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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN THE HOME PAPER Publighed by THE GEORGIAN COME ¥ : Entered as second.class matter at postoffice at Atlanta der act of March 3, 1873 HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN and TH i GEORGIAN will be mailed to subscribers anywhere in the Unite State ‘anada and Mexlco, one month for §£6v; three mo 2 for $l. 75 k'3 t for 33.50 and one year for $7.00; change of address made as oft esired Foreign subseription rates on applicatior | Why Women Should Vote ' Voting by Women Will Improve Humanity. They Will , Take Politics Out of the Gutter and Put It Upon ‘ a Plane of Respectability. ————————————————————————————————————— In this country and throughout thé world women progress toward the full possescion of the ballot, and toward equality with men in educational facilities. In one State after another women are beginning to practice law, they are obtaining new suflrage rights, they flock to newly opened schools and colleges. In England and Scotland, but a few years ago, only a few men in the population were allowed to vote—money was the requisite quality. To-day, in those countries, women vote at county elections, and in many cases at municipal elections. In the great Commonwealth of New Zealand, so far ahead of all the rest of the world in humanity and social progress, the wife votes absolutely as her husband does. The woman who votes becomes an important factor in life, for a double reason. In the first place, when a woman votes the candidate must take care that his conduct and record meet with a good woman's approval, and this makes better men of the candidates. In the second place, and far more important, is this reason: When women shall vote, the political influence of the good men in the community will be greatly increased. There is no doubt whatever that women, in their voting, will be influenced by the men whom they know. But there is also no doubt that they will be influenced by the GOOD men whom they know. Men can deceive each other much more easily than they can deceive women—the latter being providentially provided with the X-ray of intuitional perception. . The blustering politician, preaching what he does not prac tice, may hold forth on the street corner or in a saloon, and in fluence the votes of others as worthless as himself. But among women his home life will more than offset his political influence. The bad husband may occasionally get the vote of a deluded or frightened wife, but he will surely lose the votes of the wives and daughters next door. Voting by women will improve humanity, because IT WILL COMPEL MEN TO SEEK AND EARN THE APPROVAL OF WOMEN. Our social system improves in proportion as the men in it are influenced by its good women. As for the education of women, it would seem unnecessary to urge its value upon even the stupidest of creatures. Vet it is a fact that the importance of thorough education of girls is still doubted—usunally, of course, by men with deficient education of their own and an elaborate sense of their own importance and superiority. Mary Lyon, whose noble efforts established Mount Holyoke College, and spread the idea of higher education for women throughout the world, put the case of women’s education in a nutshell. ‘I think it less essential that the farmers and mechanics should be educated than that their wives, the mothers of their children, should be.”’ The education of a girl is important chiefly because it means the educating of a future mother. Whose brain but the mother’s inspires and directs the son in the early years, when knowledge is most easily absorbed and permanently retained? If you find in history a man whose success is based on in tellectual equipment, you find almost invariably that his mother was exceptionally fortunate in her opportunities for education. Well educated women are essential to humanity. They in sure abler men in the future, and incidentally they make the ignorant man feel ashamed of himself in the present. In the onward march that WOMAN is making to-day toward the polls, her processional hymn should be UNITY. Unity of PURPOSE, of ENERGY and of SYMPATHY. Unity of her smaller organizations, leading to the UNITY of her ONE GREAT BODY. Organization means UNITY: UNITY, CONCERTED EF.