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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
SUFFRAGE IN NEW ZEALAND

Charles Edward Russell, in Every
body's Magazine December, 1906,
writing of New Zealand under the
title of Soldiers of the Common
Good" said:
"As to woman suffrage, l asked
many about 1t, and men and women
seemed to agree that it is a good
thing. The men said the women have
notably improved political life; it is
the cleaner and purer because of
them. Women go to political meet
ings and rowdyism fees before them;
candidates are very careful what
they say and how they say it when
they know women voters are listen
ing to them.
Public OHacers More Careful.
public officers are more careful
about their records. because 1T has
been found that women will not
overlook things that men pardon.
AS to public policies. the women have
steadily supported reform and the
new ideas; they have not cared
whether a thing was sanctioned by
the ages so long as 1t was right and
good. This is what the men told me.
The women said they had not found
it any more dreadful to go to a poll
ing place and vote than to go to a
store and buy bread. They said a
woman can vote and understand
perfectly what she is voting about
and be Just as good a wife and
mother as II she never had an idea
In her life above pudding"
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thony and our W DIR. Shaw and
the brave men who stood by them.
New Laws in Colorado.
But these laws could not have been
adopted in Colorado at this time
without equal suffrage. The Indus
trial School for Girls, The Humane
Society adopted rs a State institu-
iton, the best juvenile court and
truancy laws in the world. used as
models by other nations, the extreme
age of consent, free employment bu-
reaus in cities of 90, 900, supported by
the State; making 1t a criminal Of
Tense to contribute to juvenile de-
linquency, or for a man or woman
to receive partnership or tribute
money from immoral women; a pure
food law, boards of inspection-these
are some of the most important re-
suits. The emancipoted women of
Colorado have legalized their joint
rights to their children. have
established the only State home for
dependent children in America, and
have cut the hangman's rope off the
neck of that brave little Napoleon OF
the Army of Kids, Judge Ben Lind
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* Woman Suffrage as 1t Works *


frage consists in this. that 1t gives
dynamic force to a fresh and vital
interest in the State. Women are
not much concerned with mere par
tisan politics, and experience in the
States where woman suffrage is in
force clearly shows that their in
| terest cannot be aroused in mere
partisan strife. But they are inter-
ested in. the questions which we MAJ
call more distinctly social. Their in
terests centre around questions af-
feeting education, public cleanliness.
public morality, civic beauty, chart
ties and correction, public health,
public l~ibraries-and such subjects as
more intimately affect home life.
Their right to vote has not made
them less dutiful as mothers and
wives. If any woman in Colorado IS
bold and brazen she is not SO on ac-
count of woman suffrage. In fact,
women Of that character may be
found even in Iowa. And effeminate
men are scattered around over the
globe. irrespective of the extent IL
character of the suffrage.
The Vote in Colorado Large.
1T is contended that women do
not wish to vote. The ONE in
Colorado are not ofiice-seekers, but
they vote solidly when there is any
thing in a campaign that appeals to
their interest, and in all elections
their vote is large. Among them,
of course, there are some bad women.
But | apprehend that nobody has
any scheme by which the suffrage
can be so restricted as to exclude
persons who are evil-minded. There
is not a city in the world where the
vote of evil women could be of
enough consequence to be worthy of
serious consideration in a contro-
yersy like this
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the few. She will favor no democ-
which bellies its name by dis
regarding that half OF humanity TO
which she belongs. She viii barter
with no so-called progress which
promises to exploit women a nine
hour day and a minimum wage, in
stead OF offering to every woman the
full reward of her labor and an OPP
portunity for protected motherhood.
She will turn to the party which is
International, which knows no dis
elimination against sex Or race,
which recognizes the rights OF only
one economic class. the workers. In
the Socialist party she will find, in
the full citizenship of cooperative as
ISOLATION, her long-lost ~self-respect.
There she win find that c~omredeship
between men and women which she
has seen hitherto only in her dreams
and her ideals. In that party she
will be q part OF the only movement
greater and more vital than the
woman movement, the progress to-
ward human Democracy.
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SUFFRAGE IN

