Evening star., 1912-11-23

women were given the right TO vote.
At the business session this morning 1t
was announced that in order to better ac-
commodate the crowds expected at the
Monday night meeting, which is to be ad-
dressed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, the
international president, and Baroness Won
Suttner, arrangements had been COM
p.eted to hold that session of the con-
vention in the Metropolitan Opera House.
Texas City Favored.
Sentiment among the delegates as to
the place OF holding the convention next
year seems to be narrowing down to a
Texas city, the preference, as expressed
by prominent members lying between
Galveston and San Antonio The author
ty for making this selection is vested In
the executive board and will be exercised
shortly after the final session Tuesday
next.
Election of officers will be held Mon
day and nothing has developed thus far
to indicate any important changes in the
official staff
Miss Jane Adams has been spoken of
as the successor of DR.. Shaw as the ma
tional president, and 1t Is common knowl-
edge that Miss Shaw herself has en-
deavored to persuade the superintendent
of Hull House to accept the additional
responsibility. Miss Addams however.
has declined to allow her name to be
presented as a candidate.
Sectional Fight Starts.
A sectional fight between the east and
the west has developed in the conven-
ton, one feature Of which is the attempt
of western delegates to prevent the per-
manent location of headquarters In New
York city. While action on this has been
deferred, the westerners. led by Jane
Adams, were able to defeat a consti-
tutional amendment providing that the
delegates present from each state or
vote to which that state or organization
Is entitled, provided that at least one
fifth of the delegates are present.
Need of Government Cited.
The need of moral regeneration in our
government and the part women will play
in bringing this regeneration about when
they can vote were pointed out by the
Rev. James Grattan Mythen of Balti-
more. Mr.. Mythen's subject was THE
Moral Responsibility of the Ballot
who is so blind said Mr.. Mythen.
las not to see in the wrestling between
the la boring class and the cap. .taiistic in
terests the prelminaries to a struggle
that if not sti.led in time by wise po-
litical readjustment will precipitate us
into titanic internecine strife that VII
in comparison make the red reign OF
terror of the French revolution seem
colorless upheaval? We deplore the
bloody strikes in the mining. milling and
industrial trades: We are astounded by
the revelation that there are countless
underfed toi.ers in the land where the few
are world-widely notorious for their lux
urious extravagance; we are sickened
when confronted by records that show
there are millions living in squalor that
would shame the owner of dog kennel
But we are penitent for these shameful
| conditions.
These are crimes against the God and
virtue of liberty and they are crimes
that must be punished and are be ng
punished But whom shall we punish?
say look not around to find an erring
brother, but let each American citizen
whose hand is empowered to cast ball
lot, let him look to himself and there
in the land we are responsible for them,
we who are the makers Of the laws Of
| the land, we who exercise the sover-
eighty of this nation.
Politicians Engaged in Traffic.
"One of the scandals Of our civiliza-
ton is the wholesale murder of the souls
and bodies of women to satisfy men
whom economic conditions pressure will
not allow to marry ana live the NORMAL
c'ean life they would prefer to live. To
this condition add the enormity of abom-
ination which is revealed when We find
that the white slave traffic has been
and is being used in conjunction with
the vice of gambling and the dispensing
of alcoholic poisoning as means for
corrupt politicians to finance their de-
bauchery of the franchise.
1--WE are confronted by the spectacle
Of corruption in government that runs
riotously from the humble voting pre-
cfncts of an obscure Ohio county until
/ its trail ends in the very Senate cham
ber We have read of wholesale prose-
cutions for graft in many of the largest
cities of the land.
/ I'VE have seen the seat of a senator
| from one of the greatest of the common
| wealths taken from him because 1t had
| been purchased by bribery. Thereto add
/ the final note of humiliation that on the
| same day that Lorimer was unseated the
/ Senate resolved itself into a high court Of
/ Impeachment to try one of our highest
/ Judges for malfeasance in office:
| I'VE men ought to demand that women
| come into the body polite and bring with
/ them the same moral standard that they
/ hold for themselves in the home. In the
| church, in the hospitals. in the great re-
| form movements that are voiced by the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
| and all other endeavOrs for righteousness
that are always championed by women