Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-01-19


in the general sense of the words, is what both
forces do want But, bless you, there's distinc-
tiOn with a difference.
Anyway congress will be asked to pass an equal
rights bill which is an amendment to the COnsti-
tuition. And the women voters apparently
ffty-hfty the proposition. At least they are
already arrayed in two hostile camps. The Ma
tional Woman's party will take the offensive In
the other camp possibly the leader is the National
League of Women Voters. In this camp are also
the National Consumers league and the National
Woman's Trade Union league. And the welfare"
organizations many.
Do you remember, during the suffrage cam
paign the who picketed the White House
srouLds and went hunger strikes when Jailed
for that picketing? Well, those militant suffra-
i-ists are the of the National Woman's party.
After suffrage was secured they voted on the
question of going out of existence. They decided
10 remain In the field and campaign for equal
rights for women in addition to votes for women
The party reorganized Mrs. o. II. P. Bel
lncnt, woman of large wealth and of social po-
sit.on, was elected president She made a large
contribution to the party. 1t has now purchased
he "Old Capitol" at Washington and renamed
it the Watchtower for Women. This watchtower
consists of row of three od-fashiOned, spacious
s'one houses. This row was used from 1915 to
1919 as a meeting place for congress while the
capitol being rebuilt after the destructive
visit of the British during the War of 1912. Per-
ters of campaign for woman president Any
way, it is the headquarters of the campaign for
equal rights for
Miss Alice Paul, who has made a name for her.
self as militant suffragist second to in this
country is the dominant spirit of the National
N'omans party, And this equal rights battle is
Eer fight.
The National League of Women Voters is the
name of the old National American Suffrage
association 1t is the direct descendant of the
organization formed by Susan B. Anthony, Eliza
Leth Cady Stanton and other famous women back
in the middle of the Nineteenth century. It has
not approved of militant methods. 1t has always
largely outnumbered the National Woman's party
of comparatively recent origin. Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, former president and now president
of the International Woman Suffrage association
is one of its leaders. Mrs Maud Wood Park is it's
president. Miss Jane Adams is a vice president
of the National Consumers league. Miss Agnes
Nestor is president of the National Women's Trade
Union league
Now, both camps agree that the securing Of
suffrage was only first step in securing equal
rights for women. The nineteenth amendment
to the Constitution reads thus:
THE rights of citizens of the United States shall
not be denied abridged by the United States
or by any state on account of SEX"
So the nineteenth amendment simply gives wom-
en- citizens the right to vote 1t does not give them
equality with male citizens before the law in the
manifold affairs of everyday life 1t is no exag-
geration to say that both camps consider the
achievement of the vote merely the beginning
of woman's emancipation. Both camps hold that
no woman will be really free until every disabil-
ity, legal as well political, is removed
To bring about the removal Of every disability
the National Woman's party has been campaign
ing to secure the adoption by the state legislature
of the so-caed blanket bill. This bill is as fol-
lows:
"Section l. Women shall have the same rights
privileges and immunites under the law as men,
with respect to the exercise of suffrage holding
office under the Government either State or local:
eligibility to examination for any position affected
by civil service regulations; jury service; choice
OF domicile, residence and name; acquiring con-
trolling, holding and conveying property owner
ship and control Of labor and earnings freedom
of contract including becoming a party in any
capacity to negotiate instruments evidence of
Indebtedness, becoming surety or guarantOr
tecOmng parties litigant; acting executors or
administrators of estates of decedents; custody
and control of children and control of earnings
d services of such children grounds for divorce
immunites penalties for sex offense; quaran-
tine, examination and treatment of disease
"And the rights of married and unmarried
en- with respect to these matters shall be equal.