Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-19
Suffrage
A Government of Reason.

much.
One has to do with Mormonism. 1t
seems that when women get tho
vote they will all insist on their hus-
bands bringing home few plural
wives. What power suffrage must
have to change woman's nature!
A second has to do with the cam
paign States. When the suffragists
aim at fourteen States and get two,
the anti cries, See how many you
lost! Suffrage is going, not coming" z"
But mostly the suffragist likes to
read the "anti" reasons that go in
pairs, such as follows:
Women will destroy the freedom
of men by anti-vice laws; the vicious
women's vote will destroy morality.
Women won't use the vote when
they get It; they will neglect their
homes and vote all the time.
Women will vote as their husbands
do, and double the cost without ef-
feet; they will vote against their
husbands, and so nobody will get
elected. And, by the way. If the men,
too, would just give up the ballot, the
whole cost of elections would be
saved.
through all sorts of crazy legislation
to take advantage of men, when
women vote they haven't passed a
single law to better themselves or
society.
Women are angels, and shouldn't
be roughened by the ballot: women
are vicious and would ruin the
country.
Women can't understand politics;
women would take all the offices
away from men.
The ballot is no good, anyway, and
so women oughtn't to have 1t; the
ballot is what has made man so su-
perior, and, by Jinks, women shan't
have 1t.
There was once a woman that got
obstreperous, which shows that no
woman ought to vote; women can't
fight, and the right to the ballot de-
pends on force.
The Best One.
But the latest is the best:
I'm what State but a suffrage State
did you ever hear of a woman selling
her voter" Well, we never did In
any. But then we never heard of
anyone run over by an automobile
In ancient Greece.
Song Of the Men of New Jersey.
Three million voting Western men
| Have set their women free.
They do not fear their sisters vote,
| Then why, my friend, should we?
| The Antis tell of awful things
The women's vote will do:
! Those Western men must suffer much,
IL Anti tales are true.
| In Anti tales of dire results,
You never chance on one
| That gives the proof of awful things
| The women's vote has done.
| Those Western men see good results
From what their women do.
| They do not fear their sisters vote,
Then why, my friend, should you?
| They gave the vote, State after State,
And always more and more;
I Because they saw how well 1t worked
| In the suffrage State, next door.
| Three million voting Western men
| Have set their sisters free.
Our women are as good as theirs,
| And so, next fall, will We.
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN.
| (Adapted.)
Some Facts.
Forty-hve per cent. of the free
| States have an eight hour law fon
women; not a single non-suffrage
State has this law. Is this lex
elusive? Yet there are sixty-five
separate and distinct laws in the
United States for the protection Of
the voting male against overwork.
| All the suffrage States put together
| have fewer child workers than New
| York States. How much more are
ohf1A 1a1 In Lad l,,g rtyi41 Z,
381, ,1SS child workers, than in Wyo-
ming, with but S66? Yet work for
children under sixteen years old is
| limited to eight hours in forty-five
per cent. of the free States; in only
! thirty-seven per cent. of the nom
| suffrage States.
Mothers pensions are in force in
every state where mothers vote and
| In but forty-six per cent. of the non
suffrage States.
Where women vote the age of con-
sent is placed over sixteen years in
eighty-one per cent. of the States; in
only twenty-seven per cent. of the
non-suffrage States. No free State
places the age below sixteen; of the
non-suffrage States two put 1t at f1f-
teen, six at fourteen and one at ten.
There are seventeen men In prison
In the United States for every woman
behind the bars. How many women
are there at your church for each
man who attends?
And As to Colorado.
Judge Lindsey says: ''It Is fact
that the case for equal suffrage could
we'll afford to rest on the record made
by the voting woman. In no State
have they failed to bring a better,
clearer and more independent note
into politics, and there is not a
statute book on which women have
written that does not contain more
humane laws as g. result"
orado strike. According to the oppo-
nents of equal suffrage, the women
are not only to blame for its COM
mencement, hut for Its continuance.
AS a matter of fact, 1t was a mans
war, and upon men only rests the
responsibility for the rejection of con-
ferences and the subsequent wretch
edness Yet, 1t was women. and
women alone, who gathered In mass
meetings at Ludlow. and forced
the governor to ask for federal troops
in order that bloodshed might end"
And again: THE voting men Of
Michigan and West Virginia and
New Jersey are not blamed for indus
trial war, but the voting women of
Colorado are expected to end every
strike"
And that leads us to our final argyll
ment for suffrage. Men of New Jer-
sey, are you aware that IL women