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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE.

have been asked why I believe in
woman suffrage.
have been in favor of woman suf-
frage ever since knew the meaning
of the words. / have been an advo-
cate of the cause for many years,
though at a distance from the active
part in the West. I have had a num-
ber of letters, in the past, from the
West, inviting me to come out and as
sist them in lecturing for woman suf-
frage. 1t was not convenient for me
to go. l have believed for the last
30 years that woman suffrage would
be here and am very happy that it
is so near. Women should have equal
suffrage because it is justly due them
They pay taxes to help support the
government. They are governed by
the laws of the land. They should have
a voice in choosing those by whom
they are governed as a means OF self
protection due to all. Every year
have more faith and hope in its sue
cess, and desire to use ry influence
for its advancement. Woman suffrage
is right and practical. 1t tends to ele-
vate. Women's votes will improve the
education system generally.
believe the work for equal suffrage
is a Christian work. believe equal
suffrage is divinely doomed to come
soon. Eliza A. Garner.
Kelton, S. C.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN GER
MANY.

AS recently as 1895 women in Ger
many had almost no political rights.
For them to attend political meetings;
was entirely against the law and all
their attempts to hold such meetings
were promptly headed off by the police
However, they began to grow rest
less as time went on and women in
other countries began to have voice
in their governments, and meeting
was finally held without interference
by the authorities. This was the first
political equality meet
ing that was ever held in Germany.
Encouraged by the success of this un-
dertaking they endeavored to carry
the work rapidly forward but for a
number of years all efforts in this di-
rection were met by stern government
opposition.
In 1904 Susan B. Anthony succeeded
in holding the worlds congress of wo-
mems suffragists in Berlin, though it
was in direct violation of the law at
that time. Here this American leader
commissioned a number of German
women as delegates to organize a
branch of the international suffrage
association in Germany.
From that time the movement con-
tinued to gain strength until the Ger
man Alliance for Woman's Franchise
was organized in 1907. In 1908 Ger
many adopted new law which grant
ed women the right to attend and hold
political meetings. Several other suf-
frage organizations have since sprung
up having different platforms and
views but all working toward rhe one
end-woman's right to vote.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
CHARM AND THE BALLOT.
New Zealand Reports That Her Voting
Women Are Still Beautiful.

"In New Zealand we have not found
that making pencil mark on a vot-
ing paper once in three years has re-
suited in any loss of grace or beauty
among our women, or even in neglect
of home duties. On the contrary, the
woman's vote has had a distinctly
clarifying effect on the process of
elections. The old evil memories of
election day the ribaldry, the fighting,
have been succeeded by a decorous
gravity beftting people exercising
their highest natural privilege" said
Sir Joseph Ward, speaking as Prime
Minister of New Zealand.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
COLLEGE WOMAN TO OUR
ALIEN CITIZENS.

Thought sin a Naturalization Court.)
They know not our hopes and our
fears,
They know not the laws of our land,
Our language is strange in their ears,
And their oath is an upraiscd hand;
But at least they are warm in their
plea,
AT least they have longed and pre-
pared,
At least they desire to be free,
AT least they have cared.
O Gosef, Pictro, or Van;
0 YinSky, or loNsky, or Shea,
Our country will ask you--a man
May American women be free?
Recall, on that day, how like you
We women have struggled and
cared;
o Sovereigns, o masters, you. too.
Once strovc and dcspaircd,
Alice Duer Miller, in New York
Tribune
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
A Mans Reason.

Woman suffrage is an inevitable
step in the advance of free govern
ment. The right of women to vote is
the outcome of their present right to
homogeneous marriage, to freedom
from chattel slavery, to education. to
control Of their own persons and prop
erty. In Democracy political ri1
are merely the right to be consulted
when community interests are de
cussed. Men vote not as EXERCISING
sex-functon, but as human beings.
Therefore, women should also vote.
This does not mean disturbing the
balance Of sex, but merely giving each
of the two halves of humanity it's
proper weight in the general council
of the community.
l.. P. Chamberlayne, Phi. D.,
Ancient Languages, University Of
South Carolina.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
EFFECT OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE
IN COLORADO.
Mrs. Walter Duncan, Aiken.

