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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-18

Our Republican neigbbors are &c
very solicitous for a free ballot and @
fair count! Truly, against such q
ballot and count in the true sense, nc
honest man will contend. But, toe
often, fairness and %freeness with the
& o. p. patriots mean something wide.
" different from the generally &C.
cepted Interpretation OF the term,
They are the saints and their orpo.
nents have NO inalienable rights and
are accorded as few privileges a. may
be. This 10 typiled In the order is.
sued TO his uuderlings In the good old
days by tho then Supervisor Of Regis.
tration In this Senatorial District;
"Rcg'ster AZ few Democratic az boz.
sible." This was terse, neat and com.
prehensible--and implicitly followed.
The following card from Mr.. W. d.
Isenberg, OF Los Angeles, Cal, mildly
reminds us Of the conditions In Mis-.
souri, then:
see reference in your paper to g..
y. assertion that the count was not
correct In California. The facts are:
That California 10 about the only State
that has not q bipartisan Election
Board required by law. In this coun.
~ snd IL environments, our Election
Boards, with . very few exceptions.
Of Z Republicans for Hughes
and not . single Democratic repro.
e~sntatlve or election oiicer was
found. In my district I volunteered
1se Wilson Watcher, and when I in.
QulredMho wss The DemCc attic repre-.
I Was told there we're none,
] had voted In Pennsylvania, Mis-.
louri, Texas and California, and this
Wae The nres timD1 had sver met an
Dlectlon Beard I'll Of Republican
po1jelcs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-18
MAMIE WALKER

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS taken, Deeds Of
oil kinds written, and other lersl
rapsrs prepared. Copying on Type.
writer solicited. win bs found 4
nome, north Of brick hotel, corner 81
shepherd and Wayne streets,
11OHT02s. NO.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-18

! READ that Uncle Sam is about to
RESUME the printing Of 81 and So
greenbacks. always had n sneaking
fondness for the old fashioned green
back, despite the fact that the yirtu-
ous patriotism of Wall Street put it
under ban. New York In those times
had some influence in national affairs.
THE following are not the words of
q worldly unregenerate, but OF one
high in the councils of the Church,
the newly appointed Bishop OF South
Carolinu:
am always afraid OF that class of
people who r better ethan thou -
l fear the man who convinces himself
that his views ara necessarily the
views Of Almighty God fear saints
In politics. | sometimes feel that {
would like very much to be able to
revise the "litany OF saints.n After
'ail ye saints of heaven. intercene for
u.s." | would like to insert: "From
the saints on earth, Q Lord, deliver
u.s.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-18


Ok the Prohibition question, | do
not see how any thinking Democrat
n fail to be in hearty accord with
tie veteran editor, Henry Watterson.
He says:
"!t's an appeal from God to fanatic,
ism The fanatic knows no reienting.
neither does he make any discrimina
tons. lie Is a monomaniac. tie
would, BY act Of Assembly or consti.
tutional~ amendment, suddenly change
the human species from MORALS INFO
angels. Thus he becomes an asset to
the politicians. For half or three.
fGurths OF the 2,00G years since Christ,
the priests and pre!ates, in the name
OF religion, STEPPED the world in woe.
Are they to be succeeded by a race,
= class of professional politicians,
who, In the name Ut liberty and the
people, would Steep it i'll d~espotism?
Is Christianity afailure2 Is democracy
a failure? Must men and women be
forever the victims OF their incapaci,y
for self government? Intelligent self
control is doing much to draw men
away from strong drink. Science IL
doing much to ahridge the area of
diseases. But the regeneration Of
men must proceed from within, and
il Of slow growth. We cannot hope
to eliminate death, nor is Prohibition
likely to end drunkenness"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-18

