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1 of his usually for on who the TWELVE PASSAIC DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1915. PAGE PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR SUFFRAGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE WOMEN'S POLITICAL UNION MEN'S LEAGUE FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE the news that President Wilson had declared for suffrage, the Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the NaOn hearing tional Woman Suffrage Association, said: "Nothing can stop us from carrying New Jersey now." WHEN DEATH TOOK THEIR BREAD EARNER, SHE KEPT THE FAMILY TO-GETHER, SHE TAUGHT SCHOOL AND EDUCATED THE CHILDREN 3 BRE KEPT THE CHURCH AND SUNDAYSCHOOL TO- GETHER SHE MURSED A BROTHER THROUGH A SERIOUS ILLNESS HUH' SHE'S ONLY A WOMAN, WHAT DOES SHE KNOW ABOUT LITER WAAT RIGHT HAS SHE GOT TO VOTE? SHE TOOK CARE OF AM INVALID FATHER REFORM AIDED BY WOMAN SUFFRAGE Families Don't Quarrel About Politics, Says Author. KANSAS A DECIDED GAINER.

Declares That It Took Votes For Wom- ONLY A WOMAN ASKS POINTED QUESTION. Suffragist Friend Wants to Know Who Pays Check of Anti- Agent, Feeling that the suffrage women have been "too polite" and that "It is time for the general public to be enlightened as to what are the special interests" working to defeat American women, George H. Goebel in a letter to the Newark News has taken up the cudgels for women. He has offered to meet Mr. Handley on any platform in Newark, to which Mr.

Handley replies, "of course we will debate with Mr. Goebel!" "Mr. Handley by his own admission (which I can verify) is in the position of an 'expert' open to engagements by either side and able to prove either Mr. Goebel continues. "Mr.

Handley now signs himself as publicity committee, Men's Anti-suffrage League of New I wish publicly to ask Mr. Handley. when he changed employers, or is it that the Men's Anti-suffrage League of New Jersey is but a 'paper' organization, created to cover and render less embarrassing the puzzling suffrage activities of James R. Nugent? question is raised in my mind because Mr. Nugent referred to Mr.

Handley as having been employed by him (Nugent) to handle his tight on the women. "So I ask Mr. Handley again, Who is his real employer, who signs the checks, and what is the real game behind it all? I feel that the sutrage women have been too polite in this matter and that it is time for the general public to be enlightened as to are the special interests with a stake 80 great in this suffrage campaign that they have hired agents at $40 a week to induce Italians, Poles and others (80 out of touch with American conditions they do not even understand the language of the country) to vote against American women having the ballot." Suffrage Army Invasion Sweeps Down Upon Jersey, Suffrage must be won in New Jersey, the workers for the cause, who are descending upon the state from every direction, declare. Invaded from the south by the Pennsylvania suffragists, from the north by York women and from the west by voters from Illinois, Kansas, Nevada and other woman voting states, New Jersey is the popular stamping ground of the women of the "cause" now. Pennsylvania suffragists are making an invasion by way of a three tour Burlington.

Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties. The army of invasion consists of Miss Anna McCue, Miss Mary Ingham, Miss Bertha Sapovitz and Mrs. George O. Small. The speakers will be met by local suffragists.

It is hoped that Miss Anne H. Mar. tin of Nevada, who helped to win suf. trage there, may arrive in time to be with the party. The Making of a Suffragist.

Her anti-suffrage convictions were deep and strong. She watched with disdain the marching hosts of women in the suffrage parade. Then presently she found herself back in her hotel. dining room and heard the pleasant. dark skinned waiter suavely saying in comment on the parade as an urgent demand for the vote, "Well, I guess we'll have to let you have It." She blinked, swallowed twice, and, lo, a suffragist was born! Some women are born suffragists; some develop slowly into suffragists; some have suffrage convictions thrust upon them by being made to realize suddenly that a social inferior is a po litical superior by virtue of his AS BERGENT SET Extremists usually find ropes are short Charitable disposition is it is stamped easily on the face of a pol detected.

