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


fragots played joke on the public
II was announced that we were going
10 have strike. All women were to
be called of for ono day The figures
we're published, showing just how
many women were employed and in
what occupations; there were so
many In factories, so many as doc
tors, so many in schools, so many
telephone operators, office girls, etc.
and they would all be expected to 80
home for that one day and sit there
and do no.htng and then there was
the greatest hub-bub you ever heard
and then one man who had said before
that womnns place Is at home, that
II the women did do thing 81
ridiculous they ought 10 he tarred anH
fCa,hcrrd The manufacturers sad
II would put them into bdnNIup'Cy
II tho women went on n strike for a
single day, The bankers said II they
could not use the telephones II the
opcrators rotuscd to work, 1t would
mean panic, as business conditions
were very critical just now and finally
the newspapers asked lis TO call OIL tho
strike. Finally, whom tho leader or
the antrs said humbly that she never
said woman's place was AT home, we
called off the strike. No woman
stays at home every minute, she
works for the church. for charity; IL
che is rich she rides in her auto OF
plays bridge. Her anti sister doesnt
stay at home; she travels all over the
country to tell the men ito please not
gIvo the women the vote, in order 10
keep them at home"
As a matter OF fact, every new ldca
finds people afraid, would be Just
MS much afraid ms YOU but ! am FAM
ilinr with this idea, so 1t doesn't scare
me. Evon the animals ARE afraid OF
a new thing Why docs Il horse shy
at a piece Of paper Lions love horse
flesh, but they may turn horses loose
for days If they cover them with blank
cts, for he doesn't know q horse win
A blanket on it. Now q lion afraid OF
n horse blanket is the same thing M
an American afraid OF votes for wom-
en-. They are not thinking Ihoy
lust think they are thinking. They
think MS n horse and lion thinks Thoy
arc afraid Of new idea, and that is
what stands between you and the vote,
Now, want 10 ask you women VINO
nre not thinking OF the vote very
much. What will 1t do? Won know
behind every DolItica party, every
Town council. there is q vote. me
PARTIES and the town councils and the
legislatures are going to do what the
voters compel them to do, because
his ia representative government,
and the men are there to represent
and they ought to he there TO represent
The men, women and children. hut
have you ever heard Of a Republican
lying awake night trying to md out
what the Democrats wanted him to
do? Or n Democrat walking mp ana
down the streets TO find ont what the
Republicans wanted? Women don't
elect a representative, therefore no
body asks us what we want.
II was my privilege to he present
in Idaho when women got the vote |
and visited the town Of Caldwell,
Nobody thought well Of woman slf'
rage, and had little bit Of meet .
ng there, but the town went against
il, but the state was carried Later .
had O letter from friend Of mine.
They had submitted what we call a
local option law for gambling in the
state and It was passed by the legis-
ature, so they had license don't |
know whether you ever had anything
like this in the East or not, but there
we're places where small boys could |
get nickel, 90 in and do a little of
his gambling. and become fascinated
with 1t, and 1t was the dismay OF the |
mothers OF their town, and the mo-
nent the question came up, what they
call the business men Of the town
circulated petitions reading: We
customers Of yours, we buy our goods
here, we help you to maintain your
business, now you help us to keep
1urs.' And so in one way and an
other they got the men to sign.
Women Defeat Gamblers.
Then the women started petition,
and more nearly than at any instance |
that know Of that has ever arisen
we're the women lined UP on one side
and the men on the other. The mems
petition was read first, and 1t was
formulated in the regular way: I'VE,
he undersigned, do hereby pray your
body to do this, etc. Then
The womens. They had had no OPP
Dormnity 10 cast their vote yet, but
their petition began; I'VE, the under
signed voters do hereby demand" and
50 these two petitions were read, the
mems to keep the license, and the
against it.
The chairman said: "You know
last November when ! voted against
l. and | have never been converted
10 1t until tonight, but so far this Is
he first time that know where
gamblers came to pray and mothers
o demand" and the license was taken
away.
All the way around the world we find
hat that Is the way to get things.
Why. over across the sea in Norway
he women wanted to do thing for
he good OF humanity. They said III
we can only get a home for the poor
girls of the streets, we will sell the
productions Of their labor, we will
save them and the country the dis
aster OF their downfall, and they asked
the premier, and every time were told
that Norway was too poor but be it
known by all men that whenever
woman sets her mind to do thing
they keep at 1t until it is done. And
so they got the vote. The woman who