Women were years ago engaged in
the pioneer work of civilizing Col
orado, Transforming its wilderness into
places of peace and sweetness and Sc
curity, so likewise are women today
engaged in work of civilizing Col
orado, transforming its wilderness
into places of peace and security, so
likewise are women today engaged in
a great pioneer work broader and no.
bier and grander, to make the world a
better place to live in. In the pioneer
days on the frontier in Colorado the
women protected the home with the
bullet. In the pioneer times of to-
day, she is standing shoulder to shoul-
der with the man, no longer with a
rifle in her hands, but more enlight
ened, with broader sympathies and
with more perfect understanding of
men and measures to protect their
home not from the night prowler, but
from the evils and the vices of organ
lied society-and her weapon is some
thing more effective than the bullet
for she has the ballot.
(Mrs. Duncan is an ardent suffragist
and a woman of force in her COM
munity)
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
PIONEER SUFFRAGIST.

Mrs. Virginia Durant Young, of
Fairfax, S. c., deserves mention in
our Suffrage Edition, for she was one
of the pioneers of the cause in South
Carolina. In the days when any men
tion of effual suffrage was unpopular
and "Women's Rights" were ridiculed,
she stood firm in her convictions. She
was a woman of forceful character,
and left her impress upon the COM
munity in which she lived. 1t is trace
able now in the varied activities for
social betterment, and moral uplift.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
SENATOR E. ID. SMITH
SIDESTEPS ON QUESTION
Continued from page one)

insult, piled upon ingratitude and in
justice?
The fallacy of the argument, that
by giving women the vote, thereby ex-
tending the same privilege to others !;
would be disastrous, is proven by sta
tistics. Our census shows that in the
South, the white population far out
number that of any other-therefore
were the ballot given to all the vote
of the undesirable element would be
so far in the minority that it could
not count for much. And the. intelli-
gent vote would be increased by Civ
ing our women the ballot, since two
thirds of the number of pupils in our
public schools are girls. 1t can also
be seen by our last census, that the
illiterate men greatly outnumber the
illiterate women. Isn't an intelligent
vote better than an ignorant one, even
though it be the vote of woman?
But if our white men can keep this
undesirable male element from voting,
then the same means can be used to
prevent the female of that same class
from making use of her ballot.
With 81 electoral votes, the women
of the suffrage States held the con-
trolling power of the last presidential
election. That was why each presi-
Dental platform contained a suffrage
plank. Equal rights is gaining ground
so rapidly that by the next presiden-
tial election the party whose man i;
elected will be the one who pledges
himself to give the vote to the unin
franchised States, because that will
be the party to win the vote from the
State whose women have the ballot
as they are working to whiten up the
black States. With the controlling
power in their hands it won't be long
before these women can get almost
anything they ask of our government
No party henceforth can elect a
president who is not an advocate of
equal suffrage. Therefore merits and
dement's of the question.
Thomas Jefferson said that it was
inconceivable to him chat any State
should bestow the suffrage upon the
most ignorant and besotted man, and
deny it to the most intelligent and vir-
tuous woman"
Abraham Lincoln, one of our great
est Americans made this statement:
Il go for all sharing the privileges of
government, who assist in bearing IFS
burdens; consequently, 1 go for all
whites to the right of suffrage who
pay taxes or bear arms, by no means
excluding the female"
Giving women the vote would rot
jeopardize white supremacy, but on
the other hand would strengthen it.
IT n
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
THE PRESIDENTS GREETING.

The following is a part Of a con-
gratulatory letter sent by President
Wilson to Gov. Frazier of North Da-
kota when news was received that the
North Dakota legislature had passed
the bill giving partial suffrage to the
women of the State:
"My interest in the extension of
suffrage to women is, as you know,
very great, and feel that every step
in this direction should receive the
most cordial Endorsement and recog-
nition."
What a pity the governor of South
Carolina wasn't given the opportunity
to receive such letter!
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
WOMAN PRESIDENT OF r. r.

