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New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
The Senate and the Clock of Progress

you is that you are ignorant on the
subject" averred Roosevelt. "I'll
send you some books. Read them
and you may change your mind"
Some days later an express wagon
drove up to Mr.. Bok's residence in
Merton and began unloading long,
heavy boxes. 1t appeared to the
editor that some eXcavating eXpedi-
tlon in Palestine had been favoring
him with specimens of its finds.
The boxes, however, happened to be
filled with the some books" to which
Roosevelt had referred. Mr.. Box
began a course in reading. He was
amazed to discover that each VOL
ume had within it indisputabIe evi-
dence of having been gone over
carefully by the eX-President. There
were authoritative analyses of suf-
frage in the Scandinavian states. in
New Zealand, everywhere ON earth
that the experiment had been tried.
What had happened to Roosevelt
now happened to Mr.. Box. He also
became a convert. 1t is Il pity that
the same selection of volumes cam
not be read now by busy Senator'S.
though there should be no need OF
it. so much more convincing have
suffrage arguments since become.
The unanswerable one is that the
Huns plan TO turn back the hands
of the clock has as u fundamental
feature the driving back Of woman
to the position she occupied thou
sand years ago. The hands cannot
be turned forward unless woman
goes forward with them.
P. N. WHALEY.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

South Dakota is a "irst paper state
which means that any immigrant
within a short time after registering his
intention to become naturalized can
voice his wishes by way of the ballot.
So the suffrage clause is combined here
with citizenship amendment in an ef-
fort to make the representation at the
polls of South Dakota 100 per cent
American.
Oklahoma presents unusual difficulty.
An amendment to its constitution must
receive majority of the largest num-
Der of votes cast for any candidate or
measure at the election. Suffragists
here realize the air ost insurmountable
obstacles involved, but put high faith
in the fact that Oklahoma is whole
heartedly back Of the President-and
the Presidents attitude on suffrage is
we'll known.
In Louisiana, the first Southern state
to have referendum on this question,
the measure which is to be voted on
next Tuesday has the backing Of the
Governor and other men of prominence.
President Wilson, too, has written urg-
ing the passage of the amendment.
Arkansas has already adopted pri-
mary suffrage, which in a state univer-
sally Democratic in its sentiment means
practically all that full suffrage means.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Ballots at the Antipodes

4 USTRALIA granted franchise to
"A. women by states beginning in 1894
and ending with the bestowal of
full, nationwide elective privileges and
the right to sit in representative assem-
blies i'll 1908. According to Lady Holder,
wife of Sir Frederick w. Holder,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
suffrage came easily and naturally
there was no "shrieking sisterhood."
The newspapers" she is quoted as say
ing, gave special attention to women at
the time, and teemed with exhortations
telling them what to do; and those who
had most opposed the measure were loud
est in their approval and advice. (Can
it be that this has familiar ring to the
ears of New York women?)
And the result of it all was, to quote
Lady Holder again, that women have
become more interested in the world out
side and men more interested in the
homeland she concludes with saying
that she finds it less difficult to vote than
to match a ribbon!
New Zealand, which has been called an
ideal spot for social experiments because
of its geographical isolation and its small
population, was the first nation to grant
suffrage to women. The idea was
presented as early as 1843, it is said, by
two gentlemen-Alfred Saunders and
William Fox-although the Hon. Hugh
H. Lusk, then member of Parliament,
claims that it originated with him in
1877, The first thin wedge, he says,
was inserted when he conceived the plan
in that year of omitting the word "male"
before the word householder" in a bill
under consideration to empower house
holders within district to elect school
committee.
The word "male'' was omitted, and the
little experiment began. Result: Wom-
en- showed such intelligent interest in
their new power that they were forth
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

