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Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-05
Claims Blackmail.

Providence, R. l., Dec. 5.-"Black-
mall" was the reply of Colonel
Charles Alexander to the white slave
complaint on which he was arrested
here tonight by federal officers on
an indictment returned by federal
grand jury in Chicago charging him
with transporting Miss Jessie Cope Of
Los Angeles from that city to Chi
.cago in violation of the Mann act.
Colonel Alexander, who is rated as
several times millionaire, was ar
raigned before United States Commits
sioner Archibald Matteson. He waived
the reading of the complaint and pre-
liminary examination and when his
bail was fixed at $500 he was freed
on security offered by Robert G. Fos-
ter, close personal friend.
Colonel Alexander is a director in
the Union Trust Company of Provi-
dence and also is heavily interested
in several of the largest manufactur-
ing companies in Rhode Island and is
also a director in a large steel cor
poration in Canada. He is prominent
socially and politically, having been
colonel of the crack First light ar
.tillery regiment of Providence and Re
ublican residential elector eight years
ago.
He has a handsome home at Rum
stick Point, one of the show places of
Narragansett bay, and summer home
at Williamstown, Mass, where Presi-
dent Wilson may maintain the sum
mer capital next season. He was re-
Gently foreman of the federal grand
jury which indicted the officers of
two of the largest butterine factories
in Rhode Island on charges of violat-
ing the revenue laws.
Chicago, Dec. 5.-Hidden under
guard of United States secret service
men, Miss Jessie Cope of Los Ange-
les, where she and her mother have
wintered for eight years, is waiting
to testify against Colonel Charles
Alexander, a Providence, r. l., mil
lionaire, when his trial on a charge
of violation of the Mann "white slave
law" opens in Chicago.
Alexander's arrest in Providence
solved a part of the mystery of the
"millionaire and the girl" who were
to have been indicted secretly yester-
day.
Whether Miss Cope was indicted or
not was not announced today and Dis
trict Attorney Cline refused to state,
The Indictment was made in Chi
cago because majority of the alleged
interstate trips Of the couple are al
legged to have begun or ended here.
The couple are alleged to have lived
in adjoining rooms at the Grand Pa
cific hotel here for several days.
Providence, Dec. 5.-Colonel Alex
ander today refused to discuss the al
legations of Miss Cope. He expects
to go to Chicago in January to an
swer the charges. 1t is intimated the
local authorities showed great hesita-
tion in arresting Alexander and failed
to do so until mandatory orders came
from the federal officials in Wash
ington, Chicago and New York.
Friends of the accused man say he
was advised to make a clean breast
of the matter by his family, but re-
fused, saying.
"No; would shoot myself first"
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-05

enchanting romance and supplied
abundant comedy moments-all com
bining to make a play OF most popu
lar appeal. The play is military in
character and centers about a young
Lieutenant who deserts his post when
he is made to believe that he has
killed brother officer. Madge Sum
mers, female detective, is sent in
Imperial Valley press., 1914-12-05

"The play with a heart kick" is
the term applied to "The Deserters,"
the famous production that the Ed
Redmond Company will stage at the
Tulane theatre this evening. While
the action is mainly centered about
q melodramatic theme and the devel-
Cpments are sensational in every way,
the author has deftly woven most
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-10-23
.eltir,
Pot Made
Into Cash

The suffrage melting pot, which re-
ceiyed many gold and silver trinkets
from self sacrificing women, is re-
sponsible for much of the campaign
work now going on in Ohio, Nebraska,
Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North and
South Dakota, where woman suffrage
amendments will be submitted to the
electors Nov. 8. The gold and silver
contributions have been changed in
to cash, and that in turn into carloads
sof suffrage literature and thousands
of miles of railroad transportation.
The campaigners include DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw, president of the asso-
citation; Miss Jane Adams, first vice
president; Mrs Desha Breckenridge
Of Kentucky, second vice president;
Mrs. Antoinette Funk, of Chicago,
member of the national COMPRESSION.
Fal committee; Mrs. Rosika Schwim-
|mer of BUDAPEST, Hungary, secre.
tary of the International Woman Suf.
frage alliance; Mrs Florence Maule
Bjorkman of New York, Miss. Helen
Todd of California, Mrs. Laura Gregg
Cannon and Miss Elsie Vandergrift OF
Colorado, and Miss Jane Thompson OF
| Chicago, field secretary of the Ma
| tional association.
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Methods
Of Anti S
Are = Qu u !

