The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-07-10
Suffrage Leaders Believe
That Four Years Fight
Will Aid Their Cause.
TEST VOTE TO Be TAKEN IN 1916
Leaders of "votes for Women Cru
SADIE Give up Battle to Secure Vote
at the Next. General Election in State
and Begin Educational Campaign.

As regards the woman suffrage Is
sue, although the woman suffrage lead
ers in this state feel rather sore that 4
second referendum is not to be held
at the general election next fall upon
the question as to whether women are
to be given the right Of the ballot, it
is probable that many oil them down
| deep In their hearts consider the posi-
bility for four-year campaign is in
a way an aid to the woman suffrage
cause. There will be no legislation by
this Legislature on the subject of wom-
an suffrage. Two years hence, how
ever, the women of the state who are
! interested in the securing of the ballot
for women will come to the Wisconsin
| legislature again and ask for bill
to submit the question of whether
women shall be given the right to vote
! to the voters in 1916.
| 1t is believed that when this second
submission OCCURS public opinion in the
state will have changed SO that in
stead of a woman suffrage constitution
| al amendment resolution being given
an absolute rundown by the voters Of
| the state it will be found that ma
jority of the voters have supported
the measure and that Wisconsin has
been added to the column Of states in
which the male sex has decided to
give the mothers, aunts and sisters the
right of the ballot. There is no ques-
ton but there are some powerful in
terests at work in Wisconsin against
woman suffrage Persons who are op-
posed to more stringent excise legisla-
| ton are themselves very much opposed
to woman suffrage under the fear that
giving the women the right to vote
may mean even more stringent excise
legislation being passed than is on the
statute books at this time.
In way woman suffrage is a pecu-
liar issue. If the women Of the state
of Wisconsin had really wanted the
ballot they would have obtained it
long time ago. There is no one who
believes but that united campaign
on the part of the women of the state
would obtain for them the right Of
suffrage. The trouble is that this kind
of campaign has never been made.
There are people who say that if the
question of woman suffrage should be
submitted to referendum of the
women of the state it would be re-
jected just as overwhelmingly as it was
when the question was submitted to
the male voters of the state.
In other words, these people declare
are not anxious for the right of stuff
rage and would, themselves, refuse the
ballot if it were offered them. Woman
suffrage orators meet this argument
by claiming that the same thing was
said in European countries when the
proposition was made to extend the
right of suffrage in them, and that it
was generally declared that the people
to whom the right was extended did
not want the ballot and would not APP
preciate the ballot if it was conferred
on them.
1t would be mighty interesting
vote to take to have poll made of
the women of the state and to find
out how many Of them were really in
favor of woman suffrage. This was
proposed some time ago, but the plan
has never met with favor with The
woman suffragists, although thoy De-
clare that if the question was really
put to a vote of the women very
large majority Of the women N this
state would vote for the right Of sui
rage and that the men Of the state
who are proposing referendum on
the woman Suffrage question would be
much surprised at the proportion OF
women yorers who are really DESTROYS
Of the ballot.
One thing IS, beyond quetsion, sur
plising ald that is the extent to which
the demand for roman Suffrage mas
grown among women WIG have more
than coElmon school education. Al
though there are great many women
who are attending higher educational
institutions or vino are graduates of
them who do not waste much time in a
discussion of woman suffrage and who
could not be classed as ardent advo-
Gates Of woman suffrage, there are
very few women graduates of higher
educational institutions in the state
who are not in favor of woman suff-
rage. It is said that four out Of FIVE
of the women attending the Univer-