The Penn's Grove record., 1915-07-02
VOTES FOR WOMEN WANTED
Equal Suffrage A Success Elsewher

announcer Woman's Suffrage meeting was
helo last Monday evening at the corner
Oh rem and Main Streets. Mrs. John M.
oummerill presided and introduced the
peaKers III an automobile.
Rev. William Tatlack, of Woodstown,
spoke briefly on the business of women
voting; Mrs. Laura G.. Cannon on the
heed OF women's influence to get good
law passed for the better sanitation and
better conditions for working women.
The principal address was made by Mrs.
JENNIE Y. Law Hardy, of Michigan.
ohe told OF the success OF equal suffrage
IN Australia, her native place. She said
in part
In l907 the Premier of New Zealand,
Richard Seldom, was able to say to his
Parliament; "There is today not a pau
per III New Zealand" And though Aus
tralia cannot boast OF this yet poverty,
degrading and bitter as it is known in
other parts of the world does not exist.
50 great Was the impression made by
the success of suffrage in New Zealand,
that South Australia enfranchised her
women IN 1895, and one by IL the Aus
tralian States followed suit, until 1902, the
Commonwealth gave women the right not
only to vote, but to be elected as we'll.
We had the same experience that the
Western States have had here. 1t is always
the States that are nearest the Suffrage
States that are first to grant suffrage, it is
the men who live in those states, that be-
lieve in it, for no place that has ever
adopted suffrage has repealed it.
The prominent i'll places where women
vote, nave testified almost to a man that
women have made a good use of the bal
lot. The Common wealth Parliament oil
Australia sent a note to the English Cab
net, signed by every member of both
houses, stating that Equal Suffrage had
been the making of Australia, and that
none of the evils that had been prophesied
had come to pass, but much good that had
not been anticipated.
Cardinal Moran told the women that
it was their duty to go to the polls.
Sir Edmund Barton, first Premier of
the Commonwealth, and one of the
fathers of New Constitution, which Jas.
Bryce has called 1.-THE High Water Mark
of Democracy" when tainted with the
fact that he had peer opposed to suffrage
replied: eyes, l was opposed to it, but
[ have been converted by the use of the
New Zealand and South Australias have
made of the BALLOT"
The Hon. r. j. Seldom, for thirteen
years Premier OF New Zealand, the great
est man the Southern Hemisphere has
produced, said in 1903; 'In the great
social advancement we have made, in the
legislation of which We are so proud, es-
pecially in regard to that beneticient leg
i%slation, the Old Age Pensions Act, l say
that the women are behind it all, and |
say more, for in regard to measures hitch
are for the good OF mankind, women are
keener and more unselfish than the lords
OF creation"
We are hoping for a way to abolish the
greatest degradation that has ever come
to w%omankind, the White Slave Traffic.
The women voters of New Zealand have
done it. There is no White Slave Traffic
in New Zealand.
You object that politics are SO dirty,
''keep the women out of it." When
your houses, clothes or children are dirty
do you send the women away? 1t is the
first time | have ever heard of women be-
ing kept out OF anything because it is dir
ty. Women have cleansed the world
since the beginning OF time. Give them
the ballot, and they will clean up poll
tics.
In this, the day Of the terrible war, all
countries cry for child conservation, New
Zealand had the lowest child mortality in
the world, for as the wife of the Chiel
Justice said. "We consider children more
useful in the nursery than the cemetery
There are only IS deaths per thousand
infants. In the Australian States the
mortality ranges from SO to rs, and the
highest death rate in any suffrage State
is 112, which is lower, than the lowest in
any place where women do not vote.
Wherever women have had the ballot
they have brought in laws safeguarding
workers in dangerous occupation, they
have worked to shorten the hours of labor
not only of women and children, but the
men as well. Australia and New Zealand
were the first countries to have the eight
hour law, and to abolish child labor.