Lady Holder, the wife of Sir Fred
erick w. Holder, X. c. NJ. G., speaker
of the House of Representatives of
Federated Australia, contributed the
following article to the New York
Independent of June 9, 1904. Lady
Holder has taken a leading part in
philanthropic work in South Aus
tralia. She said in part:
"The women of South Australia
were placed in a position of political
equality with men several years ago.
Accordingly, everybody has become
accustomed to the arrangement, and
it seems perfectly natural. 1t has
not produced any marked effect on
female character, or made any par
ticular difference to domestic life.
Ma Neglect of Private Duties.
Women are more interested in
public affairs than they used to be,
and politicians deal more earnestly
with home and social questions, but
no neglect of private duties on that
account can be laid to the women's
charge. We are we'll supplied with
high-class newspapers, the same
sources Of information are open to
women as to men, and the questions
that arise are not by any means be-
You'd The scope of their intelligence.
At election meetings there is COM
monty a good s%prinkling of women
voters in the audiences. It is said
that their presence tends to prevent
disorderliness, and / have never
heard Of a lady at any meeting being
rudely treated.
The Australian Experience.
Australian. experience has con-
clusively disposed of the objection
that women have no aptitude for poll
itics or interest in public affairs.
They have proved that they possess
both, and while they have no gen
eral ambition or desire for parlia-
mentary honors, and display no sex
antagonism, they regard their right
to vote for representatives. as a re-
sponsible trust. 1t is rendered equal
ly clear that they can and do exer-
else a salutary influence on the po-
litical life of the country without
sustaining in the slightest degree
any OF the injuries or disabilities
that have been supposed to follow.
They are as good wives, mothers and
sisters as ever, and better compan-
ions for their men folk because of
their widened interest and the truer
equality in which they stand"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
PURE FOOD LAW
FARCE, SHE SAYS
Miss Lakey Shows How Suf-
fragists Would Protect
Consumer.
ny ALICE LAkEy. of Crawford,
Chairman OF Food Committee, National
Consumers League.

Chairman % Food Committee, National
Consumers League.
If the women had had the right
of suffrage 1t would not have taken
twenty-six years to pass the pure
food law.
If the women had had the right OF
suffrage the pure food law would
not have been killed before 1t
been on the statute books three
years.
The pure food law was designed to
protect the homes of this nation. 1t
was a law designed to prevent the
manufacture, sale and transportation
of adulterated, misbranded, poison
GUS, harmful foods, drugs, liquors and
medicines, and to control interstate
in the same.
The law has been betrayed so that
1t no longer protects us.
Permission has been given to use
unlimited quantities of benzoate of
soda In foods.
A referee board has been appointed
with power to set aside every decision
made by the bureau of chemistry as
to the violation of the law.
Permission has been given to label
glucose as corn syrup"
No decision has bee rendered as to
how beer should be labeled.
Permission has been given to label
neutral spirits as "whiskey."
Permission has been given to use
sulphur in the preparation of various
food products, pending the decision as
to its harmfulness by the referee
board.
The regulation as to the labelling Of
polished rice has not been enforced.
These are some of the ways in
which the protected interests have
been able to defect the pure food law
from it's course and secure immunity
for themselves from its penalties.
Not the consumer. but the manu-
f%acturer, has been protected by the
government.
Had the women the right of suf-
frage the pure food law would not
have been betrayed.
This is why | am a suffragist.
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IMAM HAS FAILED;
LET WOMEN TRY"
CONTINUED from First Page,