F- = . u r.
The campaign going on in t he seven
states where suffrage amendments are
pending are drawing to a close They
differ in many respects, but there is
one feature which all have in common
The enemies of$equal rights are trying
to make themselves AL things to all
men. '' They assure the temperance
men that women would vote for liquor,
and the liquor men that women would
vote the state "as dry as a bone" They
tell audiences of working people that
the antis are the only true friends Of
| the workers, and that the suffrage
movement lis run by a. few women Of
Immense wealth; and they, tell pros
porous audiences that women ought
mot to3vote because fewer women thar
linen pay taxes, and women without
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NEVADA CALAMITY.

49,
q If the boys of Nevada are the faith
ers of the men, the woman suffrage
amendment in that state is bound to
win when it is submitted to the voters
Nov. 8. Last Sunday when DIR. Anna
Howard Shaw was at the home OF
Judge F. D. Langan in Virginia City,
James Langan. the eleven year old SON
LOT the family, happened to boast OF
the many ways he could whistle. Miss,
Harriet Dean, who Is accompanying
DIR Shaw, declared she wa sa whist
ling artist also DR.. Shaw, always
ready for fun, remarked that a con-
test must be. held and If the garf
could not whistle as well as the boy,
itthen SIT was definitely decided that
women should not vote The boy Inn
diately spoke up i 81 II not whistle
then
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Arizona
&. @%$'a so, '-. i =. SEA
Women Do j
~ Use q Vote

The women of Arizona were en-
franchised in 1912. The democratic
state platform, adopted in Phoenix;
Sept. 80, 1914, contains the follow:
ing plank: +
I'VE congratulate the women OF
the state on. the requirement Of equal
suffrage in Arizona. We call atten.
ton to the fact that this reform was
brought about. through machinery OF
popular rights established by the
democratic party.
I'VE note with approval that the
women have registered and genera
ally. exercised their right of franchise
in the primary election just passed. !
"We unqualifedly endorse the
principle and practice of woman suf
frage and We pledge our candidates
for United States senator and repre-
sentative in congress to vote at al
times in favor of national woman
suffrage. rs'. +"
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X-Ray is urned
On Opposition to
Women Suffrage

would burden the taxpayers
with widows pension bills and other
freak legislation They tell Catho-
lie audiences that women would vote
socialist, and socialist audiences that
women would vote Catholic; and so
on Indefinitely.
A little boy, it is said, was once
given a chameleon as present. He
was delighted with it, and the whole
family found pleasure in watching it's
changes. But one night when the
father came home no chameleon was
to be seen.
why, Jimmie, where is your pet?''
said Papa
Hes gone" answered Jimmie.
"How is that? Did he get away?'
2 No. said the small boy. 1T was
this way. First put him on a blue
cloth, and he turned blue Then put
him on red cloth, and he turned red
Then I put him on a green cloth, and
he turned green. And then / put him
on plaid cloth, and he busted hisseli
trying to make good"
The INSCRIPTIONS style of campaign
ing carried on by the opponents OF
equal rights will in the end Dust it.
SELF through trying to prove toe
many contradictory things at once:
but in the meanwhile help is urgently
needed in the campaign states to meet
the variegated falsehoods with which
the press and the voters are being
flooded. Let all who can send as large
"a contribution as possible. The state
presidents are:
Mrs. Walter NJ Miller, Columbia
Mo; Miss Jeanette Rankin, Missoula
Mont. Mrs. Draper Smith, 634 Parl
avenue. Omaha, Neb.: Miss Anne H
Martin, 157 Mill street. Reno, New.
Mrs E. M. barrow. ia sth STREET. So
Fargo. N. D.; Mrs Harriet Taylo
Upton, Warren, O.; Mrs. John L. Pyle
Huron, s. D.
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ICELAND WOMEN fENFRANcHisED

