The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-29
THE AMERICAN WOMAN COMES INTO HER OWN


On heights of Freedom
Bravely won
The Twentieth Century woman stands.
The bonds of past tradition gone,
Great work awaits her willing hands.
No longer need she stand aside
And see a wrong she cannot right
The ballot holds resistless power
The right to help: the wrong to
smite.
oh, God of nations and Of men
Give her that wisdom sought OF old
That from the heights Of high ideals
The banners Of her power unfold
Upward and on to better things.
F.P.
The American woman has come into
her full rights of citizenship She
viii have a voice In the making the
laws by which she is governed. She
will no longer be taxed without repre-
sentation. In the courts of her land
she will be tried by her peers No need
to resort to subtlety or to plead in
order to express herself in that which
concerns and governs her and hers In
this Twentieth Century woman is
FREE, as free as was made the negro
slave more than fifty years ago!
What will SHE do with the ballot?
Never in all the worlds histroy have
women stood as they stand today.
Woman has always exerted more or
less power by proxy. But now she
stands directly face 10 face with the
tremendous responsibility of a person
al vote.
And 1t is believed that she will han
die It with intelligence and with the
ideals of right which she has ever
held. nall great issues, in every
crisis OF political and private life she
has shown great devotion to duty and
a full willingness to sacrifice If need
be.
The fact cannot be ignored that the
great class OF women need education
along the lines which lead to the ex-
ercise Of this power Of the ballot. Nor
can the people OF a nation such as the
United States afford to forget that IN
the ballot is unmeasured power.
The great hour, the moment fraught
wit hvast potentialities for all Amer
lean womanhood has struck its never
to-be-forgotten note. It's tones shall
reach far and far along the corridors
Of Time and millions yet unborn shall
hear it's voice.
Women of America: Guard as a sa-
cred trust your right of suffrage.
What some of Pensacola's represen-
tative women think of suffrage:
"Obeying a powerful impulse. GER
tain men and women have secured
an opening through which women can
cooperate with me. handlig the bust
ness end of affairs people hold in COM
mon.
II am watching the impulse behind
the endeavor, knowing 1t is the work
ing of an immutable law.
'"rhe dawn of each day obeys no law
more mighty. Now we can count ex-
actly on the fact that this law will
CONTINUE TO OPERATE.
"Once long ago when the ideal man
was born some night watchers heard
it sung into the world. 1t sings as it
did to those night watchers. It sings
in the heart OF suffragists. You know
what 1t says!
Now 1t is not impending to stop.
1t is arousing others to the call for
general welfare.
This force will quietly dissolve the
Illusion of a policy which permits bad
management of public affairs. 1t will
quietly and surely establish in place
OF a quasi business management an
unquestionable business management
TT demands peace and good will you
see. 1t is Oldest. wisest and most pow
erful Of influences among men. (Once
it is heard) Is it coming? Listen
not to political clamor but to the Law
of Justice and Mercy.
MRS A G. RINKTEY"