The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-07-23

had been drawn together IN this great
conflict as never before.
There was a time when women
look upon suffrage asks e, but that
day has passed, for the women of this
country hare come to realize that they
need the ballot for the protection oil
the home
Speaking of the states rights ques-
ton, which rears its head always in
the south, she called attention to the
fact that there are two million more
women in the south today than there
are negro men and women together,
and logically pointed out that for this
reason, the south is in need of the
women vote.
I'm two states alone" said Mrs.
Dudley, lis the negro population any
greater than the white population,
and in those states. So--ih Carolina
and Mississippi, the per centage is
respectively So 2-1e per cent. and SIS
2-10 per cent. But when one consid-
ers these figures, 1t must be remem-
bered that in the past ten years the in
crease in population has been IL 2-1o
negroes and 30 2-10 Thite. the in
crease in the white race having been
therefore twice the ratio of the col
ored race.
From Tennessee alone, $4,000 ne
groes have gone north, and they are
leaving all southern states in large
numbers. SO it would seem to me that
the problem of the south may soon
be called the problem of the north.
Has it ever occurred TO you that
men to not stop to think of state
rights IN relation to anything but suf-
frage2 What right have you to dis
franchise the women of other states
even il you will not give the ballot
10 your own women? Today the wo-
man who has made her home in Cali
fornia or Colorado or any of the west
ern states where women have the vote.
loses that vote as soon as she gets TO
Florida
with every party endorsiL~ women
suffrage, with the president of the
United States having repeatedly and
openly declared himself in favor of the
how can the men of this
country, refuse their womn the bal
lot?
This country. the very cradle of
democracy, refuses its women the vote,
while the allied nations have already
enfranchised their women. England,
Canada, Australia, even the French
Chamber of deputies. Ia re all sought
since the beginning Of the war to hon.
Or their women with the franchise
Here in America alone. this country
Of the free, has women been denied
her right to express herself through
he ballot. The president must feel
sense of shame when he realizes
hat of all the allied nations, America
5 the only one that witholds the DEM
ocratic symbol {
Mrs. Dudley told number of in
eresting anecdotes, indicative of the /
plendid spirit OF the American troops.
which brought much applause.
She spoke Of the difference that the
var had already made in the statute
Il women, of the decorations for
'ravery from the allied countries, and
Ven. of the German iron cross, given
o women; of their bravery OF the Red
ross nurse on the field, of the sacri-
Ice Of the women who work in the
1unftion plants. And in a last appeal
he asked every man and woman in
ne audience tn get at once into COM
iunication with Senators Fletcher and
'rammell in Washington. and urge
heir Affirmative vote on the Susan B.
nthony amendment
Mrs. Dudley. in her speech in the |
vening' followed the same line of ar
ument upon which her plea was
ased in the afternoon
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