-. .sl. 49,, H5y-,z q. t-
Suffragists of the United States will
he delighted to hear that the Althing
I tpariiamentl of Iceland has adopted
the reformed constitution proposed
last year which grants to women over
40 years old the same political rights
enjoyed by men over 25 years old,
with the stipulation that for the wo-
men electors the required age is to
be gradually lowered on each registra-
ttion until 1t comes to % too. The bill
was carried unanimously by the upper
house and only one vote was cast
against it in the lower house Only
| the sanction OF the king of Denmark
| IS now necessary for the law to be
come effective The women OF Ice
land formerly had municipal suffrage
lso the parliamentary franchise Is .
proof Of the success of partial eaIla,
Isuffrage
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WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

France has - women in its army
corps.
Philadelphia has $4,000 working wo-
men.
The Japanese empress is making
bandages for the Red Cross nurses.
+ Paris dressmakers are now busily
engaged in making hospital garments
Italian women employed in the
metal industry earn from to ) cents
per hour. @'E
Over 10000 women own stock in
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad. H.
More than quarter of the working
people in the United States are wo-
men. g<"@,.
Women who desire to vote in Kan
sas are not compelled to state their
age.
IN THE TWO YEARS DURING
WHICH WOMEN HAVE HAD THE
BALLOT IN CALIFORNIA. THE FOL
/ LOWING ARE SOME OF THE RE
FORMS THEY HAVE WORKED:
The salaries of the women clerks ir
public service have been increased
!. The general recognition Of politica
equality helps toward economic equal
ity.
i The eight hour law for, women ha!
been extended to include nurses il
training and workers in apartment
houses.
The juvenile court law has been i'm
proved by separating dependent from
delinquent children
Pensions for teachers who hay
!served thirty years are provided.
The age of consent has been raise
from 16 to IS years of age
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"A No.
"a. Why not?
"A. Because they are women.
@. Would women vote if the priv.
ilege were granted them?
A. Women have had the full SUI.
frage in Wyoming since 1863; in Colo
RADIO since 1898; in Utah and Idaho
since 1896; in Washington since No.
vember, 1910.
The Wyoming secretary of state
writes that 80 per cent of the women
vote. 2s7,'.,%'
The Colorado secretary of state
writes that 80 per cent Of the women
register, and about ~ per cent vote.
In Idaho although women are a
minority of the population, their vote
is estimated as over 40 per cent of
the whole number cast. -,. ~
O. Why do women want to vote?
A. First. Because they are Ameri.
can citizens, and every citizen should
help select those who make the laws
which he or she must obey J.
| Second. Because every citizen is
entitled to representation, and no per
son having but one vote can represent
i himself and another, even with the
! latterSs consent.
t Third. Because vote means
power, and women need this power tt
protect the interests of themselves
theirachildren, their homes and so
!, ciety. ,
Fourth. Because politics, which
means the government, needs the com
bined influence of men and women
EWitaout- the ballot, woman's influenc,
lis indirect, negative and irresponsible
Votes talk, votes count, votes compe
respect, votes decide every question.
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@. Under a representative form of
government, such as ours, who should
make the laws? -. 80 g. *
q. The people. = s:'5'.s
@. Do the people make the laws?
"A. No; one7ha1f the people are for
hidden any. share in. law, making.
@. Who do make the laws? -,
! AMEN. }5t50-a =. ~
| @. Who gave men the right to
make the laws? .:.,,~v
/ A.. Men. sZy-: g. II. : =. a,s.-,zs;:e= --,
| O.. Do not the laws concern .wo-
men? 4.. r,:~ =:
A. They certainly do. o. s%*m.
@. May not women take. part. in
making the laws which they must
obey? .5e, E, ~ ri ra p 20
A. They may not Men alone make
the laws for women and men.
c. If a woman transgresses the
law who decides the penalty, tries
convicts and Furnishes her? ~,
II A. Men. 80 .'., 3.
, @: r. Who sit on the julies before
whom women are tried?
{. A. Men only.
] q. Is this what the constitution
means by "the Judgment Of his peers p
A: Evidently not. .........
q. May not mothers help make the
laws which decide their legal rela
lions to their children? -5.,
! A. Mo, men make the laws, and ii
|only thirteen states in the union ant
the District of Columbia has the mar
ried mother, the legal right to he
children. IT - "a. ~ Z s.
j. @. Why is the law so one-sided?
IS A., Because it is the product of on
4 sex alone. @s zlasy s.&sfs::@S%5 &,-e,:,
r. O.. Who make the laws which dc
!, eide the rights Of husband and wifi
: lin case of separation? -
Z A. Men only. z "
Ii G. When a husband brutally al
l.saults his wife, who determine tn
y Ss:S. 81
I5 A. Men. 7zs' p
IS O.. Who make the laws concernin
1.-THE property-rights Of husband an
wife? ...s. .#: y. @ 5 Is
81: A.. Men. ss =$ Z:
. G. Who pay the taxes ....z
q I@ A. Men and women. ss2.
r. @. Is. the property of women take
! the same as that Of men?
A. Often higher. .. 4 4ss
Il Fl # Who assess, collect, and exper
: the tax money paid BY men al
! women q. S5s
A.s Men only,
a O. May not a woman who n1anag,
= her own business have "a vote. in ele
! tons which directly concern. her ov
interests s5i:s5
A. No; but the most Incapable m:
MI in her employ may do so. S55
VI. May not women who teach 4
in our schools vote
Atttf No: but the boys they teac
81, may do SO.
"a Q. The others who have brous
forth, carefully reared and given The
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-10-23
EDITOR WHO HAS BEEN ANTI
SUFFRAGisT MAKES REVEL
ALTON OF THOSE WHO HAVE
"PATTED HIM ON AHE
BACK.

