Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-04-03
SUFFRAGE NOTES
AND NEWS ITEMS

Billy Sunday would have you know
that he was on the suffrage wagon in
those early days when it was thought
to be a hearse and not the band wagon
it is now known by all men to be.
1t was something for bill grant
ing presidential suffrage to women to
pass one house of the Vermont and
Indiana Legislatures. Pretty good
straws showing which way the wind
is blowing.
Woman suffrage goes to the voters
in New York and New Jersey next
fall. The Legislatures of both states
have passed bills giving the women
the right to watch at the polls.
What is this but plain admission
by these law making bodies that wo-
man can't trust men to protect their
interests at the polls?
One of the legal disadvantages of
women in New York was shown up
in skit at the Colonial Theater in
New York City, March Is. 1t was
based on the law which permits man
to get himself appointed guardian of
his children without telling his wife
anything about it. The mother I'M
der similar circumstances is obliged
to serve notice on the father.
Curiosity is the driving power of
human progress. Without it men
would be still primitive men. AS long
as the public had no curiosity about
votes for women the cause was hope
less. Now success is at the door and
this is the infallible sign.
Pick up the paper and you will find
the headlng"W omen Suffrage. Under
it is a glowing description of DR..
Pierce's tavorite Remedy. What the
advertising does not know about the
public is not worth knowing. When
he thus puts "Woman Suffrage" at
the head of a patent medicine adver-
tisement, it is because he knows the
public is more interested in woman
suffrage than anything he can think
of. This widespread curiosity thus
indicated is what makes woman suf-
frage perfectly safe bet-if not to-
day, why then tomorrow.
Since the suffragists are called on to
explain every flaw found in equal
suffrage territory, they breathed a
sigh of relief when they saw that the
six states reported by the last Child
Labor Bulletin as having no compul-
sorry education as late as January l.,
1915, were none of them equal suf-
frage states.
ened as they recalled that, according
to the Russell Sage Foundation Re-
port on Education, equal suffrage
Washington outranked all the East.
"The Suffragist", official organ of
the Congressional Union, calls atten-
ton to the fact that the Delaware
Legislature which defeated woman
suffrage on March 9, also legalized
prize fighting; refused to abolish the
whipping post; attacked the juvenile
court and child labor law; and NULL
fled by various amendment the ten
hour law for working women.
The Detroit Journal suggests that
the Legislature pass law compelling
the thousands of women, found by
the Michigan Commission supporting
their husbands, to return to their
proper sphere.
The anarchy prophesied as the re-
suit of woman suffrage is not indi-
Gated in the law of equal suffrage
Washington sustained by the U. S.
Supreme Court, Feb. %. 1t forbids
the edition of a paper tending to ell
courage disrespect for law. AS mat
ter of fact the danger from woman
suffrage, if there be any, lies quite at
the other end of the road, as this law
indicates.
The Industrial Welfare Commission
of the State of Washington has or
dered minimum wage for women
clerks of $1,000 a week for those
over Is years; $3.50 for those between
18 and Is; and 600 for those under16.
The last Child Labor Bulletin gives
the report of an investigation of girls
in Wilkesbarre, Pa, who went to work
between the ages of IA and 16. The
maximum wage was $4.99.
The other day large body of wo-
men went to Albany to lobby for a
bill designed to establish minimum
wage commission in New York which
would be powerless to enforce its
DEGREES.
Yet with the great industrial states
of New York and Pennsylvania thus
tagging so far behind equal suffrage
Washington in the protection of wage
earning women, the anti-suffrage
press maintains that votes for wo-
men has no more to do with wages
than it has with snow storms.
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