- FORT WITH ONE GOAL IN SIGHT. If the BALLOT is that GOAL, then only with going toward it HAND IN HAND CAN IT BE REACHED. THERE CAN BE NO SIDE ISSUES. There can be but ONE ISSUE, and that is THE RIGHT TO VOTE. Without union of thought and sympathy, the women who are asking for an equal right to have a voice in matters of civic and municipal government can not hope to impress the EAR ALREADY AWAKENED TO HER CALL, nor win response from her fellow creature, who NOW HOLDS THE BALANCE OF POWER IN HIS HAND. There is near at hand a time when the women of Atlanta, of Georgia, of the entire South, will go before a committee ap pointed by the Legislature, to ask for the privilege that is already hers by right. Her demand will be for EQUAL RIGETS. Will the committee appointed be willing to listen to separate committees from separate organizations? NO! The Commit tee will have neither the time nor the inclination for a prolonged repetition of the same questions. The men engaged in making the laws for the State have many things to look after, and they must have business presented to them in a businesslike way. But if ONE committee will say, WE REPRESENT ALL THE WOULD-BE VOTERS IN THE CITY OR STATE, that committee must in all good faith receive the message brought to it. In view of this, A CONFERENCE COMMITTEE SHOULD BE ORGANIZED, composed of each sufirage president, and one or two members of her league or association, to get together on all BIG ISSUES, and strengthen their BODY, BY UNITY. 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TERFERE WITH THE BODY SEPARATE, BUT WOULD BRING THE BODIES SEPARATE UNDER CNE SPLENDID HEAD! Politics are new to the majority of women. They know the truth of this, and at this time many of the woman's clubs are studying books on municipal government and civic reform. And it is a good thing for every woman to study all there is to learn in books, of lecturers, and of the leaders of the great movement that is engaging them at this hour. But only by MIXING WITH THE PEOPLE AND LISTENING TO THE HEART-BEATS OF THE PEOPLE CAN REAL KNOWLEDGE COME. THE HEART OF THE PEOPLE DOES NOT BEAT BETWEEN THE LEAVES OF A BOOX; ITS RHYTHM CAN NOT BE SET IN TYPE WITH PRINTERS' INK. NOR CAN THE FEVERISH HAND FEEL THE PULSE OF A 'EVERISH FACTICN! ’ There must be unity besides organization. There MUST be HARMONY, and above all SYMPATHY and UNDERSTAND ING. Men wrangle and fight in politics, and they sometimes pro fane the altar of their PRIVILEGE. But when a BIG ISSUE is at hand, when success depends upon UNITY, does he consider the inequality of his brother? Does he hew him a way in some by-path of SELFISHNESS AND PERSONAL AMBITION, and leave his party for a way that has not been trod? NO. HE KNOWS THE IMPORTANCE OF UNITY. When big issues come, MEN PULL TCGETHER. Then—after the battle, they settle their differences as each case demands. Men know that there IS strength in UNION. The time is ripening toward woman's enfranchisement in America. The South has already made wonderful advancement along that line, and it will not be long before WOMEN WILL BE CLASSED AMONG THE PEOPLE AND NOT AS THE VOICELESS PROPERTY HOLDER WITH NO RIGHTS, NO PRIVILEGES OUTSIDE THE NARROW SPHERE THAT MAN AND CUSTOM HAVE PLACED HER. With this fact assured, let WOMEN WORK IN UNITY AND HARMONY and she will COME INTO HER OWN WITH THE RESPECT OF THE WHOLE WORLD AND BE A CREDIT TO HER SEX. . The Justice and Expediency of Woman Suffrage By Maud Nathan. (This article won a $lOO prize in & Suffrage Contest.) BELIEVE in equal suffrage because I it is just and because it is expedi ent. Inademocracy where the peo ple are supposed to govern them selves, the ballot is the direct method of self-expression. A Government that denies expression to one-half the people can not justly be termed a democracy. How can the men rep resent the women? A man casts one vote, representing his own views; if there are three women in his house hold, each with dissenting views, how can his one vote represent theirs? It is not the men alone who have built up this great republic. All woman pay taxes, either directly or indirect ly. Six million women are engaged in the industry and commerce of our nation. Legislation is enacted regu lating and controlling their lives, and yet their point of view is not con Stars and Stripes Wonder if Congressman Sharp is favored for Ambassador to Russia because of his familiarity with explosives. . - . Instead of “Raisuli dead or Perdicaris alive,” it appears to be “Benton dead and Villa alive.” sidered. Legislators defer to . their constituents, who have the power to re-elect them to office or to defeat them. - The trend of modern activities makes it expedient to enfranchise women, One by one woman's duties have been taken away from her and placed in charge of city and State officials, appointed by the Mayor or Governor, who are elected by the votes of men. Every department of a woman’'s household is regulated or controlled by officials more or less involved in politics. To procure pure milk for the bables, pure drinking water, meat from non-tuberculosis cattle, non-poisonous canned: foods, the housekeeper must depend upon the efficiency and incorruptibility of the various commissioners. She also depends upon the Fire, Police and Street Cleaning Departments to pro tect her home, Barefoot dancer has feet wash ed with club soda. Why not a “tudb of suds?” - . One scientist says that clothes are the cause. of cancer. If this is true, there ought to be very lit tle. of it in fashionable . circles nowadays, . J By BERTHA H. ARROWOOD. Scandinavia, comprising five