Connecticut western news., 1916-07-27
LADIES. TAKE NOTICE
Women May Have Chance to Vote on
 License Question.


 women in Canaan fully realize the inn portance to them of becoming school voters. l wish every woman in Ca. naan who is not a school voter. as we'll as those who are, could read a mans appeal to women, urging them this fall to become voters. This mana suf- fragist-is c. B. Montgomery, of Plain field. The Hon. Fl. Fl. Spooner also says to women that the big fight, when the legislature meets next winter, will be for extending the rights of women school voters to the license question, and this fight will be made much easier for the men who are fighting for this right of women, if the women themselves will take advantage of the rights they already have and turn out by the hundreds everywhere in Con. necticut and register this year to vote in school meetings.
 Oh, women of Canaan, are yon go- ing to sit still on this chance? Hero are men who are going to fight to give you and all women in this state inc right to vote on the liquor question, and if you won't even take the trouble
 
 the school question, what do you sup pose men Tn general will think of you ? Think of it! Women given the power at last to fight with the vote the deadly evil of drink, and the saloon! Let mo quote from one of these men who are fighting for the rights of women:
 Mothers, it is duty you owe your sons who are going to cast their firSt vote in October, to be on deck with them. Girls, you have brothers and sweethearts that will cast their first vote ;n October; be on hand to aid them ill the selection of the best school officers, also to aid the schools of the town in any other possible way, and not only that, but next year added powers will be given you. The liceDse question, that interests you more than anyone else, may be decided for you by the way you use the right of franchise you already have"
 For six years, some of us have waited and watched and hoped and prayed that the women of Canaan would drop, at least for season, the unimportnnt social activities-that amount to noth. ing or next to nothing and are only duplicates of the last season-and unite in some great and really important work, such us now lies before them. Something of so great importance that it affects the welfare of the nation and the world. The war against iiuno and the saloon is becoming universal, Men at war with the drink evil are at In hnT nYaa i'm Yn rnnlf lkn NsAsksN fnff the woman's vote to help fight it Those men who are in favor of drink and the saloon have long known thnt' the wives, mothers and daughters in an overwhelming majority among women, are the deadliest foes of these evils and they (the liqour dealers) have rejoiced and still do rejoice that the vote is kept from woman. Now then, the men fighters against the liquor curse, arc going to strive for another beside the school vote for women, the vote on the license questi m; but they appeal to women to help them, by first becoming voters on the school question, thus put ting to rout the assertion that women will not use the powers given them. How many women are going to regis. ter in Canaan and become school voters this fall How many are going @ help to get as many names as possible There are 90 voters, already. Suppose each voter tried to secure a number 0r even one new voter; suppose each woman who intends to register tried to induce other women to the same. What would result? Try it and sec To not try .t is, it seems to me, to neglect inexcusably one of the prime civic iaties of woman as wife, mother, sister aud daughter. None of the usual excuses of home or church, or social or any other duties can consist. ently be urged as reason for neglect ing this duty of women. It takes less than five minutes to register, not much more to be made voter. No terriy. ing or embarrassing questions are asked and above all the very fact that in this winters legislature good men are go. ing t0 fight for the granting of the franchise to women on the license quea. tion should make every no license woman register to become a school voter. It is most decidedly not party question. On school and nolicense questions what true woman would bring up the pitiful little small town strifes or jealousies or anti and suffrage affiliations? Let us have at least one hundred women school voters this fall. Why, the old town would wake up as never before in its history. H.