ROOSEVELT URGES VOTE FOR NEW JERSEY WOMEN Montclair, Oct. Montclair Equal Suffrage League, which is conducting a vigorous campaign, is give ling publicity to a message, received from Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. "I want to speak to the men who have the right to vote and who are recreant in their duty if they don't see that the women share it with says Colonel Roosevelt. ask every decent, self-respecting citizen who has the right to vote to join the movement to secure for women the have suffrage woman now suffrage denied the them. Western tel States, I don't think that the East will permanently lag behind.

'Civilization "Conservative friends tell me that woman's duty is in the home. Certainly, So is man's. The duty of the woman to the home isn't any more than the man's. If the average man has more leisure to think of public matters, than, the average woman has frightful reflection on him. If the average man tells you that the average woman hasn't the time to think of these questions tell him to go home and do his duty." EDISON COMES OUT UNQUALIFIEDLY FOR SUFFRAGE Thomas A.

Edison has come out unqualinedly for the enfranchisement of women. At Glenmont, his beautiful home at West the famous, inventor discussed this much subject with a reporter, and in expressing his views paid a tribute to the the country, "Women represent the better part of the better part of the comanityand Women are more moral than men, they are more honest than men. political influence in the community would be for good," declared Mr. Edison. "I have always been in favor of giving the vote to women," he said.

"It is their right." has not publicly advocated enfranchisement before, however. Asked if he believed the suffrage measure would carry when it comes before the voters of New Jersey on October 19, Mr. Edison smiled and said: "I hope, it will. I do not come in contact with many people outside of my work. All my days are spent in my laboratory, so 1 have no means of knowing what general.

feeling is, but I am told the antis are pretty strong in Jersey. But even if the suffragists fail this year, they are certain to win eventually. "Every woman in this country is to have the vote," Edison predicted. "This is certain," he added. Edison's genial smile gave way to a frown, when the anti-suffrage argument, "that women- would neglect their homes" if they had the vote, was mentioned to him.

he remarked. "You have not heard of suffrage breaking up homes in Colorado, have you? haven't. "When women get the vote I don't with politics," said Edison. do beknow that they will bother, much lieve, however, that when a big issue is at stake, such as voting for war, women will vote and vote right. "Look at the mess men have made of things in I don't believe you could get women.

to vote for Edison reflected. "I believe women get the vote they will go in for social reforms. and they have a big chance there. Women must be kept busy, and this will be a great field for them." DO YOU KNOW? Do you know that the Rev. A.

R. Shelander, minister of the Passaic Unitarian Church, will preach a. sermon on "Equal Suffrage" Sunday morning, October 10? should Do you hear know that all suffragists their presence sermon, appreciation by of this showing this minister's loyalty to the cause? Do you know that Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, President Wilson's son-in-law; Secretary, of War Lindley M. Garrison, of the Interior Lane and Joseph P. Tumulty, Secretary to the President, have all declared themselves in favor of womanhood suffrage? Do you know that Constance Drexel, the Philadelphia heiress, is an active suffragist? Do you she reports the recent Woman Voters' Convention held in California, as the most successful of all the 800 different conventions held since the Exposition opened up? you know that 600,000 women signed the petition to Congress demanding the Susan B.

Anthony amendment (which is being carried across the continent by enthusiastic suffragists in automobiles), be passed? Do you know Mrs. Oliver mont was recently given the entire edition of one of San Francisco's principal newspapers it being called the National Suffrage Belmont edition? Do you know the men and women of our western equal suffrage States are helping the women of Jersey to secure their political freedom? Do you know this is a refutation of the antis' false statement, "that womanhood suffrage is a failure where it exists?" A FAIR EXCHANGE. If you love me Molly darling, Let your answer be a kiss. But she answered, Honey, Charley, I've made up my mind this: If you vote right in October, Then a kiss to you I yow. If you do not, now remember, Get your kisses from W.

