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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14

people" and are claiming that rec
| ognition now and are securing 1t.
All persons born or naturalized in
| the United States, and subject to the
| jurisdiction thereof, are citizens OF
the United States and of the States
wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities
of citizens of the United States. -
Sec. l, Art. XIV.
American citizenship is clearly de-
fined "All persons born or natural
lied in the United States are
citizens Of the United States" Couple
this declaration with Section l, Article
XIV. of the Constitution and you have
another link in the chain:
1.-The right of citizens Of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by
any State
Having established the conditions
of citizenship, and the further facts
that neither the United States nor
any state has power to abridge or
deny the right to vote to American
citizens, the blunt fact remains that
womans disability under the Con-
stitution arises solely under Section 2,
Article XIV, which is clearly at
variance with Section of that
article and of Section Of Article XIV,
as we'll as a clear violation of the
fundamental principle that govern
ments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed"
But when the right to vote at any
election is denied to any of
the male inhabitants of such State
the basis of representation
shall be reduced"
Under a limited suffrage the con-
tention that the right to vote Is not
necessarily citizens right, and that
the suffrage is a political and not
a civil right" might be tenable, but
in relation to American citizenship,
under the doctrine that governments
derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed" Is un-
tenable.
The opponents of woman suffrage
are therefore forced to take refuge
under the injected word male" of the
fourteenth amendment, which was
enacted as 4a'gpossible means of fore
ing the Southern States to recognize
the civil and political right of our
negro citizens to vote.
Anti-suffragists are forced to face
the issue: They must plead an en-
ab1ing act for our negro citizens as
the ONLY CONSTITUTIONAL DIS
ABILITY AGAINST THE CLEAN.
MORAL, INTELLIGENT WOMEN
CITIZENS OF AMERICA TO VOTE.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Political Rights of Women in the Past

even when married, no matter what
their rank. That doctrine, confirmed
by the code of st. Louis, is general.
A woman possessed of q fief exer-
cised the right to hold courts both Of
first instance and of appeal, to coin
money, to levy troops, to serve in
person her suzerain, if she so willed."
Instances in proof will occur to
the memory. The countess of Elan
ders sat with her peers in the trial
of the count of Clermont by st. Louis,
king of France. The Countess Ma
tilda nobly served her suzerain, the
great st. Gregory, patron of this as
ISOLATION. The pages of medieval
French and English history are full
of similar instances. King Louis 10
Jeune, in a letter to the vicomtesse
of Marbonne, recognized the right of
women to administer Justice. Out of
forty-eight great fiefs of France only
one excluded women from the council
of state; that was the lie de France,
a dependence of the king, and, con-
sequently, under the Salic law; but
be 1t remembered that France itself
was alone in imposing the Salic law,
and France, even while refusing to
women succession to the throne,
placed In their hands the regency
with powers as great as royalty itself
could possess.
Those who appeal to tradition, then
to justify the refusal to women of
| the suffrage are thereby convicted OF
| ignorance. For Catholics such an
appeal is an Indication of abysmal
| ignorance. The times of which we
| have been speaking were Catholic.
Furthermore, it may be a surprise,
| but it is, nevertheless, fact, that
even today In the great diocese OF
| Turin, Italy and in many of the
Catholic cantons of Switzerland
| Catholic women as well as their men
folks vote for the parish priest, and
| the bishop is obliged to confirm the
| candidate so elected by the votes OF
the women as well as those of men.
unless he can find some canonical
ground for his refusal, and then the
election must be held again by iden-
tically the same electors.
If the Catholic church allows WON
en- to vote for an office of such tire
mendous responsibility as that In
volving the care of souls, who Will
presume to say that she is Of neces-
sity opposed to women voting Tor
merely political officials?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
WAR.

