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FFRAGE aPREADS T 0
1L CORNERS OF WORLL
ATHBLE ADVANCE WIACE
RS. CARRIE C_HAPMAN CATT.
in 1902 the .\atior;:l Almerl(:jan
M n Suffrage Association issued a
~Vr‘w?‘nn-.\ itation to thé Natlox:ul sul."i
O esociation of Europe to sen
n;:\. to Washington with a view
ihe possibility of organizing an in
-0 hational suffrage movement. At
nat time it was found that in the
ntire world there were only eight na
ione with an organized woman suf
o association. These were Eng
"% Norwav, Sweden, Denmark, Hol
"7d Australia, Canada and the Unit
i States. A few delegates came to
\sshingion snd a temporary commit
.o was formed, the permanent or
nization being postponed for two
eare, when, in 1904, ano.ner call was
cued for & meeting in Berlin. In or
.+ 10 join the new international
ovement, a (rerman association was
organized :n:\k'gng nine eligible to en
ker the new alliance.
Ten vears have now passed since
1e organization was completed, and
ceularly organized national associa
ions have been effected and brought
o membership in Belgium, Bulga
i China, Finland, France, Hungary,
Jceland, Ttaly, Portugal, Roumania_.
wussia, Servia, South Africa and
<witzerland, in addition to the nine
ational associations which united to
orm the alliance in 1904, In Austria
| national worran suffrage association
s impossible, owing to the imperial
jaw which forbids women to form po-,
iitical organizations. But commit
epc which serve the same purpose
.t organized and at work in Austria,
Bohemia and Galicia. The total num
ser of nations now in the alliance
is 29 4 5
Meeting All Difficulties.
The founders as the beginning rec
senized the difficulty which had beset
niany other international endeavors
¢y secure international action wupon
various questions, in the definition of
s nation. This difficulty was over
come by making the arbitrary rule
(hat for the purposes of the alliance a
~ountry should be considered a nation
if it possessed the independent right
o enfranchise its own women. In, the
entire world there are only seven
constitutionally organized independ
ent nations by that definition without
an organized woman suffrage move
ment. Only four of these are in Eu
vope—Greece, Spain, Turkey and the
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. The
remaining three are the negro repub
lic of Liberia, in Western Africa, Per
sia and Japan., Individual members
of the International Alliance are scat
tored all over the world. Women in
Java, Sumatra, the Philippine and
Hawaiian Islands, Burma, India and
C‘evlon have organized groups of suf
fragists.
In 1012, when perpetual darkness
sirouded the Land of the Midnight
Sun, women wrapped in furs, above
the Polar Circle, might have been
seen gliding over snow-covered roads
in sledges drawn by reindeer, on their
way to suffrage meetings, from
which petitions went up to the Par
liament at Stockholm asking a voter’s
share in the Swedish Government.
There is something thrillingly exalt
ng in the fact that at the same mo- |
ment other women, in the midsum
mer of the Southern Hemisphere, pro- |
tected by fans and umbrellas, and
riding in “rickshas.” were doing the
same thing under the flerce rays of & |
tropical sun; and petitions poured
nto Pretoria asking suffrage for the |
omen of the Union of South Africa
from every State and city of that vast
country, From the North to the South
Pole and all the world around women |
are agitating for political recognition.
Congress at Budapest. |
_ At the congress held in Budapest
last June women voters were present |
epresenting many countries. There
were women members of Parliament
from Finland; women members of the
" ity Council from Stockholm, Copen
iagen, Christiania and Reykjavik,
voters from Australia and New Zea
iand
Do vou know that the question of
‘otes for women is one which is com
manding the attention of the whole
‘ivilizel world; that woman suffrag
Crgenizations of representative men
ant women exist in 27 different coun
tries; that in this country alone there
are more than 1,000 woman suffrage
organizations; that there is an In
lernational and a Natlonal Men’s
league for Woman Suffrage and
Pumbers of local men's leagues; that
19 number of women who are ask
ug for the vote in this country lis
arger than the number of men who
fave ever asked for anything in its
ntire listory; that more and larger
letitions asking for votes for women
have been sent to legislative bodles
an for any other one measure; that
¢ press of this country is giving
more space to woman suffrage than
'any other one public question; that
U Legislatures of 28 States last
“f‘, : .'l‘-V"H:lill(‘(l woman suffrage
jasiires, eleven of them favorably;
“hd that a bill for a woman suffrage
‘mendment to the United States Con
titution is now before (Congress?
