Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
AT WATERVILLE
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the home of today was not the home
OF yesterday AS boy the milk which
ne drank came from fathers COW,
pastured on fathers meadows. and it
was cared forxby mother. Today. the
milk which his children drink comes
from one of thousands of distant
dairy farms, The same is true of the
flour which is made into bread which
the children eat and of the clothing
which they wear The home Of yes
terday was bounded by the four walls;
today 1t is a link of the great chain
or modern society He declared that
woman should have the vote to help to
care for the home. He spoke of the
fact that all of the great labor unions
or the country favor giving suffrage
to women. That of all the states Of
the Union, PENNSYLVANIA and Maine
and the II southern states are the only
ones that do not give suffrage in some
form to women.
Wilson and Roosevelt
! lie spoke of the fact that President
wilson had given some of his we'll
Iliied time to send a message to the
democrats of Maine asking them to
support the measure He also read a
telegram from Theodore Roosevelt n
Mrs Livingston, in which he said that
I've hoped that the men of Maine as
matter OF simple justice would give
'"e vote 70 women. He spoke of the
great advances which had been made
III many laws in the states where
women nave the vote Of the fact
/ 'hat they had accomplished so mucb
| IN the states in the West in spite of
me TACT that they are outnumbered nv
| many thousands in all of those states
! re toid of how the last argument
or tne ants that government being
iounded on force and women not being
apie 10 exert that force had been ex-
pioueo by the war and the fact that
women had been doing their full share
III tne work made necessary by that
great CONNECT and closed by an an
| Etat 10 the voters to do their part to
make the world safe for democracy
At Baptist Church
MI Polling was at once taken 10 the
Baptist church where he found ,arpe
/ crowd waiting for him and where he
/ was introduced by Rev. Arthur 6
/ Pheips, who said that there were three
reasons for his believing in wonan.s
Suffrage. first. that he believed that
IL was Goman's right, as they own
property and have more intellirence
ana common sense than the men. and
second mat they raise the moral tone
vi the communities in which thew vote
ana ne spoke from experience in this
malter as ne had lived in two states
"nere women had voted, and third ho-
cause foiing was In favor Of il.
Debt to Mother
Mr.. Polling said he was irving ~ nav
debt that he owed to his mother
VINO Is q voting citizen Of the state
OF oregon. He declared that the ballot
mad enabled the women to do things
that they had not been able to do he !.
fore. and that it had been Of assist :
anoe TO them in protecting the Amer.
! lcan and told how laws which tbey
demanded in Massachusetts had neon
cast aside and how in states where
they had the vote they had been ,h1o
to enforce their demands,
ne SAID that woman's passion va g
the care of children and that this
made her desire the ballot thai she
might the better care for her children.
he cited number Of cases whore
tne outside influences had affected the
nome and where the ballot OF women
would nave helped to have made mat
ters better
He told Of how the women Of the
wee district in Denver were herded to
+ inc polls 70 vote against Judge I,in]-
say and how when the ballots were
counted il was found that thew ha 4
voted for the Judge and had in spit Q
of their lives showed their woman
hood still lived in their passion for
! tho protection 90 children.
He said no did not believe it right
! that the State should be denied tho
| wisdom Of the women. which in the
case of his wife he had found Of 50
much assistance to him.
Women Of the West
He told Of how in the west where
the women have the ballot they con-
/ duct schools OF citizenship and how he
had been present at one of the SEES
! sions of one Of these schools and had
I seen there. foreign women being in
structed in the duties of American. cit
izenship by person who spoke her
own tongue He spoke OF the fact that
| it was the women who trained the cit
liens of the world and that they had
gotten along SO well without any text
hook that given the ballot they should
get along great deal better
! He said, we must save America to
/ serve the world and must serve Amer
/ lea to save the world" and it is the
! duty Of the men Of Maine to lead in
| giving to women the right to vote
with them He declared that every vice
interest in the world Is against wo-
mans suffrage and that they We're do
ing everything in their power to de-
! feat it.
Improves Home Condition
J He told of how some of the speak
! ers against the cause had declared
that it would invade the sanctity o.
the home. and showed that in the
states where it had been granted here
has been an Improvement in the home
conditions He laid low some Of the
arguments about the polling. places not
! icing a decent place for the women
to go and showed how women's vote
! Fad raised the standard Of conditions
at those places. He closed with an
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