Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-12
RALLY
BIC BOOST FOR
CAUSE HERE
Large Audience Enthusiastic as
Famous Leaders Urge Ballot
for Georgia Women.
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the city officials Of Chicago to inau-
gurate needed reforms; we petitioned
the City Council for things that the
people needed. We were heard with
amused tolerance, but were unheed-
ed, because we had no power to force
them to do what we wanted and what
the city greatly needed
Now It's Different.
Then last year women were grant
ed the ballot by the people of Hi
nois, and since then the city govern
ment of Chicago can not do too much
for women. They have established
every reform we have fought for;
they have been eager to ask us what
we want and how we want it, The
manner in which our requests have
been acceded TO since we got the bal
lot is little short Of miraculous.
Hospital reforms that had been
needed for 80 years were accomplish
ed within two months after women
got the vote; reforms have been inau-
gurated in the conduct OF the poor
houses; the Mayor has appointed ten
policewomen for duty at the parks
and, dance halls, and has graciously
offered to increase the number to rs.
We have obtained reforms in the ham
ding of garbage that have made Chi
cago cleaner, healthier city. and we
intend to go on and on until we have
secured all the reforms for which we
have fought for years"
Miss Adams warned the women's
clubs of the country that if they do
not indorse the suffrage movement
they may find themselves without a
purpose, for the reforms that hereto
fore have been advocated by the
clubs have been taken up boldly by
the suffragists and have been carried
through successfully wherever wom-
en- have been granted the ballot.
Sees Doom of Graft.
CLUBS can talk and meet and reso-
lutte and campaign until doom s-day,
said Miss Adams, without accom-
plishing anything, because they
haven't the power to force politicians
to establish reforms that will take
the graft out of their pockets. Only
through the ballot can women have
hand in the conduct of the af-
fairs of government. Woman SUI
frage will cleanse cities of graft and
corruption, it will establish reforms
when everything else has failed; i
is the salvation of American munich
palities."
Mrs. Laidlaw, in a stirring address
predicted that the ballot is coming
for the women of Georgia, and de-
clared that it is due the mothers tC
permit them to say in what manner
their children shall be reared, under
what conditions they shall live, ant
under what laws they shall be gov
erned.
1T is obvious that the good mother
will want to know about the condi
| lions at schools and the places O
! amusement that her children anC
other children must go to. The mod
ern mother is not content with III
knowledge that she has made life bet
| ter for her own children, but wants
to do as much for the children O
other mothers"
Miss Fuutz Reese pleaded for fai
play and justice. and declared tina
an examination Of women would SHOW
that they are as we'll is not bette
fitted for the ballot than the men.
Women Who Should Vote.
She outlined the women who shoul'
| be allowed to vote, as follows:
Women who pay taxes.
| Women who are consumers.
Working women, of whom there ar
| 5000. 900 in the United tSates.
The millions of mothers, upon whom
rests the responsibility of directing
| the lives of their children, withoI
having the right to say under VIVA
conditions they shall live.
The teachers who have the duty o
instructing 20,000,000 children in tn
problems of to-day. and yet who ca
not speak from actual experience.
Women from whom corrupt polit
zeal powers eXtort raft.
Miss Fuutz- Reese also explained tn
work of the Junior Suffrage Corp
and declared that every girl an
young woman should join the organ!
cation.
Referring to the frequently repeat
ed argument that women are no
qualified to vote, Miss Mary War
bennett, of New York, made the dec
laration that her sex already ha
overqualified.
ovement Misunderstood. \
at is not square deal to force u
to overuualify," she said. 1T is un
fair particularly in view Of the cas-
with which man may qualify. A
that he has to do is gently and noise
lesslv become Of age. The only wa
he can avoid It is to commit suicide
"One obstacle we have found i
our path is that the movement ha
been much misunderstood from tn
first. Even our slogan, Votes 70
Women, has been interpreted in un
enlightened communities TO mea