with elected members of the school
boards. So when in 1882 the question
arose OF giving ratepayers the license to
vote. what more natural than that women
should be included in this measure. too9
The year 1886 found municipal suf..
frage quietly granted them also; and full
suffrage came in 1898, with englbility to
all elective offices except membership IN
Parliament.
At the first election thereafter SO per
cent of the women qualified to vote went
to the polls, although they had never
gone beforehand only 70 per cent Of the
men, who had enjoyed the privilege for
years. But did antagonism result from
this? No, indeed! The effect, in that
utopian land, was to rouse men to their
responsibility, so that now they are as
active as the women. And, as one man
put it, "when men suddenly found they
could take their wives and daughters to
meetings with them a new and better
family life began"
New Zealand women, according to Sir
Joseph George Ward, who was then Dre-
n1ier, are inclined to vote with their FAM
lilies and are true to their class; but they
are less hampered by tradition than are
men. When asked whether they advo-
cate "pet reforms" he replied that they
rather constituted themselves an "exam-
lining board' devoted to the public in
terest.
"Tell your friends at home not to be
discouraged" he said to a British suf-
fragist before women were enfranchised
in England. political enfranchisement
came to the women of New Zealand with
dramatic suddenness, and by a margin
of only two votes. But If votes of appro-
baton could be taken on it now doubt
if two could be found against it."
And that, if he were asked, would
probably be his message TO American
suffragists who are now working for
those same fatal two votes that wop
the franchise in New Zealand many
years ago.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

But 1t seems only Il matter of time 4.
fore women will be casting ballots !.
the general elections, too, since ~.
measure has been urged both nv Il.
press and by the Democratic nartv !,
its last convention. Women here bs.s
already demonstrated their interest 4,
turning out fifty thousand strong =
register their convictions at the ,...
primary.
So much for the various states 4.
for the Senate, which is expected !.
vote again on the Federal amendmsn.
within few weeks, since the conyers;o,
of Pollock, of South Carolina. who 4.
slated to succeed Senator Benet =,
November 5, there will be, if all ooss
we'll, only one more vote to win. And
suffragists believe that this will eoms
from New Jersey or New Hampshire
But-to quote q Tribune editorial %
September 30-"the issue of women.
voting depends not in the least upon thu
one vote that may or may not be forth.
coming to make the necessary two.thirds
That issue does not hang in the balance
in any progressive nation in the world
1t has been settled, settled for all time
in favor OF progress and democraep
Only the ratification of this great for.
ward step by our most conservative ley.
lslatlve body remains-a small detail IN
the history of q great reforp, y
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as the recent British act enfranchising
women does. And it has feature which
will be even more satisfactory to Euro
pean feminists than our Federal amend
ment: Danish feminists, in particular,
have always maintained that women
were more to be recognized as daughters
Of their fathers and what they were be-
fore they happened to marry than of
status to be determined by their affec-
tions or the marriage broker. Under
this new law British woman can marry
an alien, even q naturalized Austrian,
and still maintain her citizenship and
right to vote, provided she does not
swear allegiance elsewhere or other
wise forfeit her citizenship rights.
This is a precedent that should count
much in making public opinion in behalf
of a measure introduced by Repre-
sentative Jeanette Rankin, permit
ting American women to keep their
citizenship, whether they marry Boisse-
vains or Italian counts or Indians.
The only concession in the new law
made to Quebec is an amendment which
provides that the suffrage shall not be
granted in the various provisions on a
wider basis than it has been granted to
men. In Quebec there still remains a
property qualification, based on land
owning, salary or rents. 1t is to be hoped
that this means wives will go OH ac-
knowledged allowances; but Mr.. Bureau,
who felt deeply ON the subject, in re-
cent debate made point, too, when he
said: when Election Day comes around
man who may have worked hard all
his life may find himself in an old man. S
home, while the old lady across the street
will be brought out to vote"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
The n. Y. Infrmary for Women and Children