The women of New Zealand and the
‘omen of Australia possess all the
iical rights accorded to men. The
,'men of Finland vote in all elec-
S upon the same terms as men,
e omce their enfranchisement in
bae. UM sixteen to twenty-five have
pal flected to the different parlia
g, In Norway ,all women have
raro (UL parliamentary vote, and in
' one woman sat in the Norwe
glan Parliament, and numbers of
Jmen are serving as members and |
“€hites to @ity Councils. ,The
men of Jceland have the full par-
Amentary franchise, and since 1902
‘“-fourth of the members of the
: ‘_‘l’ Il of the capital city have been
, In Denmark and Sweden.
. “weden women have had some
poite of suffrage since the eigh
omar _oDEULY, . TN 1808 unmarried
given ¢ “‘w!w had to pay taxes were
SN ‘lvnunu'lpal franchise, and in
vomer TIENt was extended to all
Ress Furthermore, it is only &
ST of alittle time before women
w. Ve the full parllamentary vote.
d"\"\”,”f"“"“"’ has already ‘twi('e
o po- the lower house of the Swed
-1o L Arllament, and {8 known to have
i Pport of the King and the Prime
r“‘ “r. It is opposed only by the
s locrats of the upper house, who
| dkainst all democratic measures;
v, '8 admitted that even they can
(use (V& Keep back so popular &
':.]’ Denmark all women who pay
%% and the wives of the men who
g ]“ \°S were given the municipal
o “Nige in 1908, and, as in Sweden,
"8 Neahwse to extend to them the
full parliamentary voie has passed
the lower house in two successive ses
sions of Parliament, Asg in Sweden,
it has the support of the King, the
Prime Minister, and the people in
gzwral. and is opposed only by the
aristocrats of the upper house, who
can not long continue to stand out
against the popular will,
In England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales women vote in all elections, ex
cept for members of Parliament; they
are eligible and have been elected to
office as Mayors and members of
City and County Councils; and on
the Isle of Man women who pay rent
or taxes can vote for members of the
Manx Parliament,
Canada Falling in Line. o
In eight of the Provinces of Cana-
Ga—Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Que
bec, British Columbia, Alberta and
Saskatchewan —unmarried women
who pay taxes have the municipal
vote, ang in Nova Scotia the munici
pal suffrage is held by all taxpaying
women. In Toronto the municipal‘
suffrage has been extended to all
women.
Women have the municipal vote in
Rangoon, the capital of Burma; in
Belize, the capital of British Hondu
ras; and in the cities of. Baroda and
Bombay in British India; and also in
certain provinces of Austro-Hunga
ry; and under the recently granted
constitution they have the municipal
vote in Siam,
Within the past year the subject of
woman suffrage has bheen considered
in the national parliaments of sev
enteen countries; the revolutionary
government in China stands pledged
to woman suffrage, and women have
already voted in one province; in
France a special commission, ap
rointed to investigate the question,
has recommended that the full fran
chise be extended to women as rapid
ly as may be deemed feasible, and
that the municipal franchise be
granted immediately.
LEADING ATLANTAMEN INDORSE WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Collected by MRS. JACK HAWKINS,
of the Georgia Woman’s Suf
frage League.
From Governor Slaton,
Mrs. Slaton is now in Savannah and
she has not yvet advised me her wishes
in the premises. |,
JOHN M. SLATON,
Governor.
A Practical Question.
Woman suffrage is not a question of
expediency; it is not a sentimentdl ques
tion. To say that a polling booth is not
a fit place for a woman is not an ar
gument against woman suffrage; to
say that her husband would control her
vote or that granting the franchise
would be provocative of discord in the
household is literally begging the ques
tion
Woman suffrage—granting the wom
an .the privilege to vote—ls a political
question pure and simple, g
Is she a citizen, or is she not a eciti
zen?
Has she the necessary qualifications
for making a good citizen?
Is she non-franchised by reason of
her sex? And by whom? Man. Has
she the right to participate in fash
foning the destiny of the nation? If she
has not, who qualifies her? Man,
Woman, by reason of her keener per
ception and equal, if not superior, in
tellect, coupled with a finer moral sense
and civie rectitude, is exceptionally well
qualified for citizenship.
Is man more s 0?
