The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-12
ALICE HAMILTON
 WILL CAST FIRST
 VoTEF0R WILSON
Enfranchised Woman Ana lyzes the National Po-
 litical Situation.

New York, Oct. 12-Under the heading "As One Woman Sees the ls- sues'' the New Republic of Oct prints a very interesting article re- viewing the Presidential campaign ,,,ri+ten bv Alice Hamilton. one of the enfranchised women of Illinois. Among other things she discusses the European war policy of the President as follows:
 "To say, that MT. Wilson should have prevented the sinking Of the Lusi- tania seems to me silly. Nobody LOOK the warnings of the German Empassy seriously, nobody believed for a mo- ment that such a crime was posslpie witness the almost paralyzing horror that swept over the country when the news came. Also l think IL IS very rash to say that we should nave run no risk of war with Germany II the
 Lusitania notes had been coucheo Ill more imperious and threatening ian- !guage. It so happens that l was Tn | Berlin the day the first note was maoe public. I asked a German connected 1 with the War Office if he feared com plications with us and heI only shrug- ged his shoulders indiffereptly. why should we carer Others told us that a war with America would be rather welcomed than not, since we fcouio not possibly be a formidable foe and II would shut off the sale of munitions or war to the Allies. At that time appar- ently Germany was not thinking of long-drawn-out war of endurance. When the Sussex incident came she had learned that America as an aid to the Allies during the war and trade confederate after the war might prove a very formidable antagonist It was then that the, President used more imperious language and reaped the result which his understanding of the changed temper of Germany doubtless led him to expect. To me as to many Americans MT. Wilson is the President who has kept the coun- try out of the war. From some of MT. Hughes speeches one gains the impression that he does not hold MT. Wilson entitled to this honor. from | others that he does not hold it to be an honor"
 | On the question of equal suffrage the writer says that even if she puts the extension of the franchise to women in. the place of first import ance she would not feel obliged to cast
 her vote for MT. Hughes. She says, ''His personal approval of the federal amendment is gratifying but it's value depends, upon hiss willingness and his power to coerce an unwilling party. Nothing in his history leads one to think that he would care enough about the suffrage issue to sacrifice l much for it's sake" Summing up, Miss Hamilton has this to say,
 ''To sum up: On the subject of Mex ico MT. Hughes is vague, so vague that I cannot be sure he does not favor intervention; therefore I prefer
 MT. Wilson. On the subject of the European war he is as indefinite, but he conveys an intimation of greater aEgressiveness, which makes me wary, On other issues he seems to me some- times wrong. as on the issue of pro- lection sometimes right but probably power1ess, as on economy of admin istration. appointment !of experts to
 office. the federal amendment for woman suffrage. On the other hand. although I cannot follow MT. Wilson in all things. I feel profoundly grate- 1ul to him for his wise conduct of the affairs of tho nation through several difficult and serious crisis, and I be- l1eve that on most questions of for eign and domestic policy he is right. l For all these reasons I decide to cast my first presidential vote for l Woodrow Wilson,"