23, 1915 
EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES 
4 ‘This week I eneaid like to sum up 
‘a few facts, in view of the mis-state- 
rents that are still going about. 
aay fe statement persists that ‘“‘a 
arge majority” of women in Mass. 
: opposed to Equal Suffrage. But 
their annual meeting last week the 
ee reported an enroll- 
nent of only 30,000, including men 
iid women, opposed to woman suf- 
sirage, and there are 1,074,485 wo- 
men in Massachusetts, so that about 
one per cent. of the woman are op- 
sed. Is that a large majority? 
And a woman recently said to me 
*that she could not make the Antis 
take her name off of their list, al- 
‘though she is now a_ Suffragist! 
By this method of keeping count, we 
see that a few thousand women in 
_ Mass. are actively opposed to Sui- 
-frage, and yet the men are asked to 
consider these rather than the million 
others. Of course, if only one wo- 
man wanted the ballot, the principle 
of justice would remain the same, 
and she should have it. 
_ The Boston public school teachers, 
nearly 3000 strong, have recently 
come out for Suffrage, through their 
official organ, the News Letter. The 
National and International ‘Teachers’ 
Congress had already endorsed 
Equal Suffrage, and there is no ques- 
tion that of all departments of life, 
none deserve the franchise move 
than the teachers of little citizens,— 
unless it be the mothers of little 
citizens. 
Together with the overwhelming 
testimony as to the tremendous num- 
bers of women voting at recent elec- 
tions in Chicago and in Montana 
(their first elections in the latter 
state) there comes testimony to the 
humanizing effect of women at the 
polls, for the elections were more 
orderly than ever before. The same 
effect in California has been men- 
tioned by Senator Works in a recent 
speech in Rhode Island. 
Cardinal Gibbons has made a 
statement that the Catholic church 
is not opposed to Woman Suffrage. 
The Church, he says, takes no offi- 
cial stand in the matter, but “leaves 
it to the good judgment of her chil- 
dren.” In New York recently the 
Suffragists had a “Catholic Day,” 
when several prominent Catholics 
spoke in favor of Equal Suffrage. 
. A letter is being circulated among 
the people of Massachusetts in the in- 
- terest of the liquor men, which ap- 
_ peals to the voters to reject woman 
suffrage at the referendum next 
= autumin.. Is this the real way to 
- reach the hearts and minds of the 
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at the same prices as the large dealers in the cities. 
men of Mass.? I do not believe it! 
But we shall see next November. 
Ex-Governor John D. Long said— 
in a recent interview—‘‘Let us be 
honest and admit what we all know, 
that the real reason why the right to 
vote is denied to women is that there 
is just trace enough of ancient bar- 
barism lingering in our civilization to 
bar them out. I have no more doubt 
of the ultimate voting of women 
than I have of the progress of the 
human soul.” I can remember Mrs. 
Julia Ward Howe introducing Mr. 
Long, on a public occasion, in these 
words—“Once our Governor, al- 
ways our Gov. Long!” And all Suf- 
Suffragists re-echo these words. Let 
me add in this connection, that Gov. 
Walsh, Samuel McCall and Charles 
Sumner Bird are all for Woman 
Suffrage. 
Dr. Burton, the 
Smith College (the 
college in the world), 
vote por Suffrage in Mass. this fall.” 
Macaulay Trevelyan, the 
English historian who has been in 
Boston recently, said, “English wo- 
men will vote after the war. Women 
President of 
largest women’s 
says—‘I shall 
ns) - 
George 
have proved their worth to the 
state.” 
At this moment, the great Inter- 
national Women’s Peace Congress is 
in session at the Hague. And it is 
presided over by an American wo- 
man,—Miss Jane Addams of Chic- 
ago—which an English Newspaper 
correspondent says is “most fitting.” 
Among the prominent New England 
women taking part in the congress is 
Mrs. Fanny Fern Andrews. 
The Equal Franchise Comm. 
(Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw, chair- 
man, Mrs. H. E. Russell, treasurer), 
will open its new room at 75 State st. 
on Monday, May 3, at 12 o’clock. 
The speakers on this occasion will be 
Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Miss Min- 
nie Mulray, and Hon. Sam. Powers. 
There will be speaking every day at 
the noon hour, and some of the com- 
mittee will be there every day be- 
tween eleven and three o’clock. Men 
and women both are invited to come 
in. 
The annual convention and Cam- 
paign Conference of Mass.  Suf- 
fragists will take place in Boston, at 
585. Boylston st. on May 13, 14 and 
15, ending with an open air meeting 
and band concert on the Common on 
Saturday the 15th. The big banquet 
at the Hotel Somerset will be on 
Thursday the 13th, at 7 o’clock, with 
important speakers. Tickets at 1.50, 
and 50-cent tickets for the gallery, 
may be had of Miss Fanny Osgood, 
221 Beacon st., Boston. 
—L. R. S. 
Come, come, 
there’s 
Friendly Constable 
sir; pull yourself together; 
your wife calling you. 
Festive Gent—What is she eall- 
ing me—Bill or William? 
Constable—William, sir. 
Festive Gent—Then I’m not goin’ 
?ome.—Weekly Telegraph. 
Courtesy is the eye which over- 
looks your friend’s broken gateway, 
but sees the rose which blossoms in 
his garden.—Anon. 
