Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-13
Gen. Resale Jones
Talks on Suffrage

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Talks on Suffrage
Miss Rosaiie Jones of New York,
whom her suffrage friends delight to-
call General Jones' because of her
leading the force Of mixers who trav-
eled to Washington some months ago
to impress upon the president and
congress the need of Legislative action
in the interests of equal suffrage.
spoke to a fairly good-sized audience
at the court house square Monday
evening. She was introduced by Hon.
Geo. w. Case,
Miss Jones is a young woman of
pleasing personality. She speaks
with ease and has u good voice for
outdoor speaking, although not very
powerful, vet It is quite penetrating,
although pleasant,
She briefly traced the movement
for suffrage, referring to the time
when W in England the common
laborer had no voice in governmental
affairs, Step by step suffrage has
been enlarged until, in most civilized
countries, and especially in the Unit
ed States, about every sort of person
living above the age of twenty-one has
the right to vote except the women.
But there are many states in the
United States which have granted
suffrage to women. They Include
Colorado, Kansas, Illinois (which re-
Gently extended suffrage to women,
Oregon, Wyoming, Washington, and
several other states.
Miss Jones called attention to the
former vote on the suffrage question
in South Dakota, when the matter OF
extending the right to vote was be-
fore the people. There were two
propositions-one giving the male In
dams the suffrage, and the other
granting such right to women. The
Indians won out while the women.
lost. She said she was reminded of
what an old Indian chief said to her
some time ago in Montana where she
addressed audiences This old In
dian said he was against equal u
frage because the women didn't know,
enough to vote. q am told" said
Miss Jones, that in Montana, and
sometimes elsewhere the Indian vote
sometimes quite hight
The speaker said she was pleading
for the large number of women who
have become important factors in the
commercial world, and for the eight.
million five hundred thousand women
who work; for the women teachers
who + charged with the RESPONSE
bilities of directing the education of
the children; for the mothers of the
land, who come much more in contact
with the children than do the fathers;
for the cause of education and for the
right OF the mothers to have a voice
in determining the educational poll
cies of the land and in directing how
the money shall be spent and how
much Of 1t shall be appropriated for
the AUS of education.
The factory girls of New York.
said the speaker, to the number of
forty thousand, once upon a time
waited upon the mayor of New York,
asking for his cooperation In the en-
actment OF a certain law desired in
the interest of the factory workers.
The mayor expressed his sympathy.
but asked the girls what element OF
the voters, the electorate, was back
ing them. Why said the girls, no
body is backing us--nene lot the yot-
ers are helping us. Then. replied
the Official, II fear you will have no
more influence at Albany than forty
thousand mice" Had those factnrv
girls the right to vote, said Miss
Jones, their petition would have been
heard and legislators would have been
quick to respond to their lust de-
mands.
Colorado, she said, is sometimes re-
ported to be the worst governed state
IN the union, yet women have bean
voting there for twenty years On.
ponents of equal suffrage freo1entIv
point to Colorado as an example Of
woman suffrage, as they see ii. Yet
SAID the speaker, not very long q an
association of International ren,1ta
sent out a delegation whose special
rpo was to ascertain what prov
inces or states or nations had the
most wholesome laws with regard IA
conditions surrounding the children
as to child labor, and matters NOR.
tanning to the rising generation. and
TO report such facts as the inyestiga.
! disclosed. The unanimous cnn.
0I5lnCRTnl.
tional workers was that Colorado "a
an the civilized world, had the most
wholesome laws along the lines sug-
gested And these laws are enforced
snetsald as the committee in question
reported. Their enactment was dne
70 the influence of the women Of the
stare and their enforcement is due to
LIZ aeeiYlIy and the alertness of the
women Of the state. If woman sur
has accomplished nothing in
Colorado but the placing Of these
wholesome regulations upon the stat.
ute IT has wrought a good work. said
Miss Jones.
After urging the men Of the state
to vote at the election in Noyemher
Tor the constitutional amendment
granting to women full franchise. as-
suring them such action would result
u benefiting not only the women of
the state. but likewise themselves a
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