The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-27

1915 appropriated 100000 to inves-
tigate and promote animal industry,
but, after much begging on the part
Of the great women of the nation,
managed to appropriate S165,000 for
child welfare work and the investiga-
ton of the terribly high rate of in
FAINT mortality. 1t seems that the
Congress of this nation values its
animal industry about forty times as
much as it does its child life
She next quoted from the Interpar-
liamentary Union of London: Colo
RADIO has the sanest, most humane and
progressive and scientific laws relat-
ing TO the child to be found on any
statute books in the world" Judge
Ben Lindsay of the famous Colorado
juvenile court, says that the women
OF Colorado put them on the statute
books of the state, and insist upon
their enforcement This state has
had woman suffrage for twenty three
years.
Miss Mays next showed that in a
democracy where government is de-
clared to be "of the people, for the
people, and by the people," women
who answer every call to their coun-
try's service. must be allowed to ex-
ercise the rights of citizenship. else
our democracy is no democracy at all,
but an extension of kaiserism, an
evil doctrine that the world has just
poured out its best blood and the
sacred treasures of its mind and soul
to defeat She quoted from the dec
laration of independence: CAN gov
eminent derives its just powers from
the consent of the governed" She
said that the women of America had
won the right to citizenship by their
unanswering loyalty and patriotism,
that in every crisis of the nation,
southern women had been peculiarly
| loyal to their men, helping them to
get the freedom they craved, and to
keep that freedom from being taken
away from them. Then she asked if
initiate their women by refusing them
this justice, while the men of other
states were fastening to do honor to
their women by comforting upon them
the freedom that all intelligent hu-
man beings crave. Miss Mays said
THAT the Florida women were tired of
lbeing the Cinderellas of the nation,
and that if the Florida legislature
failed to pass a constitutional amend
ment enfranchising the women, or the
voters of Florida failed to ratify it
then Florida women would have to
Hook to the men and women of the
North and West to enfranehise them
over the heads of Southern men, and
thus Florida men would lose what
4 should be regarded as the dearest
!. honor and prvilege-the right to en-
franchise their own women.
1 Finally, Miss Mays asked if the
men of Florida were going to make
their women fight them thru long
and arduous campaign for the very
fright the women had already helped
the men to get. Cries of "Nol" mol
were heard in the hall, and the speak
er sat down amidst storm of ap.
Iplause.
i Then Mr. ]. N. Wicker spoke
!. Iagainst the measure. He said thar
the whole record of woman in public
life had been one of shame and deg.
, lradation. He held up Esther of Bible
flame, as woman whose deceit anC
, IcTuelty and immortality would de
! fame her to the end of the world. Ht
mentioned Cleopatra as an example
) of the degrading effect of public life
; lupo nthe character of woman. HI
!, spoke of the struggle of the Greeks
? against the Persians as a struggle o.
: the Greeks 'tto preserve the true re
Iligion against idolatry" Cd and sale
, that the Greeks knew what they wer'
: about when they denied women al
!, part in the national life. He said tina
= Elizabeth of England was an usurpe
who had no right to the Englisl
3 throne, that she won for herself tn
. title of the biggest liar in Christen
D idom1 and that she had Mary Queer
Ell of Scots executed from jealousy. H
. next held up Catherine the Great o
i, Russia and proceeded to Judge her b,
). the moral standard of our presen
times, but spoke well of Queen Vic
4 ltoria, dwelling upon the fact that sh
: was opposed in her life time (abou
: thirty years ago. to the extension o
e suffrage TO women.
al Mr. Wicker said that politics wa
v "too rotten" for women to touch, tina
the sex would become forever degrad
e ed, in fact, as well as in the opinion O
: men, if they exercised the right o
v suffrage. He prophesied dire thing
h if the ballot was given to women; sal
; the nation would go to destruction i
d one hundred and fifty years, if it wa
v done He said that Bryan and Roose
welt had only espoused the cause Q
: suffrage as a political move. not be
N cause they believed that it was right
e The insinuated that the same reaso
r lay at the bottom of Wilson's supper
: lof the cause.
/, Then Judge Wicker followed wit
n an exceedingly clever an dinterestin
d talk for woman suffrage, and Gale
k attention to many practical reason