The recent death of Capt. J. T.
Jones, reputed to be the wealthiest
man in Mississippi, leaves the man
agement of his interests, including the
presidency of a small railroad, in the
hands of his daughter. Owing to the
ability with which Miss Jones has
handled the work since the beginning
of her fathers illness her services as
president of the road will be retained
it is said
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
WHY I BELIEVE IN EQUAL
SUFFR AGE"
A WOman'S Reason.

Ny belief in the political equality
oS men and women rests fundamc.I-
t@'ly on the principle OF justice. male
and female, created He them," to-
gethcr they were to carry on the race
together TO build up society. In The
nature OF things there was no ques-
tion of the superiority of one sex over
the other. Without either the race
would die out and society cease to be
evolved.
Where there is equal responsibility
in justice there should be equal ad-
vantages. For one sex to arrogate to
itself the one instrument that in n
democracy gives its possessor sover-
eign power-the ballot-means gross
injustice on the part of one and an
undeserved abasement on the part Of
the other sex.
Harriet Powc Lynch.
President S. c. f. S. l..
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
A NEW SUFFRAGE PROBLEM.
Will Congress Take Ballot From W.
men of Danish West Indies"

The purchase Of the Danish West
Indies gives new suffrage problem to
congress because the women of the
islands now possess rights of suffl age
equal to those of men.
When the subject of Danish West
Indian legislation comes before con-
gress officers of the National Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Association will
urge the retention of the rights now
possessed by the women of the islands.
The women of Denmark enjoy full
suffrage. The parliament granted
them municipal suffrage first and af-
ter few years extended full suffrage
to them.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16

In a speech at the opening of the
convention of the Congressional Union
for Woman Suffrage at Chicago re-
Gently, Mrs. o. H, P. Belmont, of New
York City, predicted that politicians
of every group would be taught some
thing about their business this year by
the women. She said: "Woman does
not ask the vote for her own selfish
interests, for her own individual pro-
lection, but as demand against the
injustice which has excluded one-half
Of the human race from the right to
speak for itself and vote for itself" .
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16

The women of the West have nobly
vindicated their qualification to exer-
else the ballot patriotically and intelli-
gently. They refused to be herded
and handed over to any candidate by
their leaders, and they gave the bulk
of their votes to the man who has
maintained peace with honor for the
American people and helped to swell
the Wilson tide in the West.-Knox-
vile Sentinel.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16

Miss Alice Paul, national chairman
of the Congressional Union for We
man Suffrage, recently received let
ter from noted member of the Black
feet Indian tribe which read: "To the
American Indian belongs the credit
for the idea of woman suffrage. In
the early days before the white man
came the Indian woman had equal
voice in the council and even was
elected chieftain: so you see this is a
real American idea"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16

An organization, known as the
Mother Police, composed of 500 wo-
men, was recently founded in New
York City. The movement is rapidly
spreading to all parts of the city. The
primary object of the organization is
to protect young working girls from
evil influences. Other matters affect
ing the home are also included, such
as sanitation, fre-escapes, play
grounds. etc.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
QUESTION BOX.

