The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-26
WOMEN HOLD
BIG MEETING
Suffrage Is Expounded Before
Many Ladies and One Man

OF the Calumet Nomans club was lie
voted 10 wcmans Suffrage" II was
held In the Y. VI. G. \. assembly room
am was very larsely attended by the
ladies' 4 reporter fer The News hap
penec TO ne the only man present, but
this was dire "a desire on his part
IT, earn his salary. as we'll as 10
please the ladies. The News by the
way, always covers the news.
Interesting papers were read 10y
Mrs. katherine ~. Macintosh, and
irs e.. II. Johnson. dealing with the
question at issue. and-an address by
Mrs. y. \. JeTers of Painesdale. prin-
cipal If the schools on the South
Range.
Mrs. q. II. Hallingby. president of
the club. presided. and al the close
also spoke in favor OF Womans suff-
rage. Music was furnished under the
direction of Mrs. Eihelena ID. Nal
froid. and was much enioyed. The key
note was equal rights for ALL" and rs
a result the cause won at least one
convert with a vote.
Mrs. Macintosh took for her sub
iect What has been accomplished by
equal suffrage" and she presented an
array If facts and figures, which tend
ed to show that wherever women had
been granted the franchise they had
exercised that privilege in greater gro
portion that the men. She also re-
f.rrad m ccapdaic ,,.o ftS atc that ba n
arisen in several states and showed
how women had combated this by vot
ing for cleaner government and purer
politics At the close If the reading
of her paper she was accorded a very
hearty reception.
Mrs. f. II. Johnson also spoke very
entertaininsly fer a few minutes in the
interest Of the cause. in which che
said that woman's suffrage forty years
ago WAS. baby of desire. and that to
day it had grown into full woman
asking fer suffrage. she said that par
ticipation in the affairs of the county,
state. and nation made one cognizant
If what was happening. urging those
present To work hare in the interests
% the cause they were espousing. She
a mastery address. Mrs. letters said
that womans suffrage VAS ore of the
great questions that was being dis
cussed everywhere, and. said that
women wanted the franchise anu same
privileges as the men. Mrs. Jeff1rs
said that equal rights cannot be stop
ped any more than the abolition of
slavery was stopped. Voting is n right
privilege, anC duty. Men have II
and women haven't. We are demand
ing it," she said, and we have a great
many good men within our ranks who
are also demanding il for u.s.
Mrs. letters mentioned a number OF
what she called minor objections that
We're being brought forward in con-
tention that the women had no right
At the polls. One was that the WON
ans place was in the home. and not at
The polls. She combated this by say
ing that woman cannot go through
the world working for self and home
and live up TO the HIGHEST ideals OF
wonanhcod She said that the ques-
ton before them was in the cause Of
humanity and that she believed in it
and was advocG ting IL everywhere as
far as laid In her power. "Thc only
good standard OF nigh living is to live
for the world at large" said Mrs. JEFF
GERS. The speaker referred to Lincoln
and the constitution, and quoted tn,
extract in IL. Government of the people
10y the people, and for the people" add
ing that by this constitution women
claimed the abstract right to vote.
She referred TO the 5000, 900 Of women
workers In This country who were
working, a proportion of them. In
sweat shops and among sord'd condi-
tons, and added that these women
were not given the right to ameliorats
their condition. simply because tho
greater majority of them had not tbs
ballot.
Mrs. letters said that women could
not be Indifferent to the cause they
had at heart as IL was a matter OF
MntlUtT lntN NtTt dlI ilNuib ihi ~
life" and had their hands on the pulse
Of the nation. She referred to one
specific instance where a woman pur-
chased an article of clothing that came
from a sweat shop. IT was infected
with typhoid germs. and soon after
wearing it, the child of that mother
sicliened and died. Mrs. LETTERS init
mated there are numerous other SINH.
lar cases, and urged those present tt
DO all in their power to help secure
the franchise and aid In bcttering ans
ameliorating the conditions existing II
many Of the sweat shops and factories
OF this country.
She went back into history severa
decades ago. and pointed out how TIL
franchise In those days were In th'
hands Of the kings and emperors, ans
the comparatively few rich, and came
down through the ages to show how
men had been granted the franchis
step by step until today In Englan'
this country. and other places IL wa
practically universal.
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