nHYSICIANS on the staff of the
New York Infrmary for Women
and Children, 321 East Fifteenth
Street, one Of the few institutions in the
country conducted by women for women,
are preparing to extend the free service
which they render to the people Of the
lower East Side, when additional large
numbers Of men are taken from that Sec
tion for army service under the new draft
law.
These women feel that there is great
opportunity to do their bit in this way,
for they believe that a soldier whose de-
pendents will not be neglected in illness
while he is absent will be heartened for
his task. The abundance of service flags
in the tenements in the vicinity of the
lntrmary shows the great response Of
the men Of the lower East Side to the
country's call, for thousands Of them
have volunteered with the full assent of
their families.
When a woman or child in the vicinity
OF the infirmary who has been accus-
toned to depend upon man for support
becomes i'll there is not in many cases
sufficient money to pay even modest fee
to physician. Many prefer to suffer
rather than apply for free treatment, and
others are ignorant of how to make such
application even if they desire to do so.
The women doctors of the infirmary
seek out such cases as far as they can.
In addition to the free medical service
that is given, Il social service department
is conducted at the infrmary, which was
the pioneer in this country in that impor
tant branch Of adjunct medical help.
If they cannot extend this help directly
as in the case of the family of soldier
whose allotment of pay has not been re-
ceived, they are able to put the needy
ones in touch with an agency which will
be of direct, practical assistance to them
for the immediate object that is sought.
"These women need stabilizing," said
Miss Lucy +. Ryder, superintendent of
the infirmary. eff there is no man in the
family to turn to and if misfortune be-
falls them they are almost helpless"
The activities of the infirlnary among
the dependents of men in service include
daily clinics for all diseases, maternity
care and general out-practica depart
ment, besides the social service work.
Especial attention is devoted to pre- natal
and baby clinics. which are we'll attended
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Europe and the Woman Vote

order to prevent the prevalence Of the
female vote over that Of the lords oi
creation. The woman suffrage acs
was adopted in the lower house with 80
votes against 55 in January, 1917, ana
approved in the House of Lords by .
majority Of votes in January of this
year.
The women of Holland find themselves
in an odd situation: although eligible
they do not possess the right of election
A parliament will be elected in the year
1918, and on the ticket number o.
capable women candidates are figuring
The question is only whether or not the
men are going to honor women by elect
ing them to Office.
In France woman suffrage has ardefs
advocates and the question is being oVe'
and over again taken up and advocaR'
in Parliament and brought nearer to =
|, victorious solution Maurice Barres,
is known, has demanded that widows oi
war be granted the vote.
In Italy, too, the feminist wave mas
risen, and several ministers and distin-
guished persons are cspousing the won'
ems cause.
In the countries Of the Central Po~el'
the woman suffrage question, togetns'
with other internal political problems :
under co,,si ido-of,ou
In Switzerland the women's moveinehs
owing to the clumsy political machIneis'
could not develop energetically. In Bern
it was rejected by the council; IN ~
councils of Basic and Zurich motions 9
elaborate bill bearing on the questa~
were made as late as December, iSs''.
In Geneva motion was made by -
Guillemin that Swiss women OF the 81
of twenty-five should be granted
right to vote. AT present they are ss's
ering signatures in support Of this p1%
osition, shortly to be discussed p M
council ......,.>I<Il!z
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

which one Of the women held in her arms
at d recent clinic, showed that it lacked
proper nourishmcnt," said Miss Ryder.
"'What can do?' the mother asked in the
most imploring manner. told her to go
to milk station and get food for the
baby. Where is it?' she asked. When I
told her that the station was on Eleventh
street she inquired again: Where is
Eleventh Street,"
In many cases the women doctors have
to make use of all the devices of which
they can think in order to win the conf
dence of their patients. This applies
especially to the foreign element. There
must be not a little talk about subjects
which are not essential to the purpose in
hand before the mother can take in the
fact not only that the woman doctors
aim is to help her, but that the doctor
possesses sufficient skill to render neces-
sary service. When the babie:; are clean
and otherwise we'll cared for the mothers
are greatly pleased by little compli-
ment, and are willing to be spurred to
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
By LEON LANSBERC

