Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25
A Trumnet Call to Arms.

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voteless District League of Womer
Voters on Saturday night, sounded &
ringing and inspiring call to battle ir
The campaign for national representa-.
ton for the people of the District.
He traced from the records the rea.
sons for the exclusive legislation Prov.
sion of the Constitution. and pointeo
out that neither in letter nor in spirit did
this constitutional provision forbid ma
tionsl representation for the half mil.
lion District residents of today.
He emphasized that in war and peace
the residents Of the District had borne
cneerfully every national burden in
money sacrifice and blood sacrifice upon
the Nations altar and we're in conse-
quence entitled to share in the national
rights and powers which in a repre-
sentative democracy are with obliga-
tons inseparably coupled.
Since the half million Americans of
the District pay national taxes. obey
national laws and so to war in the Ma
tons defense, they are entitled ON
American principles to be represented in
the National Government, which taxes
them, which makes all laws for them
and which sends them to war.
Senator Capper's clarion call con-
cludes:
I'm waging this commendable war
against form of autocracy peculiarly
repusnant to patriotic Americans YOU
will f1nd that our greatest enemy is in
difference. Therefore / charge YOU
never cease TO agitate your cause
spread the fire Of your zeal throughout
the city and kindle the dormant senti-
ment Of the Nation. If anything ever
was worth fighting for, it is national
representation for the District Of CO.
Iumbia. And am confident that finally
your campaign will be victorious, as IL
well deserves 70 be-"
What words could be more hearten-
Ing than these to the audience which
Senator Capper addressed? The
women Of the Nation, including those
Of the District, who have won the ma
tional franchise for themselves every
where, except in the District, will never
permit this exception and this dis
elimination to continue to exist. The
hideous mockery of a vOteIess "Dis-
trict League of Women Voters" will not
be psrpetuated. The woman organ
izations Of America, national and local,
who are fighting for our amendment
have made it clear that they will never
rest until this slurring inconsistency Is
removed.
Senator Capper's words appeal to the
men as well as the women, to the men
and women not only of the District
but Of all America.
They arouse to redoubled effort the
long list of local citizens organizations,
including the Board of Trade, the
Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association, the
Federation of Citizens Associations and
the Central Labor Union, which have
been and are now effectively co-operat-
ing in the Citizens Joint Committee for
District National Representation.
These associations and clubs of the
District and our ex-sOldier and patriotic
organizations, with powerful national
afiliations, are successfully sending out
an o S call to their voting associates
to rescue them from the shameful po-
litical isolation Of the Iunatic and the
convict.
Surely every red-bloOded American
everywhere will respond helpfully and
vigorously to the Districts appeal fol-
political equity.