The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington City,


February 2, 1914.
Walking down Pennsylvania av-
enue Saturday night | became one CT
crowd that was gathered about an
automobile in which a very pretty
young woman stood and made a
speech in favor of woman suffrage.
Pretty women are not so plentiful
here as they are in Marietta and
listened patiently to what she had to
say and the other men were likewise
attentive and respectful
The young womans voice was soft
and musical like the voices of our
Southern girls, and she was not bold
and brazen as some suffragettes
are, but she was very much in earn
est and evidently sincere Her tone
was pleading but she was pleading
for justice and she demanded the
ballot as right and not as a favor
a scene like the one I have men
toned can be witnessed here almost
hiSliI ohh 10 a Wis dClC5et-
ton of working women here today
to call on the President and endea-
vor to enlist his support for their
cause.
The suffragette is no longer joke
in Washington, and it is my opinion
that within ten years women will
vote in majority of the States of
the Union. ! have always felt that
they would be permitted to vote
whenever they really wished to do
so. BY the principles of human JUS
tice woman has as much right as a
man to say who shall govern her and
control her affairs. | am a Demo
crat right and it is not for me TO
claim a privilege for my self and
deny it to woman. Where did l
get my God given rights that are not
hers? Ratsi
TWO children are born, one a boy
and the other a girl. They have
the same requirements for food and
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titled to any advantage that one is
the girl because she has not the
strength of the boy. Handicap her
in any way? Not me.
Millions of women are working
for their bread and millions more are
interested in the upbuilding of our
country and our social life. If they
think the ballot will help them they
are as much entitled to the ballot as
/, for this is matter of a square
deal between two human beings.
Now, as to the policy of the thing,
that is something else. | simply say
that | do not claim dominion over
amy other human being man or wo-
man, and that is what | call free
dom. Anything less than that is
not freedom, unless the women vol
UNFAIRLY yield the privileges and the
burdens of the ballot. | am not ad-
vocating woman suffrage but that is
my ticket; it is my notion about a
matter or fundamental right.
And whether we like it or not the
ing me any worry. | am principally
interested in Marietta and l know
for sure that our women will never
favor anything that is not for the in
terest of the town. The Civic
League has already done a lot Of
good and it's members don't vote,
either.
BY the way, speaking of the Civic
League, l want to thank the ladies
for the rubbish boxes that have been
place around the Square. Such
boxes, although larger, are all over
Washington and the people are
trained to make use of them.
1T is no unusual sight to see a man
or woman go to one of these bexes
and drop in an orange peeling, OF
banana skin, or some sort of vast
paper or trash. Washing on is pro
baby the cleanest city in the world
The Marietta city park is so pretty
and our white way so attractive ant
up-to-date that we ought to see thai
the effect is not marred by waste
paper and trash. Let's teach the
children this tidiness | saw an ole
lady here few days ago walk al
least twenty steps out Of her way tC
drop a small piece of paper in a rub
bish box.
JOSIAH CARTER.