Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-02-12
EQUALITY LEAGUE
HAS fine PROGRAM
Enthusiastic Meeting Of
Suffrage Advocates Held
in This City Yesterday.
MANY NEW MEMBERS.
"Tie Suffrage Movement i'm the United
States" Is Reviewed Most
Interestingly.
MANY NEW MEMBERS.

With quite a large attendance and
enthusiasm prevailing throughout, the
meeting Of the Political Equality
League held yesterday afternoon in
the assembly hall of the Chamber of
Commerce, served to create additional
strength. This was the fourth meet
ing held and it was matter of pride
that twenty new members were added
to the roll, bring the total enrolment
up to 76 members.
subject bearing on suffrage, under
consideration. The subject for this
meeting was "The Suffrage Movement
in the United States" in which the
details concerning the fight being
made by women for the ballot were
given Under this head, a paper was
read by Miss Willie Hooker on 1.-The
Extent and Effect of Equal Suffrage
in the United States" very fine pa
per, trimming with information and
facts. Mrs. r. H. Stearns read pa
per on "The History of the Movement
in Illinois," in which she told of how
$1,000 women had registered in Chi
cago alone and that this number ex-
ceeded by 10000 the number anticipat-
ed by the leaders of the equal suffrage
movement. Another paper, read by
Mrs. E. D. Russell on What the Pine
Bluff League Stands For was we'll
received, since it was intimately con-
nected with those present. Mrs. Rus
sells paper was as follows:
Mrs. Russelrs Address
The following address, on "What
Political Equality League Stands For
was made by Mrs. E. d. Russell,
chairman of the membership commit
tee:
when | invite people to become
members Of the Political Equality
League they invariably ask What is
it? What do you mean by Political
Equality Lacquer
"Political Equality League means
just one thing and stands for just
one thing and that is, that all citi-
zens shall have an equal voice in
government. That taxation without
representation is tyranny has been
taught so many years by Americans
| hesitate to put it in this speech.
Nor would | be understood as lntl-
mating that American men are
tyrants. Far from it; they are con-
ceded the best fathers in the world.
the best husbands in the world, the
best sweethearts in the world. II
they have been guilty of tyranny l.
is an oversight on their part; it is
because, the matter has never been
properly brought to their attention
So much has been written on why
women should or should not have the
ballot, | shall not attempt to add
anything new, but simply this:
"The fact that women are public
spirited and wish to vote does not
mean that they desire to do the work
of men nor that they wish to take
over mems Affairs. They merely want
an opportunity to do their own work
and to take care of those affairs
which naturally and historically be-
long to women, but which are being
constantly overlooked and sighted.
after all, womans simplest duty
one would say, is to keep her mouse
clean and wholesome and to feed hel
children properly. Now can she dc
this without some conscience in re-
gard to public affairs lying outside
her immediate household. To turn
the administration Of our civic al
fairs wholly over to men may meal
that our American cities Will con
tinue to push forward industrially
| and commercially, but continue to lag
behind in those things which make {
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en- have in any sense been response
BILE for the gentle side of life which
softens and blurs some of it's harsh
er conditions, may it not be that She
has duty to perform in the govern
ment of our cities: Now IT woman
would fulfill her traditional RESPONSE
bilities to her children, If she would
bring the cultural forces to beal
upon our materialistic civilization
and if she would do it all with the
dignity and directness fitting one wht
performe her immemorial duties
then she must bring herself TO- thu
use of the ballot-that latest nipple
ment of self government.
MAY we not fairly state ina
American women need this nipple
ment to preserve the home?
believing this and believing tina
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