A REGENT dispatch from Roanoke,
Virginia, to the Cincinnati CONNER
cisi-Journal conveys the interesting
information that il Virginia bachelors
want to get tbs one quart of liquor
allowed them under the state pro-
hihition law, they must marry Thia
ID feet ia the ruling OF the state pro-
hibition commissioners to-day. The
decree sets forth that bachelors have
no regular homes and obviously,
therefore, can not take their monthly
quart into their homes. This il max
ing the Demon Rum a first aid to mat.
rimony, a startling proposition, and
lessons The possibility OF race suicide
in Virginia. The measure is despotir;
but hachelorhood has no vested rights
and ought be accorded no privileges.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-16

many men who had before that voted the republican ticket voted for MT. Wilson because they believed in him more than in the other candidates. To say that women are the only ones who can be non-partisan is an insult to the men who put duty to country and principle above party loyalty.
 According to the Anti reasoning the only people who would be capable of filling positions under the civil service in a disinterested way would be women because men, having the vote would be incapable of disinter- ested non-partisan administration of any, office. Now the actual facts of the case are that by far the largest number of positions under the Civil Service are filled by men and for the most part they fill these positions in an honest way and are as free from political wire pulling and party in- trigue as any women could possibly be. I have heard Miss Minnie Bron- son who was here a few weeks ago say that Miss Julia Lathrop, who is at the head of the Children's Bureau in Washington, was the only head of department who was retained when President Wilson first became pres ident, that all the other heads of bu- reaus being men voters, were changed. Now the facts are that of the fifty bureaus in Washington most of the heads of these bureaus were retained. Also, Miss Julia Lathrop, the only woman at the head of bureau in Washington, is voter. After hear ing Miss Bronson make that statement I wrote to Miss Lathrop myself and she gave me the facts just as have given them to you.
 Many Favor Suffrage.
 "The American Federation of Labor is an organization composed mostly of men. It is non-partisan. Would they be more powerful without votes. Everyone knows that they would not.
 The National Federation of Wom- ems clubs is an organization of wom- en, non- partisan too, and most of it's members are without votes. In eleven of the states the women in the fed eration have worked both with and without votes. How do they stand on this question? They have endorsed woman suffrage Not only the Na- tional Federation of Women's clubs and thirty-three state federations of women's clubs have endorsed woman suffrage but most of the national non- partisan women's organizations stand for woman suffrage. The National Women's Trade Union League (the largest organization of working wom- en in the United States), the Asso- citation of Collegiate Alumnae (the women college graduates of the Unit ed States), The American Nurses As sociation, The International Council of Women, representing over 1000, 900 women in different countries. Not one single organization of women ex- cept the Anti organization has gone on record against woman suffrage. Of
New Britain herald., 1917-04-16

changes have come about, the speak CT said, because men have a sense of 1 justice and few women have given their lives working for a change. Be- cause women live according to po- litical law. Mrs. Hepburn believes they should be classed according to political law instead of with criminals and children as they are not that they have no right to vote. Her argument in this respect was that the women should be recognized in political law as she is in civil and criminal law. The chief reason why so many people ob- ject to giving women the right to vote is because human nature revolts at any new change from old tradf- tiols, she stated.
 Mrs, Hepburn told the congregation that practically all the women in this country who have national reputa- tion are in favor of suffrage. For ex- ample, Jane Addams, Ella Flagg Young for a number of years at the head of the Chicago schools, Dr.. Katherine Bement Davis, chairman of the board of parole and ex-commis- sioner of correction in New York city, Julia Lathrop, Frances Willard, Maud Ballington Booth, Mrs. Raymond Robbins, Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, president of the National Association of Florence Crittenden Homes, Mrs. Florence Kelly, national secretary of the Consumers League, Mrs Julian Heath, president of the Housewives League, Clara Barton of the Red Gross and many of the most dis tinguished literary women and with rare exceptions, the women college presidents. The Antis, she said, have only two women left of national repu- tation whom they quote as opposed to woman suffrage, Ida Tarbell and Mabel Boardman, and they have no right to quote them. Miss Bronson spoke in Hartford a little time ago and said that these two women were opposed to suffrage. I went home and wrote to them. Miss Tarbell said that she thought that woman suffrage was inevita ble but hoped that it would come slowly. Miss Boardman said that if the Antis had quoted her as opposed to suffrage they had done so without her authority, the speaker as- serted.
 Again Criticizes Miss Bronson.
 Answering Miss Bronson's argu- ment that women can do the most good. even in politics. without the vote because then they would be strictly non-partisan, Mrs. Hepburn said:
 Our opponents tell you that wom- en will lose all their non-partisan power if women get the vote. They seem to assume that the only people who can be non-partisan are people without votes. Now, this is untrue on the face of 1t. A great many men are non-partisan, they put policies and parties above party loyalty. Many socialists voted for President Wilson at the last election, many progressives.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-16
THE OTHER SIDE OF
 SUFFRAGE QUEST7ON
Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn Tells Why Her Sex Should Have the Vote in Reply to Mrs. Bronson's
 Anti-Arguments

