Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-13
SUFFRAGE LEADERS
APPEAL FOR PEACE
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APPEAL FOR PEACE
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for women to get anything at the hands
: of the Legislature" She refuted the
argument that women should be kept
from the open field OF effort and that
/ she should remain always ut her fire.
! side.
The woman staying at home" She
said. rs losing interest Her life IL
bound up III whist parties and pink
teas. Those who work out OF their
homes are simply following what they
would have done had they remained! AT
nome" She said that investigation
showed that it was not true that girls
"ent to work merely to get little
pocket mone!'; that so per cent of them
earn only between $3.50 and s. Il week
Mrs. Boyer amused the audience
while a collection was being taken up
AZ the meeting Saturday night more
than 5000 was taken UP and promised
NATIONAL HISTORIAN
SPEAKS FOR Equal RIGHTS
Mrs Ida Hustled Harper. historian
General OF the National Woman Suf-
irase Association. addressed herself to
the subject of equal rights
In their effort TO obtain The sur
!rase. women OF Virginia." she said.
stand upon soil long ago consecrated
nE inns struggle on the part OF men
and they are guided by the most cele-
Dratcd precedents in American history.
! In the heroic days before the War NJ
the Revolution no voice was moro
potent than that of Patrick Henry. and
his immortal cry-'Ciive me liberty or
ave me death, uttered In This very
CITY OF Richmond, has been Cor genera
ions the watchword of freedom. II
VAS not personal but political liberty
that he demandcd--thc right TO rem
r"sen, himself by means OF "A vote
ud when other, coionistS had reached
the point where they were ready 10
offer their lives for this right. it was
anoihcr observation-disclosures Jefferson
VINO embodied their demand in that
/ Declaration OF Independence. which
Will stand for all time as the Magma
charta OF the rights of humanity.
/ AZ the close of a seven years war
! 10 establish the principle of individual
representation. Il way whose success
4 was due TO another great Virginian-
Z George Westinghouse was Jefferson
! who admonished his fellow patriots to
remember that Government Is rcpubli-
: can in proportion as every member
composing il has his equal voice in
the direction Of its concerns by rep
rcscntativcs chosen by himself and
responsible 70 him. And the national
/ constitution framed FOR the guidance
/ Of the new states is deeply indebted
! ;or its broad and democratic spirit to
/ the cOunS-lS of its Virginia member,
James Madison"
! FINAL. STEP TOWARD
REAL DEMOCRACY
( She said that this is the view that
should be taken OF the movement for
! woman Suffragc--that it Is the final
: step TO a real democracy, a genuine
republic: the natural and inevitable re-
/ suit Of the gradual advance OF women
IN education, law, business social and
public life.
| I'VE smile contcmptuously," she said.
cat the charge that higher education
would unfit women for motherhood:
! that If wives should be allowed to
| own property they would forsake the
! home: that women had no. enough
, business ability TO sign a check; that
if they engaged in public work they
would become coarse and masculine.
Vet all OF these objections were Sc
! riously urged only generation or two
ago, and women would not be enjoying
| any of their present advantages had
! il been necessary to obtain them by
! Il majority vote Of the men. Suffrage
! is the only one that requires the con-
/ sent OF this majority, and that is why
| it is so long delayed. Possibly not
! majority of women themselves would
i
| certainly il never asked for them.
/ They were won. like all reforms.
/ through the courageous leadership OF
/ a few brave and clear-s.cn,ed lndi-
| viduaIs: the masses gladly accepted
I them, and none of the doleful predic-
tons came 10 pass
J ANSWERS ARGUMENTS
As TO WOMEN VOTING
! She answered the argument that
! clln NJ hnr
! cannot serve on police forces and in
! fire departments by saying that women
! pay their pro rata share OF the taxes,
and that there are enough male APP
/ plicants for every vacancy without the
need OF application by women. I'm
| New York" she said. there are so
many they reach all the way to Ire
J land" She referred TO the good work
being done by police women. and said
( that they had recently formed ma
| tional organization
In refutation Of that argument
which would deny women the vote be-
cause they could not take the part
Of soldiers. she pointed to the vast
! army of nurses employed on the field
OF war to-day, and recalled the heroic
| conduct and the sclf-sacrihce of the
women during the War Between the
!