H. BENNINGTON. EDISON, HARVEY, HUGHES AND OTHER LEADING MEN REFUTE SENATOR another column, an important statement has been issued in defense of suffrage reply to the anti-suffrage literature which has been sent throughout the State by United States Senator James E. Martine at the cost of Uncle Sam. The group have replied to this pamphlet include Thomas A.

Edison, Colonel George Harvey, editor of the North American Review; Senator William Hughes, Attorney General John W. Wescott, Naval Officer Otto H. Wittpenn and Richard V. Lindabury, counselor. for Company the and the Prudential United Life States InSteel Corporation and one of the best known lawyers of the country.

Included in the group also are Judge Robert Carey of Jersey City, Seymour Cromwell, president of the State Charities Aid and Prison Reform Association; Cornelius J. Ford, well known labor leader; Richard Stevens of Castle Point, Hoboken; Frank H. Sommer, counselor of the Public Utility Commission; Senator Charles O'Connor nessey of Bergen county; Fillmore Condit, president of the Union Oil Company of California, and Judge Thomas A. Davis. It is said that never before has so distinguished a group of publicists, constitutional lawyers, statesmen and politicians signed their names to a statement on woman suffrage.

statement follows: To the Voters of the State of New Jer. sey. On the 19th of October the legally qualified voters of New Jersey will be called upon to vote for or against 8 proposed amendment to the constitution granting the ballot to women. At the request of the four leading suffrage organizations. of the state the undersigned have agreed to set forth what they believe to be the real principles involved in the issue, to recite briefly the controlling factors that lead them to support this change in the organic law and to separate the material from the Immaterial evidence that has been presented during the campaign both by those who favor and those who oppose the adoption of the amendment.

The amendment is submitted under the provisions of article 9 of the constitution, which provides that any specific amendment may be proposed in the general assembly and if approved by a majority of both houses of two consecutive legislatures it shall be submitted to 1 the people at a special election. With these and with all the' other constitutional provisions and requirements the legislature has complied, In 1914 the amendment was adopted in the legislature by a vote of 64 to 8. and in 1915 by a vote of 75 to 4. The question is therefore now before the people and will appear on the, bal: lot at the special election to be held on the 19th of October in the following form: "Shall this amendment, extending the right to vote to women citizens, be adopted?" The Reasons For Support. In answer to the above question it is the intention of the undersigned to vote "Yes," and in the hope that it may be of some assistance to those who have not as yet been able to reach a conclusion as to the merits of the controversy we set forth our reasons for so doing: believe it to be in violation of the principle of democracy that onehalf of the citizens of the state should be deprived of a voice in the government under which they live.

There, are two underlying principles of democracy- one, that no group of men has a moral right to govern any other group of men without its consent unless the group so governed, because of some infirmity, is unable to comprehend the standards of organized 80- ciety; another, that all those who have a stake or hazard in the government organized for their own protection shall have a share in the management of its affairs. These principles are either sound or unsound. If sound, and we believe them so to be, they must apply to women as well as to men, because their stake and hazard in the government is as great, deep and vital as that of men and because no Infirmity, moral, mental or physical, can be shown to support the assumption that women do not comprehend the standards of organized society, Second. We believe it to be unjust that half of the citizens of the state should be deprived of a voice in the government, the burdens of which they are compelled by law to share. We do not refer alone to the injustice of taxing those who have no say as to the method by which the tax shall be 1m- posed, but also to the obvious injustice of a social order that forces women into all the activities of the state In competition with men and then refuses to place them on an equal foot- In addition to the statement in, caned upon to supervise working conditions in factories and the living conditions in tenements.

It is called upon to regulate in some measure the cost of living, to guarantee a pure supply of food and by both constructive and preventive methods to guard the health and morale of the young. While this radical change in the recognized functions of government WAS in progress another movement of equal importance was pressing forward, and that was the gradual emancipation of women from much of the drudgery of the home. When steam came to be utilized for weaving and spinning and when much of the household food came to be prepared in factories millions of wamen were released from some of their immemorial and traditional duties. The effect was twofold. Among the poor it drove the women out of the home into the workshops and factories.

