The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-15
keokuk Men and Women Tell Why They Favor Equal Suffrage;
Votes for Women Amendment Be Voted June
From These Comments One
Judges the "Ayes" Haze 1t

al or mental, or even physical uuali-
cations, but what is there about sex
vote? 80 @sFgg 4 ~
man might be too bad to vote:
80 might woman. A man might be
TOO ignorant to vote; so might a wo-
man. But what possible, logical, SEN
SIDE reason can be advanced that
SHOWS any dividing sex line that marks
all men capable Of voting and all wo-
men incapable
what kind of man is it that
THINKS his sister that is everything
else his equal Or superior; his mother
who bore him and his wife who bore
his children, not fully his equal in
this ?"
w. G. BLOOD.
Sure I favor equal suffrage"
JAMES M. FULTON.
The reason / favor equal suffrage
Is that the country needs the working
power of all it's citizens, and women
are citizens of this country whether
officially recognized or not"
l.. MATLESS.
Most suffragettes are conscientious.
earnest women who want the privilege
Of voting because Of the greater oppor
tun1tfes for doing good that they feel
the ballot will give them. ,
4 sincerely believe that equal suf-
frage will mean much for the uplift OF
Iowa or any state that grants it,
]. B. WE'LL
$50 long as women are able to do
so many other things we'll there should
be no question about their voting in.
diligently"
H. C. BROWN.
1T is perhaps not surprising that I
should be unqualifiedly in favor of ex.
tending the right to vote to women.
The espousal of this cause is tradition.
al in my family. My uncle, DR.. Isaac
Hollingsworth, when in the state legi5-
lature more than forty years ago, in
troduced bill granting the suffrage
to women, and sustained 1t by a speech
on the floor of the house, but was met
by a storm Of opposition which de-
feated the bill. He early handed me
Herbert Spencer's little book entitled
"Subjection of Women" My fathe-
held the same views. T thus early
formed this impression, cultivated in
q friendly atmosphere, and later upon
studying law became clearly convinc-
ed that in az much as the ordinary bur
dens OF the law in the administration
of civil government fr1ess with abso-
lutely equal force on women and men
alike. they should both have some
voice in making the laws that impose
these obligations. The obligations To-
pay taxes or comply generally with
legal requirements are not made to de-
pend on sex nor should the right to
in imposing those require
ments depend upon sex. Often the
evils of an unwise law uear harder up
on the weak than upon the strong.
THE old WORKOUT argument against
it that women are unfit for military
service in time of war has never ap-
pealed to me strongly and it does now
with less force than ever in view OF
the self-sacrificing devotion of women
all over the world in the great strug-
gle that Is going on. They have Meth
er shirked the burdens of holding the
and social order together at
home while the war goes on, but are
found in every hospital and even on
some of the Battle fields doing heroic
duty. The suggestion that they do not
have the same interest in the war that
The men have will be rejected by every
person who is keeping in touch with |
The happenings of these TERRIBLE times. |
II have always placed the right @.
to vote upon the proposition
hat no one person or class Of persons
has any right to say to another class, !
who have attained years Of discretion,
hat the latter shall yield obedience to
avs which they took no part in MAX
ng There is an inherent right in ev-