No woman of any brains, any education, any in
telligence or any sense view the present Euro
pean situation without feeling the deep conviction
borne in upon her that this man-made world is all
wrong.
We live In q mans world. 1t is men who fix
the conditions of life; who control government and
finance the conditions of industry the price of living
the monopoly of necessities the declaration of war
and peace
This mans civilization has broken down in Europe
1t has resolved itself into barbarsm We read In
school books of the Goths and Vandals, of the wild
Huns who swept down from the shaggy forests and
destroyed the civilization that lay below 1t bored us
1t was all long ago. Today we see it repeated
All the intervening of civilization have done
nothing to prevent It, They have served only to
abe death engine of men with every cruel mechanism
which keen inventors devise to kill. The Goths
and vandals killed with their brawny right arms
Men today kill by machinery.
And yet who furnishes the material for these
warsY Women. Who provides the millions of men,
showed out for cannon food? Men bear arms-but
women bear armies"
"The Meuse is choked with bodies" reads press
dispatch "Its bloody waters actually rising on
their banks damned by the corpses that choke the
stream"
And each one of those piteous bodies brought
into the world by some woman with pain and anguish,
yet with and hope; brought into the world to use
for cannon food
1t is idle for today to assume an attitude of
lofty superiority, II incapable of COM
pretending the mysterious reasons of state which
render this slaughter There is no reason
of state which renders 1t Wars of defense
are necessary No of aggression between civilized
nations is today necessary Wars of aggression are
undertaken to gain advantage That advantage
can be only territory money. What territory and
what money compensate for this slaughter of
population this destruction of homes and property,
this creation of an inferno of hate and agony?
Women not ignorant fools. We have read a
little history. We know that after the last great war
lord of Europe had covered continent with slaughter
after the tumut and the shouting died, the map of
Europe remained practically the same. few miles
of territory and there detached from country
to be added another; few changes in governments
and reignng houses-and lonely figure on st.
Helena That was all that remained to tell the tale
of the greatest military genius the world has seem
1t will be the this time After slaughter,
slaughter. intermnabe slaughter the map of Europe
will remain about the And II 1t should be
changed; even II France should be dismembered
even II French civilization after thousand years OF
history should finally pass away from earth, what
would the world gain? What would the mothers OF
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Handwriting on the Wall

In the nine equal suffrage States
there are 1,99s,073 women voters. In
Illinois, where the women may vote
in national elections, the number is
1857, 491, making total of 1885, 1854
women in the United States now
qualified to vote for President. It is
entirely within the possibilities that
the additions of 1914 and 1915, where
campaigns are in progress, may bring
the number up to 100000, Should
that be so, 300 of the 531 electoral
votes in 1916 will be cast from States
In which women vote.
Tt is these facts which make equal
suffrage one of the questions of the
day. and which compel for 1t con-
sideration on the part of political
parties and the men who run the
same, even outside the suffrage
States,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
KEEP YOUR EYE ON ARIZONA.

In the Suffrage star OF OctoDer 20, I51z, Ine Iol-
lowing editorial printed:
KEEP YOUR EYE ON ARIZONA.
"The most anxious politician in these last strenuous
days of the campaign cannot find his thoughts dwell
ing on election day with more painful intensity than
the suffragiss of the country In five States the men
will vote on equal suffrage November 5, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Kansas, Oregon and Arizona. The role of
political prophet is risky one, and the Suffrage Star
is young and innocent child to play it. But
keep your eye on Arizona. All the parties have in
dorsed the suffrage amendment in Arizona. So they
did when in Colorado, Utah and Idaho Ari-
IONA is one more of that group of Rocky Mountain
States which led the world in enfranchising their
women. If only State should come in, we put our
money Arizona If another comes it will probably
be either Oregon Kansas We are afraid Wisconsin
and Michigan too far east this year. The suffrage
germ has never jumped that far yet If we are able
to sew just star the suffrage flag Novem-
Der the sufragists of this country will not ask for
any other Christmas present"
The editor has always been rather proud of that
prophecy. Arizona came in she prophesed Ore
gon and Kansas both came in as she suggested Wis
consin and Michigan both failed, she foretold
Now we are going to try it again. On election day
in November the men of six State will decide by
their votes whether their shall have the same
political rights as Observation-Disclosures Nebraska
Montana, North and South Dakota and Missouri.
We think Missouri will fall cole Mizzoo' is too
far south for the to jump yet We consider the
Dakotas doubtful True, the suffrage germ has jumped
that far east since last prophecy Illinois granted
her women suffrage in presidential and almost all
other elections in 1913. Nevertheless, we think the
Dakotas doubtful. We believe Nevada, Nebraska and
Montana will carry, and that despite the fact that
every evil element in the life of those three States is
arrayed against the amendment
That will make thirteen States in which women
will vote for President The granting of votes to
women In three States on election day, 1872 had an
influence in passing bill at Trenton dur
ing the following winter. The granting of votes to
women in three States next November will have
an equal influence In passing bill at Trenton again
next winter and at the polls next fall Nothing can
permanently Withstand the psychological effect of
success
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14

