New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Former Ambassador Pleads
for Equal Franchise
at Big Rally
Sen. Owen Tells How
Suffrage Aided West
Secretary McAdoo Sends
Address Urging Adolf
ton of Prejudice


in the last big rally for woman suf-
frage in this campaign.
Beginning with a torchlight parade
Of several hundred women who
marched into the hall TO the tune of
~The Star-Spangled Banner" the
Meeting rose TO climax Of feeling
when ex-Ambassador James W. Ger
ard. chief speaker said:
.sYou can depend on the women OF
s-,e-ica 20 resent the barbarous treat
r,er- of the women of Belgium and
Northern France-resent u TO the ex-
tent Of pushing this war 70 It's uitI-
mate victory. The women OF America
will never forget their European SIS
ters'
.o;css aii over the hall, as the room
-oared with applause and famed WIN
As sudden waving of the Stars ana
s-ripes and the yellow suffrage coiors-
ave need The votes Of the women 70
holm rs win this war declared Mr..
Carard Women viii help Us 70 see
.bfs thing through 70 its very limit
Wbe- have American women ever failed
20 show courage when their men were
frhtinr for a Just cause! American
women are Spartan women, saying 10
their husbands and sons this very day:
como back with your shields or on
them"
Women in Germany
II come from a cOuntry-a country
that loved me SC well they detained me
a week after I asked PERMISSION TO
leavc--where the position OF women IS
most Illuminating. Women gardeners
receive % cents day and rave 10
lroel and kiss the hand OF their en-
rlover If be Is count, as certain
hos. Of mine was Women harvesters
rsco,ve 81 cents a day, and for that
sun, work from sunrise until dark II
German officers wife wants new
dress. the officer goes ont and selects
l. and has u sent home to her. That
country IS an autocracy. And freedom
for wcnaen and democracy always 60
hand in hand.
There are a9s 600 women in New
vo~t state who earn their own living.
Those women Must have n voice in the
laws that control their fate; they must
10 longer be compelled 70 Ybeedie
some man to act as an inadequate
rezphune. We must follow the ex-
ample Of our other states. l have Just
come from the West, and what a splen-
ciuhs there Of men and women, and 10
find the women taking SUCH an lnteIl-
gent interest in the affairs OF this war.
People ask ne why speak for poll-
ties here tonight. Gentlemen and nut
IRE voters, / am not speeidHg for poll
tics. I an speaking for justice.
message from Secretary MeAdoo,
Who could ret address the meeting on
account Of bad throat, was read by
lanes Byrne, chairman OF the meeting,
after Or. Anna Howard Shaw had
spoken. The Secretary in his message
said;
come when the right CT suffrage should
h Extended wholeheartedly TO the
women Of America. This is TO longer
an Academic question ! can readily
understand how it could have been so
rayarSeg when = was first proposed
brt ire test q experience has been ap-
rUed in thirteen states OF the Union
AID IA. results have put 70 rout al the
obie~fiors Of the theorists and all the
foisful predictions Of the pesslmlsts o.
TIE test has clearly proven women 90
b fully qualified for this greatest OF
all civil rights in a democracy; any
that democracy y Itsei stIehs 1heIieI !
a. ne equal participation OF men anu
women 10 LHF &c l<--
f. OF government.
Tho dsscrim nations against women
r civil ard industrial life are "ho!Iy
rs,ro,rant % democratic ideals and IN
,.4,tfo-s and work grave in1ustices 20
.tsro TIC principle Of equal pay Tor
vor1er who perform the sane eharactet
Of service as men is clearly right, Ou'
fF alrcet universally denied rs q.
49, determination against women can
...,-yt. I'D vet K Is accentuated De,
easse women have not the rlgnt o.
rBTrs0e and therefore are unaOIe ~
,oss-..silv influence the enactment OF
fBst Isv~e +bat would give them eqna.
cnror+snities With men. / oeHeFe tna
,ro-,., vre-o given the right OF SUI
T-sge .tera would be improvement ~
ou- ofvfc deals, and that the ecoilo i ~. >
determinations and disaoVah ssgeS -
der which they are no" loreeo ~ .eDS.
would gradually disappear, WIN i,sa "a
10. only % women Dut 70 VIC
the nation.
,War Brings Out Women -.
artfs s,reat war has already oropgh.
women more conspicuous!y 70 Ine -
e. actual fighting units Win men .iD =.
ever before IN the worries his'oty
IL not necessary that women '.Jsi.
-. w;tb s,1ns in order 20 do their
49, they can do far greater aho
r,ore vftal part In sighting BACK o.
the ljnes-ntt with guns, but IN pro
6ucing those things which are neees-
ysrv 20 enable the men who ngnt WIN
guns 70 fight more effectively;
"rhe women Of America have mar
,saNes their forces with extraordinary
ratriotisrn and zeal in this great wal
lar lmeriea'y vital rights, for liberty
and dsnocracy. What the women DID
for the first and second Liberty loans
Il = striking manifestation OF the sh'
thrsjasra. The patriotism, the inteih'
ysncs aad the power Of women. Ihsj
Eave earned the unstinted admiration
- the country, no. only for ineso EeI
Wees, bot for the splendid servlce'
they are rendering In syery diree'ioh'
~ y unworthy Of the fnanh0oo o.
America that women should longer o.
csnis1 a fall and equal psrtnershlI
With men IN the great enterprise o.
csmo<racv
America IL going 10 emerge fron
This var with greater influence ans
bizher reSpDncibilitles 20 MANKIND thai
any nation ever before possessed.
hope thEs ne part America VIII plsj
IN IBIS var viii make her always th'
fosesnoft champion ~ democracy IN th'
world. HoF can she sustain that char
af,<f baless she gives 70 her .womsr
ms ssfns political, economic and toeis
htAtas thai yhe aecords 20 her nen7 u
me Goes that, she will be able " roee'
ins Ttat rsspDnsibilitiss and the gIOn