Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-01-31
NO MONOPOLY POLITICS
Prof. Max Eastman of Columbia
University Makes Stirring Adj
dress FaVOring Woman
Suffrage.
EDUCATED WOMENS VOTE NEEDED
The Government is Approaching the
Real Concern Of Humanity When
it Gives Women the Ballot
Interesting Address in the
House OF DELEGATES.

Mouse OF Delegates.
That woman's vote is needed to
solve the real problems that concern
humanity's social and moral interests
and for health and safety was the
keynote of the splendid address made
last night at the House Of Delegates
at the State House, by Prof. Max
Eastman, of Columbia University,
| New York
The hall of the House of Delegates
was we'll filled with men and women
in about equal proportion, and besides
the Delegates there were present
many of the most representative citi-
zens of the town. Both galleries were
also well filled, and Professor Eastman
was given marked attention through
out. He was introduced by Miss
Rodgers, of tn Just Government
League, of Baltimore, and Mrs. r. b.
Foster, of the local headquarters of
Woman Suffrage, presided at the
meeting, which was held in the inter-
est of ''Votes for Women" permis-
sion having been granted by Speaker
Trippe, of the General Assembly.
Professor Eastman is not an orator.
but he is deep thinker, profound
and learned speaker, a convincing and
persuasive arguer, and the facts and
figures he possesses along the line of
his subject Woman Suffrage and its
Claim, are indisputable and incon-
trovertible.
Professor Eastman began his argu-
ment in seductive way, and he mis-
led many Of his hearers by causing
them to think for a moment he was
not favorable to votes for women 1t
did not take long, however, to estab-
lish his claim where he intended it
to be-on woman's side, and he argued
convincingly though tactfully. Pro-
fssor Eastman is a very tactful man,
it doth appear, from last nights argu-
mentative discourse. He knows where
he's "at, as the Baltimoreans say,
and he stays there. He said many
things, among them that neither men
nor women have monopoly on poll
tics. He said giving women the
vote in New York would be giving
women only a small temporary con-
troll.
A certain native inertia, he said,
would have to be overcome. New York
has different population on election
day from any other. When women
get the vote there the normal popula-
tion will be called out, and there Will
be found our educated vote will over
come the uneducated in a large de-
gree. There is something like one
third more girls born every year than
boys, and this condition demands that
women have say in governmental
affairs.
Professor Eastman spoke of the
local conditions, and the great buga-
boo advanced about the negro women's
vote. He said only IL per cent. of
the vote was the negro vote, and when
you extend the number of votes, you
do not extend the population it con-
tains to be II per cent. colored and S3
per cent. white.
We should extend women the vote
from a rational standpoint, said the
| speaker. Women are mothers, they
| are more interested in the vital ques-
| tions of government than men are,
and more deeply concerned in the
daily progress of our lives. Woman's
intuition is often better than mans
| judgment, said the speaker, and she
| guides us in our business.
The government today is more and
more approaching the real co1cern of
humanity, and the solution of the
moral and social problems, the health
and safety of the community and keep
ing things clean are uppermost.
Politics is getting civilized, Profess
sor Eastmn said-an end TO be worked
| for. What we know scientifically of
mothers denotes that women's vote
will further the ideal government that
women will purify politics. While
WON IN are not any better or wiser
than man they are the main resort of
mems idealism. A virtuous woman s
| votes will turn the whole tune of
mems votes. As it is,men 60 into pol
itics with the idea that they have left
their virtue at home in charge of their
wives and mothers. They toss the
sock, as il were, to God and go about
the business of the devil. If the gov.
ernment or the republic is saved il
will not be saved with the number OF
clustered saints. The ideal principle
of government is the ideal principle
upon which that government was
founded.
There is an equal opportunity to gel
on in this world for everybody. ANY
American can make good if there i.
the stuff in him. 1t came from one
thousand years bloody struggle fol
citizenship and civil liberty. Each
one is entitled to a square deal. We
preach about these things in the
press and in the pulpit and on the
Fourth of July, but when we SAY
women must be included in then
there is a painful silence. Womer
need the backing of citizenship SC
much as men and as soon as you get
this idea you will realize this prin.
ciple of Woman Suffrage. Womer
are in the struggle and the United
! Gates eauxt,s ahavrs that in fan waar,