Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-29
I'M THE WOMAN'S WORLD

tiers OF the revolution whose ances-
tors came TO America hundreds OF
years ago may not"
Men Had Fight, Too.
Mrs. Gait also spoke Of the way in
which men gained suffrage and the
determinations that were made
against them. In some instances a
German was not allowed to vote, in
other places a Catholic could not vote
etc. Then, too. suffrage was asked for
and granted to the men Of one state
after another while with womans suf-
frage, the women all over the world
are asking for full franchise at one
time.
Mrs. Gait quoted Caesar in his re-
mark that he wore no garments eX-
cept those woven by the women of his
own household. Then hundreds of
years later Washington made the same
remark In all of those years many
changes had come about in the world
and the position of the men had
changed greatly still the position of
woman remained the same. The wo-
men were supposed to do all of the
things about the home including the
making OF material for the clothing
and the weaving of it and she did this
Then gradually the making of gar
ments left the home and was done
in factories and were made by hard
working girls who day after day hour
after hour sit within the rooms sew
ing. ut is the working woman who
wants and needs the votes now" con-
tinued Mrs. Gait. AS an illustration
of the conditions of one group of the
working girls Mrs. Gait told. a story
about the makers of the willow plum
es. She reiterated the tale of the
rooms void of ventilation and natur-
al light. 5.-
Mrs. Gait repeated some of the OBJ
1ect1ons made by men in regards to
sWoman's suffrage. But she said that
the women will only have an added
dignity and authority when the vote
Is in her hand. She said that it is the
voters who get what they want. In
Australia after the women were grant
ed the franchise the school teachers
who for such a long time had been
asking for equal pay for equal work
We're granted this even before they
were given an opportunity to vote on
the subject. And so it has been every
where ...:..1l -
The idea OF man being able to
represent his family seemed to amuse
Mrs. Gait, for she said that she knew
a man who was a republican, his
wife a democrat and his daughter a
prohibitionist. The man was to repre-
sent his family with one vote. But
could he do it?
Mrs. Gait says that when the wo-
men are allowed to vote they will do
1t in a womanly way not as do the
men. They will go to the polls cast
their ballot and return home. They
Will vote from a woman's point of
view. ~. = ss@sg
The talk on the militant snfragettes
OF England was most Interesting.
Mrs. Gait told of the work they were
doing and of the asinine treatment
they are receiving from the British
Government. In England suffrage has
reached e higher political Importance
than any other political problem. she
said that every time woman was
cast into prison the new members
locked to be enrolled and as the wo-
men found this out they placed them.
selves In such positions that they
might be arrested. She also empha-
sized the fact that militant suffra-
gettes are entirely separate from the
international Woman's Alliance and
are group who are greatly in the
minority but in many ways are &C.
complishing much For her own part
Mrs. Gait said that she did not be.
heYe in suffrage in malitant form.
Urges Hawaii to Act.
In her closing remarks Mrs Gait
urged the women of Hawaii to get
their vote while Hawaii is still ter.
rltory For she says that it will be
Tar easier to do so now than when
II becomes state and there is a lar.
ger population. - -
MRS. Gait said that she regretted
to think that after she had seen Bind.
hist, Parsee and Hindu women vote
she had to go back to her little New
YORK where no woman is given a
vote. .s9= ..- =
Now after a journey that has lasted
one year and seven months Mrs. Gait
is returning to America where She
VIII do what she can do further the
suffrage cause. -