countries, takes the lead iy the suffrage progression. All have some measure of electory) rights, and in Finland, Norway and Iceland all women havs th, full partliamentary vote on the same terms as men, and are o). gible for all the offices for which they vote. ; Despite the frequent outbursts against Johnny Bull, t}, British Empire has granted full parliamentary suffrage to Ay tralia, New Zealand and in the Isle of Man. England, Ireling Scotland and Wales have municipal suffrage on the same fpmns’ as men, and taxpaying widows and spinsters have the municipy) suffrage in eight provinces of Canada. o Nova Scotia gives married women whose husbands are ot voters the municipal suffrage. In the cities of Bombay, ang Baroda in British India, of Rangoon in Burma and Belize iy British Honduras, women share the small measure of municipal voting rights as men. The United States is not far behind. Full suffrage has been granted to women in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wagh. ington, California, Kansas, Oregon, Arizona, Alaska, Illinois and 22 States have school suffrage. Suffrage on taxation and bonding propositions, with restrictions, has been given to sis States. It is' a deplorable fact that in the !ast mentioned there is but one Southern States—Louisiana; in ¢he school suffrage hy one—Rentucky ; while for full suffrage not one Southern State, The suffrage question is before the—will it do to say— chivalrous guardians of women—in many countries and Staltos and it is only a question of time before the whole race will be enfranchised. Let us pull together to have Georgia the first State to realize the importance of its women by enfrachising them. How Women Drove Gamblers from Cheyenne. By D. W, GILL, Mayor of Cheyenne, Wyo. Women voters of Cheyenne did something that the men didn’t have the nerve to do—they stopped open gambling in Cheyenne. I will tell you how they did it. Open gambling had been carried on in Cheyenne ever since the city start ed. The Wyoming Legislature passed a law in 1901, which took effect in February, 1902, prohibiting gambling. This law was enacted more through the interest' the women voters took in the matter than from any other source, and still the law was not en forced. In the fall election of 1904, I ran for Mayor, and W, B. Ross ran for County and Prosecuting Attorney on the Democratic ticket, As about one third of the Cheyenne voters were gen‘nocrats and about two-thirds were. epublicans, I had no idea of being élected. My opponent on the Repub lican ticket was a member of the 1901 Legislature and voted against the bill prohibiting gambling. I made ao promises, although it was known that personally I did not favor gambling. On the other hand, Mr. Ross made his campaign against gambling. Mr. Ross and myself were elected. It was the women vote which elect led us. I received probably thres fourths of the Cheyenne women vote. What Suffrage Is Doing in Illinois. 'By CATHERINE WAUGH MWM'CUL | LOCH. ~ The Illlinois suffrage law is.one of )the most popular ever passed in our State. The law only went into effect July 1, 1913, and so no great number of elections will occur till April, 1914. In the few elections held, women have voted for the moral measures, for the better candidates, for gen erosity in public expenditures, as well as economy. ! At the first Council meeting after the passage of the law, Mayor Harri son, of. Chicago, recommengded the appointment of ten policewomen to guard girls at bathing beaches and dance halls. This had been petitioned [tor by ballotless women vainly for years. The Mayor now heeded the re quests of voting women. It is everywhere admitted that the women forced the return of Mrs Ella Flagg Young to her place as super intendent of Chicago schools and a better sojution of the garbage (ues tion, Many Kansas Reforms Are Due to Suffrage. By JESSIE WRIGHT WHITCOMB, Attorney at Topeka. No election has been held in Kan sas since our women received the full ballot, so it is impossible to point out direct political results of the extended suffrage at this time, | In addition to this, our women have always had a modified and gradunally extended ballot, and many of the re forms so much desired by women in other States have been won and pre served. We have in Kansas State-wide pro hibition, which, in itself, has prevent ed a large share of the evils faling to women's lot in liquor States. That prohibition has been conlinued and that the law has been as satisfacto rily enforced as it has {s generlly admitted to be due largely to women's municipa’ vote, Pastor Line Gives Suffrage ‘‘Becauses.’’ By FRED A. LINE, Pastor First Universalist Church, The question of equal suffrage, it seems to me, is essentially a moral question. The issues involved are moral issues, not political, Womin's right to the ballot should not be questioned by thoughtful and sincere persons. Woman is interested in all of those great questions which are before the American people to-day-—child slhv ery, the white slave traffic, pure fcod, school facilities, factory inspection, city sanitation, the great wktite plague, sex hygiene, working condi tions, social causes of disease, peace and arbitration. We believe in woman suffrage he cause we are aposties of social jus tice, a square deal for every mun, woman and child; because we desire that the energies of our race shall be conserved; because we desire tlat women shall not be crowded to the wall in the struggle for existence, kut shall be given a chance to live with all that the term implies; because we cesire that children shall be privileged to develop according to the tenden cies and proclivities of childhood; ke cause we are opposed to the lmg working day for woman, the unjust compensation, the disregard for health, hap?ness and life; becauss we stand for co-perative life activi ty in behalf of truth, purity and righteousness, Oregon Women Show Benefits of Ballot. By ABIGAIL DUNNIWAY, President Oregon Equal Suffrage As. sociation, The women of Oregon received full enfranehisement on November 3, 1912, ‘We have had one meeting of the Leg islative Assembly (in 1$13), and the following laws were enacted, scarcely one of which could have been passed before we had received “votes for women:” / Industrial Comm!ssion, established to decide hours of employment, stand ard conditions of labor and mini mum wage, with orders of commis sion binding on employers; Stats In dustrial School for Delinquent Girls; training for dependent giris in indus. trial arts provided for in public school gardens; willful failure to sup. port wife and minor children a felony; provision for care of children of marriages which have been de clared void; laws governing appren tices repealed; Industrial Welfarq Commission established, with powes to decide hours of employment; spie cialist to assist the physically dee fective; State industrial accident law; teachers’ pension act, also act proe tecting teachers as to terms of em ployment and discharge; mother of decedent given right of inheritance over father, brothers and sisters, i decedent dies without wife or child; pensions paid to needy moth ers of children under sixteen, when hushand is dead, imprisoned or dis abled; felony for men to live o earnings of prostitutes, or in homes of ill fame, or solicit for a prosi tute; medical certificate for men - fore marriage. Tha Story of Woman Suffrage in Idaho. By EMMA EDWARDS GREEN, Secretary Idaho State Councii of Women Voters. : What has the ballot done for the women of the State of Idaho? [t has given them the right to stand side by side with their brothers and expand into a glory of womanhood not attained by women in non-suf frage States. It has given them & wider horizon, a finer self-poise, & grander conception of life and {ts possibilities, as well as a firmer con fidence in self, a confidence that had strangthened many a womna. We women of Idaho feel that we are but beginning our accomplish ments and we are now commencing the formation of a women's organiza tion known as the Idaho Council of Women Voters, with Miss Margaret Roberts as president, This Is a branch of the National Council of Women Voters with similar organ zations in the ten suffrage States and the suffrage Territory of Alaska A chapter has been formed in Bolse with the widest and most liberal plat form possible, We have secured®a nine-hour la% for working wemen which is in full force and which seems to he result ing beneficially, The mother's pen< sion bill is another of our good laws Idaho's humane law, one of the best in the United States, was placed in the Legislature by a woman and in troduced by a woman legislator. Wo men in Idaho have the right to servd on juries and have so done in a num ber of cases where women were tricd. Women probation officers, police ma: trons, city nurses and va.rluus_n‘fiffial positons, such as State Supnr‘.!.lf‘“‘y" ent of Public Schools, libparian of tie free traveling library, County Super intendent of Schools, County Treas urer, city treasurer and city clerk are common. Growth of Athens Equal Suffrage League. The Athens Equal Suffrage Leagi® was organized a little over & \f ago with eight or nine mem? : Since that time it has grown 10 -- 5 number—four men and elgntee women, 3 During that time the programs °, the regular meetings have cons:=< in talks and papers by the mem bers on various public questions =i - as the initiative and referendum, ' commission form of government d ; relative laws regarding women - children in the different Stats s portant books, such as “Womain = Labor,” by Olive Shreiner, bearing -~ the feminist movement, have ll“':; o viewed. A history of Englisimib, suffrage and a history of the ILn&i militant movement formed topics other meetings. L wd Last spring, finding that t! “,» A ject of woman suffrage was 0 [ debated in the high schools ©% ¥l State, the league sent literatu :."‘:. every high school principal to be V&° in the debate,