The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-20
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Women's Suffrage

Alabama is truly becoming great state.
 She got prohibition against the opposition of Senator Underwood. Now comes Mrs. Jacobs president of Alabama Equal Suf- frage association. and says women VIII get to vote in Alabama regardless Of
 Congressman Heflins opposition. All it
 needs is some spicy anti-suffrage op- position, well organized, to meet them openly to make them win. Mrs Jacobs is a clear, fluent speaker, undemonstrative, every word she says goes right to the heart. Nothing but case hardened bigot can listen to her persuasive argument on votes for women and go away unconverted. She believes the people of Alabama will ratify an amendment to the constitution, allowing women to vote, if the bill favorably passed in the senate, can be got out Of the com-
 mittee room where it is chloroformed and received in the house. She asks the sup port of every fair minded man to wrestie
 with the member from his district in see ing to this at once as the legislature ooes not meet again for four years
 To oppose the glib-tongued orators who praise and laud wives to the skies, that they may keep them working 16 hours 1 a day and spend the balance of their time | nursing restless babies for their board and x. 1 variety, who ball and kick against any
 innovations on their vested rights, l ap' prove of the Carrie Nation plan. She hau 1 raised her only boy in the love of the Lord taught him to shun evil, and be an | example for good. But on entering the
 world the sons of the orators ana | muleteers met him at the door, attacked
 his puritan notions. and dragged him into
 saloons and brothes until he became even
 worse than they. Carrie fought these | devils every inch of the way that were running her boy She sought help from ministers. doctors merchants lawyers, | politicians and the law in vain. She was
 nonentty. She had no vote; women
 everywhere sympathized with her but
 they could not help her. It required votes | to change mans hellish laws. They had | none to give.
 As Mrs Carrie Nation prepa SC the l enlaciated form and ruined body or her once noble son for the grave. she made
 covenant with God to fight for the right
 in her own way, as long as He gave her breath That is why she hacked saloons. l outside and inside, with her 1nlshtE
 hatchet. The same laws that permitted | the ruining of her boy and other poys all over the land, put her in jail, She served her time. The moment she got free | she was at If again. She kept her covenant to the end, hoping and praying 1 for votes for women all the time. She
 had to pay taxes like men, and had 70 pay the penalties for breaking the vicious
 man-made laws, just the same as man;
 vet she could not vote to change one or | them One-fourth of her time she spent | sma shing saloons, three-fourths in jail for | doing so in Christian America. Men said 1 she was wrong trying to correct things III ! that way, yet they said they were power | less to do so in any other way. Give
 women the vote; they will soon find remedy for existing evils.
 l Consider the folly of women staying I at home diligently raising boys to be sacrificed thus and raising pure. vir- l tuous girls to be swept away with the 1 white slave stream continually flow ing past every door or lured to de- | str..ction by some silyer-tongued. oily | uouthed, respectable vagabond. IT lie h,,t rot vour 14-year- chld's con sent to her own undoing. he is within the lew and cannot be punished, while 1 she lees from home and hides her self in the red light district. Yet these men say women shall not vote to
 change such things It Is sin to raise chiidTen when Sucn terrlble ouus are against them
 | Mrs Jacobs declared a woman's bra,n is equal in every respect to man s. have before me renowned experts figures proving her brain averages one thirteenth more in weight and quality | T yapid flattery and fnsiped praise. The story of the spider and fly well illus trates woman's position Refuse longer to act like the fly. You want and must
 have the vote.
 Alabama is almost at the bottom CT
 states in ignorance. We have shown
 what we can do in winning prohibi-
 tion. Let us strive to be among the
 first of southern states to adopt wom-
 an suffrage. All of the western states
 let women vote. The house in Ten
 nessee has just passed resolution
 giving women the vote. Our 1egisla-
 ture meets in July and not again for
 four years.
 Secretary Bryan, who is the demo-
 cratic party, favors woman suffrage.
 | MT. Roosevelt, who Is the progressive party, indorses it: the socialists insist upon it. the anarchists demand it, the thinking republicans believe in it. Why
 should not the first legislature submit it to the people?
 Let Brother Heflin organize an anti suffrage party and have 1t out before the people at once.
 Does Georgia law prevail in Ala bama? An Atlanta paper quotes Judge Pendletou's summing up of case there on May 10, 1915. as follows: Person ally I am old fashioned. I believe in the Bible. think the husband should be the head of the family and that the wife should obey him. You had no right to take his child and leave home with out his consent and I shall give the child to him. But if you are gocc
 woman you'll go back with your hus' band"
 The writer mentions also similar case. decision handed down from tho supreme court of North Carolina 1T | 1888 A man had beaten his wife SC cruelty her friends carried it into court The chief justice rendered this deci- sion in which he reiterated the law "which allowed a man to whip hi, wife provided the switch was no big ger than a mans thumb" He further decided that "a man should make hi. wife behave herself" adding, Ito dt otherwise would engender insubordina | tion" Suffice it to say. both the judS, . | and that atrocious law are now of tls past in that state. While the wome I were enraged and demanded the repea of such an outrageous law, had the, then insisted on getting the vote the, would have got 1t.
 But this Georgfa law h only . few