Among the well to do it gave the women more time to participate in elvic affairs and community interests. In both cases It produced a demand for the ballot. The women driven into the wage earning class demanded It as a weapon of self defense. The women released from some portion of their home duties demanded it to secure more power in dealing with those functions of government that had invaded the sphere peculiarly their own- the home and all that affects the home. Readjust Basis of Franchise.

It is the conjunction, then, of these reciprocal 1 tendencies, the tendency of the government. to deal with matters affecting the government, that makes it necessary, both in the interests of justice and the welfare of the state. for us now to readjust the basis for granting the electoral franchise. have examined the arguments and statistics' presented by Senator Martine and others who are opposed to the adoption of the amendment to prove that women do not want the ballot, that they do not rote, when the privilege is granted, that woman suffrage has done no good in states where it has been tried and that it will tend to break up the home, destroy the finer qualities of womanhood and double the ignorant and criminal vote. In answer to these statements we can only, say that in our opinion they are not supported by the facts.

The truth would seem to be that the number of women demanding the ballot In the United States today is greater than the number of men who have ever asked for anything in the history of the country and that in states where women have been given the ballot the women vote in quite the same proportion as men. What 'is more, we And no evidence to prove that it has done harm in any state where It has been tried. On the contrary, we find much conclusive evidence that in many of the equal suffrage states it has resulted in broadening the outlook and vision of the women, in quickening their intelligence, in Increasing their self reliance and in raising the whole tone and standard of political life. Furthermore, the evidence is cumulative that legislation dealing with matters of special Interest to women is secured more promptly in states where women have the ballot than in states where that privilege is denied them, Two Slanders Refuted. The fact that in our churches 75 per cent of the members are women and that in our prisons 75 per cent of the inmates are men would seem to dispose of the that it will double the criminal vote, while the fact-that in our high schools.

two-thirds of the pupils are girls is a complete answer to the charge that it will double the ignorant vote. We do not claim if women are enfranchised in New Jersey that all the beneficent results above mentioned will at once be apparent. The laws of evolution work irresistible momentum and power, but not in haste. We do believe, however, that woman suffrage is the next great forward I reach in the eternal onward march of the human race and that as time goes on the granting of the ballot to women will be justifled in the gradual appear ance of a higher standard of citizenship and a broader and nobler national life. FREDERIC ADAMS, ROBERT CAREY, EVERETT COLBY, FILLMORE CONDIT, SEYMOUR CROMWELL, THOMAS A.

DAVIS, THOMAS A. EDISON, CORNELIUS FORD, J. FRANKLIN FORT, GEORGE HARVEY, CHARLES O'CONNOR HENNESSEY, WILLIAM HUGHES, EUGENE F. KINKEAD, GEORGE M. LA MONTE, RICHARD V.

LINDABURY, THOMAS L. RAYMOND, CHAMPLAIN L. RILEY, FRANK H. SOMMER, RICHARD STEVENS, JOHN W. WEBCOTT, H.

OTTO WITTPENN. Seho Square, London. Soho 18 perhaps the most curiousty derived place name in London. Ac cording to Samuel Pegge, the ADtiquary, Soho square, which has given a name to the district, was first called Monmouth square when the Ill fated Duke of Monmouth had a house there. Upon the duke's defeat and execution In 1685 the square was ordered to be called King's square, and a statue of King Charles -II.

was set up in the middle of it. But the partisans of the Duke of Monmouth, wishing to preserve a distant remembrance of their leader, called it Soho square, from "Soho!" a bunting cry adopted by the duke as his watchword at the battle where he was taken -London Saturday Review NEW JERSEY MEN FAVOR SUFFRAGE Make Remarkable Appeal For Votes For Women. FORM CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Extension of Woman Suffrage ment From One Neighboring State to Another In the West Disproves Alarmist and Reactionary Anticipations of Its Workings. The extension of woman suffrage from one neighboring state to another in the west disproves alarmists. and reactionary anticipations of Its working and shows that equal suffrage is in harmony with American institutions.

