Mohave County miner., 1916-09-09
PRESIDENT PREDICTS SUCCESS
 FUR WOMAN SUFFRAGE CAUSE

erations ago, no doubt, Madam Presi- dent will agree with me in saying it was handful of women who were fighting for this cause. Now it is a great multitude of women who are fighting for 1t.
 "There was time when nobody but a lawyer could know enough ts run the government of the United States and distinguished English publicist once remarked, speaking of the com plexity of the American government, that it was no proof of the excellence of the American constitution that it had been successfully operated, baB cause the Americans could run any constitution. But there have been a great many technical difficulties in running it.
 "And then something happened. A great question arose in this country which, though complicated with legal 1 clements, was at bottom, a human question, and nothing but a question of humanity. That was the slavery question, and is it not significant that it was then, and then for the first time, that women became prominent in | politics in America?
 Life in the United States was a comparatively simple matter at the time of the Civil war. There was none of the underground struggle which is now so manifest to those who look only a little way beneath the surface. The pressure of low wages, the agony of obscure and unremun- erated toll did not exist in America in anything like the same proportions that they exist now. And as our life has unfolded and accumulated, as the contacts of it have become hot, as the populations have assembled in the cities, and the cool spaces of the country have been supplemented by the feverish urban areas, the whole nature of our political questions have been altered. They have ceased to be legal questions. They have more and more become social questions, questions with regard to the relations of human beings to one another-hot merely their legal relations, but their moral and spiritual relations to one another.
 'This has been most characteristic of American life in the last few de- cades, and as these questions has as sumed greater and greater prominence the movement which this association represents has gathered cumulative force. So that, if anybody asks him self, "what does this gathering force mean?' If he knows anything about the history of the country, he knows that it means something that has not only come to stay, but has come with conquering power.
 q get little impatient sometimes about the discussion of the channels and methods by which it is to prevail. It is going to prevail, and that is a very superficial and ignorant view of it, which attributes it to mere social unrest. It is not merely because the women are discontented-. It is be- cause the women have seen visions of duty, and that is something which we not only cannot resist, but, if we be true Americans, we do not wish to resist. Because America took it's origin in visions of the human spirit, in aspirations for the deepest sort of liberty of the mind and of the heart, and as visions of that sort come up to the sight of those who are spiritually minded in America, America comes more and more into her birthright and into the perfection of her development.
 "I have come to suggest, among other things, that when the forces of nature are steadily working and the tide is rising to meet the moon, you need not be afraid that it will not come to it's food We feel the tide; we rejoice in the strength of it and we shall not quarrel in the long run, as to the method of it.