Woman possesses all the qualifica
tions necessary for the making of a
good citizen, mentally and morally, and
that she is by right and justice enti
tled to the ballot none can successfully
deny.
As wage-earner and housekeeper,
woman shares with man all the burdens
of government—and by man is denied
the right to participate in carrying out
the functions of government.
The question is, Are women citizens?
She may hold property, operate a busi
ness, pay taxes, perform all the funec
fions of citizenship—and yet is denied
the only cecognition of citizenship—the
right to vote.
All wrong—very wrong—only an ex
emplification of might making right.
JEROME JONES, |
liditor Journal of Laber. |
| Nothing Can Prevent It. i
. The case for woman suffrage has
been fully made out. There is no new
‘argument to advance in favor of it. It
is growing rapidly throughout the coun
try and nothing can prevent its ultima!e;
triumph. Some good people are opposed
to it from a certain sort of sennmenl;‘
the majority of those against it I'think
oppose it from traditional prejudice. I
know no good reason against it. The
men and women of the future will 100 k |
back and wonder that any man in a
democracy could oppose any movement
so thoroughly grounded in the princi
ples of fairness and justice as woman
suffrage. GEORGE MUSE.
Of Vital Concern.
Woman suffrage is a matter of more
vital concern to the men of our State
than to the women. KEvery movement
of the times for civic righteousness and
social uplift NEEDS the votes that, if
enfranchised, every woman would give
them. HAMILTON DOUGLAS, JR.
The Right to Vote.
I am earnestly in favor of woman
having equal suffrage and rights to vote
—-to participate in all matters pertain
ing to the government affairs.
JOSEPH JACOBS,
Jacobs' Pharmacy Company.
Womans Suffrage Coming. 4
I am,in favor of women voting—if
they want to. Womans suffrage is
surely coming.
R. M. CLAYTON,
Chief of Construction.
No Sex in the Ballot.
In suffrage I am in favor of the one
standard—no gex in the ballot. Qualifi
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VHITE STATES: Full Suffrage. SHADED STATES: Taxation, Bond or School Suffrage. DOT
TED STATES: Presidential, Partial County and State, Municipal Suffrage. BLACK STATES:
No Suiirage.
Full Suffrage—Wyoming, Colorado, Utah,
Idaho, Washington, California, Oregon, Kansas,
Arizona, Alaska.
Presidential and Municipal Suffrage—lllinois.
Where the bill has passed the Legislatures and
the amendment is now before the voters:
Goes
Goes to
House. Senate. Voters.
Montang ... a 8 15-2 1914
NeveEde . ... oo 004808 19-3 1914
North Dakota ......... 7028 1914
South Dakota .........70-80 41-2 1914
These are called the Campaign States.
States where the amendment has passed one
Legislature and must pass another:
cation should be the standard irrespect-
Ive of sex.
Not the man or the woman standard,
but qualifications including property and
education,
FREDERIC J. PAXON,
Intelligent as Men.
I am in favor of giving the women
anything they want—they are as intel
ligent as men. Suffrage is a funda
mental movement for justice and and
to promote a government for all the
people.
FRANK HARRELL,
Manager of Winecoff and Aragon
hotels, :
' Movement for Justice.
The agitation for womans suffrage is
a movement for justice. Men and
women were born free and equal, but
this heritage woman forfeits on ac
count of sex. »
I believe it is right and just that
the women be given the franchise. It
is the essential element needed in the
government to secure the health,
strength and prosperity of the nation.
JACK HAWKINS.
Give Mothers Their Due.
Nature is very fair in her dealings
with the human race—one-half are
- women.
Until recently the other half—men—
' have been the sole rulers in govern
ment. Let us be fair and give the
mothers of all a chance,
E. LYMAN HOOD,
President Theologial Seminary.
Needed on School Board.
I am heartily in favor of putting wom=
en on the school board. It is the one
board where women can do their best
work. J. L. MAYSON, ‘
City Attorney. |
A Physiclan’s Views. ‘
1 am in favor of woman suffrage,
and have been for many years. ‘
GEORGE M. NILES, M. D,
Means Better Government.
Women should have the ballot—be
cause, in the first place, it is simply
rendering unto them an absolute right.
It is to treat them according to the
eternal law of justice. Also because
modern civilization demands it. "Through
woman's power to vote in the making of
laws, we would enjoy a sane era of
moral and intelligent government of the
State. CHARLES W. HUBNER.
