Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-10-28
SnTraee Notes.

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DIR. Anna Howard Shaw. president Of
the National American Woman Saf-
frage Association, declares that the
check" in New Jersey viii inevitably
drive the women to Congress to ask for
the franz ise she said:
THE defeat in New Jersey viii give
an immense impetus 10 the work OF
the National American Woman SUI
frage Association for the Federal gov
ernment. Experience has shown that
sunragists thrive on defeat. There is
no instance where the women have not
come back the next day with fresh
vigor for the fight. and in the case of
New Jersey, since it must be five years
before another state amendment can
be submitted. it is perfectly logical to
assume that they should turn their
energies into the other big avenue,N
pressure upon Congress to give them
what the State has refused.
"This defeat in New Jersey viii not
reduce the congressional vote for the
Federal amendment Missouri, defeat
ed last fall by three times the majority
eleven of her sixteen congressional
votes for the Federal amendment in
January. Michigan. which has had
more than one suffrage defeat, gave
nine of her thirteen votes for the
amendment The fact that there was
a big majority against woman suf-
frage in New Jersey should not OBJ
scure the fact that there was a large
vote for it, and this vote cast in its
favor is something that the represen-
tatives i'm Congress, and politicians in
general, viii give heed to.
"A few weeks ago Mrs. Medill Nc
Cormick chairman of the National
Congressional Committee of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage As
sociation, reported gains to that date
for the Federal amendment, which
brought the count up to two hundred
and six votes, and these gains did not
represent the campaign states. Since
that time, other states have been heard
from. and we shall announce, i'm a few
days, increased totals which we think
will interest the public greatly"
The Mayor OF Atlantic City, n. j., is
a strong advocate of woman suffrage.
When a block of shops which he own
ed on the boardwalk burned down re
Gently, the Mayor had a large sign
board erected in the center of the lot
on which is painted; THE owner of
this property is in favor of equal suf-
frage votes for women. Think of
your mother and then so to the polls
on October 10 and vote TO give them
the ballot
Norway, Finland and Denmark have
enfranchised women and the women of
Sweden are becoming anxious to have
the voteless state remedied. At re-
cent meeting of suffragists of thtat
country kilograms were sent to teh
King and to the Prime Minister ask
ing them to give the Swedish women
! the same political rights now enjoyed
I by women of the other northern coun-
! tries.
Condorcet, a French mathematician
and philosopher, is said TO have writ
ten the first book for woman suffrage
/ in 1897. In one sentence he put the
kernel of the while question as fol-
I lows. Either no individual member
/ of the human race has any equal rights
Z or else all have the same.
Speeches are being made through
out the four camiaign states in many
foreign languages. Women who can
speak French. German. Polish and Yid-
dish have offered their services and
are holding meetings every night in
the manufacturing towns.
For the first time in the history OF
the State, Massachusetts has appoint
ed woman as a member of the State
Board of Agriculture. Mrs. George s.
Iadd having been given this distinc-