Rev. Joseph M. Gleason--The Cath
Ollie church teaches, above all things,
reverence for women and veneration
for motherhood; but there is no
danger of the dignity of womanhood
or motherhood to be feared from the
ballot. The fact that a woman is the
mother Of sons and daughters Will
tend to make her more careful IN
voting for the government under
which her children are to be reared
am looking at the question as a
priest of the Catholic church. we
need the women to hold back the
forces of corruption and give decency
and -mindedness a chance. She
should be mans equal not alone IN
the home, but in the body polite, and
she will. You might as well try to
stop the torrents Of Niagara as to
stop equal suffrage.
Right Rev. John Lancaster Spald-
ing, Roman Catholic archbishop.
Peoria, Ill-The experiment (of
equal suffrage) will be made, what
ever our theories and prejudices may
be. Women are the most religious,
the most moral and the most sober
portion of the American people. and
it is not easy to understand why
their influence in public life Is
dreaded.
Rev. J. w. Hamilton, Methodist
Episcopal bishop, Boston-I believe
the work for equal suffrage to be a
Christian work and l try to aid it
because I am a Christian minister.
always enjoy reminding people that
the first womans rights convention
in this country was held in Meth
odist church.
Rabbi stephen S. Wise, New York
city-A certain minister says women
ought not to vote because suffrage is
not a natural but a derived right.
SO is the right of children to COM
mon school education. SO n our
right to sanitary and police protec-
ton. It is not natural. Heaven did
not make policemen. But who
will say that girls should be shut
out from school or women from
police protection because 1t is not a
natural right?
Right Rev. Bernard j. McQuaid,
late Roman Catholic bishop, Roches-
ter, N. UT fills me with Joy when
think of the many changes that
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Suffrage School in Berlin

On october 10 the women's Politi-
cal Union of New Jersey will open a
suffrage school in the banquet hall
of Odd Fellows building, on Main
street, in Hackensack. This school
will run for five successive days, from
10 a. m to p. m. each day. The first
hour each day will be occupied by a
lesson in public speaking by Miss
Jennie Morrow Long, of New York.
Miss Long is one of the ablest teach
ers OF public speaking in the coun-
try, and has trained many speakers
for the various suffrage organizations
in the United States.
From IL to ~ each day there will be
a lecture on suffrage argument, in
which different phases of the question
will be handled by people who have
had the opportunity to study their
themes al first hand. Among the
speakers during this hour will be Miss
Cornelia Bradford, head of the Whit
tier House, Jersey City, one of the
most distinguished social workers in
the country; Professor William
Noyes. of Teachers College, New
York; Hon. Joseph Perkins Byers,
New Jersey State commissioner of
charities and corrections. and others.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Unsexed

