Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-12-03
Signers of Petition for Wo-
mans Suffrage in the Town
of Edgefeld.
(Continued from page Five.)

c0ulQ keep CneH sllohS' oi'"
have found something on the street
to defle-then in the strength OF her
love she has said "There is another
place of activity for me besides that
\ in the home. For the sake of this
spot we call home and the happiness
chat should reign there, / must be up
and in the great world to do my
part"
From this condition has arisen all
the great Women's organizations OF
the world, which have been protests
against some enemy of the home or
challenge to some great reform. Wo-
men have been resourceful through
out all the ages. What they could not
get by one means, they would at
tempt by another.
Perhaps the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union was the earliest
protest against the invasion by the IL
ouor traffic of the homes of our ma
tion. Without the ballot for many,
thew worked unrelentingly for the
overthrow of this tyrant which slew
their best beloved. From the ranks OF
this organization many women came
to realize that it would in the last
ANALYSIS be the ballot in the hands OF
wo- en which would cause King Al
cohol's final overthrow, and they be-
gan to put themselves into the hight
for suffrage. Among these were Dr.
Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait. This was largely true,
because the women suffrage states
were large instrumental in bringing
about the ratification of the 18th
Amendment. This wonderful fact
has been credited, to large extent,
to the ballot in the hands of women.
Norway, as soon as the ballot was
.xgiven to women, became a prohibi-
2 tion country. Scotland is now in
campaign, and the leaders say there
will be no trouble, as the Scottish
women have the ballot.
The Federation of Women's Clubs,
organized primarily for culture and
study, is studying Home Economics
as well, making speciality of Child
Welfare and public health; the Pa
! rent Teachers Associations every
where for closer connection between
the parents and teachers is most
largely woman's organization; the
great Council of Women, the Moth
ers' Congress, all these organizations
are movements for the betterment
and happiness of the home life. The
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion and the Daughters of the Con-
federacy stand for the protection of
! the American home, the kindling of
patiotic fires, the Americanizing of
all who come to our shores; the Red
Cross, the Travellers Aid, all these
are exponents of womens' ideals, and
are already being incorporated into
government. Most of the laws on our
statute books, like the police women
for the protection of women in large
cities, motion picture laws, women
in industry, child welfare, the anti
cigarette laws, the teaching of the
effects of narcotics and liquors on
the human system in our public
schools; the anti-canteen laws for
the protection of our army and navy,
and those laws which protect the
morals of our soldiers and sailors
have come from the mother heart of !
our nation expressed through petit
tions and resolutions and pressure
upon our law makers for the passage
of such laws.
These same laws which have come
by the Ideals of women and their
spiritual vision, will never be proper
ly enforced until those who inspired
them have voice and vote in their
enforcement.
All these things and many more,
they have done without the ballot. i
What will they do when they have
that added advantage!
1t is now the concensus of opinion
that it will be but few more months
before the 10th Amendment will be
ratified by the sc necessary states.
According to statements of leaders,
: after careful census has been taken
of the various legislatures, it has
been announced that 80 states are
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