DO you know that South Carolina
has no law against prostitution?
-oIeO V2noS u! leQl MouY nos OCT
lima father is sole owner of his
child, therefore we need the equal
guardianship law.
DO you know that the age of con-
sent in two of our Southern States
is as low as 10 years? And in onlv
seven non-suffrage States is it as
high as Is years, while all suffrage
States make the age of consent 1S
years, with the exception of Nevada
and Illinois, whose age is 16.
Do you know that South Carolina
needs the injunction and abatement
law as this has been proven the most
effective weapon against commercial
lied vice, because it is directed against
the owner of the property, and puts
the power of action in the hands of
every citizen.
Do you know that the women of
Washington begged for the eight hour
day for working women for eight
years, before they We're given the
vote? 1t was given to them by the
first legislature after they won the
franchise.
Do you know that the women of
Massachusetts were 40 years get
ting the nine hour law for working
women?
Do you know that the women of
South Carolina prefer the dignifed
alternative of voting to lobbying?
DO you know that the cost of cleo
tions is very small portion of the
cost Of government?
DO you know that Kansas, suf-
frage State, on Jan. I, 1916. paid off
the last dollar of it safe dcpt.
Do you know that 300 babies die
every year in the United States 80
per cent. of these is due to prevent
able causes?
Do you know that we have a ma
tional appropriation of 100000 for
our hogs, and $165,OOO for our babies =?
Do you know that the infant death
rate is lower in the suffrage States
than in the non-suff~age?
Do you know thai every congress
man who comes from suffrage State
is in favor of a national amendment.
and votes for it?
Do you know that until 1874 man
had right to beat his wife provided
the stick was no larger than his
thumb?
Do you know that scripture is not
against women enjoying equal rights
with men, for was not Deborah a sue
cessful general and great judge, and
for 40 years ruled Israel, and that dur
ing her reign "all the land had peace" "
Do you know that in South Carolina
there are $3.50 white school teachers
in the public schools? Of this num-
ber 1880 are women. Hence it is left
to the women to train the future citi.
zens of South Carolina. Our good
men are willing that the women infiu-
ence the lives of their sons instill in
them good or bad principles, implant
in their souls the right or wrong kinds
of ambitions, help in the moulding of
their characters, yet refuse to let these
women vote.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

Inc new woman Suffrage map has
the States of full suffrage, where wo-
men vote same as men marked white.
States where women vote for presiden-
tial and municipal suffrage are dotted.
States that women have partial suf-
frage are shaded. States where wo-
men have partial suffrage are shaded.
States where women have no suffrage
are marked black. There are fourteen
of the United States marked black.
In all States of the United States
where women do not have equal suf-
frage bills are being present
ed to legislature and in many States
are given favorable hearing. From
Main to Texas suffragists are expect
ant, hopeful and triumphant. The
governor of Ohio has lately signed the
bill and Ohio is the J 9Th State to let
women vote for president. Women now
factor in 120 electoral votes.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, presi-
dent of the National American Wo-
man Suffrage Association and presi-
dent of the International Woman Suf-
frage Alliance, prefers action through
congress to state referenda and points
out many reasons in support of the
federal method of obtaining woman
suffrage.
A woman has lately been elected
mayor of Unatilla, Oregan. She rar
against her husband and beat him in
the race. When one of the office seek.
ers inquired why women put out thei,
ticket the new mayor answered
promptly, and to the point, Because
women were tired of masculine inef.
ficiency"
Cardinal Gibbons, for years strong
anti-suffragist, has declared himself
open to conviction. The statement
was made to a number of Catholic
suffragists who visited the cardina
last week.
The women numbering "a and rep
resenting Boston, New York, Philadel
phia and Washington journeyed tt
Baltimore to have a promised audi
ence with Cardinal Gibbons. The,
pleaded with the cardinal to support
suffrage. While he withheld all prom
ises, he said he would give the subject
earnest thought and that his mind i.
open to conviction.
This question of suffrage for womer
is most important and far-reaching
He told his questioners woman's
sphere in the world is becoming dali,
more influential. They have done
more than the men to develop anc
christianize the human race. But it i.
hard for man who has entertained
decided views on subject for fifty
years to change those views.
These items of news are selected
from the latest copies of. the Woman,
Journal of Boston, Mass. I hope the
editor of The Union Times will con
slider them worth printing. Such new.
is interesting and encouraging to al
who are in favo of woman suffra gt
and they seem to be increasing il
number daily. E. A. Garner.
Kelton, S. C..
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
A CONUNDRUM.

It's a burden and a favor, without
doubt;
It's privilege, duty and task;
It's thing most men can't bear to
be without,
But for which they think no woman
ought to ask.
Alice Duer Miller, in New York
Tribune.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
WOULD SIT AS JURORS.

Colorado women are asking that the
State constitution be revised so that
women will be allowed to sit as Jurors
in trials. In order to decide cases
justly where women and children are
oivolved there should be women jurors
as well as men, they argue.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
CLUB WOMEN'S WORK.

