Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-17

"One office l have craved all my
life, and the one Office l hope to get
before | die, is that of a police
woman" remarked the Rev Anna
Shaw, president of the National Asso-
citation for Woman Suffrage, in the
course of an address before the New
ark Equal Suffrage League, at Proc
tors Theatre yesterday afternoon.
The common question is, Gould
woman police officer knock a man
down and drag him to jail?'" con-
tinued the speaker. That is the pop
ular conception of the high duties OF
the police, but my conception of their
duty is to prevent crime more than to
drag the criminal to Jail after the
crime has been committed.
u want 100 women police officers IN
this town and 1000 in New York.
Wherever people ply their trade to
degrade women, we need women on
the police force. The country needs
mothers. We've been fathered long
enough. We have had pilgrim faith
ers, church fathers, forefathers, in
fact. we're being fathered to death.
We need a little mothering to undo
the evils of too much fathering.'
MANS Point of Vision Is Wrong"
DIR. Shaw declared there never was
a body of men to whom suffrage was
extended who were as well prepared
for II at the time of extension as the
women of our present day. The mans
point of vision is wrong, she asserted,
and she expressed her opinion that Inc
nation could very well get along with
out the Standard Oil and the heads OF
the various railroads. but never With
out the home.
The national head of the woman
suffrage movement made a long
speech to her Newark sisters, whose
numbers were greatly added to by the
presence of delegations from out-of-
town suffrage societies. She declared
that President elect Wilson's article
on Free Men Need No Guardians in
the Worlds Work, with some fixing
up" would be the greatest speech for
woman suffrage written during the
past ten years She doubted whether
she could obtain the authors permits
sion to use the fixed" version.
Commenting on the days of aristo-
craey and injustice, when a certain
amount OF money was necessary to
qualify a voter, DR.. Shaw declared
that the revolutionary eraser had done
it's work from time to time, as applied
to the word 'male" in the Constitu-
ton. The women of today want the
eraser to continue its work and rub
out the word male, leaving the quail
fcation, "a citizen q years of age"
she concluded.
DIR. Addison B. Poland, another
speaker, declared he had two urgent,
living reasons for supporting woman
suffrage in his two daughters. The
latter he wished to see financially in
dependent and capable of earning an
honest livelihood, for which they need
suffrage. In concluding he said
There is no justice in law that
permits my little boy and my little
girl to sit in the same class, take the
same studies, remain at school the
same number of years and then, when
they are older, give the boy the ballot
| and deny it to the girl. Home and
society are the best when men and
women can live together and work to-
gether on equal terms"
A long address in German was de-
| livered by Mrs Clara S. Laddey, FOR
| four years president of the State As
sociation for Woman Suffrage, and at
present a member of the executive
board of the national body. She. re-
minded her compatriots that Ger
many stood at the top of human
progress and that they should be the
| leaders in the suffrage movement for
human liberty.
| Mrs. Laddey pointed out that of the
ninety-two million inhabitants OF
America there are nine million
women engaged in gainful occupa-
lions, while Germany, with Its sixty
| three millions, has ten million women
who earn their daily bread
Berlin Anti-suffrage Society.
She commented on the great change
in the life of woman and pointed to
the fact that an anti-suffrage society
being formed in Berlin was the best
proof that woman's suffrage is ar
important movement in Germany
also.
The speaker concluded by denying
a statement that the suffragettes dc
not love the men and do not want tc
marry This, she declared. was
mistake, as they do want tp marry
not any man, but the. right man
which could be brought about easily
by the independence of women.
Former Judge Algernon 7. Sweeney
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