Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-10-19
WOMEN TO VOTE
BECAUSE IT IS JUST
Says Rev. Mythen at Court House
Meeting.
A STIRRING SPEECH.
The Just Government League Holds
Rally and Final Meeting Of
Campaign.

Campaign.
That sooner or later women will
have the ballot was the opinion of
the majority of those who last night
attended the Rally" of the Just
Government League in the Court
House
1t was the wind-up of the Anne
Arundel campaign under the auspices
of the Just Government League of
Anne Arundel county, a campaign
waged by women with successful
result. The Court House was well
filled, but the audience should have
numbered at least 400. Mayor Strange
presided
Back of the Mayors chair was
a large artistic white banner with
the Leagues colors, green and
purple letters -. G. l." "Anne
Arundel County, Md" which served
as pleasing decoration and back
ground.
Before introducing the speakers,
Mayor Strange spoke briefly, review
ing "votes for women" in Annapolis,
and what good it had done here when
franchise was granted to women on
the bond issue. Mayor Strange spoke
Of the justice of suffrage and his be-
lief in the propriety of women voting.
He introduced Mrs. Donald Hooker,
of Baltimore, president of the Just
Government League.
Mrs. Hooker's theme was Live
UP to Your Own Ideals" She is an
earnest, forceful speaker, who knows
whereof she speaks. She drew COM
parisons between those olden days of
the Revolution and today. Then men
were told to stick to the farm just as
women are told now to stick to the
housekeeping. The farm was the
place for the men 125 years ago, and
it was thought to go into politics
would be disagreeable to men, Just
as today it is thought politics is not
the thing for women. Liberty does
not find an echo in our hearts today
as it should.
1t is Our business in life to keep
the race going, said Mrs. Hookt r,
and it is woman's business through
the vote, to save the 1000 habies
that die in Baltimore city every sum-
mer, because of the lack of proper
sanitation, about which the Govern
ment cares nothing. 1t is the duty
of every woman to have sonnet ing
to say about governmental affairs. 1t
is the inalienable right of a mother
to protect her young. The beasts of
the forest do this, but the woman
without the ballot has no say as to
how her young shall be protected.
Men have taken the right from her to
protect her young, but with the bal
lot she is going to bear that torch
onward.
In introducing the Rev. James
Grathan Mythen, Mayor Strange
spoke in complimentary terms of the
Give League of Annapolis and the
good work it had accomplished.
Mr.. Mythen is very forceful
speaker, and his argumentative dis
course last night was persuasive and
convincing. If every man in the
land favored votes for women as
does Mr.. Mythen, they would have
the privilege of franchise without
further debate. He said it has
not been mans indifference, but
woman's that has kept the vote
from her, he said women would
purify politics as they purified the
home, and would make the political
arena clean He referred to the buy
ing and selling of votes now in vogue
By the men, and referred to the inves-
tigating committee now in session
in Washington, before whom ex.
President Roosevelt would be ad.
judged, Mr.. Wilson aud even the
President himself were he not presi
dent. He said the Gear of Russia il
not so great as the man to whom we
delegate the voice of 10000, 900 Of
people
Politics wants a cleaning up and il
has got to come Do you think mer
can do it alone? said Mr.. Mythen.
Who is responsible that Larrimel
could buy his seat in the United
State Senate? Who is responsible
that a Supreme Court Judge should
besmirch his office? Who is respon
slDle Ior the senator paid $40, ,O0(
for bribe. 1t is the Nation, salt
Mr.. Mythen. If things are wrong
it is because the vote is not appre
ciated. Women can make the ballo
clean.
Before the Revolution we were
chattles and belonged to a king
After the Revolution we were sover
eigns. Women are not asking for
new toy. They have awakened to tn,
fact that things have gone wron,
with the nation. 1t is woman's in
herent right to have something to sa,
about the government. We need then
ia politics, just as we do in the home
We want women to vote because it j
| just. We want woman to take he
| place in politics because she is a do
mestic economitt. We want her a
the custodian of the morals Of the ma
tion. He sroke of the double stand
ard of morals for men and women
He said women will carry into poll
tics that cleanliness that character
izes the home. Men have tolerate
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