Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-04
SHOWS THAT MOVEMENT
" is NOT AT ALL NEW
Declares That Women Will Vote as
Conscientiously as Men, and Points
Out Things That Should Be Accom-
plished and What Has Seen Done
in States Where Women Vote.


That was said in the course Of a ons
address, and one full OF interest ana
informing truths. by DR.. Effie Nc 'ul-
lom Jones in the Red Men nall We'd :
nesday evening. Her auditors were not
as many as they should have been, per-
haps, but the hundred or more VINO
mad gathered garnered memory
worth while. DR.. Jones is dean or
women in Knox College, Gales burg, Ill.,,
but she lived and labored for years in
Iowa, in Waterloo Her former APP
pearance on a MarshalltoWn platform
was ten years ago.
Mrs. May Belle Vail, chairman of the
county organization of suffrage work
ers, presided. Superintendent or
Schools Palmer introduced the speaker
of the evening. He felt pleased sense
of responsibility as one who mad suS-
gcsted the bringing of DR.. Jones to
Marshalltown at this time. he urged
the women of the city to get active
at once and keep it up till June .,
making indeed a house-to-house can
vass of the community to get all the
men voters to realize what is expected
OF them on the election day. The
time is ripe" he said. TO get some
thing done on the line of suffrage.
There has been fifty years Of talk
about it. and now is the time when
we should realize some results
Will Vote ConscientiousIy as Men.
These are some of the things pre-
scented in part from the talk Of DIR.
Jones: When the ballot was long
way off il was excusable in women,
perhaps to believe that with its COM
ing 1t would be the open sesame to
all things good and true and beautiful
in living, but now I wish the womea
would be cautious how they promise
tho millennium Women are asked,
We'll. what are you going to DO with
il when you get i,-ehe ballot! We
DON, know ell that may De done. but
wen vote equally as conscientioussy as
men, Just as faithfully and according TO
the best lights We can get on ooto
measures and nen. I don't doubt that,
ike nea, women will De found on diff
fsren, sides of big questions, and IN
doupledIy viii make mistakes
Movement Not New.
The women OF Iowa are not asking
the men Of Iowa 10 go out on an I'M
caarted sea In more than twenty
countries outside Of this continent the
women have the suffrage. In eleven
states OF this union they can vote
equally with men, and IN others they
have municipal and school franchise.
We are asking simply here what has
been done elsew here In our western
states that have equal rights they have
as part Of the legislative machinery
the referendum and the recall. But no
state that has given the Il anchlse TO
women has ever recalled II.
two onrJ1l C-YSfra
commonwealth, was still in the terri
torial stage in 1869. when II took the
action. In 1890, when it sought admIs-
sion to the sisterhood of states and
submitted its constitution TO the con-
gress, the first article in il said that
citizenship should not be disseminated
against on account Of sex. Its dele
gate to Washington telegraphe back
home that the suffrage article would
have to be dropped # statehood were
to be achieved. Quick flashed back
the answer: We will stay out OF the
union 100 years. II need be, but when
we come in we will bring our women
with US" Statehood followed at once.
III the suffrage states the men out
number the women. 1t would have
been easy for the men Of Wy omlng TO
have got from under in 1890. What
does their stand teach? That they
liked their women, that they liked them
to have share in the making of the
laws, that they appreciated what they
had done in that way, that they liked
the kind of homes the voting women
kept, the kind of families the voting
women brought up.
Should Raise Age Of Consent.
One of the big things done in the
suffrage states has been the raising
of the age of consent by girls. If moth
ing but this one thing were done, Iowa
does need woman suffrage. Time anu
again attempts by petition and talk
have been made 10 get it done but in
vain. who knows what is the age of
consent in Iowa." asked DR.. Jones. and
when one had answered 16, she said:
You are too liberal. l used to think it
was Is. ] was corrected by Attorney
General Cosson one evening after l had
made the statement in a speech. He
told me the age of consent in Iowa is
IA, tho the courts have read that while
the girl is IA. so it amounts to 1o."
One Instance Of Quick Action.
For eighteen years Mary Mcdowell
had worked to get the city council Ut
Chicago to do something in the mat
ter of proper disposal Of garbage that
the awful annual slaughter Of babies
might be stopped, but there was moth
ing doing. And the women of Illinois
were enfranchised and within two
weeks Of that act the council sent 4
pretty note to Mary Mcdowell to come
and see them and an adequate garbage
disposal ordinance was put on passage
straightway. That shows the differ
ence of indirect influence and the &C
tual-vote.
Necessary For Motherhood.
IL IT is necessary for the motherhood
OF iowa said DR.. Jones Ito ask with
all the power. of insstence they have
as women that they be given an equal
share in the fra ming Of just laws and
the governmental housekeeping Of the
\ state. There are no reasons against
I Il us. The entire household needs4repre-
senfation and place in the councils
OF the commonwealth. Every woman
il incurably domestic and the eio-
auent speaker concluded her talk witt
an earnest plea for work for this mar
RED women's crusade in which ths