Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-25
Women Voting May Mean
Church to Control Nation

ington which had plac ards har gins
out heralding the fact that motion
pictures would be shown there. Hired
choirs have been so long employed
that they are looked upon as au cs.
sential part of the church service, and
added Inducements now being talked
Of, and actually being prlcticed ir
some places are but a step away from
the cabaret and the revue-pu"ely
sociological
Now admitting Gas we musD that
his condition sooner or later must
cease. aud the church, instead of ac-
cepting all fads and fancies of the
flock, issues dccrees AMI ediCts for
guidance of the faithful. how far in
The other direction wiz the church go.
and how faithful will the flock be il
adherence 10 such decree?
NAV Control Votes.
If after this change comes over the
Protestant church-"oinC people the
ininister issues o decree to vote for
such and such a candidate fer office
and with the additional spread Of
women's suffrage will rot the faith
full female member of the conSrosa-
ton follow the advice OF her niln s.
ter?
Husbands are very rice men, good
breaiwinncrs and excellent provides
as rule. but they are business men.
not spiritual advisers. Their advice as
TO how ard for whom to vote is
strictly earthly: while minister s
advice is certainly spiritual. One looks
after the material and mortal things
Of lie, the other the spiritual ard
divine Regardless of the love and re
spect n woman pays her husband, it
is hardly to re expccted that sne will
accept his spiritual advice in refer
cnce to "A candidate in preforen' e to
that of her minister. She can vote
spiritually and square It with
Friend Husband; hut she never could
vote unspiritually and maintain her
church standing.
Therefore. whom this condition
comes back. AMI it must come back
! to keep the church from eventually
falling, what will then be the situa-
tion?
\ Roman RcpC'tion.
II will be a repetition of the condi
ton that caused the separation Of
the church from the state OF Rome.
Al readers Of history are familiai
with the reasons why TIC church ana
state must be separated
The last available figures. those OF
the census bureau of 1906, show
that about IS per cont Cf the popula-
ton of the United States were nor
members Of the church and 2 per
tent other than Catholic or Protes-
tant. OF the remaining 40 per cent
z per cent of the whole or 25,000,0Q0
persons in the United States. wero
members of the Prote slant church.
| Fifteen Fer cent were members OF the
/ Catholic church. In 1906, the CATH
ulic population of the United States
was 1900 900. The Official Cath
| olic Directory published by +. J
| Kennedy & Sons of NcW York City.
roW gong to press. shows the Catr &.
| Ollie population of the United states
ut the beginning Of 1917 to he mole
! than 1900, ,00n. gain of 4 per cent
| IN ten years in continental United
| States Taking In the United States
territories and possessions there aIe
| today more than c7.000.00o Catholics
| living under the United States tag,
not Including the Danish West
| Indies or the floating membership. II
! is doubtful IL there are very many
! more Protestant unde" the United
| States flag. In proportion TO increase
| in population, the Catholic church
shows Il decided increase in mem oei- =
ship much greater than the 'ncreas'
| in the Protestant chUrch, which
shows the effects Of the sociological
! influences in the Protestant church.
Growth of Catholicism.
According to the official directory
there are 81 states in the union hav-
ing a Catholic population of over
| 100000. New York has 2.962, 2,91,
Pennsylvania 1,S65,000 Illinois 1,4S2,-
| 5S7, Massachusetts 1,406,913, Ohio
sS2,9S4. New Jersey 10000, Michi-
gan 6S1, 600. wisconsin 5S6,S57. Louis
lana $4,000. Missouri 531 900, Call
fornia 524,233, Connecticut SOS, ,4S9,
Minnesota 47S,335. Texas 41l,790,
Maryland 27S,000. Rhode Island 275,-
900, Iowa 3,431, Indiana 255,255,
Kentucky 1S1,6S6, New Mexico 150.-
573. New Hampshire 13I,O09, Maine
1867 Kansas 131.12S, Nebraska
1888. Colorado 110,9S7, North Da-
kota 104,371, Montana 10000. Ok
lahoma has 42,27S.
| These millions of church members
just enumerated are as close to the
ology today as they were in the early
days Of the Roman empire. The
Catholic church Is steadily growing
In the year 1916 the Catholic Dopula-
ton of the United States proper in
creased 45S,77O and the number of
priests increased All. and 357 new
parishes were organized
Eleven Suffrage States.
There are II states and one terri
tory in the union now having full suf-
frage for women. They are Washing
ton, oregon. California, Nevada, Utah
Montana. New York, Colorado, Arizo-
ma, Kansas and Alaska. Four states
have presidential suffrage, as fol-
lows: North Dakota, Illinois, Ohio and
Indiana. Those having bond or mu-
nicipal suffrage are South Dakota.
Nebraska, Minnesota. Iowa, Wiscon-
sin, Michigan, New Mexico. Oklaho-
ma. Louisina. Mississippi, Kentucky,
New York, New Jersey, Vermont, New
| Hampshire. Massachusetts,, Connecti-
cut and Rhode Island
General Submission.
In every other state in the union
having no suffrage some form OF mu-
nicipal or presidential suffrage will
be submitted this year. And it may
be that woman suffrage will be the
eighteenth amendment to the consti
tuition of the United States instead Of
Prohibition.
With woman suffrage in every state
| in the union and with the transforma-
tion of the Protestant church from
state of sociology to a return to strict
theology. under obedience to minis
terial suggestion, and with the abid-
| In. raitb nf tho Cafbolio IN tba yunrd