Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-30
You Can't Halt the Spring Time.

You Can't Halt the Spring Time.
Thursday mornings Kennebec Jour-
nal carried on its first page. well dis
played. two significant reports: Men
Meet for Equal Suffrage"-Wednes-
day evening. at the House of Repre-
scntatives: and woman Suffrage is
Upheld by Premier"-Lloyd George
welcomes electoral reform giving wo-
men the right of suffrage.
: II is significant because showing
that the best minds of the Anglo
suffrage of the sexes. In England we
see former Premier Asquith moving
this reform and Lloyd George, "the
man o: brains and will" giving it HIS
strongest endorsement. In Maine we
find Governor Carl E. Milliken. Robert
Treat Whitchouse. former United
States Senator Charles F. johnson,
Congressman elect Ira G. Hersey, Hon.
C. 9. Stetson. former State Master Of
the Grange: Hon. William f. Pattan-
gall. former attorney general; Con-
gressman John A. Peters, and any
number of others of the foremost men
OF our State. all openly urging equal
suffrage.
Premier Lloyd George paid the
warmest OF manly tributes to wo-
mems work in the war especially the
devotion. courage and zeal of womenl
munition makers, and said that when
after the war the nation came. tor re-
cast the whole Industrial fabric SfvS,
womsk no. f<nce thereis1x would iEe Par
ogease;,' aisd be iAeautsb be: ID.
~ ssd steful s1>kss !: Selievs4
Md the country woutSs1ot 9sandti6a,
Asoe in,usties'soE y f0mN ~.
Governoe NuHk9d nd se1eeseues ton
hss~e i aof cr one Of
justice I'd he wo;n2 -. ~ necessity ~.
for the xcca OF .tbes fes 1--WE .ba,f
all. ret neafer Is wkat q au aesi,.. I
better system of uokn4,ne orr stats;
government, IL TIT Sese xote. aysf
believe they WI u So ~ " =
frage for women lii{ ssSfats 8 ~
Maine" ID 81 ~: !:
w. r. Pattaneall 4safds5 j IA x ty,eva a
heard an argument aeai1 s "A, &,
suffrage that, did not annlvs IA eo,,a,
force to men. He said, that it5wsII not
take a woman any ,onrer~to attend To
her political duties than it takes a
man, and that if a woman should he
engaged in taking care of a home. the
man should be engaged A.. snnporting
it. "whst are the reeate6nA ~ q
good vctsr?" he askeS Sherst. IRE
but two that / can ,,o' + ana .xbev
are intelligence and ikDsisS To,,
certainly cannot draS, ssex - NV
either of those points" p -
x
In the, spriaettime the "a swe,,
the grasses dart the birl bpear. tb.
brooks break forth .sv,,v tau
thousand things tell us Il new and
rich peroid of life is opening out into
its new charms We know that no
power can halt the progress of better
things in store for all kinds of Life
Now. in like manner, humanity "a
witnessing the early spring time of q
new dispensation. We glimpse vistas
OF glory which. only little way back
were universally declared Impossible. ("
the dream Of idealists. and, what is
more renarkabie some of the biggest
towers that are blossoming had never
been conceived by humanity.
Aoral awakening shows that the
seed bad been sown by a silent hand
/ EAs most Ito US, improbable of
paces Out of the filth of earth
Ss2vous flowers of spotless petals and
'"enssis5saps odors spring. Out of the
devious Ways Of politics and selfish
.'ps's .tfeth and Justice are buds that
are swelling and breaking through the
esnst'
EQUAL suffrage is coming! Every