An X-Ray has just been turned upon
the forces that are doing their best to
defeat suffrage at the coming election.
It is in the form of an editorial by Ed
Nebraska and editor of a prominent
democratic paper.
Mr.. Howard is a man of wide infiu-
ence in Nebraska, and has been active
ly opposing the equal suffrage amend
ment In that state. The other day he
wrote as follows:
Many men have applauded the senti-
ment I have uttered in opposition to
the extension of the suffrage.
Many men have patted me on the
back and have said to me, 1--WE are
with you"
I have not carefully considered the
character of the applauding in fuence
at my elbow, but one day, after earn
testify contemplating the approving
characters, I recognized:
The attorney Tor private gas COM
pany which sandbags the city
/ The attorney for a stockyards COM
pany which steals unfair tribute from
/ farmers and shippers.
! The president of big city bank
which privately conducts loan shark
game.
| An attorney for a great corpora
! ton which operates hundreds of law
! less saloons.
The president of great factory,
wherein sweatshop methods are prac-
! ticed upon the women, and where the
laws against child labor are defed.
An attorney for millionaire who
rents much city property at high rent
al for bawdy-house purposes.
! The discovery appalled, me.
| For twenty years I had been preach
ing in Nebraska the doctrine Of OBJ
position to corporation control in the
affairs of city, state and nation, yet
here found myself giving comfort to
the worst corporation influences. 81.
! What shall l do?
/ Shall continue upon the easy path
way of subserviency to sectional
sentiment, or shall enter boldly upon
the pathway Of duty to my long-cher-
ished anti-monopoly principles?
If duty calls such corporation inf1u-
ences as have here named to oppose
the extension of suffrage to women,
then, and reasonably so, duty should
impel a true anti-monopolist to take
WV g., b.,
that policy which wins the disapproy-
al or monopolists
l see the pathway of duty plainly.
1t will lead me- away from associates
whom / have priced. It will carry me
to the ridicule of some. and TO scorn of
others. who will not understand. But
my feet are on the pathway. and no
steps will be retraced
The applauding influences at my ell
bow taught me that the. corporation
in fluences fear the extension Of the
ballot to the women of Nebraska, SIM
ply because they feel and know that
, the intelligent woman would employ
their ballots in opposition to every
t claim by every corporation that it has
a divine right or any other kind of a
: right to rule the affairs of city, state
, n nation.
Having made this discovery, I bid
2 adieu to the applauding Influences at
my elbow. From this day my lips are
1 sealed against any words of opposition
Ito the extension of the suffrage to
the women of Nebraka.
\
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Miss Bronson, the anti-suffragist
speaker, says that 50 per cent of the
women are opposed. Curious, if that
lis the case, t hat it is impossible to
organize an anti-suffrage society in
this state!-Bruce Is. d. Herald.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-10-23

