Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-11-06
JUST GOVERNMENT LEAGUE.
Mrs. Hooker Addresses Local 0rgAni-
zation-Mskes Eoqasnt Appeal
10 Women.


At the regular weekly meeting Ct
the Anne Arua6el Just Government
League, held on Monday afternoon,
Mrs. Donald Hooker, president OF the
Maryland just Government League
made an address.
Mrs. Hooker took the larger view
Of suffrage for won IN. and leaving
/ the usual argument of ell government
resting on consent of the governed,
and of taxation without representa-
tiol, placed its claim on the higher
ground If human interests and moral
needs-the need of the State for CO.
operation OF all good citizens TO bring
/ about conditions that make a sane
and happy people.
| she severed the objection often
urged to suffrage, that woman's place
Is in The home, by saying this world
| bad outlived the pedestal idea ard
woman, while in every way az devot-
! cd 70 the wonderful and varied inter
ests Of the home, believed tina. she
could show to the world happier
homes by helping good men to combat
the evils that threaten these. and de-
base civilization, than by posing IS
the conventional eide idol" that ira
/ ditiou had creed 20 be her part 10
the domestic and civic economy of the
| world
Mrs. Hoo ker made an eloquent APP
| peal 10 women TO arouse themselves
from life Of self shness induced by
lack Of thought and care, for their
| less fortunate sisters who had 10 face
poverty and cruelty and to work IN
der painful conditions for the support
of helpless children and often unwor-
thy husbands. She gave statistics 10
prove that what mad been done for
this unhappy class in different parts
of the world where suffrage had been
/ gained She believes that a great
deal Of h. prejudice in the minds Of
men against suffrage for women is
due TO an idea that the movement or
the part of women is hysterical and
without high purpose. so they must be
br ught to see that men are ire
mendOusly in earnest in their efforts
for the conservation Of the youth OF
the land, ard have for their object
| the closing OF the saloon, the sur
preston Of the bfothel, shorter
hours Of labor for women, better
homes for children and purer civic
and political government and onl}
want to he p right. thinking men to
| bring about these results.
The speaker answered the asser-
tion that these results are being
| achieved by charitable institutions
of al kinds. by showing very clearly
that these were but applying salve
mild and emollient to conditions
that required and necessitated the
| surgeons knife, without which these
diseases Of the body polite could
not he removed. She also answered
the objection urged by anti-suffra-
gists that votes in the hands of
women would destroy that chivalrie
| spi it ttat men were supposed TO
cherish for women, by urging
ueca. sitv for a larger and better
| chivalry that shall embrace and up
/ lift all womanhood and take the place
! OF the social veneer called chivalry
! that only dances attendance on
| freaks of fashion OF expended itself
| in the dalliances of the drawing
room ~"the want If the world is that
| true knigntliness that shall enamel
pate those whom lust has dragged e.
degradation and dishonor" said she.
Mrs. Hooker urged the women of
Maryland to stand for the cause OF
the unhappy sisters and help make
the world better place for men as
we'll "a women, and Gle sed with an
appeal TO humanity to pass IN, re
paired and improy ed to the next gen
Grafton all that has been transmitted
to US from the past.
The meetings Of the Jrst Govern
ment League will be held in the stu
do 70 ms of the Advertiser building
every Monday during the winter st 3
Q. n, and the Annapolis women and
those of the surrounding country
places are being urged to attend and
support the cause. A speaker from
the Congressional League Of Wash
ington. D. c., will be present on
next Monday.