CONTINUED from First PnKe.)
pledge to social uplift the like of
which no political party has before
attempted.
Men Have Not Succeeded.
The party of Roosevelt will en-
deavor to secure for women a voice
in the larger family 6f the nation.
Men haven't been quite successful in
their national housekeeping. In the
home they could not manage alone.
We like to think that in the nation,
no less than in the home, those whom
God hath Joined together must not
be kept asunder.
A statesman like our Roosevelt
knows that most of u problems
must be national. He knows that this
doctrine Of States rights, so dear to
the Democrats, would tend to sepa-
rate these United States. He knows
that the business men Of one state
are at a disadvantage with those of
other States. IL n permits the cheap
child labor which the other forbids.
The cessation of child labor must
come with a nations blessing; and
poor mothers, remember, that the
Progressive party will try to make
conditions so fair for the fathers
and the mothers. and the grand
fathers-who viii be pensioned after
years of faithful service-that therein
be no need of Your children weeping
In the playtime of the others, in this
no,,Ntrv of the free"
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WOMEN AFFECT
LEGISLATION IN COLORADO

BY DIR. BARTON q. AYLEsw0RTH,
President for Ten Years of the State
Agricultural College OF Colorado.
Sixteen years ago the men of Colo
RADIO gave women full suffrage by
5000 majority. After eight years trial
it was placed in the Constitution, to
remain forever, by a majority of over
80, 900. A petition of 10000 could not
possibly be obtained for its resub-
mission.
[ know Colorado thoroughly. The
few who oppose equal suffrage have
always opposed it, or have business
interests which it puts in jeopardy.
We do not claim miracles for equal
suffrage. 1t has not done, however,
any of the evil things predicted,
while it has done much good in every
way for the State. The general
human uplift has been greatly ac-
tolerated.
Polling places have become as safe
and respectable as the p~ostoffiee or
opera house lobby.
voting Places in Churches.
In my W city of H. 00-Fort Col
lins-for a number of years four of
the voting places have been in
churches and a fifth at the Agricul-
tural college.
Colorado believes in equal suffrage
because 1t believes in womanhood,
the home, the rights Of children and
the weak. That the survival of the
fttest shall make the others more
fit has its proof in the laws spon-
sored by Colorado women during the
past sixteen years. Some of these
have been passed in other States by
reason of the heroic work of Lucy
Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Frances e. willard, Susan b. An
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SUMMING UP THE CASE
BY JUSTICE DAVID j. BREWER.
OF the u. S. Supreme Court.


In an article in the Ladies' World
for December, 1909, one of the great
est articles, considering its source,
ever written for equal suffrage, Jus
tice Brewer said in part
putting all the arguments pro and
con together. whatever may be the
abstract right, the real question is a
practical one. How does woman's
suffrage work when tried? In this
nation. four states, Colorado, Utah,
wyoming and Idaho, have granted
full suffrage.
lone thing is true of all, there has
been no organized effort to repeal
the grant. Whatever may be iso-
lated opinions, the general mass of
tho voters are satisfied. Indeed, few
have expressed antagonistic views
II the citizens of these States find
nothiny objectionable in woman's
suffrage. a natural conclusion is h a
no injury has resulted. Especially
,s thus true when the declarations of
he friends in its favor are many and
strong.
Lindsey Was Denied denomination.
..Doubtless some opposition may
| come from personal ambition de-
| feated by the woman voters. Thus
r,,dpe Lindsey, of the Juvenile
| Court in Denver, who a attracted
much attention by his good work in
| that court. after having been denied
a denomination by each of the great
| political parties, came out as an in
d~enendent candidate, and was elect
a.tnlv n Is said. by the votes oi
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MORE TESTIMONY FROM
COLORADO

Professor Harry L. Kelly, former.
ly of the Iowa State University, now
practising law in Denver. has adj
dressed an open letter to State Sem
ator A. II. Gale, of Iowa, giving his
observations on equal suffrage. Pro-
lessor Kelly says in part:
"Since I came to Colorado you
have frequently requested me to state
my opinion of woman suffrage. ]
came here with very little interest IN
the subject, and perhaps with very
little respect for 1t. Having resided
In Colorado nearly seven years. and
having observed the political and So
cial conditions here, | have rather
~unconsciously arrived at an opinion.
1.-THE great value in woman suf-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
LINDSEY TEsTlFIEs

