'Equal Franchise Bulletin," Vol. 1, No. 4

Equal Franchise Bulletin’

OFFICIAL ORGAN WOMAN'S TAXPAYER’S LEAGUE











Volume | COLUMBUS, OHIO, August Ist, 1912 Number 4
SOUVENIR NUMBER)



Mrs. Belva Ann Lockwood, LL. D., of Washington, D. C.
Will Speak at Olentangy Park, Aug. 2, 1912
Woman's Suffrage Rally and Picnic

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COLUMBUS, OHIO, August Ist, 1912

Nuniber 4



ON THINKING AND BEING WOMANLY.

June Purcell Guild, Attorney-at-Law,
Ex-Member-at-Large Board of Education.

Since the beginning the troubles of the
world have been due in a large measure to
brain stagnation.’ Human beings can think;
most of them do not. Fortunately, there are
in every generation, however, a few who do
use the brain bestowed on them and evolve
some new ideas for the rest of the world.

These new ideas generally create consterna-
tion. In time they are accepted with tolera-
tion and at least with apathy. An idea is
crowded from one class to another because
new ideas come from the brains of the think-
ers and slowly push the old ideas out. Fre-
quently a new idea is radical as compared
to the old merely because it is strange and un-
known. The idea that seemed extreme and
wild yesterday is quietly accepted today.

Doubtless the first time a man in a pre-
historic day with club in hand asserted a nat-

ural right which he forced a brawny chief to >

respect, there were hundreds of our undressed
ancestors who roared “Anarchy!” The gen-
tlemen who bellowed the loudest possibly
came at last to agree with the first agitator,
‘and perhaps even went a little farther in his
demands. The world has never accepted a
new idea or grasped at a shadowy ideal when
most of the crowd with bated breath did not
whisper, “Horrors! the good book doesn’t say
a word about that”; or, “Anarchy, the world
is going straight to the barking puppies!”
You may laugh and say, “Quite true our
forefathers were a funny bunch; they accepted
the diabolical locomotion with caution and
prayers; they looked askance on females who
knew aught besides ballad singing, embroider-
ing and taffy-making; they swore eternal
hatred on those who maintained the earth was
round, but those ‘good old days’ are past.”

Are they, really,
there is woman suffrage, for

gentle reasoner? Now,
instance—cer-



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A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR

Mrs. Belva-A. Lockwood, LL. D., will speak

‘at Olentangy Park August 2, 1912, at a woman
‘suffrage rally under the auspices of the Ohio

Woman’s Taxpayers’ League.

“Some women sigh when they are not given
privileges. which men have. Not so with Mrs.
Belva Ann Lockwood, the Washington law-
yer, 82 years old, who is coming to Columbus
August 2 to speak in behalf of woman suf-

frage. Back in 1873 Mrs. Lockwood was ad-

mitted to practice before the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia.

Then she tried
to practice before the Federal Supreme Court,
but her petition was denied because she was
a woman,

She then drafted a “pill for Congress allow-
ing women to practice, got some one to intro-
duce it, did a lot of lobbying, and when the bill

passed in February, 1879, she was the first wo-

man admitted under it.

Twice Ran for President.

Born in 1830, she now works regularly, as if

she were in the midsummer of her life.

For years Mrs. Lockwood has been one of
the foremost women in professional life in the
country. She has run for the office of President
of the United States twice. Being defeated
both times places her in the same class as
Henry Clay and William Jennings Bryan. In
1884 the Equal Rights party was formed and
named her to lead the ticket. Woman suffrage
was the issue. It was new to most people and
was regarded as freakish. Mrs. Lotkwood, its
nominee, received much attention and regard
from the country, however. Again in 1888 the
party put her forward as a candidate for the
White House.

“Certainly woman’s place is in the home,”
says Mrs. Lockwood. ‘Not every woman can
be there. however, and she shouldn’t be re-
buffed if she goes into other fields.”

Was Widow at 23.
At the age of 18 she married, but was left



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2 Equal Franchise Bulletin



AN APPEAL FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE.