1t doesn't unsex her to toll in a fac
tory
Winding the looms from the dawn
till the night;
To deal with a schoolfui of children
refractory
Doesn't unsex her in anyone's
sight;
Work in store-where her back
aches inhumanly-
Doesn't unsex her at all, You will
note,
But think how exceedingly rough and
unwomanly
Woman would be IL she happened
to vote!
To sweat in a laundry that's torrid
and torrider
Doesn't subtract from her womanly
charm;
And scrubbing the flags In an echo
ing corridor
j.. Doesn't unsex her-so where Is the
harm?
1t doesn't unsex her to nurse us With
bravery.
Looslng deaths hand from its grip
on the throat;
But ahl how the voices grow quivery,
quavery,
wailing: alas, twill unsex her to
vote!"
She's feminine still when she juggles
the crockery,
Bringing you blithely the order you
give.
Toll in sweatshop where life Is a
mockery
Just for the pittance on which she
can live
That doesn't seem to unsex her a
particle.
Labor Is noble"-so somebody
wrote
But ballots are known as a danger
Gus article.
the vote.
NIXON WATERMAN.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14

Extracts from an address by Rev.
Joseph p. Mcmahon, Phi. D., rector
OF the Church of Our Lady of
Lourdes, New Fork city.
What sound argument can be adj
vanced against the proposal to give
woman the right of suffrage? Surely
tho appeal to tradition, especially on
the part of Catholics, is pointless
and contradictory. For, first of all,
we must remember that the political
system of suffrage is altogether of
recent date, commencing practically
with the establishment of these
United States.
| In former times all governmental
offices were filled by the sovereign,
or by right of Inheritance or rank,
and voting was rarity. But where
| ever the right to vote did exist In
the great medieval corporations, for
examule, in cantonal, communal or
municipal affairs, women as such
were not excluded from voting
| There is on record, for instance, the
| details of an election in Montpelier
in 1884, and twenty per cent. Of the
voters were women. In almost every
country women had the right to vote
in communal affairs. In republics of
! the middle ages the officials of the
| communes were designated by lot ir-
respective of sex, usage that OBJ
tanned In Tuscany till 1849, and in
Lombardy until 1916.
| In the Franche- Comte women who
4 were landed proprietors assisted in
the legislative councils, and the con-
vocation writ of the famous States
General of 1880 is a proof that women
had the right to vote.
| According to feudal law a woman
possessed of a fief acquired all seign-
ioral rights. She could administer
and receive oaths, nominate officials,
assist at deliberative and legislative
assemblies.
Laboulaye cities marriage contracts
from the tenth and eleventh CEN
turtles that not only endow women
with property and administrative
rights, but also with proprietary
rights. Such rights included that of
voting. The early municipal Gus
toms of France. Spain and Flanders
gave women an independence greater
than they have ever possessed until
now. Laboulaye. who surely cannot
be accused of partiality to woman
suffrage, admits that women DUR
ing all the middle ages possessed en-
tire civic capacity, and preserved II
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14

The last hour each day will be oc-
cupied with talk on campaign meth,
DDS. Some Of the most experienced
suffrage campaigners in the country
will give these talks. Among them
are Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch. pres
ident of the Women's Political Union;
or New York; Resale Jones, the CIR
who led the hikes afoot to Albany
and to Washington; Mrs. Florence,
Maule Cooley, executive secretary OF
the Women's Political Union of New
York; Miss Emily Pierson, campaign
manager Of the Connecticut State
Suffrage Association, and others.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Bits Of Suffrage Verse
Logic

Logic
No, 1t isn't home-neglecting
IL you spend your time selecting
Seven blouses and a Jacket and
hat:
Or to give your day to paying
Needless visits, or to playing
Auction bridge. What critic could
object to that2
But to spend two precious hours
At lecture! Oh, my powersl
The home is all woman needs to
learn!
And an hour, or quarter,
Spent in votingi Why my daughter,
The home would not be there on
your return.
ALICE DUER MILLER.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Bloomfield Branch

Bloomfield branch was formed last
December and has been steadily
growing. Parlor meetings, musicales
teas and a large public evening meet
ing we're held. The plans for the fall
work have not been completed, but
include teas, musicales and parlor
meetings. with speakers. A benefit
in local moving picture house is also
planned. This branch is much en-
couraged with the support given in
Bloomfield.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Women and Wages in Jersey

