Evening journal., 1914-11-30
MRS. HALE Predicts
Votes FOR WOMEN
Says "Antis" Attitude Only
HurrieS the Day of Equal
Suffrage
OPPOSE WAR
AT ANY TINE

Declaring that woman should have
the vote if for no other reason than
that she wants it, and that il was not
Just that the whole race should be
represented by only one half of its
members. Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Rob
ertsOn Hale, who spoke on Equal suf-
frage at the Pythian Castle on Satur-
day evening presented speech that
proved interesting and logical In every
detail and one that held the close in
terest of a large and enthusiastic aud
ience throughout the entire evening.
Woman" said Mrs. Hale, Should
have the vote if for no other reason
than she wants it, Children are made
to go TO school whether they want to
or not, and so woman should also be
made to go to school, Another thing
is IL just that the whole race should
be represented by only one half of it,
Do not women count as human beings
quite as much as do the men? If so,
then why should men only be priv
legged TO vote and the women who work
just as hard, form just as important
a part in the world, and entertain
| quite as much interest in affairs gem
orally, why ! ask, should they be de-
prived of this right? If it is necessary
for the men to be represented, then it
! certainly is just as necessary for the
women to be represented.
Proceeding, Mrs. Hale, whose every
word was accompanied by exceeding
ly graceful and easy gestures that
added much TO the general effective
ness of her speech, called attention
81,
stand for spiritual things and so ma
turally they would seek for better
laws and better government gener-
ally
woman is spiritual. She stands
high. and standing high, she natur-
ally stands for the general uplift Of
the race and for higher things"
Tho Friends, said Mrs. Hale, were
among the first to endorse suffrage;
now various churches and other or
ganizations have endorsed IL, where
! by the movement has grown with
leaps and bounds within the last gem
! Grafton. The recent endorsement of
suffrage by the National Grange, was
an interesting feature. declared Mrs.
Hale, as was also the endorsement
OF it by the National Woman's Trade
Union and the Federation of Woman s
Clubs. which proved exclusively that
both the home woman and the work
ing woman wanted IT,
In speaking OF the "Antis," Mrs. Hale
declared that they represented only one
f, type Of woman and that was the con.
i servatively wealthy. Mrs. Hale addeC
that had she to choose between tn,
wealthy woman and the working cir
D she would choose the working girl as be
a ing of more actual good in the world
= However" continued Mrs. Hale, 81
. is opposition that makes a thing thirty
and so the 'Antis,' instead of hinderinl
our cause, help us"
Dwelling on this point for momen
Mrs. Hale called attention to the ten
hour law, the child labor and tn,
minimum wage laws. These laws. sh,
declared to be true examples of th'
sort of laws that women are interested
in.
1T is folly for woman to close hei
eyes to suffrage and to blindly refuse
to see any good In It, for it is only
a question of time when she has gof
TO know all about IL. Men claim tha
a large percentage Of the women are
illiterate and that women as q class