The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-08-26
SUFFRAGETTE NEWS


a woman, Mrs. a. NJ. Ellis, who bears
the title of "Mayoress
The American curses Association, (
with about $4,000 members, endorsed :
equal suffrage at its convention in
Chicago 4
Ohio sutfralists are juhilant over
the editorial endorsement last week
OF the Cleveland News and the Cleye. y
iand Leader, The Leader SAYS: Elm
, the affairs of state there is some-
thing better than courtesy some
thing more vital than the deference'
and Kindness which mea owe to wo-
men. 1t is justice. That is the@E
, rock on which good government must
rest. That is the foundation of
right, the base of sound relations II
between the state and the citizen
The Leader believes that there is M
valid ground on when the light to
vote can be denied to women who
wish 1t. Whether they will gain or
lose by equal suffrage is beside the q
question, Whether they will make =
general use Of the ballot is not the -
point, The pivot upon which the
whole issue turns Is absolute, eternal
justice" And the News editorial ia
in part as follows: But we have
| yet to hear a reason worth consider
ing against the plain fact that, in
a simple American justice, women
/ bN i Oh ~
We'll as man. That she is not unani-
nous in demanding it makes little
difference. Men do not forfeit the-I
right to vote merely because many OH
their number fail to exercise it,
It's right that doesn't lapse by non4
use Though perhaps 1t ought, and
doesn't depend upon demand-NotI
in pleasantly, gallantry of generos-
lity, Nut in sober, simple justice the
tmen of Ohio ought TO vote "Yes'
on the equal suffrage amen lment.
II Eight women candidates for the
california Assembly have filed their
petitions with the Secretary of the
State. Seven are Socialists and onh
q Democrat Mrs. Helen NJ. Stod
dard Of San Diego is a candidate foi
Congress.
Omar Garwood of Denver, who 4
campaigning in Kansas for the equa
suffrage amendment, recently spok
at Topeka meeting arranged by tn
Mems League. He is quoted as say
ing: Equal Suffrage is right boil
in principal and in practice. In Colo
RADIO most women vote wisely, hon
esty and conscientiousiy. The we
men Of Kansas should be aecorde
this right this fall The men shout
not put all the burden oil the sufraa
, campaign upon the women Tha
c is not the American way Don
- make the women seg FOR It, Civ
e some time, some money to the caus
a Talk it in the barber shops, the grot
T. cry stores, on the streets. Give
. the women a square deal"
S Governor McGoyeTn OF Wiseonsf j.
p has appointed Mrs, Ada F. HOWE
. Elm Grove member of the board
Agriculture. Mrs HOWE is the fir
p woman member of the board.
g IN GAINESVILLE, Ohio, the other ds
t a young woman went into dru,
store and, merely as a polite gre6
8 ing to the proprietor, said How a
Iyou?" He replied quickly, 20, 1
for it," Seeing her somewhat pu'
e zle look he FASTENED to explain TIL
e he supposed of course she was inquf
= ing how he stood on the twenty-thi
, Tor equal suffrage) amendmel
4 Votes for women seems to be ''in t.
u air" in Ohio.
Washington d. c. has a new &c
! trail Citizens Committee to look a,
er the interests of the down-toy
t section of tho city Women ha
&c been admitted to membership on eq
y al terms with men.
d Mrs. Chapman Gait recently wr(
II from Sumatra TO Jus Suffrage, the
gan of the International Woman
rage Alliance, There is a tribe
natives, here in Sumatra, occupyi
y large territory and numberi
"a over q million people, which ma
II tains matricarchal institutions
n. first most notable thing is the Sc
a. respecting Independent businessli
Is air of the women. The reason
r. mot difficult to find; they own pr
IS tically all the property. The CT
O. dren belong absolutely to the mott
s. and the father has no rights O
them at all. The property descei
- from other to daughter, always
the female line. Names also
continued in the female line on
the husband taking the name of
lwife's family. The wife's pare
buy" the husband, paying from
l to 200 gulden according to his soc
form Of government and this is II
in the hands of men only
Dutch officials say that one must
draw the conclusino that won
have no part in the local governme
because men only sit in the be
balei Instead they speak III no
certain tone, when they have sof
thing to say, and their opinions
never held in contempt by those v