The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-13


o few meetings in Washington late in
January. at which our National Presi-
dent. Mrs. Stevens, and Miss Anna
Gordon, our -president-at-large
will be In attendance, and also as
many state presidents and national
superintendents as can be brought to-
gether. IL is expected that Congress
nan Hobson will address the House Of
Representatives at that time and will
speak in favor of his bill for con-
stitutional amendment. Hearings on
the Kenyon Sheppard bill, and we
hope on the Hobson bill also, Will be
held at or near that time on both of
which occasions some Of our women,
with others, will be heard.-The Tn
ior Signal of Jan. 4, 1912.
We are going 10 win this fight, and
On some first Tuesday, after some first
Monday in some November the Church
If Jesus Christ Is coming home from
"a National Election with the scalp OF
the liquor traffic. to lay 1t down at
tie feet Of the nation.--Juhn g. Wool
ley.
'Thc vital. epoch-making power OF
New orleans resides IN it's women"
declares the Daily Item Of that city.
within q few years they have given
New Orleans a splendid sewerage sys-
tom, compelled to enactment Of a
child labor law i'm Louisiana, and COM
PEELED the enactment OF a compulsory
education law"
Female suffrage will come. Not fully
at once, but by varying steps Wo-
mans broader education. her incrcas-
irg familiarity with business and pub
Vic affairs will lead to 1t. And why
not?
The chief reply Is the home. God
forbid that It should he ieopardized.
But female suffrage will not debate
the home or lessen its power ond i'm
iuence. on the other hand, it will
introduce refining ana uplifting pow
or into our political life.
Union in effort is the growing lesson
&C. the times. our first parents. guilty
of a mutual sin, We're, according to
the allegory in Genesis. driven out of
Eden, that garden which gave men all
things to live with ana nothing to live
for. Hand In hand they went out Of
Euen; hand in hand they must enter
the new paradise, grander and nobler
than the pristine Eden, because
wrought out Of the thorn-growing
earth Nv their united labors.- Extracts
from article in the Ladies' World.
Judge Ben b. Lindsey writes to the
Political Equality League OF Los An
geles in answer to assertions made by
state Senator Cartwright of Fresno,
dire results have burdened Colorado
since the women were enfranchised:
The genuine friends of moralty and
prosperity of any city or state are
those men and women of their COM
munity who fight to make better con-
ditions, fight ip the open, fight with
the truth, no matter what the truth is,
in order that they may elevate the
tone OF Their city and commonwealth,
because this kind Of fighting gives
promise of effective and permanent re-
form, especially of certain evils that,
because of certain conditions have
attacked every growing city in this
country.
Denver Is more free from such evils
than other cities, and those that re-
main are meeting with such deter
mined opposition from courageous
and patriotic citizenship. who put love
of their city and state above all other
considerations, that It is only mat
ter OF a short time when Denver shall
permanently become the cleanest.
most moral ana democratic city in
America, and the state of Colorado
the most ideal commonwealth OF the
nation"