Who today would argue for a moment the
question of traveling anywhere by the horse
and carriage method of conveyance, as com-

pared with the more comfortable, convenient —

and speedy automobile? The horse and car-
riage were at one time all we required, but
that day has passed away. Once the men at-
tended to the voting for women, but then we
were not really awake to all of woman’s du-
ties,

At one time the doors of the colleges of
our country were open only to young men.
The male of the species was supposed to be
intellectually superior to the female, women
were not admitted to the learned professions.
It was believed that the chief aim of woman
‘was to rock the cradle, but duties and con-
ditions along these lines have been changed
by the march of progress. Invention and
enlightened thought have moved us from old
ways and planted our feet on higher ground,
so that today the horse and carriage have
been supplanted by the automobile, the wash-
board by machinery, the old hand printing
press by the steam press, the old stage coach
has yielded to the locomotive, and the old
sailing vessel is left behind by the grayhound
of the ocean. Now we talk with our friends
in far-away homes by means of the telephone.
We have discovered that the female intellect
is capable of as high a degree of polish as
that of the male. Our college doors, and
those of the learned professions, are now
open to woman, and she has demonstrated
that she is worthy of the opportunity thus
afforded her, for we find her occupying her
place in the courts, and in the legislative de-
partment of some of our States. She has
entered the learned professions, and distin-

guished herself therein. We have at last.

learned that the care of the home, the nurture
and training of our children constitute but a
very small part of woman’s duty, and that
woman is capable of filling many of the use-
ful callings of life. Woman’s usefulness is
broadened and her helpfulness made much
greater than it ever was before. The high-
ways of commercial life are being traveled

by woman as well as by man. The youth of |

our land is very largely dependent on woman
for their intellectual training. Today women
are moving side by side with men in the on-
ward march of progress and civilization. Ex-

perience and observation have taught us that
woman is fully capable of keeping pace with
man in all things that conspire to make the
world wiser and better. We cannot fail to
be impressed with the fact that elevating
moral influence of woman is being felt, and
that in material and moral advancement she
is doing her full share to better conditions,

and to make this old world a better place to

live in. But one avenue alone remains par-
tially closed to woman, that of taking part
in the selection of those who are to occupy
public official station. Why should this be
so? Some of the older countries have granted

to womankind the natural right to take part

in the affairs of government. Sweden, Nor-
way, France, and even China, have recognized
the right of woman to share in the responsi-
bilities of government, and in the selection
of those who shall occupy official station.
Why should our country, the boasted “land of
the free and the home of the brave,’ longer
deny to woman her place in this field? The
great luminary of day rises in the East, but
strange to say the luminary of the recognition
of equal suffrage to the woman ‘of America
has risen in the West, and we now behold
six of the Western States of this Union grant-
ing to women the inalienable right of suffrage.
The star of woman’s right eastward takes its
course, and is moving steadily in the direction
of our eastern border. Ohio, great in her
material, moral and intellectual worth, is
about to decide this great question. Our
State has always been our pride, her sons have
been and are brave and just, and to them the
daughters of Ohio appeal for an equal oppor-
tunity in the labor of making our common-
wealth still greater,, not only in material
wealth, but also in that richer, more lasting

and better wealth of purity, morality and good ~

citizenship. : ;

Good government is a thing to be desired
by women as much as by men. The pres-
ervation of this Union is equally as impor-

tant to the women of our land as to the men

of our country. Life and liberty are equally
dear to both sexes. The home is as sacred
and as dear to the mother as to the father,
and who can believe that the mothers of Ohio
would not guard the homes of our State with
as much care as would the fathers of our