HESPITE the war, or rather as a.
consequence Of the war, the wom-
an suffrage movement has gained
considerable successes all the world over
Emile Gourd, president of the Swiss
Woman Suffrage Alliance, strikes in the
journal dc Geneve" the annual balance,
and in doing SO publishes the following
interesting statistics:
In the United States eight more states
have during the last year introduced
woman suffrage, and, among them, in
first line, the State of New York. With
this addition, twenty states out Of forty
four have granted the vote to women
Already the national House of Repre-
sentatives has voted to submit to the
states q constitutional amendment for
woman suffrage, and there is good rea-
son to believe that sooner or later the
Senate also will approve the resolution.
The Russian revolution has proclaimed
the equality of man and woman under
the law, and in the future Russian Re
public women will vote.
In Finland twenty-four women are
active in the food office.
In Norway women have the active and
passive elective franchise.
In Denmark they have for the first
time availed themselves of their fran
chise on the occasion of the referendum
on the cession of the Danish West Indies
to the United States.
In Sweden woman suffrage is SO far
introduced in communal affairs only,
because the obstinate resistance of the
conservatives prevents women's political
activity.
England has resolved to grant the
vote to all women over thirty years of
age, this limitation being necessary in
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

Hughes's term, that is, until next
March. Suffragists are asking even the
men of his own party to vote against
him and elect Hennessy in his place for
the few months during which the amend
ment will be under consideration.
The same situation exists in New
Hampshire, where voters are asked to
defeat George Fl. Moses, Republican
candidate for the Senate, opposed to
suffrage, in favor Of John 3. Jameson,
Democrat, who has come out in favor
of it.
The Massachusetts Suffrage Associa-
ton recently passed resolution char
acterizing the vote against the Senate
amendment of Senators Weeks and
Lodge as contrary to the ideals Of
democracy as expressed in the civilized
world" and went on to say that the
attitude Of these gentlemen toward the
womanhood Of their country was one of
indignity and blind prejudice tone
that liberal women will remember for
all time"
Senator William z. Borah, of Idaho,
is the next under fire. The first volley
has come from "The Woman Citizen,"
official organ Of the National American
Woman Suffrage party, in which an edi-
torial accuses him on eleven charges
Of Inconsistency, insincerity and injus-
tice." Representing party that stands
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
By MARIE DE MoNTALvo
Editor "The Neao Citizen"

LLLLLOT L fLS LvC1D CICl&SU
CUFFRAGE is still an issue-except
~ for Canada, all al-America issue.
In the United States ten campaigns
are now under way, some for the Fed
eral and others for the state amend
ment. In Idaho, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Delaware and Massachusetts
suffragists are campaigning to elect on
November 5 candidates to the United
States Senate who will support the Fed
eral amendment there when it comes to
vote, probably within a few weeks
In Oklahoma, Michigan, South Dakota
and Louisiana the state amendment will
be submitted by referendum on Noven1-
ber 5. Arkansas will vote on a new
state constitution December Ia, and this
includes provision for full woman suf-
ffage.
"Beat Baird" is the slogan in New
Jersey of the state suffrage association
and the National Woman's party Sena-
tor Baird, Republican, is filling by
appointment the place left vacant in the
Senate by the death of Senator Hughes,
when the vote on the amendment came
up. He voted against it, and is now
candidate to succeed himself by popular
vote to serve during the rest of Senator
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
The Franchise in Canada

"HE Canadian House of Commons
passed House Bill No. 3, an act
to confer the electoral franchise
upon women, amid a calm, matter-of fact
approval from all corners Of the nation
that is commentary on the strange diff
ferences between northern North Amer
ica and the United States.
The bill was a government bill. far
more immediate in it's effect and more
generous in its provisions than the Fed
eral amendment now before the United
States Senate. It's smooth course in pas
sage was enough to make an American
suffragist wistful for the simplicity of
British procedure in legislative bodies.
1t was certain of passage from the mo-
ment Of introduction by the Union gov
eminent. 1t was introduced by Sir Rob-
ert Laird Borden, Conservative Prime
Minister, and found no opposition except
in the innermost heart of Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, leader Of the Opposition.
The bill gives the franchise at Domin-
ion elections to all women over twenty
one who are British subjects, by birth
or naturalization, provided they have
fulfilled the usual residential qualifca-
tions for voting in operation for the
male electorate and are not disqualified
by race, blood or original nationality to
vote for members of the legislative as
sembly Of the province in which they
live.
The bill made no niggardly provisions
For women over thirty only. It does not
attempt to insure supremacy for the rest
OF this generation, throughout the period
OF reconstruction, to male intelligence.
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=" "7OMEN may be excused for
w exhibiting some impatience
when statesmen hesitate


