Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-31
Annual Meeting Of Arkan-
sas Association Opens
with Public Session.
WHERE WOMEN VOTE
CONDITIONS GOOD
Setting Example for Brcyity, Women
Sneakers cite Rea>OHS for Equal
Suffrage, Pointing to Progress OF
wyoming. State without Taxes.

Inc 1lfSl equal SUI ~ tSc ''N''
ing ever held in the state OF Arkan-
sas, was held last night, in the pail
rom OF the Hotel Pines, with several
score women and a numbG: Of mon, IN
attendance. The men We're few, nut
they were among the cily'A best men.
men who lead in financial. commercial
end phlanthrOpic works. and men who
are heartily and sincerely IN favor or
the granting of the right Of Suffrage
| to women.
! Mrs. @. +. Ellington of Little Rock,
president OF the Arkansas Woman
Suffrage association, acted as chair
man of the meeting, \. J. Can't. Jr
| introduced the speakers, and Mrs.
| Minnie q. Rutherford Fuller of Boon
Vile and Mrs. r. II. Cotman of Little
! Rock, were the principal speakers.
The meeting started al s o'clo0<
and was over by 9:25 o'clock, dem
onstrating that woman has been
! libelled for 10. these many years that
she has labored under the charge
that when she starts speaking, she
never knows when to stop. The
speakers discussed the wisdom. the
benefits, of equal suffrage, strictly as
a business and sociological PROPOSE
ton, eliminating entirely any emo
tionalism. any "sympathy," any ap-
peal. except 10 the fairness Of man,
to allow them to protect themselves
and their great business. ''the making
of men,
| That was the tone nf the meeting,
which was stressed centinually-the
importanh of the business of THE
making of men" and tie necessity CT
granting the ballot to woman that
she might protect it, her most impor-
tant business, and the most impor-
tant business in the world.
Perhaps no three women in the
state are better fitted to speak on
equal suffrage than are Mrs. Filing
ton, Mrs. Fuller and Mrs. Gotham
Mrs. Ellington and Mrs. Gotham have
ONLY recently returned from states
in the North and East, where they
made talks on suffrage in the present
campaign, and where each won high
tribute from men and women Of high
standing. Each is we'll qualified as
a public speaker and last night each
|
was somewhat hOarse due to the fact
that she had made other speeches
earlier in the day, notably one at
Dermott, where she addressed meet
ing of negroes.
Mrs. Fuller's Talk.
! In her talk, Mrs. Fuller CALLED il. a
piece of Colossal stupidity" that the
most highly civilized. the most moral
and the best educated portion OF the
population Of Arkansas should be
kept Gin quarantine" for fear it
might contaminate the rest of the
population. 1t is admitted, she said,
even by the men who are opposing
the granting of the ballot to women
that woman is the most moral part
Of the population, and statistics show
that woman is better educated, be-
icause a greater portion Of the girls go
through high school. which the boys
fail to do. Yet this high civilization
is kept in Quarantine"
Il Mrs. Fuller stressed the importance
of the business of woman. the max
ing of men, She quoted touching
prayer of a mother, that the protec-
ton of the Almighty by vouchsafed
her children. She pointed out that
the men lawmakers have provided
in Arkansas no mothers pension fund,
to air the unfortunate mother to rear
her children. nor have they provided
an Industrial school, for the proper
training of girls who need such
training. She said women practical
ly support The churches, but have
little or no. voiee in the government
thereof, and close with Olive Schrei-
ner's dream. wherein the celebrated
writer told how she dreamed of going
to heaven with hands clean and robe
white, but with blood upon the hem
of her robe. For this blood, she
blamed the men. holding herself not
responsible. but God sent her back to
earth, telling her to bring the men
back with her. when she returned.
1--WE must work together, we must
mount together into Heaven" sai1
mrs. Fuller. "The woman and the
man must not pull apart, or neither
will advance. Only by co-operatins
by working in harmony, can they
climb the heights to which they at
tain" #
Can Garry Arkansas.
Mrs. Gotham made the asserto1
| that there were enough women pres
ent at the meeting to carry Arkan