, plained how the woman has to buy l her beef from the stores, which get : 1t from slaughter houses, her. clothing from firms which obtain their prod ucts from other factories and so on down the line. Inasmuch as these things arc part of the home life and materially affect the home the wo- man should have a right to vote on the men who make the laws which govern all these points, was one ar gument. Mrs. Whitney also attacked those who say that they have no de- sire to vote. It is only in ignorance that any women would refuse the right to vote, she said. As did Miss Bronson two weeks ago, Mrs. Whitney said the only difference between suff- ragists and anti-suffragists is the fact that one believes she can do the world the most good by voting, while the other thinks she can do the most good in different manner. Inasmuch as eight million women in this coun- try are employed in factories or other forms of labor, the women should have the right to vote and protect their interests, just the same sss far mers or railroads have the right to have their interests represented in the law making bodies. Mrs. Whitney's suffrage slogon, in reply to the anti suffrage slogan that ''the woman's place is in the home," is that Ia wo- mans place is wherever she is need ed.' She then asked the question: Are they not needed in the state just as much as in .he home?"
 Replies to Antis Arguments.
 Unlike Miss Bronson, the anti suffragist who spoke two weeks ago, Mrs. Hepburn criticized the antis freely and in her opening words she fired a broadside at Miss Bronson. She referred to the several illustrative stories told by that speaker on her visit here and then remarked that Miss Bronson tells her stories we'll. The reason that the women of today want the vote is because their status has been changed, argued Mrs. Hep burn. She recited historical facts to show that when the constitution was drafted the women of. the country held an inferior position to the men and how conditions had gradually changed until in 1900 the women were legally given half ownership of their own children, where before the hus- band. in law. was recognized as being the sole owner of the child. All these
New Britain herald., 1917-04-16

the mems organizations the only ones l on record against woman suffrage are | the Union League club of New York, the liquor associations of New Jersey l and Pennsylvania and other associa- 1 tions connected with the liquor trade. On the other hand the American Fed i eration of Labor and the Connecticut ] Federation, the National Grange and ] the Connecticut State Grange, the Ma tional Education association and a number of other national non-par- tisan organizations composed of both men and women are on record in favor of woman suffrage. Practical
 experience and common sense have convinced the great non-partisan or ganizations that their power would be greatly increased if their women
 members as we'll as their men menl- bers had the vote.
 Our opponents have told you that
 if you give women the vote it will
 simply double the vote and not change
 the result, that it is useless for wom-
 en to vote if they vote in about the
 same proportion for the different par
 ies," Mrs. Hepburn argued. Now, is
 it? Take Illinois at the last presi-
 dential election in 1916. The women
 voted in about the same proportion
 for both of the major parties. Ac-
 cOrding to our opponents reasoning
 it would have been just as we'll for
 the women not to have gone to the
 polls at all As a matter of fact it
 was of fundamental importance for
 the women to vote because it stimulat-
 ed the interest of both sexes in the
 public question of vital importance
 which were before people. can prove this to you. At the election in 1912
 before women voted sixty-five per cent. of the men voted. In 1916, af- ter women could vote, seventy eight
 per cent. of the men went to the polls, ar increase of thirteen per cent. in the mems votes alone. And besides this increase in the mems votes S76,- 900 women went to the polls.
 When women vote public ques- tions are discussed in the home and the woman's influence is felt, not by her vote alone, but by the increased interest that she arouses on the part of the men in her family. The fact that the government. recognizes the
 woman as part of the sovereign power, equal to the man. reacts or. the man by giving him greater re- SpecC TOT the WoIHAn poiHI OI Vie", and reacts on the woman by stimu- lating her interest in public questions. In this way the sum of the intelli-
 gence of the community which is l brought to bear on public questions is greatly increased and one of the fund.- amental reasons for having a demo- cratic form of government is fur thered. Moreover, the new influence of voting women as mothers and teachers in bringing up the rising generation to a clearer understanding of their political duties should not be underestinated. The women who say that politics is a dirty business,
New Britain herald., 1917-04-16

