The Detroit times., 1912-08-08
SUFFRAGE WORKER
| WINS CHEERS FROM
| FACTORY EMPLOYEES
Rev. Ida Hultin Given Enthu-
siastic Welcome at HudL
son Auto Plant
IAKES ELOQUENT PLEA
FOR VOTES FOR WOMEN
Bays Reforms Will Come in
Double Quick Time Under
Equal Suffrage

With sea OF eager and interested
bees to encourage her. the Rev. Ida
iultin. or Boston. one OF the promin-
nt equal suffragists of the country,
ow in Detroit speaking in the local
quail suffrage campaign, was inspired
give one or the best talks in the
istory OF suffrage public appeal,
Wednesday noon, at the plant OF the
Hudson Motor Car Co.
II was the first time that Miss Hui.
n had entered the factory field In
er plea for votes for women" and
everal hundred men listened to her
loQuent but brief speech with mark.
d attention and gave her several
ounds OF hearty applause at its close.
he men were. sitting around In the
brge open courtyard OF the plant eat
hg fruit or enjoying smoke, follow
hg the MONDAY lunch, and cigars and
ipes went out, and bananas and
caches remained uneaten, as the men
q overalls became more and more in
erested In Miss Hultins words.
1T has been my observation in my
ublic work that the American work
hg man would rather relinquish al,
host anything he possesses than his
light to vote said Miss Hultin. He
ealizes that the vote Is power; that
With II he can secure better working
Conditions, better wages, more social
nd educational advantages. Without
he would be a slave. There is dig
ity In lavor and there is added dig
~ in the ballot In the voting booth
he poorest citizen OF the United
states is on an equal plane with Its
reatest millionaire.
pnnitydnaiffiless G
The majority of American men,
Irrespective OF station in life, are ex-
eedingly proud Of the women of
heir family In the face OF this fact.
seems incredible that American
hen should leave anything undone
remove the stigma which the laws
II the country put upon womankind
CHASING women among the insane
nd the criminal. The insane and
he crimial are denied the right to
ote-so are women, except in few
tates where mans sense OF justice
as righted this abominable wrong to
women
The anti-suffrage argument Of
woman's place Is In the home and
imilar statements, have been so
thoroughly torn TO shreds as 10 make
almost unnecessary for any speak
r in behalf OF fun enfranchisement
or women answering them.
why, men, because women ask
or the ballot is no ground for de-
laring that they Immediately intend
o reverse the existing order of house
old management in American homes,
n that they desire 10 usurp any Of
hans privileges. They ask for equal
recognition with their husbands, faith
rs and brothers, In the eyes of the
hw. You rren realize fully the power
u the vote and II you stop to think,
you have not already considered
his side OF the question. the reforms
Which women are seeking In every
7alk Of llfe would come 10 realization
h double-quick time II woman had
he vote as a weapon. The fact that
Eoman's place Is In the home makes
er aid outside OF the home all the
lore necessary aid to higher civil
|atiop.
In the eyes OF the law as II .s In
post -; the states, wife and mother
Who cares for her children. does her
|wn housework and makes her own
Ind her childrens clothing Is not
untitled tU the slightest financial re-
hun Grafton from the man TO whom
he ie marned, but, II she performs
imilar labor for a man to whom she
not tied In bonds OF matrimony,
he can make him pay pretty we'll for
er services as a hired girl
1T is these sides of the equal suf-
rage question that | would like TO
bave men, workingmen especially,
ook into and consider for II they
will do so, feel convinced that their
mate sense Of Justice and affection
Tor wife and daughter will show them
he full justice and the common
sense OF the votes for women ques-
eion."
Miss Hultin Is speaker OF easy
Tow OF language, simple and force
Jul, and the men undoubtedly liked
Ter straight.from the shoulder sem
Bible manner and plain talk. They
heartily applauded her and Eumber
pf them came forward as she stepped
from the motor car, provided for a
and the two women with her, through
the grounds TO the street. Mrs Nor
ris ]. White, president of the East
Side Eual Suffrage club and suffrage
chairman of the Seventeenth ward. in
which the Hudson plant Is situated,
accompanied Miss Hultin and there
were mae, complimentary remarks
Nor Mrs. Whites attractive face and
manner, for as one man audibly said,
''she don't look like them suffragette
pictures In the paper
Miss Hultin will speak Thursday
noon In a motor car factor In the
east end. and will address a neigh
.borhood gathering later in the after
,oon. on the lawn OF the nome OF
Miss Helen Louise Hatch, NO. "a
Euclid.ave. west, and In the evening,
All an Ice cream social in the camp
behave. Methodist church.
Friday evening, Miss Hultin VIII
Speak in Simpson Methodist cnurch'
and Saturday evening will be spent
T in street corner meetings. Sunday
Miss Hultin will go to SncrWoou'
Mich. to preach in the Unitarian
|khurch at that place In which she
|nrst had a pastorate, following sraou'
alton from college. At present MISS
[Hultin is pastor Of the Unitarian
church in Sudbury, Mass suburb
| OF Boston.