican., 1912-09-15
A Large and Sympathetic Crowd Greeted Mrs. Laura Gregg Cannon at the City Hall Plaza Last Night
SOCIETY HAS MADE
 BATTLE NECESSARY
Step by Step Woman's Do main Has Been En- croached Upon Until Even Her Home Is About to Be Taken

It speaks rather we'll for the Suff- rage movement in Phoenix that the vast throng who listened to Laura Gregg Cannon in the opening speech of the campaign at the city hall plaza last evening, responded generously to her appeal for funds to carry on the work during the remaining eight weeks prior to election.
 A large audience had been expected, but even the hundreds of additional chairs, with the benches that crowd the grounds. failed to provide for the gathering of men and women who stood on the outskirts unwilling to leave before Mrs. Cannon completed her talk. Here. as in Yuma county, which she has been stumping the past week, she noted a different atmosphere than that which greeted her when she discussed the subject in Arizona two years ago. Men, predominated in at tendance and before, where there had been tolerance, there was enthusiasm.
 In her introduction Mrs. Cannon paid a tribute to the constitutional convention and in speaking of the con- stitution these Arizona patriots drafted she said, Tt is the most progressive constitution in the United States with one exception-the enfranchisement of women. It reminds one of little John nie's lesson in arithmetic. The teacher divided apples into groups of in 3 bags and again in groups, in a bag and asked the boys preference. He chose the in 5. The subject was again illustrated with the same result and when Johnnie was questioned he declared his choice was due to the fact that it gave him another bag to bust. So with Arizona's true democracy, with a new trail to blaze, or another bag to bust"
 The keynote of Mrs. Cannon's ad- dress was on the present industrial conditions and the woman vote as it's solution.
 She said in part:
 Society in the past has decreed that woman's place was in the home at tending to it's duties and taking care of the children The majority of women have willingly accepted that position. Tn all ages there have been a few Wo- men who objected to this dictum and claimed that woman should choose for 0GTSel HCI OH II pIOptI oPiiC'N AAfoND0 agitators would be received cOldly by the great majority of women who were willing to obey society's decree. Then about half a century ago, society knocked at the doors of the homes and demanded that women should give over the major portion of their work to the factory and the spinning and weaving and candle making and fruit canning passed out of the home into public in dustry. But women made no serious objection to this because they saw in the labor saving machine an oppor- tunitv to improve their minds and de- vote more time to the care of their children.
 A few years later society again knocked at the door of the home and demanded that the mothers should now give their daughters to the factory to operate the machines but the mothers replied that their daughters places were in the homes not in public life and when they appealed to the fathers they replied we shall be obliged to give our daughters to industry because the machine has taken the jobs of men and fathers can no longer support all mem- bers of the family and thus society through industry has forced more than 5000. 900. women into the wage earn ing world, 4 4,OOO. .O0O of whom are work ing for wages below actual cost or iV- ing. At the door of these industries stands the agent of the white slave traffic ready to seize these underted girls and conduct them into lives or shame and all the time these daught- CTS are struggling with these econo- mic conditions with their hands tied Tn having no vote to help in the regula- tion of conditions under which they must live.
 Then society knocked at the door of the homes and demanded the little children, whose mothers had been told that their place was to protect the children, but industrial conditions forced these little ones out Of thelr arms and 100000 of them are now being crushed in the treadmill of toll
 Society now comes and demanos the home itself Forty six per cent oI the American people have any utles to their homes and of this 10 per cent are mortgaged so that only 36 per cent of the people own their own homes The high cost of living together with the uncertainty of employment IS caus- ing thousands of men to refrain from assuming the responsibility of marrl- age and through these industrial con- ditions, the American home is passing away. If they continue to increase al