State? That which will bring the greatest

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

I have heard that there comes a period of
ripeness in the life of every individuai, church
or state, when a great choice is presented,
a great blessing offered and a great future un-
folded. If the choice is wisely made the re-

cipients of the blessing enter into all the greai-

ness of the future. Ji the choice 1s rejected

and the opportunity allowed to pass unim-
proved the epoch instead of being. one
of growth becomes one oi decay. Ohio is
facing just such a crisis. The choice is pre-
sented her of extending the franchise to all

of her adult citizens without distinction of

sex. Never before has this opportunity been —

given her male voters, that of determining by
their ballots at an especial election whether
or not they will extend women the same priv-
ileges of citizenship that they have so long
enjoyed. ‘

Little more than tuirty days remains for
agitation and for argument upon this—the
most vital proposition of the many that are
to be ratified or rejected at the polls on the
third day of September. |
The poet has said:
“Yet I doubt not through the ages,

One increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widened

With the. process of the suns.”

Just how “wide” the thoughts of the ma-

jority of Ohio men have already become upon

the question of civi! liberty will be shown
by the vote upon the Equal Suffrage Amend-
ment. Whether the “process of suns” has al-
ready been sufficient to extricate the shadows
of the preconceived prejudic2s of men or not
will be manifested at the close of this special
election. : } ;

‘No Anti-Suffragist can deny that God create
ed man and woman equal, gave them the same
privileges and set them at the same work—
that of multiplying and replenishing the earth
and subduing it—not that of subduing each
other.

ing, “burden of the government bearing”,

The Charter of our Liberties—so concecrat-
ed by our fathers blood and by our mothers
toil and tears—speaks forth as vlainly as do
the pages of Holy Writ the undying principles
of Equal Rights. “Atl persons born in the
United States and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof are citizens of the United States and

of the State wherein they reside. No State

shall make or enforce any 'aw which shall
abridge the privileges or iinmiunities of citizens
of the United States.” Again, “The citizens .
right to vote shall not be ‘lenied or ahiieed
on, account of race, color or previous condi-
tion of servitude.” Our fathers also denvunc-
ed the system of “Taxation, without Repre-
sentation” as tyranical, and we believe it is
as much of a truth today as when they fought
the battle with the Mother Country.
Among the self evident truths set forth in
the Declaration of Independence is the in-al-
ienable right of all mankind to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. No anti-suf-~
fragist would deny chat these rights inhere in
woman equal with man, and if so there in-
heres in her also the right to the political
power to defend and develope them. But you
say the household is a unit of the State! lf
that were true the father should cast the bal-

lot for his grown up sons as wel! as for his

grown up daughters. If that were true a wid-

ow should cast the vote for herself and child-

ren, and a bachelor should cast no vote at .

all! No; “one citizen, one vote, is the prin-
ciple of democracy.” | :
I am a law abiding, tax paying, liberty lov-

——

home making citizen, interested in the con-

servation of not only our materia! and natural

resources, but in ail that gives to uplift and

: purify and redeem the children of men. By

what right therefore do you deny me a voice

in the Government?

VIOLA DOUDNA ROMANS.










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Equal Franchise Bulletin

Issued in the interest of Equal Franchise in Ohio.





H. ANNA QUINBY
MRS. IVOR HUGHES

EDITOR - -
_ Business MANAGER .





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EDITORIAL,

It has taken Ohio over 100 years to come
to the place where she is willing to consider
the advisability of giving the women the bal-
lot. At last woman cuttrase has gotten past
the jeering stage, and since Washington and
California have given their women the ballot
woman suffrage has become very popular, not
only in Ohio, but all over the country. We
feel confident that Ohio will pass the amend-

ment by a large majority.

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The Anti-Suffragists must be getting pretty

hard up for arguments against woman suffrage

when their State leader claims she does not.

know that we have a general assembly anc a
nine-hour law bi women. We might over-
look her ignorance dAhout the nine-hour law,
but the idea of claiming that all women of
Ohio are too ignorant to vote because she

does not know that we have a general assem-

MRS. H. D VAN KIRK

bly is going a little too far. We are won-._

dering if Mrs. Hubbard will discover the City
Council before the campaign closes.