There are 169,354 women employed
in New Jersey factories, of whom
PSI receive So a week OF less, 5,014
less than 81 a week, 14,05S less than
IS week, 29,s15 less than Sc a week,
AZ, 1872 less than 81 a week, and 54,6l3
this number of workers has no voice
in the making of the laws by which
they are governed, except where they
are organized in trade unions.-Union
Labor Bulletin, official organ of the
Essex Trades Council.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Cen CittIe limits

Ten little ants at the vote repine;
Wyoming came in, there nine
Nine little ants dread the voters fate;
Colorado ventured in, then there were eight.
Eight little ants hoped antis heaven;
Utah slipped n then there seven
Seven little ants put in their best ticks;
Idaho dropped in, then there were six.
Six little ants began to look alive,
Washington danced in, then there we're FIVE
Five little ants hope there1 be no more;
California pranced in then there were four
Four little ants, sad as they could be-
Oregon and Kansas came, then there were three.
Three little antis feeling very blue;
Arizona jumped in, then there were two.
Two little ants, sitting in the SUM-
Nebraska comm this year, then there'll be one.
One little anti that one too many;
Jersey on the band wagon, then there won't be any.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Freedom

or old sat Freedom on the heights,
And gave to kings her royal grace;
And common men, poor, luckless
wights,
Caught only glimpses of her face.
Then opened she her noble arms
And took her sons unto her breast;
Nor trembled she at wars alarms,
Nor feared the despot's wild unrest.
And now she stretches forth her
hand
To bring her daughters to her side;
And see, they come, a radiant band,
To take her blessing, long denied.
MINNIE ]. REYNOLDS.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Sauce for the Cander

They say If mother had vote,
The same as father, why,
She couldn't be a lady, quite,
No matter how she'd try,
Because she'd have, day after day,
To be a-thinking how
She then would run the government,
The same as pa does now.
Yet, though my father casts vote
Once every year, to me
He seems as nice and kind and good
AS any man can be.
Yet, if the ballot, as they say,
Would work my mother ILL.,
Perhaps without n father, too,
Would be lots nicer still
NIXON WATERMAN.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Can't Convince Him

Mrs Arthur NJ. Dodge, President
of the National Association Opposed
to Woman Suffrage, has nephew,
Mr.. Clarence P. Dodge, who lives in
Colorado, and edits the Colorado
Springs Gazette. She has been quite
unable to convince him that equal
suffrage Is either useless or undesir-
able. In letter to the editor of The
Woman's Journal, Mr.. Dodge says:
From my experience as a member
of the State Legislature, personally
believe womans suffrage has helped
Colorado tremendously"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
Where Is Her Home?

l believe emphatically that wom-
ans place is home; but where Is her
home? Mine is all the ways from
Boston to San Francisco, and from
Canada to the Gulf. The question g
not what a woman should be allowed
to do but can she do 1t properly? In
this reform (woman suffrage) homo
is the very watchword, for all the
interests of the home, and all the
evils that affect the home, are largely
dependent upon politics. Women not
only should have the power to deal
with these, but they could WELD it
effectively.-Maud Darlington Booth.
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Out of His Line.

The hostess asked the solid man OF
ner guest list to take a talkatVe
young woman in to dinner. The CIR
ala her best to keep up the converse
ton. ranging from Wall Street to the
mexican war and back. Only once die
the solid man desert the unfailine
affirmative and that was when shr
asked; DO you like Beethoven 3
Piled What does he manufacture 2
Exchange.
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Some Are Quite Nice

A fearful sight Is the suffragette
AS in cartoon she's often met.
In life she's mother, wife or sister.
Perhaps as sweetheart you have
kissed her.
Do your own thinking when you're
met
BY another mans view of the suffra-
gette.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
rHE suFFRAGE VOTE IN CHICAGO.

Women at the Illinois primaries this week had
little incentive to go the polls they could vote
only for minor and local Offices, but in Cook county,
which comprises Chicago, they cast 10000 ballots,
which was about 25 per cent of the entire vote The
conclusion seems to be that when get the
full franchise they will be a deciding factor in a
campaign At least. that is the the advocates of
equal franchise look at it.