The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-09-30
WILSON SPEAKS
IN SENATE FOR
SUFFRAGE Vote


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I'm this ease verification In asked
for--asked for In this particular
matter. You ask by whom? Not
thru diplomatic channels. Not by
foreign ministers. Not by the init
nations OF parliaments.
Not Mere Conjecture
ut in asked for by the anxious.
expectant suffrage peoples with
whom we are dealing and willing TO
put their destinies in some manner
In our hands. II they are sure that
we wish the same things that they
do. do not speak by conjecture.
II IL not alone the voices OF states
men and of newspapers that reach
me, and the voices of foolish and
Incorporate agitators do not reach
me at all. Through many. many
channels ! have been made aware
what the plain. struggling work
aday folk are thinking. upon whom
the chief terror and suffering OF
this tragic war falls"
Refers 10 Great Britain
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 wait
ed. and they think. In their logical
simplicity. that democracy means
that women shall play their part In
affairs alongside men. and upon an
equal footing with them. III we
reject measures like this, In ignor-
ance or defiance OF what a new
age has brought forth, OF what
they have seen. but we have not
they VIII cease to. believe In us;
they will cease TO follow or trust
US, They have seen their own
governments accept this interpre-
tation OF democracy--seen old gov
ernments like that OF Great Britain.
which did not profess TO be demo-
cratic. promise readily and as OF
course. this justice to women. tho
they had been refused II. the
strange revelations OF this war hav-
Ing made many things new and
plain to governments az well AS
TO peoples.
Made Partners of Women
Ara yyo alone 60 r.,,.o 90 lar,
tho ,ossor GO ,,,o - g. 81,
and ,aLo tho ut,,os, ,na, or 49,,
an con- ,,,,. sa.,,,a. 80, ,,,o.
OF every kind-and still gay we do
not see what title that gives them
To stand by our sides In the guild
ance or affairs Of their nation and
ours? We have made partners OF
the women In this war: shall We
admit them only to n partnership
OF suffering and sacrifice and toll
and not 10 n partnership OF priv
ilege, OF right? This war could not
have been fought either by the
other nations engaged or by Amer
lea. IL II had not been for the
service OF the women--services
rendered In every spherc-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 aud edges OF the itself.
I'VE shall not only be distrusted.
but shall deserve TO be distrusted
II we do not enfranchise them with
the fullest possible enfranchiement
as 1t is now certain that tho other
great free nations will enfrancbise
them.
Cappot Iso,,t. S,,.
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','' 'so'a'e our thought
49,, a,..oh y" sucn matter from the
~ -, ~ ' " "'e "oriu
berately reject what they propose
ana resign the leadership OF libertl
minds to others.
The women OF America are too
noble and too intelligent and too
devoted 10 be slackers, whether you
give or withhold this thing that Is
mere justice. but ] know the magic
II VIII work In their thoughts and
spirit II you give II TO them.
propose IL as | would propose
TO ADMIT soldiers TO the suffrage.
the men ightng IN the ileld Tor our
liberties ana the liberties or the
world We're they excluded.
A very Heart OF war
me tasks OF the women lie AT
the very heart or the war ana