New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
Worlds Safety Lies in
Universal Suffrage,
Leader Asserts.
STRAUS CALLS HER
HARRIET B. STOWE"
International Social Plans Re-
viewed at Free Synagogue
in Carnegie Hall.

former Progressive candidate Tor Gov
ernor. spoke from the same platform on
'Jnternationaism in Social Movements
at Rabbi Stephen :. Wise's Free Syna-
Eoguc, in Carnegie Hall, yesterday. For
her work I'M promoting Social justice
Mr.. Straus said Miss Adams was the
Harriet Beecher Stowe of our day"
Miss Adams mentioned the social evil.
Some persons think it is not subject
10 be spoken of freely, and perhaps some
speakers do 60 too far, but it is sub
ject for discussion and careful study TO
get at the facts before one takes any
action" she said. Commercialized vice,
she asserted. is subject that is being
carefully investigated in every civilized
portion of the globe to-day. She said the
ballot for woman was but p means for the
accomplishment Of social and industrial!
betterment OF the world.
Mr.. Straus asserted that IL T. had not
been for the worldwide investigation or
social problems the Balkan war would
have drawn the powers Of Europe into a
great war.
Mr.. Straus then paid high tribute to
Miss Adams in his short but vigorous
speech
Miss Addamss address was an inter-
probation Of the basic theories Of why
women should vote. She pointed out that
the tallot itself was not what the adyo-
Gates Of the movement sought, but that
II was but a means for social and indus
trial, betterment Of the world
Though it seems incompatible to speak
Of war on the same platform with Mr..
Straus." said Miss Adams. this ex-
elusive masculine suffrage has It's very
beginning in war. when the ancient tribes
dashed their shields together as means
Of. voting whether they should go 20 war
with another tribe or not Because wom-
en- did not have shields TO clash, women
did not have anything 10 say about the
government" she followed by the re-
mark that conditions in balloting had not
changed materially.
She said that the early political econo-
mists were wont 10 regard man as a
wolf. whose purpose i'm life was simply
10 feed himself and his family and keep
warm. but that latter day writer's had
come to realize that there were other pur-
poses IN life. so We have not only edu-
cation. but child psychology; not only
prisons. but criminology. Persons have
studied the children in reformatories and
learned that more than 80 per cent Of
them are mentally defective. How dare
we put them In prisons instead or In
schools for the feebleminded
That the woman suffrage movement
and the Industrial and social uplift move
oil Cd al Ner
the world was asserted by Miss Adams,
and she recalled how impressed she was
when travelling In the East with the
share Of the days toll the women Of those
far countries do. She told Of the women
water carriers along the Nile, and sus-
gested that the invention Of water pipes
had greatly lesscncd the muscular burden
Of the women Of the world.
"Othcr inventions and Improvements
have saved women from burdens that
used TO be theirs IN the scheme OF the
universe" said she, 'and what are they
doing in the place Of this work they used
70 do? There In nothing so dangerous as
idleness II is doubtful II women are
doing their share Of the worlds work in
modern times. They do little brewing or
baking. and hardly more weaving. They
are being pushed back into occupations in
which they have no training, where they
break down under a burden Improperly
adjusted. or they are forced TO idleness."
She told Of industrial conditions in Eng
land and outlined the theory OF English
economists regarding what are known as
Subsidized" workers. or women who are
paid so little that they have to depend
upon relatives 10 make up the cost OF
their existence: workers In unhcalthful
occupations and workers who are paid
bare subsistence for themselves and fani-
lies.
The legislation here against these evils
is many years behind that Of England
and Germany" declared Miss Adams.
She told Of three ways in which women
had acquired the franchise.
She said that the fires Of revolution had
gained women the ballot, as in China,
and was gaining them greater rights in
Turkey and Russia and other lands
She recounted the work done by women
I'm building up the Juvenile Court In Chi
cago and said that one politician had done
that institution the greatest harm for two
wears because he said he didn't like
women fussing around" and had checked
their work in that department.
But If the women I'm that city had had
the mower to vote ne couldn't have done
the harm he did" she declared. land
that IS why women want the vote-not
simply TO boast Of having II, but to use
IT TO better the world.
"It is not true that the voting woman
will refuse TO enter into a life OF domes-
ticitv. nor will she neglect her children
New Zealand has the highest birth rate
NJ anv Anglo-Saxon country In the world,
and women have been voting there TWEEN
ty-five years.
Mr.. Straus, in speaking of Miss Adams
said
not only has she been the pioneer IN
promoting great social movements by
words" said ne, but she does the work,
as is shown by her accomplishments al
Hul House. She has vitalized great is
amos and the forces OF helpfulness. II Is
natural that she should be regarded as
one of the worlds two foremost leaders
In the promotion Of social justice.
we are fighting to-day the same forces
of evil the world had to meet genera
ton ago. and the Harriet Beecher Stowe
OF that day is the Jane Adams OF ours.
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Mayor Fitzgerald Worse.