Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-07-20
FROM THE RECORD"
Bv JAMES w. JOHNSON

than what is found in our funny papers,
And occasionally there are flashes of real
wit in it. But generally speaking, it is
rather dreary reading.
On June y. the Suffrage Amendment
was up before the Senate, and Senator
Thompson of Kansas made good, old
Fashioned eloquent speech in support Of it,
He opened his speech by saying: "Mr
President from the beginning woman has
played her part in the development of
civilization. She has done her share toward
maintaining the material welfare of man.
kind and more than her share in advanc-
ing the moral welfare of the people, Yet,
since Adam and Eve dwelt together in the
Garden of Eden woman has been fighting
for her rights before the world. Even
her helpmate, man, early deserted her in
her struggles In the midst of ignorance,
superstition, and oppression, she has been
regarded as man s inferior. The darker
the age. the more uncivilized the people,
the more autOcratic the government and
fewer the rights she has enjoyed. AS
time has rolled on and the people have
become more civilized and enlightened and
the nations of the world more democratic
the nearer she has come to be regarded as
man s equal, and indeed, in many things
his SUPERIOR.
Mr. Thompson closed his speech with
the following panegyrcal tribute to wo-
man:
Her spirit is with us today pleading
the great cause, so long unjustly denied,
to the nobler half of the human family.
Like all martyrs, prophets, and seers, she
has not only had the vision but the faith
and ndomitable courage of her convictions,
and toiled with almost ceaseless energy
while she lived for the cause that was to
her above every other cause. Clearly she
was in advance of her time. Slowly all
thinking and justly disposed peoples are
moving up to her advanced position. Her
dream has all but become a grand reality.
What in her day was to all others but
few faithful followers Of a hopeless cause
has now risen, swollen, stream fashion, to
such a height that he must be brave to the
point of foolhardiness who would longer de-
sire to seek to arrest the success of this
greatest of world-reform movements.
Eyes: posterity will marvel, and JUSTLY
if the Senate shall fail here and now to
DO it's duty. Did I say duty? And let
me add the words, privilege, solemn and
profound. Sirs, we stand in the spotlight
The eyes Of the world are gazing full upon
us. The world now waits on the Senate
Let us right these lmmemOrlal wrongs,
woman's otherwise immedicable woes.
In spite of Senator Thompson: s eloquence,
the Senate did not rise to it's solemn and
profound duty and did not right those elm
memorial wrongs" President Wilson re-
Gently expressed his approval Of the Stuff
rage Amendment, but that did not make
sufficient impression the Senate to cause
the measure to be put through. After the
failure of the Amendment, some of the
women said that it did not 60 through be-
cause the President did not put as much
effort behind it as he has behind some other
measures that he wanted Congress to pass
They expressed the opinion that if the
President had gone before the Senate, as
he has done on other occasions, and per-
sonally plead for the Amendment, the men,
bers of that body would not have dared to
let it fail
Perhaps it is true; but it must be real
lied that the Amendment did not fail
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