Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-10-31

Hygiene and Demography recently
held in Washington, D. c., the state
ment was made by Professor Howard
A. Kelly, of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, that white Slavery costs
America $4,000, 100000 annually and
it is the worst plague spot on the
social body today"
Many Kansas ministers, complying
with request sent out by the suffrage
campaign managers, preached in favor
of woman suffrage in their churches
last Sunday, taking for their text
Genesis 1926 and III
The Oregon suffrage campaign is
receiving the help Of number of
California men who strenuously oppos-
ed the measure in their own state in
1911. After years trial and having
seen it in actual practice, they now
want the voters of Oregon to follow
the lead of California in. the matter
of enfranchising their women.
In Wisconsin during the past year
information on woman suffrage was
sought by more people than on any
other subject, as shown by the num-
Der of package libraries asked for
throughout the state. The libraries
are sent out by the debating and pub
lie discussion department of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin.
The YpsilantAA Press says: "The
equal outrage amendment is the most
important thing to be settled right in
the forthcoming election in Michigan,
and it will be more bitterly fought by
the enemies of the state than any
thing else. It should have the active
support of every friend of better
things politically It ought to win be-
cause it is fundamentally just, and
right" Z
A resolution initiated by the Phoenix
Arizona, Typographical Union and the
Electrical Workers Union, adopted by
the Trades Council and approved by
the Executive officers. of the Arizona
Federation of Labor, reads as follows:
Whereas, on the 9Th day of Novem-
Der the voters of Arizona will pass
upon a proposed amendment to the
constitution allowing women equal
suffrage with men, and, Whereas, re-
cognizing this common right, the
American Federation of Labor and
hundreds of other Labor bodies have
given the principle involved their
unqualified endorsement, therefore be
it resolved, that the Phoenix Trades
Council give its endorsement to the
proposed equal suffrage amendment
and pledge its active support to the
measure at the polls November s."
On October 10 California celebrated
its equal suffrage birthday, the wo-
men of the state having acquired citi-
zenship October 10, 1911. The Los
Angeles Tribune says: ''The women
have written a glorious report into
the annals of equal suffrage. Their
record is unstinted by any blot of in
efficiency, partisanship, political I'M
economy, Indifference in citizenship,
or lack Of womanly dignity. 1t islwrit-
ten in the hearts of great men and.
women of the state that This has been
a year made greaer and richer for
California because of the direct aid Of
women in civic fulfllments."
In Holland, where the Social-Demo-
cratic party is agitating for a wider
extension Of the franchise, it is credit
ed with the intention of refusing any
measure that excludes women.
Hungary's Prime Minister has lust
declared himself convert to woman
suffrage and all tle newspapers favor.
able to his policies are deVOting gem
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