The Washington times., 1918-10-01
Thanks to President Wilson,
Women Are To Be Included
In the Word Democracy"
The President Finds Time to Fight Here At Home for
Real Democracy, That 1t May Include the Women
of This Country One-haf the Population.

Real Democracy That 1t May Include the Women
of This Country, One-haf the Population
Of all the good news that you read today the surende
Bulgaria the magnificent achievements Of American so
ers marching literally through miles Of barbed wire an
Machine gun fire. you read nothing important to tn
in the long than President Wilson's state
nen to the Congress of the United States yesterday
Of the Presidents address, already published in thi
newspaper print extracts here They are taken fror
most important speech regards its effect the futur
hat has ever been made BY President of the United States
lot excepting speeches declaring or ending war.
In these extracts from President Wilson's speech i
PRESENTED the right of the women Of America in argumen
hat cannot possibly be denied and that MUST result
,assing the Federal Amendment giving political freedom
md equality to women.
These arguments and appeals, unanswerable come wit
u the more power and dignity from one who has done NOR
han all other in the United States combined for
urage and who has patiently and long endured the an
ioyance of very limited and very foolish branch of tn
uffrage movement
Read the following extracts from the Presidents
Congress yesterday and you will know that without ques
ion the word democracy is include the women as wei
5 the men in the United States. --.a ,ys5
From President Wilson's Speech.
regard the concurrence of the Senate in the
constitutional amendment proposing the extension
Of the suffrage to women as vitality essential to the
successful prosecution of the great war of human
ity in which we engaged. have come to urge
upon you the considerations which have led me to
that conclusion.
Through many, many channels have been
made aware what the plain, struggling workaday
folk are thinking upon whom the chief terror
and suffering Of this tragic falls. They are
looking to the great, powerful, famous democracy
Of the West to lead them to the new day for
which they have so long waited and they think
In their logical simplicity, that democracy means
that women shall play their part in affairs along
side men and upon an equal footing with them. If
we reject measures like this, in ignorance def
fOrth of wh at
they have seen but we have not they will cease to
believe In US; they will cease to follow to trust
us: They have seen their own governments accept
this Interpretation of democracy-seen old gov
ernments like that Of Great Britain, which did not
profess to be democratic, promise readily and of
course this Justice to women, though they had be-
fore refused it, the strange revelations of this
war having made many things new and plain, to
governments as well as to peoples
Are we alone to refuse to learn the lesson?
Are we alone to ask and take the utmost that
our women can give-service and sacrifice of every
Hnd-and still say we do not see what title that
gives them to stand by our sides in the guidance
of the affairs Of their nation and ours? We have
made partners Of the women in this war; shall
we admit them only to partnership of suffering
and sacrifice and toll and not to a partnership of
privilege and right? This war could not have been
fought, either by the other nations engaged or by
America, if it had not been for the services of the
women-services rendered in every sphere-not
merely in the fields of effort in which we have been
accustomed to see them work. but wherever men have
worked and upon the very skirts and edges of
the battle itself We shall not only be distrusted
but shall deserve to be dstrusted if we do not en-
franchise them with the fullest possible enfranchse-
ment as it is certain that the other great free
nations will enfranchise them. We cannot isolate
our thought and action in such matter from the
thought of the rest Of the world. We must either
conform or deliberately reject what they propose
and resign the leadership of liberal minds to others
The women of America are too noble and too
intelligent and too devoted, to be sackers whether
you give or withhold this thing that is mere JUS
tice; but ] know the magic it will work in their
thoughts and spirits if you give it them. pro-
pose it as would propose to admit soldiers to
the suffrage the men fighting in the field for our
liberties and the liberties Of the world, were they
excluded.
tell you plainly that this measure which I
urge upon you is vital to the winning of the war
and to the energies alike Of preparation and of
battle.