and souvenir votes for women" pen
ellis given away. Z, The money raised
is to be used in sending letters to the
voters asking them to give women
the franchise. ~. -. -. - .
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~ Mrs Florence Ewell Atkins Of Ten.
nessee, a speaker of national reputa-
tion and most charming personality,
began work ait Williston Oct. 4, and
has been speaking on suffrage in the
northwestern part Of the, state. Be
fore election she will speak at Devils
Lake, Larimore, Mayville, Casselton.
Bismarck, Mandan, Jamestown, New
Rockford, Darlington Wimbledon, Val
ley City, Enderlin, Lisbon, Fargo, and
Wahpeton. I'M = s i, az..s5 80
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! Mrs. Edward Nelson, field secretary
Of the North Dakota Votes for Women
league, recently organized a suffrage
league at Inkster, with the following
officers President, Miss May Critten-
den; vice president, Mrs. Richmond:
secretary treasurer, Miss Myrtle Piff-
ner. - ~ ,-s." .,-
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Miss. ;Aldyth Ward completed; anoth-
Or suffrage. organization at Ryder, last
week with officers as follows: q Presi-
dent, Mrs. B. A. Dickinson; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. T. H. Bracelen; secretary,
Miss Margaret Campbell; treasurer,
Miss Alma Moe. -" ...-}.;::: ~
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-10-23

Mrs. E. M. barrow, president of the
North Dakota Votes for Women lea
que, spoke last night at Lakota, Leeds
and Minnewaukan before going to the
federation meeting at jamestown. .az5i
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-10-23

The North Dakota Votes for Women
league has placed q large sign at the
triangle, where the Great Northern,
Milwaukee and Northern Pacific main
line and Southwestern cross near
Fargo Fifteen trains q: day pass the
place and no one, can fial toIsee the
big advertisement. s,.a 81. = sa&x
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-10-23

Letters have been sent to the candi-
dates for the legislature asking their
position on the question of woman
suffrage. The replies received up to
date have been favorable with but one
exception. A number declare they
were opposed to woman suffrage until
recently. The consensus of opinion
among the men is that victory is com.
ing. III. 3.:: s.s:.$ q.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-10-23

. A suffrage debate is scheduled in
Mayville for the near future. Mrs. j
N. Greenburg of California will sup.
port the affirmative. g.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-10-23

Mrs. Lille B: Bowers is giving inter
esting suffrage lectures illustrated by
stereopticon along the main line of
the N. P. from Fargo t04B Beach. II KILN :
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-10-23

Miss Olive Beldon Field, secretary
for North Dakota Votes for Women
league, has spent the past week
speaking for suffrage in Divide and
Burke counties. Next week she will
be in Williams, Mckenzie and Noun
trail counties. s. II. '3 II ss5 s:s.sr Il
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-10-23

Mrs. Kate s.. Wilder Of Fargo Is Ilay.
ing fine suffrage meetings in the north.
iern and central parts Of the state. At
Cooperstown she spoke at the schools,
on the street, and in the evening to a
large audience at the opera house.
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4 Feeu Leading
Questions On
Votes for Women

sons to the state-may they not vote
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following. a mastery address by
Jane Adams in Boston she invited
questions from the audience. When
asked, What effect has the women's
vote had on the temperance questisa
lin Illinois?' she quickly replied, "The
temperance people won out. in almost
every county Her reply to the
query, & do the liquor interests oppose
equal suffrage? ?" was brief and com
prehensiye es, everywhere #