The newspaper reporters accused Professor
George Knight of making arrangements for
the Antis to seine before the Constitutional

Convention, but the Professor claims that he

only told them about it. If the Professor had

just attended to fixing up a good constitution

for us and nothing else the chances are that the

~ Constitutional Convention would have ad-

journed before the Anti-Suffragists would
have learned about it. However, the Profes-
sor got the news to ois in the nick of time
for. them to make a hasty appearance, but too
late to have very much effect, as the Com-
mittee on Equal Suffrage voted immediately
after the hearing 16 to 1 to submit the ques-

tion to the voters.



In 1828 a club of young men wanted to de-
bate the railroad question in’ the public school
house at Lancaster, Ohio. The Board of Ed-
ucation made the following reply to the re-
quest of the young men: “You are cheerfully
welcome to the use of the school house to de-
bate all proper questions: in, but such things
as railroads are impossibilities, There is noth-
ing in the word of God about them. If God
had designed that His intelligent creatures
should travel af the frightful speed of fifteen
miles an hour by steam, He would clearly —

have foretold it through His holy prophets. It

—is'the device of Satan to lead immortal souls

to hell.’ There are some people today who
say that women should not vote because the
laws of St. Paul’s time declared that women

should keep “silent” in church.

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Application for Membership in the Woman’s
| | Taxpayers’ League.

1; the undersigned, recognizing the fact that

women are taxed without a voice in the ex-
penditure of the money; that women are held
responsible for the cleanliness of their homes,
of the wholesomeness of food, and for the
health and morals of their children, while they

. are not permitted to select the people who are

really, responsible for unwholesome food, bad af

plumbing, danger of fire, unsanitary conditions
of buildings, spread of tuberculosis and other
dangerous diseases, and the immoral influence
of the street; that women are disfranchised,
while paupers, pardoned criminals and imbe-
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the expenditure of money raised by taxes, and
in making of the laws governing the health,
morals and general welfare of the people, here- |

by apply for admission to said league.

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Taxpayers’ League.

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all elections? If so, please help us in our
campaign by sending in a contribution. We
need $1,000 at once to finish up the work
which we have begun. We have no dues-pay-

ing members and therefore must depend en-

tirely upon contributions to carry on our cam-
paign. Any ‘sum will be gratefully received.
Those wishing to contribute please sign blank.
The Woman’s Taxpayers’ League, Room 207,
Union National Bank Building, Columbus,

: Ohio:
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6 Equal Franchise Bulletin

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HOW WOMAN SUFFRAGE WORKS
IN COLORADO

Lou R. Johnston, Mayor of Boulder — It gives me
pleasure to bear testimony to the wholesome influence
which woman’s suffrage lends to our politics. In state,
county or city elections women are as keenly alive to
the situation as men and even more so at times. Cor-
Tuption is almost unknown and booths are located in
unobjectionable places. Men and women cast their
votes in the most decorious manner and depart about
their business. To bribe a woman isa task. You
will find them true to their ideas of right. Bad wom-
en are no menace to good government. I recommend
woman suffrage. She is better qualified to vote than
a man who has just arrived in this country or one who
has no moral sense of the responsibilities of American
- citizenship. }



SYMPOSIUM: WHY I BELIEVE IN
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

As a woman,—therefore a citizen,-—- as a
property owner,—therefore a_tax-payer,—?
claim the right to full suffrage. Subject to
all the pains and penalties of the law, social
justice demands that I be admitted to all its
rights and privileges. |

MRS.,MARY E. HARRISON,
Napoleon, Ohio.

I believe women should vote because they
are women, and have had a great part in
this civilization of the world. |

They should have a voice in choosing those
by whom they are governed, aS a means ni
self protection due to everyone. The ballot
is as imperatively necessary to woinen as men.
It is contrary to the principles of fair dealings
to deny women the right to vote. The
country needs the influence of the “Mothers

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vote.” 7,000,000 working women in this count-
ry are that many reasons for enfranchise-

ment.
MRS. MARY :TiPTON,

Logan, Ohio,
&>

I believe that women shouid have a just
and equal right with men ts help make ow

laws and decide who shall enforce these laws,
as women are equally taxed with men and
therefore deserve representation as well as
taxation
MRS. GEO. C. HENGST,
Logan, Ohio.

