East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-10-19
WOMAN PLEADS
FORSUFFRAGE
Mrs. Frank W. COtteriII Says Give
Right to Vote to Women and
Help Eradicate Existing Evils.
REFORMS WOULD FOLLOW
Woman Lecturer Talks 10 Audience
Last Night, Explaining Why Equal
Suffrage VIII Benefit the State and
Natlon-Advocatcs Minimum Wage
scale and Eight Hour law.


scale and Eight Hour law.
Mrs. Frank w. Cotterill, a lecturer
and advocate of woman suffrage, told
a fair sized audience last night in
the assembly room of the city hall,
the evils that might be erased II wo-
men are allowed to vote. She said
that long working hours for women
and children. low wages for girls in
stores and mills, the blighting evil
of the white slave traffic, would be
eradicated; and under new laws in
which women would have hand in
the making, all the deplorable condi-
tions of the present economic situa-
ton would be wholly obliterated. She
advocated "a minimum wage scale not
alone for women but for everyone who
labors; an eight hour working day In
all industries; and pension Tor
those injured in the industrial world,
&c their injuries make 1t impossible
FOR them to continue their labors.
Mr.. Terpening presided at the meet
ing and introduced as the first
speaker, b. L. Bailey of Boise, Idaho
an advocate of the ballot for women,
who told of the results of equal suf-
frage in his state.
ut is a surprise to me-" said MT.
Bailey. that there should have ever
been question of women voting. IL
is their right to vote the same as IL
is the right of men to vote. But now
we find that the men are being asked
to give the ballot TO women-being
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for such a condition to exist 1t Is
not fair. men, to deny the right 10
vote to women. In Idaho women are
occupying high positions In state az
fairs and they are every bit as quail
fled AS the men. | hope that oregon
this time will not be behind ldaho IN
this matter of giving the ballot 10 lhe
women"
Mrs. Cotterill has been an advocate
of suffrage for several years. she
has worked for the cause In Caillor-
MIA In Washington and in ldaho anu
now. according to her own statement
she has come to oregon To Try 10
helm the women here to get the oai
In, She has also been a worker III
tho unlift of girls who through some
couse or other have gone astray, ana
also in the work of bettering the
conditions of women who have to Ia
Dor for their living.
Mrs. Cotterill said
Men say everywhere that wheh
women really want the pallot .nes
win give 1t to us. l want 10 say ina,
for one want the ballot and l VIII
trv to tell you why. Some say INA.
tho majority of women do not Wah'
% vote But even IL l were the ohlS
,voman in oregon who wanted 10
vote. why shouldn't have 'h''
right?
"I am the mother of sons ana L
am proud of It, l really peiie'e
that we women are going TO ge' .he
haI,ot In oregon. We cannot be pe-
Mind washington, Idaho and Cantor
nia am working for the ballot ior
tho working women and the workihs
chidren. We want to obliterate the
saoiaI avil-the scourge of the ma
,ior today. The cause of the soclal
evil is low wages paid to '"orhine
airls. This is the disgrace Oh 'ne
country. ,.a .ho
women today are forced into the
economic field. The only way we can
hotter orr conditions is to get the
harot want to see child labor
aradicated. and with the mother
vote II will be an easy matter 10
abolish it. r,,t
mrhen we want to get the eigh'
hour working schedule for women
We have 1t in California and WASH
ington. We also want minimum
wage scale for women, ana not aioiie
for the women, but for eVerypoo!
who labors. This wage should De u
living wage: and below 1t, 1t shoulu
no impossible to secure laborers Sucn
q low would stop the hiring of cheal
foreign labor. / do not mean by 'hiS
that we should prevent the hones
foreigners from coming mere 10 WORN
hut that we should discourage AM
nrevent the importation of cheap lor'
eign labor by the railroads and othe'
big corporations.
'oTodav thousands of girls MARI.
simply to get out of the misery whici
,hoir own small wages make 1t neces
sarv for them to endure. Ihey MAJ
-, Sor a home. Between this and tn
yir, who sells her body in order u
procure money to sustain hersell'
can see no difference. Equal SUI
frage would abolih divorces pecaus
II would prevent marrying In mast
by girls in order to secure for them
selves nothing more than nome
"Women with the ballot would b
non-partisan. They would suppoi
the principles which seemed to be tn
best and would vote for clean me
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