The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-23
WOMENS FRANCHISE LEAGUE OF INDIANA
Branch May Be Organized Here.-A Great Deal of
Idle Talk About Women Being Responsible
. for the Present Social State.
~ ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

~ Bother GRIFFIN WHITE.
The Womsu's Franchise League of
Indiana, wishes to ascertain, Is accur
ately as possible, the sentiment for wo-
mans suffrage in this city and will
sent q representative to Richmond to
organize a branch here II enough wo-
men indicate their desire in the matter
to justify the league in doing SO.
The Palladium has expressed it's
willingness to lend it's assistance in
asoertaining this Information and any
woman who Is n Interested in the ques-
ton of woman's suffrage, and who
would be further interested in seeing a
branch of the Franchise league organ
lied here, can send her name to this
office on a card directed to the writ
er, Miss Esther Griffin White.
All that is needed is the name and
address of the writer, care the Palla-
dunn. This is done merely as an ac-
comodation to the Wornan's Franchise
league and to perform a friendly Of
flee for the local representatives of the
suffrage cause.
All the names should be in by the
eth OF March since the league wishes
to know the prevalence, or lack, of
sentiment in Richmond before a meet
ing which has been called for the Sd
and 4th OF April. in the Claypool Iio-
tel, Indianapolis.
The sending in of the name commits
the sender to nothing since it is to
be regarded only as an indication of
the general sentiment which prevails
here toward this question.
Coming OF going" the women get it.
The other day a heated argument
took place between sundry represen-
tatives of the two az to the cause
of the prevalence of the social discon-
tent which no one denies obtains"
everywhere.
The men took the position that it
was the women's fault.
There was nothing original, unique
or startling in this.
1t has been the attitude of men since
the first one pointed to Eve and said
she did it."
The men said that nowadays it was
very hard for a man to earn an honest
living.
That is to say, the sort of living"
that the women exacted of the men.
That competition for Jobs and "po-
sitions" was so great, there were so
fellows shoes at his slightest wab-
bling, so much pull and graft in the
securing of a point of vantage from
which to rake in the shekels, that men
are driven to devious business meth
DDS, to dark and sinuous windings of
the financial ways, to underground
to ice in order to get
together the wherewithal to support
the ONE and children.
That women made such demands on
them that they were goaded to des-
peration and took to the financial
where they did deadly exc
.ution to their consciences and degrad-
ed their ideals.
Men, they said. were so kind, de-
sired SO greatly to give to the women
and children all that the latter wanted
and insisted upon having, that it drove
them to resort to questionable prac-
tees and that the social unrest and
of business ideals was
directly attributable to this cause.
This is, of course, more or less
amusing.
Its one of those half.truths that
sounds SO plausible you think to
look further and accept it al the
whole.
Any student of affairs, or indeed cas-
ual observer of the game of life,
knows that the ONE and children
have no more to do with the present
social state than have the men.
Society has evoluted to it's present
condition through a series of natural
causes, however artificial they may be
in the scheme of Nature for perpet-
uating life, and no set of human ami
mails is any more responsible than any
Things are as they are because the
entities do not unite and
change them.
Its the peoples fault-its the fault
of humanity.
Things could be changed.
A simpler way Of life inaugurated.
Complexities done away with.