Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-20
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
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newly elected United states senator,
Burleigh, announced himself I'M
equivocally for woman's suffrage.
Outside the suffrage states. every
state Legislature now in session is en-
gagged in a rivalry as to which shall
first submit this question to the peo-
81 Pile. And if we, the servants of the
people. give them the opportunity to
pass upon this question at the ballot
box. we shall have the satisfaction of
duty well performed.
| need not call your attention to the
fact that there is today in this State
an earnest demand for the submission
OF this question. Fly the letters you
and | have received from our con-
stituents; by the throng that attended
the hearing before the committee at
this Capitol; by the mass Of petitions
that have flooded us during this ses-
sion; by the voice of the press of the
State for every newspaper, with
scarcely any exception, has pro-
nounced for woman's suffrage; the
great labor organizations are q unit
for it; the Grange. composed of men
and women alike, demand it; and wo-
man herself has risen to the heights
of womanhood in expectation that to
her will be given added glories.
They are waking waking, waking.
In the East and in the West;
They are throwing wide the windows to
the sun;
And they See the dawn is breaking.
And they CULVER with unrest.
For they know their work is waiting to
be done.
They are waking in the city,
- They are waking on the farm,
+. They are waking in the boudoir and mill:
And their hearts are fun of pity
As trey sound the loud alarm
TO the sleepers who in darkness SUM
Der still.
In the guarded harem prison,
Where they smother under wells,
And all echoes of the world are walled
Though the sun has not yet risen,
Yet the ancient darkness pales,
And the sleepers in their slumber dream
of day.
OH their dreams shall grow in splendor
Till each sleeper wakes and stirs:
Till she breaks from old traditions and
is free.
And the world shall rise ana render
Unto Woman what is hers,
And welcome in the race that is to be.
Unto Woman, God the Maker
Gave the secret of His plan;
II is written out in cypher on her soul,
From the darkness YOU must take her,
To- the light of day. Q Man,
Would you know the mighty meaning
of the SCROLL
| know it is said by some that this
revolution in the life of woman is a
mere noise and the passing wave Of
unrest. but the Boston Globe of last
Saturday, editorially has this;
Has a single women's organization
anywhere, excepting the one formed
for the purpose Of opposing equal saf-
frage. passed an anti-woman suf-
frage resolution? Has any one of The
countless societies and clubs composed
of men and women gone on record
against equal suffrage Is there an
organization of business women or Of
working women anywhere that has
voted to oppose equal suffrage Hun
dreds of organizations have adopted
iTga&e 1esolutions, Two Of
Z ps 5tlzioaI parties in this
n 5kyxf5 HI ted 10 the. equal saf-
4 f a. zsez3f, and the Republican
3 Il ID Yen ali eauiVocal assent to
8 u Ne nnolse which gets on
q 81 EV ~ sxf / he antis,p they vii
s. Qftir Y Themselves against i.
are no signs that il will ever
75s1til women haye the ballot
Il ~ a h6lr OF rsdscuie has passed. The
of woman's triumph is at hand
= Yearly a hundred Years ago. Tennyson.
The poet. psophes Of Engiand, said this.
"The womans cause Is mans they sink
Together, dwarfed Or goasliKe, bond or
Yet in the long years. liker must they
The man be more of woman. she of
man;
And SO these twain, upon the skirts of
time
s. Sit side by side, fun summed in all their
powers
s Self-reverent each, and reverancing each;
Distinct in indvidualities,
But like each other, as those who love
Then springs the erowning race of hui
Then reign The worlds great bridals,
chaste and calm;
Then comes the statelier Eden back =
man,
do not desire for moment to seem.
to deal with this question as a matter
of sentiment. As lawyer / like to try
my cases, fortified and sustained by
the uncontradicted evidence. And
wish for a moment to produce such
evidence in this court of the people.
IN 1893, nineteen years ago. New
Zealand granted full suffrage to wo-
men, Honorable Hugh Lusk, member
of the New Zealand Parliament, has
reviewed that nineteen years of New
Zealand with Woman's ballot, and he
saws. by reason Of a ballot New Zealand
stands today in the position of the
most prosperous and most progressive
country in the world. Seventeen years
ago South Australia gave full suf-
frage to women. This was followed
fonr years after by West Australia;
three years after by New South Wales;
three%years after by Queensland; three
years after by Victoria, until today in
al-of that great continent of Australia
woman stands on an equality with man
ats the ballot box. There are 100000
sEyomen voting with men, and no Ma
IAgfon has higher better, purer laws and
government than Australia.