Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-09-27
Mrs. Halsey w. Wilson Delivers
Eloquent Suffrage Message
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Recording Secretary Of the National
Speaks Thursday Night Before Lo-
cal League and Others-Takes for
Subject Suffrage as a War Meas
ure
Tho suffragists have gone to
sleep" We're the opening words of
Mrs. Halsey w. Wilson of New York,
recording secretary Of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association. who
spoke Thursday evening before a
number Of women. members of the
Augusta Equal Suffrage League and
others interested in suffrage, in the
hall of the Y. NJ. c. A. There is no
doubt about the loyalty of the be-
levers in suffrage in the war work
which is going on. the speaker cons
tinued, and she early emphasized the
fact that suffrage is a part of the
war work. 1t is one of the biggest
pieces of war work There are two
ways of winning the vote, by the
State referendum, and by the amend
ment to the Federal Constitution.
Five campaings for woman suffrage
are now going on in this country. In
a comprehensive manner Mrs. Will
son outlined the manner Of campaign
and the prospects in the five states.
Two weapons of war are being used
by our boys in fighting over across
the water. One is the weapon of
force and the other is the political
weapon. This political weapon has
been whetted and sharpened since
away back in 1921 when a band Of
believers in rights left England and
came to this country. America vas
chosen for leadership in this pres
ent war because it is the pioneer of
pure democracy. This spirit is keep
ing up the morale of the boys over
across Suffrage work cannot be re-
linGuished at this time for it is a art
of the perfecting of the weapon. This
is not the work Of the time, but the
work Of three generations Of women,
which started with the desire for
property rights. ] the war should
continue there will be over across the
water almost a third Of the voters of
the country. and that will mean that
many mothers whose only represent
atives have already given their lives
in the great struggle, will have no
chance at the polls. The intelligence
Of the women will be unreprescnted
to that extent
The men have the business view of
the question and the women have the
heart view Of the question. The
father head and the mother heart
makes the perfect home and just so it
will be in the suffrage question.
When the men and the women get
the the vision and work together
then will come clean politics. The
rottenness in politics is not necessary.
Mrs. Wilson urged upon the women
the importance of getting busy with
their LEGISLATORS and having them rat
ify the suffrage amendment. She
spoke Of the war work being done in
France by the suffragists. Three
hospitals are being maintained and
then there are the branches Of home
work which are being so we'll carried
out by the suffrage association. The
war is the greatest leveler among
women. That rivalry which has been
handed down through the ages is be-
ing conquered. Every man who goes
across is Just alike in olive drab and
every woman working for the war is
just woman at heart.
Woman suffrage is essential and
the cause should not be dropped. In
1875 our country broke away from
the mother country England for the