Club women in Portland, Ore, are
supporting a bill which will he pre-
sented to the next legislature that will
make it compulsory for courts to ap-
point certain number of women on
juries in both civil and criminal cases
in which either child or woman is a
principal.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
FOR THE ASKING.

Any one desiring suffrage literature
can provide it from Mrs. w. H. Cobb,
Douglass Heights, Union, S. C.
Mrs. Cobb is the new chairman of
education for the State Suffrage
League, and will be glad to hear from
those who wish information on the
subject of equal suffrage.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
ENEMIES OF SUFFRAGE.

Prejudice and ignorance.
Through prejudice people refused to
listen to arguments on the side of
equal suffrage, and in their ignorance
they make false and harmful state
mentS.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
ARMY COOKS.

A school for training women to be-
come army cooks was openeds recently
in England. Women between che ages
of II and 35 are eligible to join and
already over 1900 graduates have
been sent to the front.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16

In the final analysis, the burden of
war falls on the women. They carry
the cross and it is only just that they
have some voice in the government
which declares war in which they
suffer-Irvin Cobb.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16

In all the equal suffrage States wo-
men teachers and women in public
service get equal pay for all equal
work.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16
WHAT PROMINENT PEOPLE
THINK OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE

Mems Leagues for Suffrage have
been formed in Tennessee, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, Texas and other
Southern States.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16

Lucy Stone said, "Some woman risks
her life whenever a soldier is born
into the world. Later she does picket
duty over his cradle and for years she
is his quartermaster, and gathers his
rations, and when that boy grows to
a man shall he say to his mother, IF
you want to vote, you must first 90
and kill somebody?' 1t is a towards
argument"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16

An aviation school is about to be
opened by the Chinese government.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16


been formed in Tennessee, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, Texas and other
Southern States.
Representative McGill of Arkansas
says, 81 believe that all good men are
henpecked and being myself hus-
bandette, vote for the suffragette."
Alexander M. Scott, of Indiana leg
lslature: "Woman is Gods first and
best gift. To vote now to complete
her civic power is the proudest mo-
ment of any life"
Ii woman suffrage were not desira-
BILE for any other reason, it would be
worth while merely because it would
insure better pure-food legislation
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley.
Some men say they do not want to
see women at the polls, but did you
ever hear one say he did not want to
see woman pay taxes Mrs. H. o.
Havemeyer.
Mrs. Il. G. Wallace, of Indiana, from
whom Gen. Lewis Wallace drew the
portrait of the mother in "Ben Hur,"
said, eff women do not fight they give
to the state all the soldiers" AS Lady
Henry Somerset says, "She who bears
soldiers does not need to bear arms"
"The surprising thing to me is that
there are still in this country a suf-
ficient number of well-informed, pa
triotic, law-abiding, respectable women
to form a National Association Op-
posed to Woman Suffrage" II.
E. Williams, w. Va.
eve have in Colorado the most ad-
vanced laws Of any State in the Union
for the care and protection of the
home and the children, the very foun-
dations of the republic says Judge
Ben B. Lindsey, of the Denver Juvenile
Court, in The Woman Voter. eve
owe this more to woman suffrage than
to any other one cause"
1t is the duty of women to have the
| ballot; it is the duty of man to give it.
We all need woman's help as we try
to solve the many and terrible prob
lens set before us. In the solution
of these problems, we should use the
full and not cramped strength of every
man and woman in the entire common
wealth.-Theodore Roosevelt.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey says: "The
case for equal suffrage could we'll af-
ford to rest on the record made by
tes voting women. In no single State
have they failed to bring a better,
cleaner and more independent note
politics; and there is not a statute
book on which women have written
that does not contain more humane
laws as a result"
lucy Stone said, "Some woman risks
her life whenever a soldier is born
into the world. Later she does picket
| duty over his cradle and for wears che
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-16

A Spanish bell -bearing the date
,1247 is still in use in Oakland, Cal.