Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-09-24
DR.. SHAW To END
CAMPAIGN HERE
Suffragists Busy in the City of
Late to Win Votes for the
Cause.

Ii AhHd IlOW dl u oAd W. Pi coAOchI
of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, who will be
the speaker at a suffrage mass meet
ing to be held in Palace hall next
Wednesday night, is one of the most
prominent women in the country to-
day and is well worth hearing, no
matter what your views on suffrage
may be. This Is one of the last big
meetings which Dr. Shaw will hold
in New Jersey this fall.
''At the beginning Of the summer"
says DR.. Shaw, 81 pledged myself to
give thirty speeches apiece to each
of the four campaign states, but
have made more than that number
of speeches in New Jersey, because
feel that the campaign in this state
is one of the most important In suf-
frage history. New Jersey stands
at the turning point and may be the
first state to direct the tide of wo-
man suffrage from the west to the
east"
A little while ago New Jersey
man, who said he had not entirely
decided whether he should or should
not vote yes on woman suffrage on
the 18th of October, came to see DR..
Shaw.
Would it not be unfair to give
women the vote when the majority
of them don't want it?7 he asked.
81 am not sure said Dr. Shaw,
that the majority of women do not
want the vote, but there would be
nothing unfair about giving it to
them If the majority did not want it.
If the majority do not want it they
need not have it, for the vote is not
thing that any one has to have
if she does not want it. No man
votes unless he wants to. The vote
will not be thrust upon anti-suffra-
gists. Nobody could thrust 1t on me
if l did not want the vote. l should
not vote-that is ALL
But" said the New Jersey man,
lis not such an attitude in itself a
menace?'
NO" said DR.. Shaw, "if you are
so lacking in patriotism and in 10y
atty to your community, if you care
so little about your country that you
don't want to do anything to make 1t
better, you would not benefit the
country by voting"
The New Jersey man tried another
question. Would it not contami-
nate women to mingle with men at
the polls?" he said.
"Why should it?" said DR.. Shaw.
THE men We meet at the polls are
the men with whom we associate
and among whom we live all the rest
of the year | never could under
stand why men whom we esteem, and
without whom life would be very
dreary, Immediately on election
morning become such terrors that it
would contaminate us to go near
them at the polls. Let us not forget.
each woman votes in her own neigh
borhood among the neighbors. -
Two large suffrage meetings were
largest being held in front of the
Trust Company building, where the
suffragists found men waiting when
they arrived Handbills were dis
tributed throughout the bystanders
by the speakers, Misses Emily Pier
son, of Connecticut, and Erike Will
reich, OF Quebec. Canada. Besides
giving out handbills the coming of
DR.. Anna Shaw, Wednesday night,
is being advertised by their automo-
bile, which may be seen going about
the city decorated with the suffrage
banners and a notice of the meeting
to be held Wednesday night at
Palace Hall.
Two meetings were held this
noon, one at Pardees and the other
at the Raritan Copper Works, and
two will be held tonight, one of them
being in front of the Trust Company
and the other on the corner of State
and Fayette streets. The speakers
expect large audiences at each meet
ing