The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17
Address Before the First State Con-
ycntiOn of the North Carolina Equal
suffrage League, Charlotte, n. c..
November 10. 1914.

II has been my good fortune at one
time or another to witness some re-
r4arkable spectacleS of human pa
geantry. L have been stirred with
deep emotion in witnessing the Coro-
nation Procession of King George and
Queen Mary of England; the vastly
impressive military funeral Of the
French Minister of War in Paris; the
Nav Day Martial Demonstration in
Berlin. But nothing in human pa
seantry has ever moved me SO pro-
fJundly as the colossal demonstration
In behalf of equal suffrage in London
IN June IS, 1910. My wife m l
who were witnesses and participated
N that moving spectacle, realized
then, perhaps as never before, the
deeper meaning, the splendid, tragic
ra-rnestness of that great upheaval of
human consciousness. Here was a
triumphant vindicatiOn of woman's
mower of organization n of CONSOLE
dation-one serried phalanx animated
with a single mind and a single pur-
nose. In this procession, taking hours
a. pass a single point, and expressing
AN phases of opinion, action, profess
sion. and creed, were represented
more than one hundred and thirty So
cicties. leagues and branches; the
martial note was sounded by more
than forty bands; and at frequent in
tervals appeared banners bearing such
inscriptions as Taxation without rep
resentation is tyranny; The longest
day has an end; Live or die with
honor; Hear it, old Europe, we
have sworn the death of slavery;
and This mounting wave will roll US
ShOreward soon" AT the head of the
Wuman's Social and Political Union
was borne Lawrence Housman's beau
tifulful device: From Prison to Citi-
~zeuship'; and following after, carry
Ing glittering steel spears with fut-
tcring. parti- colorer %pennons, came
the six hundred and seventeen women
81 the Union who had suffered indig-
nifty. imprisonment, and even phySi-
cil torture for the cause. In brave
array marched the Women's Freedom
League; the eight hundred women
graduates, respondent in the scarlet
ana gold of their academic costume;
artists, actresses, authors, nurses, pal
ld-faced. sweated women from the
mills of Lancashire marching in the
ieycling ranks of this radiant democ-
rlcy of hope with the velvet-robed
nobility of the great empire.
As | look back now upon that coloS-
sal demonstration in behalf of human
liberty; as / sense with vivid memor
that vast upheaval of human con-
SciOuSness. / realize with startling
force thai 1.-The mounting wave" as
phrased upon one of the banners
borne that day, is at last tapping with
its outermost fringes the granite con
Servatism yet / hope not wholly in
hoSpitable shores of our own loved
Commonwealth.
The Passion For Justice.
y addressing you tonight, l am ami
mated by the spirit of the publicls,
who would look upon the wide sea OF
modern life and endeavor to discern
beneath its frantic, surface ebulli,
tons. the endlesSly moving tides OF
human progress and aspiration. II
We search the literature of our owT
err, we shall find therein, beating like
tome great heart, the instructive pas
sion Of the masses of humanity OF to-
day for a deeper sense of justice III
the world and a larger growth of hui
man liberty. This age in which WE
live IS the age of the Social Question
Inc problems of our age are socla
problems. and the gospel for this ag'
" the social gospel. Everywhere Ii
heard the insistent cry of the worker:
ana tho women of today for a new in
t"rpretation of human liberty and {
new character of social justice. v
since Mary Wollstonecraft awoke tn
world with her "Nindication OF tn
tights of Woman; ever since JOIN
STUART Mill a~nimadverted with mercl
ISIS logic against the SubJectlon o
women: we since Henrik Ibsen de
cared in burning words that in tn
WORKERS and the Women he place.
al his hopes for the future, and ina
l"r them he would work with all hi
strength: ever since Bernard ShaV
'dlird upon all women to epudla
q social religious philosophy whlcl
publicly classes a mans wife with hi
morse, his OK, and his ass, as HI
purchased chattels-ever since thes
memorable announcements, me
nave begun to gain some mixing O
m" true relation between mar an
woman as coordinate factors in hu
man progress.
what Manhood Suffrage Has Done.
NAT noble exemplar of modern CIV
nI%ttlon. Pasteur, has adequately de
med democracy as that order in tn
S'die which enables Zach indlvldua
y put forth his utmost effort L
america, the citadel of democracy,
- beyond the mower of man to com