Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-06-01

States more than half century ago."
Boston Journal
Mrs. Maud Ballngton Booth, who
has Just completed her annual prison
inspection tour of the south, says:
81 believe emphatically that wo-
mans place is home; but where is
her home? Mine is all the way from
Boston to San Francisco, and from
Canada to the gulf The question is
not what woman should be allowed
to do, but can she do it properly? In
this reform-woman suffrage-home
Is the very watchword, for all the
interest of the home and all the evils
that affect the home, are large de-
pendent upon politics. Women should
not only have power to deal with
these, but they could WELD that power
effectively"
To those who have heard the maid
en- lady who is representing, in Ore
gon, the National Association OPP
posed to Woman's Suffrage, and who
has been threatening to imprison the
mothers and grandmothers of Oregon
for doubling her veracity, the follow
ing, clipped from "The Woman's
Protest" the paper just issued by the
"Antis" will be exceedingly funny:
"The Woman's Journal, published
by and in behalf of the suffragists,
complains that advertisers will not
use its columns because they believe
the women suffragists do not marry
and do not have children.
This is probably true, but it is a
fact the advertiser need have no such
fear as to the readers of the Wo-
mans Protest-it is part Of their
creed to rear families"
According to this, Miss /. T. Mar
! tin Is not orthodox.
For the first time in the history of
Pennsylvania the Republicans of the
state, in convention at Harrisburg
recently, reserved a box for women.
An appeal was made for an express
sion regarding woman's suffrage, and
the convention responded by adopting
a resolution declaring that while the
convention deemed it inexpedient to
commit the party to suffrage, the
growing sentiment in its favor must
be recognized and requested the next
( Legislature to "giye this great ques-
tlon careful consideration with view
Of submitting the proposition to a
referendum vote when reasonable
public sentiment demands it"
Governor Hunt, of Arizona, in his
inaugural address to the first legisla-
ture Of the new state said: "a very
great percentage of Arizona's citi-
zens, both men and women, Of vary
ing political faiths, apparently dis
tributed throughout every social
sphere and numbering the followers
Of all the callings and professions,
are in favor of woman's suffrage. l
therefore recommend that you sub
nit to a vote Of the people, at the
next regular election, a constitu-
tional amendment extending the
franchise to women, and | venture
the belief that IL this great privilege
be extended, the states high stand
ard Of intelligence will in no wise
suffer thereby"
A terse argument for equal suf-
frage, in refutation of that wornout
old cry of the "anti", ia womans
place is in the home" is being made
by the Portland Equal Suffrage
League In the slogan It carries on the
back Of its membership tickets:
"Home Affairs Not Confined to the
Walls OF the Homel
BE a Suffragist!
II children get into the juvenile
court, then your home extends to
that; when the child goes to school
the school becomes a part Of your
home; II the street before your home
is dirty, then that is part Of your