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WAR HAS HELPED
WOM4N SUFFRAGE
Has Accomplished More for the Cause
Than Centuries of Argu-
ment.

ment
Saratoga, n. Y, Aug. 3l.-The wal
has accomplished more for the cause o.
woman suffrage than centuries of argu
ment and has refuted nearly all the anti
suffrage reasonngs, Jacob Gould Schu,
man, president of Cornell university, as
serted at a mass meeting last night in
connection with the conference here OF
the New York state woman suffrage
party He said women had earned "a
new claim" to the ballot
81 do not hesitate to declare" Mr..
Schurman said, that the great world war
has done more than centuries of argu-
ment for the complete emancipation of
women, the equalization of woman's sta
tus with mans, and the attainment by
women of full citizenship eliminating in
the unlimited right of suffrage.
THE war has disposed in most prac-
teal way, and by worldwide demon.
strstion, of pretty nearly all of the argu.
ments that have ever been used against
the proposal to confer upon women the
legal right TO vote.
is it said" he continued, that the
franchise is the correlative of military
service in time of war? Well, the Rus.
sian women have enlisted in the army;
and, what is still more important, they
fought the enemy while Russian men ran
away from him in the rout that invited
him to overrun their country and brought
disaster not only on the government of
Russia but ON the cause of the allies"
Only Grass blindness" could lead any
person to make the statement that fight
ing must always remain a mans task,
as "the character and course of this great
world war" has proven otherwise, Mr.. |
Schurmsn said, adding:
Our own selectiye draft is sufficient to |
prove this. We fight the enemy not only
through soldiers but also and not less
effectively through civilians"
In this respect, women's service il like
mems, Mr.. Schurman pointed out What
American women would do lin the
trenches) if they had the chance. we can
,nly imagine" he added. Il know as a
matter of fact that some of them would
ike to join the armed forces of the ma
ion" He said women had applied for
admission to the government school of
Leronautics at Cornell but the authorities
lad been compelled to reject them. He
continued:
I'VE all take off our hats to Pershing's
lrmy and follow the doings of these
ympathy and pride; but, if their work
nd the work the divisions and corps that :
olow them to France is to be effective !
hey must have the loyal cooperation
nd unhagging support of the great civil s
an army at home. And what a
ur women are matching them, whether {
he contributions be measured by intelli-
emit direction, by toll and service, or by [
acrifce and suffering. This world war, 7
onsequently, gives women new claim i
D the ballot
l. nope tOI bHt NIeulb VI hAitI Kan
vilization we shall not be the last ma
on to recognize that claim.
ngland, France, Russia, already oom
lifted to woman suffragel Is America
, be less liberal than its European al
es? Are we to lag behind while they
arch forward under the banners of pro-
-essive civilization There are only
lree fundamental tests of any nations
vilization. One is the power and q
,hievement of its intellect-the scope S
I'd reach of its rational intelligence. N
mother is the amount of leisure enjoyed d
: its workers. The third, and in many Il
spects the most decisive criterion be- g,
use directly rejecting the moral tone n
a people, is the place occupied by W
omen in their scale of civilization" La
There is no other country where wage W
rners have such high compensation and
murh leisure as in the United States, a,
r Schurman said, but a superficial view W
politics in this country has resulted in to
,men being denied the right and priv n
ges of equal political citizenship. BE ds
ntinued: la,
The war which has revolutionized so oh
my other things viii also revolution =
our conception Of politics. If America
mot win this war without the efforts
d sacrifices Of its women, then the
men are as indispensable to the re-
blics life a. the men and they should
We equal shares in politics. Of which
) ballot 81 the indispensable instru-
mt"