The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-29

/ favor equal suffrage, not merely
because ] am woman, but because
sincerely believe that part Of the
worlds economic and social condition
dominated wholly by man can be inns
proved by woman's intelligent co.
operation.
Equal suffrage Is the worlds next
great question to be solved. It Is as
pig a question as the reclamation Of
the desert lands Of the world. And /
am prompted to observe that while
TIE two issues-Womans' Suffrage
s. and Reclamation Of Desert Lands
ed are in no wise akin their solution Of
fefs TO the world double reclama-
ton. In the one instance the land for
profitable filling, in the other in
stance the mind Of woman for profit
able cooperation. Woman is now in
many states reclaimed ehattel and
where she has been given the right to
express herself she has proven be-
yond shadow of doubt the dormant
- fertility her mind has stored simply
beeaase il has had no opportunity to
develop an expressive force.
q IN woman the world has the desert
land. In her lies great fertility, so
to speak. This fertility has been over
looked for ages. The men oftoday are
coming more and more to q fecoEni-
tion of this fact. Men of today who
are high minded and conscientiously
earnest in their desire for better
ment of conditions generally, are not
blind to the fact that women have inA
heritea the one most essential trait
for better conditions. That thFait is
morality. Women have stood for the
extremes ii this-efther she is real
good or she is real bad. The real good
woman khudders at the very thought
Of evil things, those real bad know
aeno limit to their evil doings, but let
me say right here that of the less
than 1-3 Of per cent 0f the worlds
women that are bad--Beaf the figures
in minds Of 1p er cent-less than
one woman in 300) you vii find al
the first cause Of their badness. some
law that has winlSea at the very evil
man has pfaetised under its winking.
No woman assisted in that laws con=
struction, no woman assists in its en-
fnrcement, but If their assistance ever
saiiss given 10 either construction or en-
fcrcelnentlof law then the enactments
viii be Of laws under which woman
can live ard feel her sister has such
protection that even the less than Ia
Of per cent Of bad women vii be
SO much reduced that the evil men who
prey On this small percentage Of un-
fortunate women will have to go to
work.
But, this is not the only thing laws
made with the assistance of women
and she will turn heart and soul intc
viii accomplish. Give her the vote
the studying Of problems that now
seem beyond her comprehension.
an going to say too, that with appli-
cation she can SO master these prob.
lens that men who have been SO basily
engaged III asserting, rather than prov
ing the possession Of stronger minds
will begin to understand that they
may have the mind but is woefully
lacking in the will to thoroughly un.
Jerstand the issues upon which they
have been for many years engaged in
discussing with their fellow man on
the street corner, or at the club, with.
out understanding really what they
have been accepting too largely as q
matter Of course.
But, lam not going to tell you Sc
much what you have not done as !
am going to commend what you have
done with ballot, since It has been
given TO you. You must understand
that the ballot has not always been
yours. Indeed, there is no country in
the world Ia which the ballot has al.
ways been the privilege Of every
man. IN America you have had more
privilege, for with it you have Great.
IS ed . great nation; anation that meas.