Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-01-29
CALLS A SPADE A SPADE
Stirring Address Of DR.. Florence
Sabin of Johns Hopkins Med
ical School.
TALKS FREELY TO WOMEN.
What Woman Suffrage Stands For Dig
nifty and MOrality-Mrs. 0uItOn
Of California Defines Politics
"a Game Of Give and
Take"

a Tame OF Tive and
Take"
1t is quite safe to say that Annapo-
Ills women have never been talked TO
before as they were, straight cut from
the shoulder Saturday night at a
meeting of women only, held in the
headquarters of the Woman Suffrage
League in the Claude Apartments,
State Circle.
The great pity is more women were
not present. especially more mothers,
and women of the humble walks Of
life, that they might hear and know
these things that pertain to them,
| and go to make up the dignity and
morality of womanhood and mother
| hood.
The chief speaker was DR.. Florence
Sabin, Of Johns Hopkins University
Medical Department, a woman of rare
culture and lecturer and practitioner
at the greatest University in Amer
! lea, if not in the world. DR.. Sabin
| began her lecture with a quotation
from q Woman Suffrage magazine.
which says in part: "To all women,
whether they be with us or against
us, we dedicate this movement"
She said the movement is great
figure for freedom. The doctor out
lined the work for years accomplished
| by DIR. and Mrs. Donald Hooker, of
Baltimore, with whom the Baltimore
Woman Suffrage League had its in
ception. DIR. and Mrs. Hooker pen
etrated to the innermost the causes
and means of vice to the social ele-
ment of the community, the causes Of
insanity, of which alcoholism is
minor cause compared to others more
direful that are predisposing influ-
ences of vice in the community.
DR.. Sabin outlined these horrible
conditions, calling a spade a spade,
and while her language was the pur-
est English and the best chosen, she
made it plain that Woman Suffrage
over the world, in such form that
has not been thought or dreamed of,
and such dignity and morality that
protects womanhood and motherhood
and would put to shame the women
who scofr at Woman Suffrage and
| ridicuIe that for which every good
woman stands.
DR.. Sabin was optimistic even at
great odds against optimism along
such lines as shown by hospital
statistics, and those of other insti-
| tutions. She cited a case where
three crimes were accredited to a
prominent politician of Baltimore,
| and Mrs. Hooker was about to have
the man prosecuted, when she was
| told by the lawyer and judge in
the case that the case was dropped,
had to be dropped, that the next
day was election daY and this man
being well-known politician, it
would ruin the party, etc. 1t is to
| prevent such mis-government as this
| that Women want suffrage, the
right to cast their ballot and have
IL counted. DIR. Sabin gave illus
trations of licensed crime and it's
effect upon the youth of a commu-
nifty; the predisposing cause of i'll
health, disease and death, of which
| there were alone 5000 cases in Balti-
more, against 5000 of all others,
treated in hospitals, including tubercu-
losis last year.
The Doctor told the women t9
have the spirit of the old Crusaders
and she closed her splendid heart to
heart talk with again quoting from
the Suffrage magazine: 'To the
brave women who today are fighting
under the flag of freedom-to all wo-
men, whether they be with or against
us, we dedicate this movement. F"
DR.. Sabin received hearty applause
of the roomfull of women at the close
of her address.
Mrs. r. B. Foster, who is in charge
of the work for Woman Suffrage here,
made a few remarks outlining the
work and telling her experience with
the Legislature. Mrs. Foster is one
of the women registered lobbyists.
| Mrs. Donald Hooker being the other,
Mrs. Oulton, of California, by in
vitation, made a splendid address, il
which she told of the victory fol
Woman Suffrage in her State which
had been achieved after much opposi
ton. Mrs. Oulton's remarks wer,
punctuated with humor, and were
snappy and witty throughout. She tolC
how they had worked in her coas
state. using first their wise women
then their handsomest women. ther
their frivolous women, but finally haC
come out victorious by meeting tn,
politicians on their own ground and a
ther own game. She said politics il
8 game of give and take. and whel
YOU legislate upon that ground you ge
what you want.
Ask a man if he is in favor Of Wo
man Surfage, and if he says yes, yol
will find behind him a splendid moth
er. a good wife and two fine children
said Mrs. Oulton, and if he is not il
favor of granting women franchise
vou will find none of these. She gave
striking illustration of the vast differ
ence between two children in on,
family-Mzry and John. They go t.
the same school. have the same les
sons. same examinations, and stanC
the same in primary, grammar anC
high school, and later in college