More Honest Than Men.
I am in favor of women voting, as
they are more honest in their convic
tions than men, J. G. BROWN,
Real FEstate,
Entitied to Their Rights.
I believe in the suffrage for women
because they are in every way the equal
of men and their rights and interests
are in every particular as great. sWhey
are entitled to an equal share in gov
ernment, H. 8. COLE,
Cole's Book Store, i
Entitled to Ballot.
I think women should have the ballot
~because they are entitled to it,
VICTOR H KRIEGSHABER,
Pay Taxes and Should Vote.
I betieve that those who own proper
ty should be allowed to vote,
A. I’ STEWART,
County Tax Collector.
Women Vote Intelligently.
I am in favor of the women hnlnll
Wilton Jellico Coal
$450 PER TON
JELLICO COAL CO.
P'ie.;.'.f?:%s 82 PEACHTREE STREET
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Goes to
: House. Senate. Voters.
BOWEE ... 0 v gD 31-15 1916
New . York 0000 188 O 49- 2 1915
Pennsylvania ........131-70 26-22 1915
MNEW Jersey v vvievs 89 & 14- 3 1915
States where initiative petitions are under
way—Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio. Will be
voted November, 1914,
Where Legislatures meet 1914 ; action to date:
Georgia, nothing; Kentucky, bill before the
House; Louisiana, nothing; Maryland, lost in
House, 34 to 60; Massachusetts, nothing; Missis
sippi, lost in House, 42 to 80; New Jersey, bill
passed House and Senate; Rhode Island, nothing;
South Carolina, nothing; Virginia, House Com
mittee reported against bill; New Mexico, nothing.
the ballot. They own property and pay
taxes like the men and they should
have the same privileges of voting as
the men, [ saw the women voting in
Pasadena, Cal., the bond election. One
of the things voted on was the site for
a crematory. The women voted cor
rectly and intelligently. They voted for
it to be located in the industrial sec
tlon of the city and even took in the
human side, which men had not thought
of. They voted on location where the
carts would not have to go up hill,
DR. S. D. WARNOCK.
Stand for Higher Morals.
1 favor women having the ballot be
cause 1 think they will aid in placing
our country on a higher moral standard.
LAMES L. LOGAN,
Real szfate.
Wants Wife to Vote.
I am heartily in sympathy with the
movement and would be glad to see the
day when my wife could go with me to
the polls and vote. C, M. MANLEY.
Capable of Voting Right.
In my rud(mnnt. women are as ca
pable of voting intelligently as men,
and 1 see no %00'1 reason why they
should not be given the ballot if they
want it. JOHN GILMORE,
” Real Estate; Ansley Agency,
Right Can’t Be Questioned.
If the negro who drives the carriage
can vote and say how the carriage shall
be taxed, then why not accord the same
privilege to the woman who owns the
carriage?
If our butlers can vote, then why not
our sisters and mothers?
There may be practical difficulties in
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If Child Is Cross, Constipated,
Sick, Give *“California
Syrup of Figs.”
Don’'t scold your fretful, peevish
child. See if tongue is coated; this
is a sure sign its little stomach, liver
‘and bowels are clogged with sou
waste,
When listless, pale, feverish, full of
cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't
eat, sleep or act naturally, has stom
achache, indigestion, diarrhoea, give i
teaspoonful of “California Syrup of.
I'igs,” and in a few hours alil the foul
waste, the sour bile and fermenting
food passes out of the bowels and you
have a well and playfu! child again.
Children love this harmless “fruit
laxative,” and mothers can rest easy
after giving it, because it never fails
to make their little “insides” clean
and sweet,
Keep it handy, Mother! A t(le
given to-day saves a sick child - |
morrow, but get the genuine. Ask
yvour druggist for a 50-cent bottle of
“Californii Syrup of Figs.,” which has
directions for bables, children of ull}
ages and for grown-ups« plainly on the
bottle. Remember, there are counter. J
feits sold here, so surely look and 2ee
that yours {s made by the “California
Fig' Syrup Company.” Hand back
with contempt any other fig syrup,—
Advt,
the way of equal suffrage, but the right
can not for a moment be serlously"(‘;ueb
tioned. LUCIAN LAMAR KNIGHT,
State Historian of Georgia.
Wants Them to Vote,
I.am in favor of the women having
the vote. Women have always been a
great aid to me in my politfcal aspira
tion. The first campaign speech I ever
made was before a cooking school here
in Atlanta. PAUL DONEHOO,
Coroner.
