The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-01-22

never realize the service they can
render. | would give them all vote
and give IL to them at once"
GEORGE MEREDITH.
"WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE"
(By Alice Stone Blackwell
l. BECAUSE IL is right and fair
that those who must obey the laws
should have a voice in making them.
and that those who must pay taxes
should have vote as 10 the size OF
the tax and the way IL shall be spent.
2. BECAUSE the moral, education
al and humane legislation desired by
women would be got more easily n
women had votes. In many exclus-
lively male suffrage states. women
have worked in vain for legislative
measures which have gone through
promptly in equal suffrage states.
3. BECAUSE laws unjust To WON
en- would be amended more quickly.
IL cost Massachusetts women 80 years
of effort TO secure the law making
mothers equal guardians of their chill
dren with the fathers. In Colorado and
in California. after women were en-
franchised. the very next legislature
granted IL. After more than half
century OF agitation by women for
inns OllAa NfNfhA''A FhesNN' -
the District OF Columbia now give
equal guardianship to mothers.
4. BECAUSE dis reimbursement
helps TO keep wages down. Hon. Car
roll ID. Wright. National Commission
err OF Labor. said in an address de-
livered at Smith College: The lack
of direct political influence constitutes
a powerful reason why women's wages
have been kept a. n minimum"
5. BECAUSE equal suffrage would
increase the proportion OF educated
voters. The high schools or every
state in the Union are graduating
more girls than boys-often twice or
three times as many. (Report OF
Commissioner OF Education,
6. BECAUSE II would increase the
proportion OF native born voters. Ac-
cording to the census OF 1910, there
are in the United States 129 men of
foreign birth to every 100 women.
while among Asiatics the men out
number the women two to one
z BECAUSE It would increase the
moral and law-abiding vote very
much, while increasing the vicious
and criminal vote very little. Women
form a minority OF all the criminal
and vicious classes. and a majority Of
all the classes working Cor human ad-
vancement
s. BECAUSE II leads TO fair treat
ment OF women in the public service.
In Massachgsetts the average pay of
"A female teacher is about one-third
that OF a male teacher. and IN almost
all of the states II Is unequal. In all
the equal suffrage states they get
equal pay for equal work
9. BECAUSE legislation for the
protection OF children would be- Sc
cured more easily. Judge Lindsey. Of
the Denver Juvenile Court. says.
I'VE have in Colorado the most ad-
vanced laws OF any state in the Union
for the care and protection OF the
home and the children. These laws.
in my opinion. would not exist al this
time IL IL were not for the powerful
influence Of woman suffrage.
10. BECAUSE IL Is tho quickest.
easiest. omst dignified and least con
spicuous way Of influencing public ar
fairs. II takes much less expenditure
OF time. labor and personal presence
10 60 up TO a ballot box. drop in a slip
OF paper. and come away. than 10 per
suade a multitude OF miscellaneous
voters TO vote right.
II. BECAUSE Il would make WON
en- more broad minded Professor
Edward II. Griggs saws: The ballot
is an educator. and women will be
come more practical and more wise in
using f."
IL. BECAUSE woman's ballot would
make n harder for VIGOROUSLY bad
candidates 10 be nominated or elected
In the equal suffrage states. both par