Ultimate and positive success o1 the suffrage movement in this coun. try was predicted by Mrs. Thomas H Hepburn, president of the Connect. i cut Woman Suffrage association, in her address at the Methodist church last night, and so sure was she of her facts that she made the declaration:
 We are sure to win and the only
 thing anyone can do is to prevent it
 for a very short time.' Very courte- ously Rev. Warren F. Cook introduced
 Mrs. Hepburn as the "war horse' of
 the suffrage speakers-and she lived
 up to the introduction. She proved
 an enthusiastic ta1ker on the subject,
 with a multitude of pro-suffrage statements which, by 9:30 o'clock, had come to resemble Tennyson's famous brooklet. In her arguments for the right of women to vote Mrs Hepburn threw harpoons in all directions. She declared that Miss Bronson, the anti suffragist speaker who was at the same church two weeks ago, always says the same thing and she further more made the comment that Con- necticut politics, as witnessed by the women at the capitol in Hartford, are corrupt but are being covered up They will continue to be covered up, she predicted, until the women get the right to vote and shows things up in their true light.
 A New Speaker Appears.
 Mrs. Hepburn brought with her Mrs. Thomas M. Whitney, an embryo suffrag;st orator, from Hartford. The speech made by Mrs. Whitney last night was the first one she has ever delivered in public in favor of the cause. She said she believed in wo- man suffrage because she believes in democracy and in the home. She de- clared that the woman of today, as of the past. is the home maker but con- dftions have so changed that her home extends far beyond the limits of her house. A vote is. an opinion and wo- men should have the right to express their opinion in regard to all things that concern them, she said. Tracing the history of manhood franchise, Mrs. Whitney explained that in the colonial days only property owners had the right to vote and up to 1891 but few Catholics, Jews or Baptists were given the right of franchise. In arguing that the limits of woman's home are not marked by the four walls of the house Mrs. Whitney ex-
New Britain herald., 1917-04-16

that politics does not concern moth( that politics does not concern tI home, are not the kind of woml capable of bringing up sons n daughters to carry forward a grG republic.
 Calls Conn. Politics Corrupt.
 Today, Mrs. Hepburn said, the evl in Connecticut politics are being CT cred up but i've see the corruption E it is practised at the capitol" H0y ever, the speaker said that ConnecG cuts corrupt politics will continue be covered up until such times the women get the vote and thu shows conditions up in their trI light. If the people want to clean politics one of the first steps, s1 said, is to give the women the vd1 Improving political conditions is F. ing to take a long time and is hs for most people to look into the E. ture. "But, after all," she remarl9 eff we are wise we are trying to IT the foundations for the generata0N that are to come after us. and
 make them sound. If you give woi en the vote today it means simI this: Little by little women will get 1T terested in public questions; they w bring up their boys and girls to better knowledge of public questiof1 and gradually we shall take things o1 of politics by putting in politics md and women of sufficiently high e iber so that they cannot be boue and cannot be intimidated."
 Before concluding her address m Hepburn said:
 Woman suffrage has not brUui about the millenium. Evil coH( tions still exist in the suffrage staAN but to ask intelligent people to
 lieve that it is because of woman st7 frage is like asking them to beliS that evil conditions exist in Coma ticut because men vote, whereas th exist in spite of it.''
 Women Ask Questions. Given an opportunity to ask 11 Hepburn any questions desired, lady in the congregation asked tl she explain about the ignorant vol 1 "The ignorant voter,'' Mrs. Heph2 repeated, and then she said, Ioo1Il at her inquisitor, that when she ho6 that question she always feels l asking "are you it?" In reply
 the question the suffragists' led said that no one will admit beingS ignorant voter and all say it issS other people. She said the ignox voter cannot be put in any one nI for it is found in all. Another asked why the women of Connecf l do not vote on the school Quea& when they have that right. For the same reason that the TT wouldn't if they were permitted vote on only one thing" Mrs. H burn said. She did however, suG1 and heartily recommend that l women of Connecticut do take 1 vantage of their right to vote Ha this item.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-16
D. A. R. CONVENTION.
Four Are Candidates for Oh1ce
 President General.

