Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1914-01-21


the times. The movement shows i'm
petus from coast TO cosst-fron
Maine TO Florida, and from Maryland
10 California. We don't want TO see
Maryland tagging behind Her,
your women voted for State bonds,
They had intelligence enough TO vote
for that, but not for the men who
spent the money. Woman is man.
intellectual equal and should have
the ballot.
Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs, of Hi.
nois, one of the mixers from New
York TO Albany, and from Balti-
more to Annapolis, was introduced
and made such a thrilling, stirring,
toreeful speech, such as the walls
of the State House have not echoed
for decades. 1t is impossible to DO
Mrs. Stubbs credit in brief review.
She said so much "worth while. -
Women vote where they live. was
one cf the arguments she made, and
thus the old story of the disagreeable-
ness of women going to the polls has
nothing to it. If woman lives in
the slums, she votes in the slums.
II she lives in an aristocratic neigh
borhood, that is where she votes.
St. Paul in the first century, told
women to stay at home and ask her
husbands advice. Women were not
educated then. The average woman
of Greece could not read or write.
Now two-thirds of the graduates are
women, but few boys even graduate
from the high school. The education
of the twentieth century boy is super
fetal TO that of the twentieth cen
tury girl. Today if woman wants
to know anything she has to consult
the Dictic nary, not her husband.
Mrs. Stubbs challenged the men
present to give the derivation of suf
frage. Not a man accepted the
challenge. She told them it was
from the old Latin root Suffragium
which means the right to a voice.
We never changed the word tc good
Did English and we will go on using
the word suffrage and none other.
Mrs. Stubbs said women never take
graft and of course, no man in the
Maryland Legislature does. (Ladgh-
er.) We should DO less talking about
sex characteristics, she said, and
more about human attributes.
Women are merely in the kindergsr-
ten of politics now. You men have
had to wrestle with knotty problems.
We came out from England because
of the right of the colonies to govern
themselves, and this is the same
principle on which the women are
asking the right Of franchise. All
women don't want to vote, they say.
OF Iurse mott You can't expect for
1900 years to keep hammering at a
woman she can't and she must not do
a thing and then expect her to rise
up and do it, Today woman's place
is where her job is. Everything was
made in the home fifty years ago,
when our grandmothers spun the fax
to make our clothing, knitted the
stockings, canned all the fruit and
contributed to the State economics.
New factories do all this, and
womans place once in the home" is
now in the factories, in the schools.
Men took their home jobs from the n.
When 365 bakeries make our bread
we women have a right to say il
these bakeries shall be sanitary, and
the ballot is the only method OF ex-
pre- ssing our sentiments. Next year
we may fly in an aeroplane and de-
p)sit our ballot or sit at home and
push a button and vote. The manner
of voting will not always be the
same. There is a tariff on all we
wear, yet we have no voice in the
mstter. Everything is in politics
except the air we breathe, and they
haven't yet found a way to get that
in. Men from "the top" are the
worlds menace. not the simple peo-
pie. Any woman who Gays shs does
not want voice in the government
is not a good mother to the State.
The ballot is the only way to raise
her voice in protest of wrong-doing.
1t is the same old story-the Gov.
ernmsnt is by the CONSENT Ct the
Governed. They stepped iron, ar
absolute monarchy to a coni titutiona
monarchy, then a republic. and as a
republic we should have a voice in ths
government, IL it is by the consent Of
the governed. II we are going Il
change social conditions, we have go
to have better legislation. We want
the tool. We have been driving 4
nail with potato masher or rolling
pin long enough. Now we ask fol
the hammer. The ballot is the ham
mer and every guod citizen wants it
Nobody ever got what they wantet
without kicking for it.
Mrs. Stubs speech was hear
with marked attention, and punctuat
ed throughout with applause. 1
could not fsil to make a deep impres
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