Entitled to Everything.
The women are entitled to anything
they want. I am in favor of giving it
to them-—-the ballot.
WILLIAM A. WRIGHT,
Comptroller General, .
Would Purify Politics.
I am in favor of womans suffrage
because I belleve H would have a ten
dency to purify politics and make for
henesty in government,
F. J. MERRIAM,
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Every Prospective Woman Voter
should raise her right hand in favor of
. the writing machine generally because:
“The soulless little typewriter has ' »
done as much toward gaining ‘Wo- .
men’s Rights’ as all the arguments
and agitation of centuries. The busi
ness world owes a great debt both to
the woman and to the machine. To
gether they have wrought wonders. .
Women are now in most branches of
husiness, and it is the typewriter that :
introduced them to this field of inde
-7 pendence.”’
But the future feminine voter should '
raise BOTH hands for the
Because on it were made all the Interna
tional Records for
Speed, Accuracy and Stability
and a majority of these records
| “The Machine You Will Eventually Buy”
President Southern Ruralist Company.
Heartlly In Favor.
1 am heartily in favor of the women
having everything they wish. 5
PHILIP COOK,
Secretary of State.
Justice for Women,
Tnhe question of womans suffrage is
one which goes deeply into questions
and problems that lie deeper than the
mere right of woman to use the ballot.
We acknowledge certain customary
inequalities between man and woman,
inequalities based on false ideas exist
ing these countless ages. The woman,
the weaker vessel, the woman men
tally inferiors and double standard of
morals gloated over by many men and
mocked at by many women.
Then there are the problems of moth
erhood, legal anl illegal; the problems of
marriage and divorce. |
A revolution is upon us. There i 8 no
golng to right or left. The result wihl
be a recognition of woman in morality, |
in marriage, in motherhood, as well as
the ballot. Such a stir toward the
acknowledgement ~f woman's worth,
privileges and equality with man will
not only perfect the system of property
ownership, ‘;u( will the more clearly
show the why toward helping woman
to fill her place as the keeper of the
home, and the guardian of her children,
It is & move unto her freedom, and uni
\"el{sal acknowledgement of her citizen
ship. °
There is no argument abdut her rights,
She is not man’'s possession, a chattel,
nor a hired servant, but a citizen. Any
son who loves his mother, any husband
who loves his wife, any brother who
loves his sister and any father who
loves his daughter will not deny their
self-evident right to bhe citizens and
free in the world under every law that
may rule mankind. .
J. WADE CONKLING,
Minister of Untarian Church.
Dr. Bryant’s Opinion,
I do nat believe that women care over
much for the rlEht of franchise, per se,
but unless the “lords of creation,”; who
alone have held it in the past, shall put
greater moral courage back of it, wo
men may be forced to seize it to the end
that the bludgeon of wrong shall be
wrung from the hands of greed and the
scepter of rlfht shall be restored to the
hand of justice. |
It may be, and I think it highly prob.
able, that the real emancipator of man
will be a woman, but before she comes,
women will have accomplished the
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ural Color, Gloss and
Thickness. .
Common earden sage brewed into a
heavy tea with sulphur and alcohoi
added will turn gray, streaked and
faded hair beautifully dark and luxu
riant, remove every bit of dandruff,
stop scalp itching and falling hair.
Just a few applications will prove a
revelation if your hair is fading, gray
or dry, scraggly and thin. Mixing the
Sage Tea and Sulphur recipe at home,
though, is troublesome. An casier way
is to get the ready-to-use tonie, cost
ing about 50 cents a lare2 bottle at
drug stores, known as “Wyeth's Sage
and Sulphur Hair Remedy,” thus
avoiding a lot of muss.
While wispy, gray, faded hair is not
sinful, we all desire to retain our
vouthful appearance and attractiv:-
ness. By darkening ,your hair with
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur, no one can
tell, because it does it so naturally, so
evenly. You just dampen a sponge or
soft brush with' it and draw this
through your hair, takifig one small
strand at a time; by morning all gray
hairs have disappeared, and, after an
other application or two, your hair be
coles beautifully dark, glossy, soft
and luxuriant.—Advt,
greatest feat of all the ages—that of
emancipating themselves from them
selves,
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District Federation of Women’s Clubs at
Clayton in 1911,
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