The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-11

from an anti. Can chat woman DO
lleve that these people are 80 IdiotiC
as to believe all this? ] talked to the
attorney general. and lie said that nc
woman had to SIT on n jury unless she
wished to- She could decide Then
| telephoned the judge Of this particu-
lar court and he stated that the wom-
an had been drawn on for the Jury
and that she had baby, and nobody
know that, and nobody told them about
II. II she had told tho court that she
had children they would not have nj
lowed her to ait on the Jury.
The same lady who followed me
about came into North Dakota, during
a campaign. North Dakota was dry
and the men wanted 1t to stay dry,
and she had TO prove that II the wom-
on voted they would vote the state
wet again. Los Angeles, Spokane and
Denver, where women had becn voting,
were wet, and II they had aet voted
thom dry, they would vote North ba-
kota wet, She forgot TO say tha; MT
the coming election, SIX o. these wonI-
an suffrage states has prohibition
amendment pending; and now she says
that WON'T defeated prohibition in
California, Tut forgot 10 say That pro-
hibition wrs carried in the other live
equal . lffTl % statWs ai 'hr same clcc-
ton, but that tits w'ne-g.cwing suite
was wet, and sad nlih.ns ahou. the
states e. 0reEci Washington ana &C.
no. Then went over to Montana,
by statistics, that VIC women would
vote Montana dry. In Illinois they
had recently voted number Of the
towns dry2sixteen more have been
added to the list In Nebraska they
said to me: III we give you women
the ballot. how will you vote on the
prohibition question:" | said / did
not know know how we would vote
in North Dakota, we would vote wet;
know how we would vote In Nom
tana-we would vote dry; but as soon
as the lady from New Jersey comes
she will tell us how we will vote here
and then l will let you know. We
will either not vote at all, or not do
anything but vote at all.
Ballot and BayOnet. V-
But struck the profound argument
at last. The ballot and the bayonet
go together, have seen them go to-
gether, but / believe those who used
them together were both found in
the lookup next day.
! was speaking one day and when
had finished a. gentleman who had
been sitting in the corner called after
me: "If wo give you the vote, will
you go to Germany and fight the Ger
mans7
why. no, SIR"
'tightT'
IF Germany sends an army Of WON
on over here to fight, then we will
show You what we will do. We will
go down to New York harbor and we
will say: Come on. let's go to Madi-
SON Square garden. And we would.
It would be tlresome, but 1t would not
be death. And II you men and all 9TH
er men were willing to talk things over
there would be no war IN. Europe to.
day" But Just as I started that man
called out: "WhRt does woman know
about war, anyhow That made me
angry, and pointed to man in the
audience and said: "Slr, notice yotl
have q paper In your pocket. will you
hold It up2" It read: "250,000 men
killed since the war began"
"Sir,s ! said, "you ask what q wom-
an knows about war. No woman can
read that and not comprehend the hor1
rible signiflcance OF II. We cannot
comprehend the meaning Of 100000
dead men, but If you were to tell me
that since this war begun, one man
were dead might be able TO tell you
what one woman knows about war