The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-29

Germany, that mighty state would now
be rich, happy contcnted, and yet there
are still those who will tell you woman
should not vote because she can not
fight.
They told us last year the determine
ton of this issue should be relegated to
the states. one of the fundamental priv
ilegcs under the constitution is to amend
it. If throe-fourths of the states wish
it,. there is no authority under the con
stitution that endows any state with the
privilege of denying it, They suggested
they wanted a referendum vote. The
constitution prescribes, orders, another
method. When the women come here
and ask for the ballot they simply in
woke the methods by which the con-
stitution has always been amended.
| Any other system would be Illegal. If
you say to them that you are not will
ing to abide by those rules under which
every amendment has been made, you
simply plead the baby act; and when
the mother of a soldier comes here to
demand the privilege of the ballot you
should not do that.
Men have argued here for 80 years
that woman suffrage would break up
the home. But in the western states.
,,,horo ,.o bo,.o had u,opon s,,ffr,,,a
a, ono cor,,, ,,,1 orotba,. fo, ,,aors we
1.ro,,, or ro f,r,i1,, tto+ b,s o,,o,. hoo,
li,,,,,,+,I La, ,,,,,,,,I o,,o, ro1itics yvo
l.ro,, or no fi.asi1o that b,s brrnad
,noro dinIv bac,,sa Of anv difference
of onirfon about tho usa of the bollot
no limit a., ,,,otl,o.s. of ti,i, oo,,rt,.,,
a. a,,,,n,, tboi, ,,io,,s -, in,nortort
i,,,,o,, win mot i,i,,ra tho homes AsT
racIoct non, ,.,ali,, tba+ e,,a,,v time
= ro,to,,.,7 ,,,,. ,,,o+l,or,, ,d,.ioa lid
,,,o1l caror,lI,. whom I ala NOT liston
- bo,, li,ad to reoret II She was a
t,oucbtru1 and n,,,idan+ v,omon Tho
Io,,,, and sbort or tho whole matter is
tbo+ for canturies Won have treated
,,.o,,,,r, os , s,o,,o d,.ooood bo,. o,,or
ti,, ,,.,,-os, oc t,i.,+or,, IN. tbo boir ana
tho, va, nratard to tbirl, she is an
,,,,,o, ..,,, ZOO, 20 i,+a,.co,, Ia Tho az
rai,, or non ci,.a hor rou, - fixed
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"o''''" III Every 'A>o'"''o"'
| wish there We're Il nome for every
woman. But our civilization has de-
Neloped in another direction. during
this great war it has been determined
that women are TO take part III every
avocation of human life. There Is no
Tlllpp v.
The increase in population, the com
pleX demands OF complicated clViIlHi-
tion, have made 1t absolutely essential
that many women snail come away
from the fTeside and go 10 work lot a
living and fight ana struggle with men,
In the streets of Strasburg nave
myser seen women assisted py uoss
mtched in harness pulllng carts ana
selling mlik at the homes along the
streets. MY friends and l travelling the
path through an Egyptian wheat lield
were suddenly accosted by woman
who rose with her sickle from among
the wheat to cry IN Arabic IN your
great country, sir, women do not thus
toll in the field But now, IN my great
country, women thronS the shops' the
Offices the factories, in their strlle
with men to earn living. In unclVllHed
nations they still treat her as slave
and as an angel. Your great clvlllza'
ton gives woman the glorious privilege
that man has to battle Tor hVeilhood
if she will do so for smaller wages, but
denies her the use Of the ballot III her
struggle. What are you afraid of? The
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