Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-04
VOTES FOR WOMEN
URGED BY PASTOR
Rev. Warren Patten Coon De.
cIarss Suffragists Are Better
Than IlIiteYate Men.

''woman's Suffrage, or the Equal
! Franchise. was the topic OF a ser
mon preached by Rev. Warren PatteA
/ Coon. pastor Of the Union Methodist
/ Episcopal Church, last night Ths
minister strongly advocated woman's
suffrage and declared that ne could
not understand why an illiterate man
should be allowed to vote while :
woman of education is prevented
The sermon. in part, follows:
Il am absolutely and unequivocally
I in favor of giving our mothers. sis
! ters, sweethearts and wives the fran
chise. A woman bore me; women
teachers gave me thirteen out of my
twenty years Of education; a woman
brought my children into the world;
a wife with her love and encourage
ment made life worth living when
death came into our home. Conse-
quently, anything I do that she can
do and wants to do, I would vote
early and late to give her the privil-
eye TO do.
''Woman's suffrage exists today In
twelve states and countries. and al
ready the women voters have swept
clean the city Of Seattle, defhroning
and driving out corruptionists, politi-
cal and moral In Illinois they have
obliterated fifteen hundred saloons,
and have saved Chicago from q politi-
cal gang seeking to graft on a new
subway.
For the life Of me. I could never
/ see how an illiterate, vermin-infested
specimen of humanity, just because
he is a male, has the right 10 say b.
/ his vote what my children shall
study, when he woman who Is presi
/ dent OF Wellesley College or a similar
! institution must be dumb on election
day.
IT want to consider, first. some OF
( the objections to woman.s suffrage.
secondly, some OF the DIRECTORS; and
/ lastly. some of those who believe in II
They say women will not vote
when they are given the right. Tbs
1 opposite to this is found officially to
be true. How about the men? Do
they turn out well for the primaries
People say that If women vote they
ought to fight and do police duty,
They are doing police duty already,
and worthily. AS for fighting Joan
. D'Arc did what the king of France
could not do, leading the army to VIC
tory, and restoring the throne.
ut would double the ignorant vote
il is said. One-third more girls than
boys attend the high schools. and
women will soon be the more edu-
! Gated GLASS; Nearly 80 per cent c.
1 the school teachers in New York CITY
are women. Sixty per cent. Of the
teachers In America are women, and
have the making Of our future citi-
! zens.
"It would double the foreign vote
There are in the United States oves
twelve times as many native born
women as foreign born.
TT would double the criminal vote
Only one in twenty OF the criminals
in our jails and penitentiaries ara
women. 1t would add largely to thu
/ good vote and but slightly to the bad
vote.
'Womau's place is in the home. II
only takes ten minutes year to vote
in the same market where she buys
her meat, or where her husband gets
shaved.
"She lie held responsible for the
cleanliness of her home, the whole
someness Of the food, the childrefi.a
health and morals. It is like making,
bricks without straw. II the
streets are unclean, II she is sold poor
food, unclean milk or stale eggs, II
there are no fire-escapes on the apart
ment house in which she lives, II the
conditions on the STREETS are immoral
and degrading. IL, in short, all these
conditions exist around her and she
has no word to say by a vote for the
changing Of them she is asked to ba
responsible for children in a way thai
she cannot fulfill.