The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-08-21
VOTING WOMEN
WOULD CHECK
WARPROGRESS
Miss Georgia Alexander Says
Enfranchised Wives Will
Rear Men Who Will ELM
mate Fighting.

Had the women of Europe known
political conditions they wouid nave
reared a race of men who Wouio nave
settled disputes without war. Tnls was
the argument of Miss Alexander Aoi
suffrage.
Women suffrage is coming. preolcI
there Is going to come in the next ie"
years a federal amendment giving
women the right to vote. l 40 not oe-
lieve we will get it during TINS con.
gress but l do believe we VIII get IL
in the near future"
Prof Frank G. Pickell, principal Oh
the Richmond High school, INTRODUCED
Miss Alexander. This is one OF tne
most significant meetings. ne sau
''tha: you have had in this or an!
other chautauqua. believe it to be
the first meeting in which equai SUI
frage has been discussed.
Miss Alexander is supervising prln'
cipal Of instruction in the indianapolis
public schools and Is member OF the
state board of the Indiana Suffrage
League She began by saying that the
state organization is counting upon
this part of the state to give major
ity to the cause. "In due time, she
said, you will have a chance to vote
on it not only in Indiana but IN the
country. And we are going to get IT.
No Demand Exists.
81 am glad President Wilson turned
down the women who asked him 10
take stand for suffrage. l am sure ne
believes in it but that he thinks the
time is not yet right for it. In otne:
words, there is not a demand for 1t
This means we women must create
that demand and I am asking you this
afternoon to help do that.
Every woman is mother potential
Never was there a great man beside
whom there was not mother stand
ing from beginning to the end.
zone Of the things that makes me
sad about this European war is thai
while men have made the weapons
women have made the men. Science
will be put back century by tina
struggled am sure that If women I'm
derstood the economic and politica
conditions better, they would hav'
brought up a generation of men tina
could have settled their difference
other than by war.
zone of the things that discour
ages us in Indiana is that condition
in this state are so good. Women hav
so many rights here which they d.
not have in other states, they do no
feel that spirit of rebellion which ha
driven them to storm for suffrage il
less fortunate commonwealth. A
Charity Dye said the other day, Ind
ana will be the last to come in.
Needs Constitution.
Indiana needs more than anythin
else a new constitution. October l
will be constitutional convention da
and I hope you will do all you can o
that day to agitate in favor Of suf
rage. With our present constitution
the law Ia that a new amendment cal
not be considered so long as an oil
one is pending. The lawyers have a
amendment which has been hangin
fire for twenty odd years. In this wa,
they have plugged up the avenue to u
women and 1t looks impossible for u
to have the question put to vote s
long as the present constitutio
stands.
There are two reasons why wal
woman suffrage. One is that I mu:
protect myself, as a wage Garner an
as a taxpayer. Why is it that worne
teachers do not receive as much pa
as men teachers, even though they d
the same work? Many teachers in tn
country get less money than it cos
to keep a prisoner in the county pa
Some say that women are gossi
ers and deceivers and superficial al
that, therefore, they would not be alb
to discharge the duties of the ira
chise. Women are no worse than me
in this regard. 1t is simply their e
virOnment that has made them so. "
have an ever growing class of wome
in our present day society who a,
parasites. They live without work ar
by the inevitable law of nature al
consequently degenerating.