The Monroe journal., 1916-12-01
Ideas of Doctor and Lawyer ON
Woman Suffrage.
State Journal.

NpIual NuhTaSN.
State Journal.
The Raleigh Suffrage League held
its first meeting since The election
Monday evening at the Woman's
Club. Miss Martha Haywood. presi-
dent of the local league. presiding.
DR.. Hubert Royster was the first
speaker. Taking for his subject
"Feminism: The Biological and Ply
Biological Outlook for the Suffrage
in Relation to Women" he delivered
a striking address. declaring that the
whole feminist movement is simply
To bring about one moral standard,
erect one physical standard and prove
there is no double mental standard:
every occupation and trade must be
opened to women and there must De
the same standard of wages prevail
ing for women as for men. These
two things secured, he said. will
bring about everything else He said
further Women must make them
selves physically fit and then they
will have the power to rise up and
demand. They need to read the
newspapers more. You can tell the
sex of reader by the way the news
paper is read. Women miss the ad-
vantage of the boys debating socie-
ties. they miss the advantage of talk
ing on the streets with groups of
men on social and political questions.
They need to attend more lectures
and political speakngs.
The time is coming when a wom-
an will choose her husband because
he is well born. Because he is her
ideal mentally. morally and physical
ly. This may develop later mar
riages. II will develop a feeling of
the theory, If not the practice of eu-
genics."
This right of the woman to choose
rightly will bring about the noblest
development of the male. DR.. Roys-
ter asserted. 1t will make woman no
less attractive. but it will make man
better.
"On the middle ground. between
the old time woman and the new
woman" said DR.. Register is the
real woman, who not only does her
work in the world, but keeps her in
fluence."
DR.. Royster was followed by Mr..
j. w. Bailey, who said that Women.
saved the day for Woodrow Wilson
and Democracy. When this fact be-
gins to dawn on the country there
will be great deal more to be said
The equal suffrage states held the
balance of power in the election.
They demonstrated that no candi-
date can wage any campaign without
catering to the vote of the women.
Woodrow Wilson came out OF the
suffrage states with a gain of 100
per cent. Notwithstanding he lost
Illinois, he made a gain of 100 per
cent there through the women's vote.
THE south voted southern, the
north voted northern. but the wom-
en- of the west voted on the issues of
the hour and IL was the determining
factor" Mr.. Bailey said he had never
been able TO figure out why men vote
as they do. and he certainly could
not pretend TO say why women vote
as they do. He believed, however,
that they voted largely from instinct
in fact, Mr.. Bailey said the appeal
to reason had never had much to do
with the mans vote. The women of
the west, he believed were governed
by the instinct OF conservatism
that they did not want a change at
this critical time-and they were
governed by the instinct Of justice.
They were entirely above voting on
the woman question.
with the defeated candidate and
the Republican party pledged to the
cause and the successful candidate
'hog-tied' don't know what more
the women OF the country want" Mr..
Bailey said. The women that had.
the right to vote demonstrated that
right so successfully that the others
can get that right as soon as they
want It,"