and haggle over a measure of such
vital Importance to the sex as the
suffrage amendment. They find it
hard to comprehend why gentlemen
who can see the wisdom of appro-
priating billions for the common de-
fence, and the necessity of sending
millions of our young men to fight
for the nations safety, should so
utterly fail to appreciate the fact
that the whole theory on which we
wage war is untenable unless a
sword is put in women's hands at
home wherewith to protect them
selves.
1t is merely incidental that the
best" voters Of the country are in
France and women must take their
places if the quality of national rep
resentation in Washington is to be
kept up or improved. If the suf-
frage amendment in any circunl-
stance is not war measure, there
is no such thing as a war measure.
The color question is causing op-
position from the South, unfortu-
nately, and Senator Baird, of New
Jersey, sees in his states rejection
of suffrage some time ago plausi-
BILE basis on which to put his con-
tinued opposition. It is felt that he,
in common with other "obiectors,s
has failed utterly to grasp the sig
nifcance of the world war in it's re-
lation to the emancipation of
women. Three years ago, perhaps,
the necessity for action was not so
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industry of the world was carried
on entirely by men.
1t would be we'll if Senator Baird
and other Senatorscould go through
the experience which resulted in
the conversion of Edward ".
Box, editor of "The Ladies' Home
Journal formerly radical oppo-
nent of suffrage. Mr.. Box did not
doubt the sincerity of Roosevelt's S
conversion to the cause, but was
curious about it. '"The trouble with
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
By ROSE FALLS BRES

(Admitted to tho Bor Of Louisiana IN
1898 ond the first aoomaas to practise
in State and Federal courts iat that
statc)
r OUISIANA--heart of the South
land, where pine forests reach
toward the bluest of skies, where
flowers bloom brightest and sweetest,
where the great Mississippi pours its
food into the Gulf! Louisiana-where
the counties are called parishes and
where tiny bayous thread their way
through gloomy swamps, then unrcll like
shining bands Of ribbon over stretches
Of prairie and between great fields of
cane and cotton! Louisiana-where in
song and story the chivalry Of her sons
has been told since the mind of man
runneth not to the contrary! Louisiana
where the unwritten law and the Jim
Crow ordinance pass current without
protest or comment, where the old
French Code Napoleon is the basis Of
all rules, and where prejudice and SEN
timent are so interviewer that the march
of progress has sometimes been stayed-
Louisiana presents to its voters on
the second of next month an amendment
to give women suffrage
New York women who take suffrage
as matter Of course might ponder on
some of the inequalities to which the
women Of Louisiana have submitted and
which, If by great good chance the
amendment should receive majority
Of votes at the coming election, they
will seek to remedy.
In that state so well established has
the rule been that woman must be
guided in all things by her husband that
the one act she was permitted to carry
out without direction had to be pro-
vfded Cor. Article 1876 Of the code
reads:
The wife may make her last will and
testament without the authorization Of
her husband"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

greater exertions by the kindly edvice of
the physician.
Sometimes these conversations develop
conditions that must be remedied at once
in order that the mother may have
chance to take proper care Of herself and
her children
"You may give a patient all kinds of
medicine said Miss Ryder, "but if there
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by the wives of soldiers and sailors. The
ignorance shown by many of the lower
East Side mothers in the problems which
are most important to them is apparent
to the women doctors, whose first task is
to win their confidence and thus gradu-
ally to help them out Of their difficulties
as far as that is possible
1.-The appearance of a soldiers baby,
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acute that extension of women's
rights, state by state, was unsatis-
factory, but the need now is real
and immediate. The war has made
this perfectly, obvious. Woman is
making shells in a political situation
that is based on conditions which
existed when no woman worked
outside of her own home and the
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

(.Adnitted to tho Bar Of Louisiana IN
1898 and the first aoo'na4s to practise
IN State and Federal courts IN that
stutc)
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

ESPITE the war, or rather as a
consequence Of the war, the wom-