Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-12
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
OP[|FT RELATED
BY JANE ADDAMS
New Jersey Political Union
. Greets Chicago Woman and
u. S. Sen. ShafrOth.

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president of the National Women's
Suffrage Association, and noted set
tlement worker, and United States
Senator John Franklin Shafroth, of
Colorado. were the principal speakers
at a most successful meeting last
night in the New Auditorium. The
meeting was held under the auspices
of the New Jersey Women's Political
Union
The audience was one that filled the
auditorium completely. Every seat
was taken; the boxes were filled;
men and women crowded the stage
and every bit of available chair room
along the sides and in the gallery was
occupied.
1t was an audience composed of
home women entirely-the woman
who personally attends to her house.
hold duties and the girl who appa-
rently is not over interested In pubic
affairs.
The greeting given Miss Adams
was extremely enthusiastic and cor
dial. AS Miss Adams rose to speak
the audience rose to its feet, waving
handkerchiefs and cheering.
Miss Adams spoke for twenty five
minutes. She dealt principally with
her personal experiences in Chicago
recently, where 10000 women regis
tered a few days ago to vote at the
general election to be held shortly.
THE theory that chivalry departs
when women get the vote has been
Thoroughly exploded" said Miss
Adams. We in Chicago have expe-
vie Iot
haven't voted as yet"
The speaker told of a Miss McDow-
ell, who lives In the stock yards Sec
ton of Chicago, where the city dump
ing ground Is located. Each year for
fourteen years, the speaker said, Miss
Mcdowell has gone to the city health
department with view to having the
city discontinue dumping the garbage.
Each year for fourteen years Miss Nc
Dowell went to Europe and brought
back with hernew views of the garbage
disposal question. Nothing was ever
done until women got the vote, Miss
Adams said. Then the mayor ap-
pointed a garbage disposal commits
sion and Miss Mcdowell was placed
at its head.
I'm Chicago" Miss Adams said,
''the saloons close up at a. m. each
1 day, but any small crowd of men
may get together, form club and
get a government license to sell
liquor until o'clock. Dances are
held in these clubs and women and
young girls attend them. For years
we tried to convince the mayor that
women are needed at these places.
Nothing was done until recently
when the policewomen were created
and now since women have gotten the
vote, we have been asked to recon-
mend az many women for police
women as we think are needed"
THE Italian women the speaker
continued" took an extraordinary in
terest in registering for election day.
But they were at loss to know what
to do with their babies. They did the
most natural thing and brought them
along with them to the polling places.
And l, as judge, was obliged to an
swer no end of questions. They
wanted to know if this alderman
would vote for public wash houses,
or if that alderman would vote for
clean alleys or if this alderman
/ would vote to abolish dark rooms.
1t was most interesting"
Senator Shafroth, speaking of equal
suffrage, said it was simply an evo-
luton in government that is now
going on and that has been going
on since the beginning of civiliza-
ton.
Governments first started by the
power of one man. he said, by con-
quest and every person that was
within the jurisdiction had no rights
whatever, except those he had given
to him. Consequently kingships and
emperorships became the ruling gov
ernments and men began to say it
wasn't exactly right. They would
ask Why should one man govern
another man without that mans
consent?' Then they began to have
notifications of that form of gov
eminent.
I'VE then began to have what are
called limited monarchies. namely,
the people would rise and say: We
will not stand for the tyranny that
has been exercised; we will not per-
NIT these great outrages to be per-
petrated They would get a con-
cession from the crown, but they al
ways recognized that it was a conces-
sion; they recognized in that
concession the right of the crown be-
cause they got the grant from the
crown.
Then when we got over to this
country our pioneers began to rea-
son with each other; they began to
wonder why one man should govern
another. A republic grew out of this"
The speaker said that when the
people of this country decided on a
republic they announced the doctrine
that every believer in equal suffrage
ought to pronounce every day the dec
laration of independence. With that
declaration, he went on, it was inev-
liable that every man should have an
, equal right to vote and every wom-
an the same.
when ] ride on a New York street
car and see men sitting while wom-
en- stand. | feel like asking them to
come out to Colorado where women
VOTE said the speaker. There a
hundred men will stand up to every
one in New York"
The meeting was presided over by
Mrs Minnie J. Reynolds. On the plat
form with the speakers were: For
mer Governor John Franklin Fort,
Judge Patrick J. Dolan, John L. Arm
itage, William McTague, John ".
Diefenthaler, Bernard w. Terlinde
and others.