Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-30
GIVES FORCEFUL
SUFFRAGE TALK
Miss FoIa La Toilette Tells OF
Changed Conditions In
Home Life.

Miss Fola La Toilette. daughter Of
Senator Robert M. La Toilette. Of via
consin, delivered a forceful address yes
terday on the woman's suffrage quas-
ton before the members of the Equal
Suffrage Society at the home of Mrs.
Florence Milford Hunt. in Broad street.
Her remarks created a deep impression.
wouldn't Miss Jane Adams, OF Hull
House, Chicago, serve the United States
Washington as has Senator Lorimer7e
asked Miss La Toilette.
"A great many men. and women as
we'll, are staggered at the thought that IL
equal suffrage is granted woman may
hold office. What Of lit Every great
interest is represented In the Rouse apd
In the Senate. Why should not women.
who surely constitute a great interest.
be represented, too7 The cry is raised,
What of their administrative eficiency7
What of their qualifications for holding
officer
They do not stop to realize that
women are In office now and have
been for centuries. School teachers are
officers, and are holding their positions
well, even though they do not receive
equal pay for equal work. There are a
great many women probation officers, and
In Chicago they have a lone wonan
garbage inspector. 1t happens, too, that
when they Ia any trouble, any section
that needs cleaning up, they telephone
to headquarters and ask that that woman
inspector be sent to clean Up. Men may
have placed women on pedestais as high
err beings, but they rave always had to
look after the garbage.
'@rhe traditional service Of woman a
in the home" the speaker went on. That
is as 1t should be; as conditions are now
she must go outside In order to serve the
home. There have been great changes
In the home since the pioneer days. Thep
the home contained the entire problem,
There was the COW to provide milk, the
cotton and wool to be made into gar.
ments by the mother, the garden and
| coop for the vegetable and egg supply,
and the little school was nearby.
Forced Outside the Home.s
THE spending of the husbands earn.
necessity for the spending of money. But
HON 10 ~ hONs LhG LA 10 (yhteoAA1u
by large corporations; so are the eggs,
the meat, the clothes. And these ars
controlled only by legislation. The prob
lem is outside the home, and legislation
is accomplished only by the vote.
Il say that In denying woman Of the
vote man Is preventing her from perform.
ing her traditional service. She IL forced
outside the home. not because she wants
to go, but because she has to. One
woman in every I'VE In this country a
/ earning her own living, and she IL CON
tributing In money what she used to In
| service. and she knows what legtsiatfon
is needed to better her condition better
than any man. 3s
1.-The ants say that they can aecornr
| plish what they wish through indirect n
~fiuence. What Is indirect influences buk
~teasing. whining, even crying for what
they want7 1t Is an insult to American
womanhood and manhood to ask that
women do this. 1t Is worthy only a. fAe
harem, certainly not of a self-respecttna
intelligent woman. She should have ths
right to go to the lawmakerA being one
herself. aud say We think this ou9ht b
be done because IL is right and have
power to back up the demand. Indirect
influence Is not worth the paper IT II
printed on. For thirty-nve years the
women of Massachusetts, lsbersd to obtain
legal right to their children. When the
women OF Colorado were enfranchis6d
they secured the passage Of q similar law
In one yenr. There is nothing like the
little sblllelagh OF a vote to get what
you want"