The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-21
Twelve Million
Women Can Vote
At Next Election

NEW YORK, March 1O-(Assoclat-
ed Press Correspondence More than
$4,000, 900 women in the United States
over Fl years of age are eligible to
vote for the next president in %
states where women may vote, &C.
cording to an estimation by Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president of
the National Woman Suffrage Associ-
alton and president of the Internation-
al Suffrage Alliance.
This estimate was given in a call
to h women voters of the United
States to join forces with the Nation
al American Woman Suffrage Associ-
alton at its Golden Jubilee Convention
to be held in st. Louis, March 24-29-
Fifty delegates from each voting state
are invited to join the delegations at
st. Louis from the 1000, 900 members
of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association.
1.-THE National American Woman
Suffrage Association has invited wo-
men voters to a National convention
in order that they may organize ma
t~ionally and unite their forces with
those of other lands" said Mrs. Gait.
There is an obviously important
national program for women voters.
The great diversity of laws which
concern women and children in our
several states is a continual menac
to the safety and welfare of the I'M
fortunate and uniformed.
The laws of the states could be
unified and improvements added ever
in the states more liberal in their
laws, if women voters would agree
upon a proper constructive program.
1t is a fact so obvious that it needs no
demonstration that if one section of
the country is much behind the times
in education and legal protection to
women and children, its civilization is
bound to prove a deterrent influence
over the whole nation. Therefore, it
becomes the duty of all forward look
ing people to see that the laws of the
whole nation are unified and that the
standard by which to measure the
proper program for each state is the
code of laws of the most advanced
states.
Women voters should contribute
more to their nation and to the world
than they do when acting from a To-
called viewpoint. Those who live in
the valley do not know what is to be
seen from the mountain top. The OPP
portunity to climb the mountain and
to view all humanity in its struggle
upward toward permanent democratic
institutions and consequent per-
manent peace is here. The opportun-
ity to extend a helping hand to those
who are likely to find the path rough
and thorny is here. The woman vot-
n- Nuifh tho Nicinp Df nnnain1 f-aAIDy,
for the race in her soul will not hest
tate to offer her SERVICE" continued
Mrs. Gait.
The biggest Bureau of Suffrage
Propaganda in the world has been or
ganized by Mrs. Gait with funds she
was bequeathed by Mrs. Frank Leslie,
widow of a widely known editor and
publisher. When Mrs. Leslie died a
few years ago she left the bulk of her
fortune to Mrs. Gait to be used for
the advancement of the suffrage
cause. The actual figures are in the
neighborhood of $75O,000.
Mrs. Gait, who has an abiding faith
that the only reason anybody opposes
woman sugrage is because of lack of
knowledge of its fundamental signif-
canoe, decided that the most effective
way to advance the suffrage cause
was through the further education of
the entire public on the subject Of
suffrage.
She formed the Leslie Woman Suf-
frage Commission, the members of
which were to serve with her in the
supervision of the expenditure Of the
Leslie fund. On the commission are
Mrs. Raymond Robins, president OF
the National Woman's Trade Union
League, Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker,
former president of the General Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Club, Miss Mary
Garrett Hay, chairman of the Woman
Suffrage Party of New York City,
Mrs. Arthur Livermore, and Mrs.
Thomas Bucklin Wells.