Ben h. Lindsey, judge of the DEN
yer Children's Court. is the highest
authority on juvenile court work in
the civilized world. and is known
from Maine to California as one of
the bravest and nerviest public
officials that ever helped to send po-
litical crooks 20 States prison. In an
article in the Delineator In 1910 he
said. in part:
Equal suffrage has been one of the
great bells that has aroused Colorado
TO the work OF flushing Nth from It's
politics, betterins economic condi-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
PIONEER DAYS OF THE
SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, First clergywotnan in Amer
lea, Tells of Early Life of Woman Suffrage Cause.

railroad to Albany. Once Mrs. Stan
ton appeared with her baby, who was
received with reclamation. With
seats facing, our chats of many miles
in length were refreshing. Miss An
thony was the business manager, as
she was wherever her heart was en-
listed, and Mr.. Claiming dubbed her
1.-THE Napoleon of our movement"
Later Mrs. Stanton resided at Ten
afiy, N. J. She, her daughter and her
daughters daughter have given SUI
frage service of various kinds in New
Jersey. Last spring her daughter and
mine were among the large number
of women, reinforced by generous,
brave men, who without success APP
pealed to our Legislature for human
justice to be legally insured.
Miss Anthony and Mrs. Frances d.
Gage at one time gave successful
meetings together in our State. Mrs.
Gage has six tall sons. She claimed
that in the Civl War she gave thirty
six feet of manncod to the fighting
service of her country, and yet was
denied the vote. A widow, an author
of merit, she gave her time and labor
freely for the cause of equal rights.
On one occasion after a meeting they
hurried to the cars, but on the way
Mrs. Gage was stricken with paraly-
sis, from which she never fully re-
covered. She never bemoaned the lost
health which she had freely sacri-
feed, and still did all she could for
the loved cause. Many other grand
women, from our own and other
states, have lifted eloquent voices in
our midst. They all deserve a golden
record. Newspapers have not space
| even for their names, but they did
not work for recompense, either in
money or in praise.
Woman Paying Taxes.
The daughter of Julia Ward Howe
is a good Jersey half-citizen. who has
been president Of the State Suffrage
Association, and is ;tsll one Of lis
honorary presidents. Children and
children's children have proved loyal
TO the cause of womanhood, yet we
still near the inconsequent chorus,
when women want it they Will get
it,
who ever proved a negative? One
word spoken is worth a hundred un-
voiced, inert, Indifferent, lazy accept
ances Of habit and teaching. What
other PROPOSED measure was V e &c
Worldwide in its demand In all coun-
tries? What other cause a been sc
widely organized. locally, nationally
and internationally?
How many women are paying taxe'
in New Jersey? In the United States
Is tyranny then a simple matter Of
SEX What would be the aggregate
of all these taxes?
For longer G.an the ~Israelites wan
dered in desert and wilderness IL
search Of The promised land | hav'
paid unrepresented taxes in the Stat
Of New Jersey. and have paid then
still longer elsewhere
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by REV. ANToINETTE II. BLACK
WELL. of Elizabeth. n. j.