The entranchisement of more than 8,500,000 w0- men in the western states renders a continued disenfranchisement of the women of the east increasingly anomalous, unjust and undignifed. Throughout the west representative men bear witness to the benefits derived from equal suffrage, and we are unable to believe that the women of New Jersey are in any way less capable or less praiseworthy. GEORGE M. LA MONTE, Chairman, A remarkable appeal to the voters to vote "Yes" on the suffrage amendment was issued from Newark today by a newly formed committee of forty, comprising leading men from all parts of the state, and, it is said, from all political parties. This appeal, which is issued over the signatures of George M.

LaMonte as chairman, Colonel George Harvey, Attorney General. John W. Wescott, Judge Frederick Adams, U. S. Senator William Hughes, Congressman J.

Thompson Baker others, is remarkable in that it represents the verdict arrived at by these men after a thorough consideration of the arguments pro and con on the suffrage amendment. Their statement was issued after two private meetings and an investigation of certain anti-suffrage statements. On the committee are, in addition to those mentioned, the Hon. Ernest R. Ackerman of Plainfield, Hon.

E. G. C. Bleakeley, counsel of the city of Camden; Judge Robert Carey of Jersey City, Hon. Everett Colby of Orange, Judge James C.

Connolly, Seymour Cromwell, John Cotton Dana, Judge Abe J. David, Hon. Cornelius J. Ford, ex-Governor J. Franklin Fort, Hon.

William C. Gebhardt, Emerson P. Harris, Sheriff Eugene F. Kinkead, Hon. Victor Mravlag, mayor of Elizabeth; Hon.

George W. V. Moy, James E. Pope, Mayor Thomas L. Raymond of Newark, Linton Satterthwaite, Hon.

William L. Saunders, Oberlin Smith of Bridgeton and David H. Standish. The statement issued by this committee, of which Champlain L. Riley of Plainfield is secretary and Fillmore Condit of Essex Fells, treasurer, reads as follows: "As American citizens we believe that popular government is the best.

means of insuring the welfare and happiness of the citizens of this country. The possession of the power of representation by different' classes in the community tends to secure justice for all, and since we agree that women are people we believe that they are entitled to representation equally with men. "Women as mothers of the race, women as taxpayers, women as subject to the law, are most closely concerned with all problems of government, ques. tions of peace and war, the cost of living and the care of the rising generation. "The extension of woman suffrage from one neighboring state to another in the west disproves alarmist and reactionary anticipations of its working and shows that equal suffrage is in harmony with American institutions.

The enfranchisement of more than 3,500,000 women in the western states renders the continued disfranchisement of the women of the east increasingly anomalous, unjust and undignifled. Throughout the west representative men bear witness to the benefits derived from equal suffrage, and we are unable to believe that the women of New Jersey are in any way less capable or less praiseworthy. "The evidence from the states in which women have voted goes to prove that with the possession of the ballot women are more fairly treated under the law, the working woman is better protected and social and moral 1m- provement is accelerated. "We believe that the men of New Jersey are prepared to show their belet in their women as fully as the men of the western states have been, and we appeal to our fellow voters to express this confidence by voting In the affirmative on Oct. 19.

"It 18 no longer dented that wome suffrage will shortly be established throughout the United States, and as New Jersey men we are anxious that our state should be the first in the east to raise the political status of its women." Banking Commissioner LaMonte. when seen today, said that the committee was a campaign organization formed by the New Jersey Men's League For Woman Suffrage. The committee, he said, was prepared to make substantial contributions to the closing phases of the campaign, but was not yet prepared to divulge its plans. Look out for the feller stantly harps on tainly will bear watching, purity. of it.

a When men wait somet to happen they ham and tiresome want. There one way to do and that small and prove word is your ways room at the top of the Not all are born to be fortunate lesser and some must tea occupy positions than It is a mighty lucky thing are not all equal in this would create a TEA be condition body would want to subsen the other, and it would be en with everybody being Weal nobody ready to do work at capital needs labor, so need the glad hand at least, of To be pleasant pleases the bor doesn't cost the top notcher game of life one cent. A girl can make herself other ways. besides proving tango queen in a moder: pavilion. Another case of speaking louder than words.

