The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01
PROMINENT WOMEN
ATTEND CONVENTION
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The federation has been called the
older women's university and it is
well named. At the general fedora
ton l had the feeling that it was al
together like a college reunion where
the alumni had cast aside home
cares and have come back to then
alma mater.
Consolidation Of Schools.
II wish our federation would do
what it can to foster the consolida-
ton Of district schools. These schools
are found in large numbers in the
north OF this state but few in the
southern part of our state. Womens
clubs should interest themselves In
district schools as we'll as in city
schools. We have in Iowa few
rural clubs and l hope we will eh.
courage these. The women in tbs
country could receive as much bene-
fit from the club as well as city men.
Il wish further that a single stanu.
ard should be established for mel
and women in the business world as
we'll as in the moral code. We hear
wish to bring to your mind the fact
that there is a new man. Contrast
the man of today with the man whom
we find in fiction Of twenty years ago.
Contrast, too, the grandmothers of to-
day with those Of twenty years ago.
/ believe the womens clubs have KEEP.
women young and they have satisfied
that unsuitable desire to know.
Prepare for Ballot.
II wish to urge the women OF this
state to prepare themselves for the
wise use of the ballot am sure
women will vote on the right side on
moral issues. But We must look into
economic questions as we'll. Forty
percent of the railroad stock Of the
Pennsylvania road is owned by wo, y
en-; they own interests in all sorts OF
factories and business enterprises.
The men in these companies have
heretofore thought for the women.
Now she will have to think for her
self. Women wish the ballot but 1t
will bring much power and the use of
power is the supreme test OF charac-
ter"
The program closed with vocal
solo, "a Birthday" by Miss Baldwin,
accompanied on the piano by Mrs.
Cooper.
The Afternoon Meeting.
At half past two the delegation re.
turned to the Y. w. C. A. auditorium
for Mrs. Trout's lecture. In introdno.
ing Mrs Trout, Mrs. Ayres said:
Equal suffrage has become nation
al question and its adoption by GU,
sister state, Illinois, has brought It
very near to us. know you all wish
to hear something about it. We have
with us today one who is more large
ly responsible for its adoption in Illi-
nois than any other and who can tell
us all about it, I know. I have ths
great pleasure of introducing the
president Of the Illinois Equal Stuff
rage association. Mrs. Grace Wilbur
Trout, who will speak on Equal Suf-
frage from an American Woman's
Standpoint"
Mrs. Trout's Speech.
In her talk this Afternoon Mrs. Trout
said:
Equal suffrage has never been a
It is a human problem. The effects
Of equal suffrage will be just as bene-
fetal to men as they will be to wom-
en- What benefits a mans mother,
his sister, his wife, his daughter, ben
efits the man. Our interests are iden-
tical, they cannot be separated. Use
less. each without the other
"No one is opposed to equal suf-
frage. People are opposed to their
own wrong conceptions but not to
the great principle itself. Every day
men and women tell us that in the
past they have been opposed to suf-
rage, simply because they did not
know for what it really stood, but
that now they are for equal suffrage.
If the world had never changed It's
mind on great questions, we would
TODAY be cave-men and cave-women,
living back in the darkest of dark
ages.
Men Not Always Voting.
'Tn considering this question too, it
is we'll to remember that men have
not always voted. Back In history
there was a time when only the king
had a voice in the government. Then
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