The Washington herald., 1914-12-20

of thousands of dollars and such hard
ships and humiliations as they have en-
iured in thirty or forty State campaigns
and have just passed through In seven.
In the words of Margaret Foley. who
has recently returned from Nevada:
II sometimes slept In sheds without any
bedding and with no locks on the doors,
/ went 2.50o feet underground in the mines
where Il Is 50 hot miner can work only
fifteen minutes at time. Often I reached
a little town at a. m. to find Indians
lurking around the station. One night
had TO take a fifty-mile ride across the
desert with two drunken cowboys in the
automobile. l went sometimes for a week
with no sleep except such snatches as
I could get sitting In a train. and often
knew what It was TO be hungry and with
out food"
When Miss Anne Martin, president of
the Navada association. who had worked
over three years without ceasing. called
on President Wilson a few days ago to
urge a Federal amendment and he offer
ed the usual platItude. 81 believe the
suffrage should come State by State, >
she answered: ''The referendum CAM
paigns are killing the workers"
The leaders of the Anti-saIoon League
are now in Washington pleading for a
fights take TO long," and yet they have
been in this work only a few years and
have an immense voting constituency
back Of them. The suffragists have car
ried on the struggle for nearly half a
century, representing a body OF vote
less constituents.
Imagine the position OF the Prohibi-
tionists and anti-saloon leagues at the
close OF the recently bIttery fought cam
paigns in Ohio II they had not been able
to cast a single vote on election day!
And yet that was the condition of the
women In Ohio and the other six States
and in all the campaigns WHICH have
preceded. There are no other citizens
in this so-called republic so utterly help
less in a political sense and they never
will cease 10 besiege the Congress until
II affords the only relief within its power
and enables them to carry their case
TO the legislatures instead Of the electo-
rates.
Give Votes TO FIlipinos.
Hear the noble appeal of the Presi-
dent Of the United States for the deep
ly wronged and oppressed Filipino
brethren:
And there is another Ereat piece OF
legislation which awaits and should re-
ceive the sanction OF the Senate; / mean
the bill which gives a larger measure
of self-government to the people OF the
Philippines. How better. in this time OF
anxious questioning and perplexed policy
could We show our confidence in the
principles of liberty
The President and his Congress could
show their confidence in the principles
Of liberty much more consistently by
granting "a larger measure OF self
government" to American women
Twelve years ago Congress. with this
sanction OF President Roosevelt. freely
gave to thousands of half-civilizec
Filipino men the right of representa-
tion which il uncompromisingly denied
! to the women OF the United States. anc
while still refusing them this riGh
| il is now on the eve on enfranchisinI
the rest Of those men, the most oi
whom are totally unqualified for thu
higher duties Of citizenship.
Il would he "A great piece of leEis
| lation." says the President in his mes
! sage. while he turns aside for a mo
ment to tell his own countrywomeI
! to peg away for another half centur!
until the conglomerate mass of voters
| in States like New York, Pennsylvania
and New jersey see 1T to grant then
"a larger measure of self-government.
1 In his next message the Presiden
| may be counted on to use his felicitou
rhetoric in an appeal for still create
political rights for Porto Rican men
They already have universal suffrag
and elect their legislative ASSEMBLE
and municipal officers, but our govern