The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-04
EQUAL SUFFRAGE


VIII 0Nu lnAt II is llN men VINO hPtU
NJ these institutions Search the
records OF your churches aAd Sunday
ST. ools aid yCu Will md IEr' II Is no
women who keep them goiu6, the pub
~ schools OF our couC,5S the hope
OF Q nation like oars, and you will tiDd
hat II is the wOmcA nat arc keeping
A,m going. WSrrc would q nation be,
Nbrre would lie ciu9eng 10, l. 1t wc'V
rot for the hN&'Si N is he wom"a
who are keeping them going We
have given the women Of our country
tgrCedom Even in Russia before the
war they we're strlsgl'ng 10 get what
they "a led the lo4r grcdt liberties.
They were free speech, free thought,
free press and free organization,
Women have brains or schools would
not be provided for them. and wom-
an may 70 upon platform and talk
just like man, but she may 80 out
in West Virginia and &c an idea and
she may say Here is something
West Virginia needs that it has not
got. She may beg for the law ana
talk that law into the statutes OF the
state, bid you ever stop to think that
woman has Just MS much privilege in
some ways as man, that she is Just
as free as man 1854 days out Of tho
year, and the 365th day she has tho
same freedom, only she Is only allowed
to operate sixteen feet from the only
place where freedom is worth while
Answers nj Home Idea.
What danger is there 10 our coun-
try? "But a woman will desert the
home and that is the reason We
heard in Parkersburg that tho place
for women is at home Many years
ago travelled through the country
in the interest Of suffrage and stopped
off in the towns, but didn't talk about
It in those days. People said the same
thing then, In every town ! visited,
and ! thought 1t extremely strange how
they all learned the same thing, MS
men didn't travel very much from ono
town to another then, and wondered
how they came to their conclusion,
One Of them said "NO, II we give the
women the vote they will stand on the
street corner smoke big black cigars,
Just like the men, on election day.
! didn't know how they got the Idea,
"Silogism." When they think Just
like horse or dog Now this Ia
the way it worked | had seen them
doing the same thing, therefore, II
women vote they will stand on the
street corners on election day and
smoke big black cigars, and talk
scandal Now, have observed ever
since that when people don't think
they will give you something Of that
kind. Yon can't think OF your mother
without thinking Of her at home, Per
haps she was Perhaps she was get
ting you a cookie out Of the hidden
jar, or perhaps she was giving you a
spanking. or perhaps teaching you
your prayers, and you cant think Of
her anywhere else, and because men
go away from home to vote means that
1t will take women out Of the home,
therefore, women can't vote. In New
York they kept saying this until It got
on my nerves. They represented every
nationality and religion under the sun,
and some OF these men did not know
what woman suffrage" was, but they
all said: "Woman's place is at home,
A couple Of weeks before this ] had
taken a little vacation in the Hot
Springs Of Virginia, where Mary John
son, the actress, has beautiful sum
mer home, and she keeps q colored
gardener who is utterly illiterate. lie
was very much opposed to woman SUI
frage. One Of the neIgbbors thought
she would find out why, 80 she asked
him. He said: "Woman's place is at
home" Just as the politicians two
weeks later said in New York; and
then, Immediately following there was
another example in New York. The
prison reformers had bought a farm
and we're paroling some Of the best
behaved prisoners. Among our prison
reformers we are very glad to name
DR.. Catherine Davis, She made a
speech to the prisoners. The others
said to her az dare you to talk to-
them about woman suffrage She
said: Men, want to ask you how
many are citizens? All. OF New York?
All Of them were. Americans? They
we're. How many are going to be
paroIed before election day? Most oil
them we're. ~ want you to know that
in the state Of New York have charge
Of 5000 prisoners. ] have contro!
over their food, their clothes ana
your welfare in general How many
of you would like to go to the polls IN
November and vote for woman SUI
frage?" Not hand came up. How
many Of you would like to go to the
polls and vote that no woman should
ever have a vote? All Of them.
"Why?" All Of them we're silent, I'M
til finally one hand was raised timid-
ly, and the man said Womans
place is at home"
Plays a Joke.
And then the anti-suffragists had a.
meeting in their big home, and their
star is a we'll known attorney who
has been in the presidents cabinet.
Now YOU know lawyers are different
from other people, They have to think.
And do you think he said: ladies'
women have the vote Of twelve states
and the women have deserted their
husbands, their homes, and their chill
dren?" On the contrary he said:
"Women's place is at home Is it not
clear that il we give women the vote
thew will desert their homes, their
husbands, and their children%