Washington, April 16.-Patr1otlc addresses and exercises marked the opening today of the twenty-sixth an- nual congress of the Daughters Of the American Revolution. On We'd nesday will he the election of new of- ficers including president-general to succeed Mrs. William Cummin Story. 4 number of social events have been arranged for the 2,50O delegates.
 A large part of todays meeting was devoted to organization and after that the program called for addresses by Mrs. Story. J. J. Iussrand, the French ambassador; Lieutenant General Young, U. $. A., retired. and others.
 The candidates arc Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis, wife Of the senator from Illinois; Mrs George Thatcher Guernsey of Independence, Kas.; Mrs. John Horton of Buffalo and Mrs. George c. SQutrcs cE St. Paul.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-16
HELP CONNECTICUT
 AND HELP YOURSELF
State Food Committee Has Ear
 Open for Suggestions
Especial to the Herald)

\opcClAl lO the E1ecalQ)
 Tn Connecticut committee of food supply. created by Governor Marcus II. Holcomb to consider means by } which this state can produce the lars- est crops possible and utilize It's lands to tie utmost. has oi>aned an once in Hartford and the members have begun working out the program which will be advanced to the people < Of the state. The committee was named by Governor Holcomb under the power given him by tho emergen- cy law recently passed by the legisla- turc. Under this the governor may take any action he considers neces- cary to meet the situation caused by Americas entry into the war. The members of the committee are Joseph W. Alsop of Avon. Clifford I. Stoddard of Woodbridge, Charles T. Davis of Mtddletown. Robert W. Perkins of Norwich. Wilson H. Lee of Orange. Robert Scoville of Salisbury, George M. Landers of New Britain, William c. Cheney of Manchester and John F. Elton of Waterbury.
 The committee's one aim at present is to devise ways and means whereby Connecticnt's food production this year may be increased to the highest pONaAOhC s)uAttI. Iic tu0tuOOS Uy WU1Cl this will be accomplished are now be- ing worked out and the first part of the committees program will be an- nOureed within a few days.
 Many Individuals and organizations have taken up plans for increasing the food crop this year. There are home garden committees in many Connecti- cut towns and cities. The plans of the governors committee on food supply will in no way interfere with the fac tors which are already working for the same purpose. The effort will be to coordinate all work along these lines. to encourage the efforts of in- dividuals and groups. and to help any man or any organization which has plan for increasing Connecticut's food production.
 The office of the food committee is on the second floor of the Connecticut Mutual building in Hartford. Sutfi- cient space has been leased for the committees offices and rooms for gatherings of small groups of inter ested persons. The telephone number is Charted 952O, Hartford, and the members of the committee con be reached at the offices at any hour.
 eve want the cooperation of every man. woman and child in Con- necticut,'' said a statement fssued by 1 the committee today. We want sug- 1 xestions, we want help. We need the cordial support of the entire state to | but through this great undertaking | which means so much to Connecticut.4l Tn the past the state has produced not more than one-fifth of the food it ! has consumed, and we have had to re- 1y upon the surplus of other states. This year that surplus will be small. l Our only hope is to utilize the land of our own state to the utmost. We must, use. every means possible to in- crease the states production of food etuffs. Every person who can do any thing toward that end should do It. and may be assured of the cordial CO., oneration of the committee"