River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-08-29
What Eminent People Declare
for Equal Suffrage
ABRAHAM LINCOLN:


bearing its burdens. by no means
excluding women. :"
JULIA WARD HOWE:
The claim of woman to an equal
opportunity with man was seen to
be just when Plato SO stated it, in
terms which the subtlest of his
hearers could not gainsay."
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLs;
Everything In the movement to
give women the suffrage appeals to
my reverence and sense of justice. !"
SENATOR ROBERT M. LA TOILETTE:
Il hope the time will come when
this great intelligent body of peo-
pie, these women, will no longer
have to petition Congress for what
is theirs by right, in land which
boasts of equal opportunities for
ALL"
SENATOR ISAAC L. STEPHENsoN:
have been in favor of woman
suffrage for over fifty years, and
voted for it in our Legislature in
1863"
PRESIDENT CHAS. H. VAN HISE, OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN:
The chief advantage of votes
for women will be that once the
privilege is given them, they will be
compelled by public sentiment to
exercise it; for the privilege carries
with it a serious responsibility.
This responsibility will make it ne
cessary for women to consider the
political problems that confront the
voters. Therefore the women, once
they have suffrage, will be compel
led to assume a wider intellectual
horizon. In short, it seems to me,
that the most important single
thing to be secured by woman suf-
frage is the benefit to the women
themselves. /"
JANE ADAMS:
Women cares for the child in the
home and in the school. Why
should they be forced to neglect the
children in the city,"
COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT:
(In a speech before the Chicago
corvention) "Workingwomen have
the same need to combine for pro-
lection that workingmen have; the
ballot is as necessary for one class
as for the other; we do not believe
that with the two sexes there is
identity of function; but we do be-
lieve that there should be equality
of right; and therefore we favor
woman suffrage"
EX- SENATOR BRvERIDGE:
(In speech before the Chicago
convention) Because women, as
much as men, are a part of. our
economic and social life, women, as
much as men, should have the vot-
ing power to solve all economic and
social problems. Votes for women
are theirs as a matter of natural
right alone; votes for women should
be theirs as matter of political
wisdom also. AS wage earners,
they should help to solve the labor
problem; as property owners, they
should help to solve the tax pro-
blem; as wives and mothers they
should help to solve all the pro-
blems that concern the home. And
that means all national Problems;
for the nation abides at the fire.
side"
JUDGE BEN B. LINDSEY:
Outside of the corrupt and self
seeking, the nile and venal, man
cannot be found In Colorado who
would do away with equal suf-
frage."
PRESIDENT FRANCIS E.. CLARK:
Omitted Society of Christian En-
deavor) Il have seen the opera
ton of woman suffrage in New Zea-
land and other parts of the world,
and my belief in it has been streng-
thened."
PRESIDENT DAVID STARR JORDAN:
(of the Stanford University, Cali
formal Equal suffrage should
tend to broaden the minds of wom-
en- and TO increase their sense of
personal responsibility"
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS:
Il am convinced that for the So
luton of our social problems we
need all the people-women as we'll
as men,"
MAUD DARLINGTON BOOTH:
All the evils that affect the
home are largely dependent upon