There can be no objections cut boxing bouts, but prize must not be "pulled Rutherford. It is right up tot administration. When an organization, three officers, reaches the plane of that other people, non-memben no right to live in the same ton time has come for the public draw patronage from such a da it never fails to happen. Ball on the part of men holding who cannot stand prosperity. Fault finders will please steal up, toe the mark, and tell the to the face of the fellow about they are finding fault.

Tale knife right out of your sleen swing it in the open or place name on the honor roll of the ardice specialists. No question now about: a reall esting battle on election Rutherford over the berth oft the lectorship. Legal advice says that the ford Board of Health will ha take care of the chickens. Inst a George Thomas, what do you about Rutherford chickens? Is there any chance of getting new East Rutherford school Christmas present? Not your What confronts Union Townsh a sewer system. Think it over 1 ites.

Ever notice how the youth quitting school knows it Natural, we were all that way. to Obtain Mothers' Pensions, Minimum Wages For Women and Tax Exemption to Widowed Mother or Single Woman. William Allen White, editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, author of "A Certain Rich Man," vice president of the American Short Ballot association and member of the Progressive national committee of 1912, states in a letter to C. P. Connolly of Orange that it took woman suffrage to secure pensions, minimum wage law for women and a law giving the right of tax exemption as the of a house to the widowed mother or a single woman.

three years, during which women have had full suffrage in this state," Mr. White states, "every 1m- portant demand the women asked for and had been refused as unentranchised voters has been granted to the franchised women. "The women of Kansas have had suftrage for thirty years in the towns and cities upon all municipal matters, in the election of town and city officers and upon bond issues, franchises and all matters that come before cities of any class, My wife and mother have been voters during that time, and 1 have lived in the state practically all of those years. I have observed woman suffrage from every angle. "The danger of wrecking a home is not from without, but from within.

When the marriage of a man and a woman ceases to be a partnership and becomes a vassalage that marriage is failure even without divorce. The extension of suffrage to women in Kansas has brought women up to a consideration in public affairs that has made them intelligent partners, given them a wider vision and, I feel quite sure, has made them more desirable companions for their husbands, more intelligent mothers for their children and wiser keepers of their homes than they conid have been in a more restricted life. "It is not true that men and women in the home vote alike. I know of half dozen elections in recent years in which either my wife or my mother and sometimes, both my mother and my wife have voted quite differently from me. I know that I respect my wife and mother when they differ from me quite as much as when they agree with me.

We do not quarrel over polltics any more than we quarrel over our taste in books or our choice in fur niture. I have never heard of a serious political quarrel in any family, yet have known scores and hundreds of women In different campaigns who have disagreed with their husbands and have voted their disagreements frankly." How Strange. There are no homes in suffrage states, No children, happy, wise and good. Men there no longer seek for mates, And women lose their womanhood. credit this without debate, And yet I ask, and ask in vain, Why no one in a suffrage state Has moved to change things back agal -Alice D.

Miller: The man who never did can wrong has no license to live ant BERGENI TEST CASE ON INDIAN OIL LAI Washington, Oct. poned hearing in the case of Reynolds, a Creek Indian, a mandamus against Secretary of the Interior Department, to pel the Secretary to approve a of oil land in Oklahoma, is to-day in the Supreme Court: District of Columbia. The landholder seeks to break the In Department's regulation proms the leasing of Indian lands person holding more than 4,5001 Reynolds claims that the leased be allowed, because of its bend him. The party seeking the la already interested in the 4,800 allowed by the department. Governor Haskell, of Oklahor the chief counsel for the Indian the case is considered a test ca secure legal decision on the ment's efforts to prevent future nopoly on the Indian oil lands.

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