The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-07-25
SPEAKERS BUREAU
FOR PENNSYLVANIA,

FOR PENNSYLVANIA.
Mrs Helen Ring Robinson, of
Colorado, the only woman Senator
in the United States, Mrs. Clara S.
! Laddy, former president of the State
Suffrage Association of New Jersey
and Miss Sophonisba B. Breckin-
bridge of the University of Chicago,
head the list of celebrities which the
| Speakers Bureau of the Pennsylvan-
! ia Woman Suffrage Association has
engaged for lectures in Pennsylvania.
! The Bureau has just been establish
ed by the Executive Committee of the
State Suffrage Association at it's
! two-day session in Harrisburg. 1t
aims to supply speakers for the
many local organizations throughout
the state and will bring the best tai
ent in the country into Pennsylvania
The Bureau is located at the State
Headquarters, Harrisburg, and is in
charge of Miss Louise Hall, the eX-
ecutive secretary of the association.
Jacob Riis Wants Women's Help.
Jacob Riis, the famous philan-
thropist and social reformer, has re-
Gently been again wrongly included
among those opposed to Women Suf-
frage. On July II, therefore, Mr.
Riis wrote to Miss Amy Wren, a
Brooklyn lawyer and suffragist as
follows: No, l am not against
woman suffrage, and the enclosed
clipping from the Chicago Municipal
campaign of last March will tell you
why. | was once an anti, but have
changed my mind. 1 want my sister
in the fight with me, because we are
fighting for moral issues and we need
her help" The Chicago clipping
mentioned by Mr.. Riis includes the
following statement. I'VE want
women in this fight" he declared.
Like a host of others, l once said:
"Woman's place is in the home; let
her leave politics alone" And then
one day it dawned upon me that all
the things clean politics is reaching
out now a days to protect are sum-
med up in that word home We
make war upon child labor, upon the
exploitation of women's work, on the
social evil; what are they all but
the enemies of the homes, in which
woman has the first and the deep
est interest. We need her moral
backing, her moral fury when those
nearest and dearest to her are in
peril
California Voters Not Extravagant.
That the women voters of Califor-
MIA are plunging the State into
bankruptcy is claimed by eastern op-
ponents of woman suffrage. Cali
fornia women have answered as fol-
lows: CD California is not on the
verge of bankruptcy. It's budget of
expense has increased because the
population is increasing.
2)The States where women do
not vote are very often threatened
with bankruptcy.
Cd The measures which the anti
suffragists claim are eXtravagant
seem to the California men and
women, who backed them in their
passage through the legislature, the
wisest sort Of economy, as they will
save many millions in punitive and
remedial measures. They are doing
everything they can, they say, to
keep the population of California in
health and to prevent immortality,
rather than spend money on hospi-
tails, asylums, courts and prisons.
Lieutenant Governor For Suffrage.
Lieutenant Governor O'Hara of
Illinois, is quoted as saying: "The
granting of votes to women is not
the work of any party. 1t is the out
come of the progressive tendencies
of the times. 1t is the progressive
ness of the will of the people that
has given women the right to vote.
Men that did not believe in woman
suffrage and did not want to vote
for it did so because they knew it
was political suicide not to do So"
Mr.. O'Hara said that he saw a great
future ahead for the better govern
ment of Illinois now that women
had been given the right to vote.