by REV. ANTOINETTE r. BLACK
WELL. of Elizabeth. N. J.
The First American Woman to Become
"a Regularly Accredited Clergyman.
n venerated Pioneer of the Equal
Suffrage Movement.
For more than thirty years New
Jersey women were legal voters. The
first State constitution by oversight
confirmed the right. The votes of
New Jersey women. at a certain
sharply contested election. woke up
the ants of that day, something over
a hundred years ago and by decid-
edly questionable tactics the m
OF this State were DISTINGUISHED.
Some dozen years later a little girl
named Lucy Stone was born i'm the
old Bay State, where they once held
a certain famous tea party to protest
against taxation without representa-
ton. Their mantle of protest seems to
have fallen upon little Lucy, who
treasured It ill The dag Of her death.
She was the first woman who began
habitual public speaking for the cause
then called "Woman's rights"
Sending out her own notices for
her meetings to sehoolhouses and lit
tie halls, II her bills were not torn
down or posted, with a stone from the
street she would nail them up herself,
or so win the goodwill of the crowd
ing little boys that some grimy little
fist would beg the privilege of mailing
it for her,
Babes Cradle Seized.
In the early COS Henry B. Black
well and his wife, Lucy Stone, be-
! came residents of Orange, N. j.. and
Mrs. Stone,a property holder, refused
to paw unrepresented taxes. Among
| other things her baby's cradle was
| seized and sold at auction to pay her
| taxes. IT was purchased by Mr.. n
Mrs. Roland Johnson, returned to the
mother, and reoccupied by baby Alice,
now editor of the Woman's Journal,
who is bravely carrying on the life
work of both her father and mother
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Martha c.
| Wright and Lucretia Mott We're the
| three immortal women who called the
erst suffrage convention at Seneca
Fails. n. Y. in 1S4S. Pennsylvania
ana Ohio followed closely with other
local organizations. and the FIRST ma
tional organization was at Worces-
ter. Mass, In 1850. From that time
conventions were many and largely
attended, and organizations -four
ished.
william Henry Charming, of Roch-
ester, n. Y, nephew of the great DR.
Charming. and more than his equal II
active human s~ympathles; Susan e
Anthony, Mrs. stanton and myself
for several successive years addressed
the Legislature at Albany, ~protestinl
against the legal disabilities o.
women.
Appealed to New York Legislature.
We four made the first direct leg
islative appeals for Justice TO women
We Travelled together on the Centra
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support the party
whose S Il C C G s s
means the #domi-
n a n c e of h c I
class.
If she is sex
conscious she will
support the party
which declares it.
self for the full
equality of women
in society and
which offers ID
women immediate
equality In thu
party.
If she is hui.
manly conscious
she will support
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URGES WOMEN TO
Join SOCIALISTS
Only Party, Suffragist Asserts,
That Aims at Betterment
of Humanity.
WEAKER SEX, SHE SAYS,
CAN FIND TRUE DEMOCRACY
Sees In Union Relationship as
Regards Origin and
Goal.
By MAUD THOMPSON,
of Eust Orange, -

If a woman is self conscious she
Will support the party thai seems
likely TO serve her interests.
IL she is class conscious, she will
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.SUFFRAG|STS HAD
EARLY START HERE
State Association Founded in
1867, but Died After
Few Years. &|
-----ssS
WORKED AGAINST HEAVY
ODDS FOR PRINCIPLE
New Body Formed in 1890 Now
Has About Thirty
Leagues.
BY MARY l.. COLvIN,
OF East Orange.

FtHDOH StNFNFHES OF F"t WV
Jersey Suffrage Association.
In 1861, two years before suffrage
for women was adopted in any State
in our Union, the original New Jersey
Woman Suffrage Association was
formed. Lucy Stone, its founder and
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first president, is
held in loving re-
m e m b r a nee by
s~uffragists in all
parts of the world.
During this Pc
Rod, from 1867 TO
1872, the associa-
tion held meetings
in all parts of the
State and such
people as Lucretia
Mott, Julia Ward
Howe and Susan
B. Anthony adj
dressed them. In
1872 Lucy Stone
moved to Boston,
whore, with her
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Sweet Little Miss Clarke.

When we took our seats at the break
fast table it was with the feeling of being
no longer looked upon as connected in any
way with this case. Yet our interest in
Il was, II anything, increased, and when
| saw George casting furtIve chances at
certain table behind me, leaned over
and asked him the reason, being sure that
the people whose faces | saw reflected In
the mirror directly before us had some
thing TO do with the great matter then
.nsrosslne us.
His answer conveyed the somewhat ex-
citing information that the four persons
seated in my rear we're the same four who
had been reading at the round table in the
mezzanine at the time of Miss Challoner' S
death.
Instantly they absorbed all my atten-
ton, though I dared not give them a di-
rect look and continued to observe them
only in the glass.
lis it one fsmiiy?" 1 asked.
Yes, and a very respectable one.
Transients, Of course, but very we'll
known In Denver. The lady is not the
mother of the boys, but their aunt The
boys belong to the gentleman, who is a
widower."