Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-09-09
F ormer President Certain
Mothers of Country Would
Fight for Righteous Cause
More Readily Than Men.
FEMALE PACIFlSM is
NOT TO BE FEARED
Refers SarcastiCaIIy to white
Rabbit" Special Train Not
Welcome Anywhere in Coun-
try,
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Oyster Bay NJ Y, Sept S,--Women
are entitled to the ballot as right
and not as favor, Col. Theodore
Roosevelt told a gathering of about
500 suffragists at Sycamore Hill this
afternoon He declared himself most
emphatically in favor of woman suf-
frage and was heartily applauded
when he said:
"On the whole the citizen to whom
] will pay the greatest Difference as
doing the most indispensable of all
duties is the mother. / will put her
ahead of every other human being.
To deny the mother the vote seems to
me something so preposterous that
our descendants will fail to under
stand how we could call ourselves
self-governmg ana democratic and
yet deny it.
This Is the only meeting dealing
with any matter not directly connect
ed with the war at which / have con-
sented to speak at ALL" said the col
onel in opening his address. "I con-
sented in this case because I wished
to see this war put through to a sue
cessful conclusion at no maximum
cost. I wish to see every man and
every woman in this country devote
every ounce of his or her strength to
that end, and when / wish that de-
mand to be made upon everyone, ]
wish corresponding justice to be done
everyone.
Must Have Square Deal.
During the last three years we
have been in the habit of thinking
about what democracy means and |
believe that as We grow wiser We will
steadily come to the belief that on
the one hand we must, in a democ-
racy suffer no injustice and on the
other hand, we must do no injustice
In other words, democracy must be
type of political organism in which
every right enjoyed is conditioned
upon duty performed and every duty
performed means the corresponding
enjoyment of a right.
81 wish to state, with all the en-
phasis in my power. that If either
man or woman refuses to do his or
her duty, / hold that they have no
right to the privilege of the suffrage.
do not put it on the grounds of sex.
/ put it on the ground of duty. do
not ask the ballot for woman as a fa-
vor. say that it should be given
to her as a right People say that If
women are givenathe ballot they will
fail to perform their official duties. I
notice that the average man who Is
most apt to say that is the individual
who is not particularly of the duty
performing type himself
Women Not Pacifists.
People have said to rne that we
must not have women vote because
they would all be pacifists. The Lord
knows l despise pacifist, and / have
made no special effort to dissemble
my feelings about that. But have
failed to notice that among them the
shirking sisterhood of pacifists out
numbers the bleating brotherhood of
pacifists.
This white rabbit special that has
been going around the country has
not found a place for the soles of its
feet to rest | believe that when the
right appeal is made, the mothers,
wives and daughters of America will
stand just trifle ahead of their sons,
husbands and fathers in sacrificing
everything, even those whose loss
means infinitely more to them than
their own lives. They will sacrifice
everything to a great and lofty ideal. |
"On general grounds, have abso
lutely no question that suffrage must
come. as a matter of right; If we are
to continue our democratic expert
ment of government. it must come.
Free Suffrage Coming.
Nov for the special needs created
by this war; One of the curious things
of this great war is that it has
brought much nearer tile day in every
country participating in it and every
country adjacent to the participating
countries, when women will be given
political rights just as men are given
them, because it has been proved by
the actual event that In this, the
greatest and most terrible war OF his
tory, the war in which greatest de-