The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-09
Women Could Have Prevented
the European War
II They Had . Vote, Said Major
A. M. Harvey.
SPOKE At NEBRASKA FAIR
TOpekan Was Main Speaker on
Suffrage Day.
Kansas Men and Women Unite
in Nations Welfare.

Lincoln, Neb, Sept. IF the
mothers of Europe had a voice in
government thee would be no war in
Europe today"
This was the statement made here
today by Major A. M. Harvey of To-
peka in the main address on suf-
frage day at the Nebraska site fair.
"A most heartrending war is now
in progress in Europe. Heartrending
because Of the loss Of .-,e and prop
erty but Lore distressing because it is
a breaking down of civilization" con-
tinued Mr.. Harvey. "Some place the
blame on the German emperor-oth-
ers on Great Britain, France or Rus
STA would not waste time trying
to locate the blame because the trail
OF tho serpent is over them ALL
Tho citizenship has been shut out
Of the councils Of these nations and
this il tho crime that has brought ON
the war. Tho male voters might have
stood for the war II they had been
consulted. I doubt it very much.
The women voters would have stood
for peace. There Is no doubt about it.
eff the mothers Of England.
France, Germany and Russia had a
voice in their governments there
would be no war.
Greetings from Kansas.
"Kansas women have v>ted In
school and municipal elections for
many years and two years ago they
were given complete franchise. They
duties as voters in a quiet. dignified
and Intelligent manner so that every
department Of our state and local gov
eminent has been benefited by their
sugKestions, their wisdom and their
industry.
EVERY stock objection that have
ever heard to woman's suffrage can
be disprovcd in Kansas. There is no
jostling. Ill treatment or embarra =
ment at or around polling places. The
good women and the so called better
element turn out to vote In. larger
proportion than any other. Women
do not neglect the home duties Tor
politics but do devote much Of their
social activities to the study OF pub
lie questions and public characters
A few card clubs and other organiza-
tions of amusement ay have sur
fered because of the interest women
have taken in public affairs but this
has injured no Ole.
kansas men and Kansas women
are a unit in urging that Nebraska
fall in line as one OF the states that
gives the women the highest honor
she can have as Citizen tsrf,
Our Nations Ideal
.
"our nations ideal is the equality of
man and all of our achievement and
real progress have come from our
struggle toward more perfect liberty
more perfect equality. In this great
march toward the beacon light of our
ambition we have established public
schools and universities; We have re-
moved property qualifications for vot-
ers; we have enacted laws to prevent
the destruction Of opportunity in bust
ness and commerce and we have en-
gagged in q great civil war to destroy
the institution of slavery. The civil
war came on-not to benefit the black
man, nor the white man-but because
men came to realize that in the on
ward march Of our civilization slav-
cry was a lion in the way and that
slavery must die II a nation founded
upon the doctrine of human equality
would live. ~
But notwithstanding all our SOL
diery, all our wars, and all our laws,
the greatest force in our onward
march has come from service together,
sacrifice together and the honest COM.
radeship that comes to men and
women when each and all are conse-
Grated to some great purpose.
IA picket frozen on duty, a mother
starved for her brood,
Socrates drinking the .remlock. and
Jesus on the rood
And millions who humble and name
less. the straight hard pathway
trod.
Some call it conservation, but others
call it Cod"