Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-18
Members Say it was One Of the Larg.
est and Most Successful Held
in Recent Years.
PROGRAM COMES TO AN END
Editors Extend Sincere Thanks to
Citizens Of Webster City
The Closing Day.

The morning session of the Upper
Des Moines Editorial Association
opened Friday at $3.50 with "
editors enrolled. Bernard T. Muir
ply of Vinton made few Introduce
DRY remarks regarding the laws gov
erning the publication of public
proceedings, such as the semi-annual
report of county treasurers and 9th
er matters. At the conclusion of a
brief resume of this subject, he NOV
ed that the association take steps to-
ward getting the substance of legis-
lation along this line into pamphlet
form for the convenience of the
newspaper men of the state. The
motion prevailed and collection
for the expense of the publication
was taken.
The first number on the regular
program was then taken up by Mrs.
Carrie " Lucas of Clarion, editor of
the Suffragist, who had been given
the subject of Making an Editor
Outen o Her." with, however, spec
ial permission from the secretary to
speak upon the subject of "Woman's
Suffrage" After paying rather
eXtravagant tribute to woman and
asserting that suffrage was the be-
ginning of new era of all good leg
islation, she took shot at the pres
emit legislature and their, to her, ap-
parent trifiing way of doing the law
making business of the state and
claiming that when women sat in
the legislative halls of the land,
business would be done much more
expeditiously.
In general, in defense of the
cause, Mrs. Lucas made some very
good points wheE she said that wom-
en- would probably go deeper into
the needS and wants of legislation
relating to children and the needy
and unfortunate who have been
worsted in the battle Of life. The
speaker said very truthfully that we
are not living in an age of woman
or of any sex, but in the age of hui
mainly, and that a woman could
vote without making herself any
less a woman. Women have had to
so outside of the home and leave the
children for many different things
been made over it. Why discrimin-
ate against their going out of their
homes to cast the ballot once or
twice a year? A true mother is a
true mother wherever you put her
and suffrage cannot change her in
most nature.
A passing reference was also made
to the day upon which the suffrage
amendment passed the senate OF the
state of Iowa as one of the great
days of the speakers life which
would never be forgotten and indi-
rectly referred to the senator from
the Hamilton Wright-Hardin dis
trict as the man who ought to have
done the most and who did the least
in this great cause.
A further point made was that it
makes no difference to one woman
whether another wants to vote. The
one who is willing to assume the
burden should have the right to do
so and If this right is granted to
her, it is in no way binding upon
the other woman. who is not by this
seif-same act compelled to vote.
The fact that the newspapers ov
er the state have been inclined to
treat the suffrage question as joke
was also justly deplored by Mrs. Lu-
cas- and with good effect.
Turning to the subject of the
woman editor, the ideal side of the
newspaper work was very forcibly
spoken of by Mrs. Lucas and her re-
marks were heartily applauded.
There being in the audience
representative of the Freeman
Tribune staff, who for the past few
weeks has been in attendance upon
the state legislature, and could not
help but see a little of the real hard
work which has been done in those
halls during that time, she could not
very well refrain, in the absence Of
any other better qualified to speak,
from stating that the senators at
least have not been enjoying a two
months holiday since the middle of
January, but are about the hardest
worked body of men to be found
within this commonwealth at the