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36 Baseball (Neil Park)—AIl cars northbound

on High marked “Baseball,” and Wester-.

ville cars, north.

23 Carnegie Library—*Oak St. cars, east,.

3 Chamber of Commerce—E. Broad St. Opp.
State House.

52 Children’s Hospital—*Oak mt. cars, seast.

13 Chittenden Hotel—Any car south on High

'',° St. passing the Union ‘Station,

2 City Hall—State St. opposite State House.
*QOak St. cars east

10 City Prison—West Town and Scioto Sts.
+Parsons Ave. and Steelton cars, south.

8 Columbus Club—Corner E. Broad and 4th
tsi’

26 Columbus, Delaware & Marion Electric
Railway Station—No. 100 W.. Gay Dt, 3
minutes’ walk from High.

36 Columbus, New Albany & Johnstown Elec-
tric Railway Station—Cor. Long and Third
Sts. tLong and +Mt. Vernon Ave,’ cars,
east,

9 Colonial Thinter-.\W est Bcpad Ot.; dale Sa:

., from High... Any car on, High ‘St.

43 Convent of Good Shepherd—;W. Broad St.
and Cemetery cars, west.

11 Court House—*Hich, Schiller, Livingston,
+Long or +Parsons Ave. cars, south.

11 County Jail—*Hicgh, Schiller, Livingston,
+Long or tParsons Ave. cars, south.

50 Driving Park—*Livingston Ave. cars east
or any car marked “Driving Park” during
attractions there.

14 Davidson Hotel—Any cars on High passing
the Union Station. |

- 21 Elks’ Lodge and Club: Room—*Main Street
cars, east.

57 Franklin County Children’s ie al
St. cars, Mt. Vernon Ave, cars, east, or
Columbus, New Albany & Johnstown Trac-

d tion ' line,

53 Franklin Park—tLong St. or *Oak St. cars,
east.

38 Goodale Park—One square west of High

on Goodale. *Neil Ave. cars.

49 Green Lawn Cemetery — Cars
Broad St. marked “Cemetery”
Chase cars, west. |

6 Grand Opera House—East State St., opp.
State House. *Oak St. cars, east.

40 Grant Hospital—Near State St. and Grant
Aven ak Oak) St cars. eged,

7 Hartman Theater—Corner State and Third
rots. (Oak St. Cars, east,

18 Hartman Hotel—Cor. Main and Fourth Sts.
*Main St. cars. éast,

18 High Street Theater—Any car south on
High, north, passing Union Station.
54 Home for ‘the Aged—j+Long St. cars, east.
60 Indianola Park—*Fourth St. cars, north, or

Pournimit, Bt. cars, snort: fis

48 Institution for Feeble- Minded — Broad St.

_ cars west, marked “W. Broad.”

30 Institution for the Blind—*Main St. cars,
east,

or Camp

29 Institution for the Deaf and Dumb—*Oak

St; cars, east.

17 Kaiserhof Hotel—W. Gay St.,

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Lawrence Hospital—E. Town St.,
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Masonic Temple—Fourth Sti,
from Broad St.

Memorial Hall—*Oak St. cars ak to Fifth
St. Hall two squares north. | |
Mt. Calvary Cemetery— Broad St. cars
west, marked “‘Cemeteries.”

Mt. Carmel Hospital—W. State and Davis

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west.

5 Neil House—Opposite State Flouse. 3
61 Olentangy Park—*High & Schiller St. cars
north, marked “Olentangy Park.” ?
24 Interurban Terminal Bldg., Ohio Electric
Railway—One square east from High on
Rich and Third.. Any. car on High St. or
cars marked “Steelton.”

12 Ohio Penitentiary—West Spring St., five”

minutes’ walk from High.
59 Ohio State University—*High St.,
St. cars north, or Neil Ave.

Schiller

32 Postoffice and Custom House —jLeonard
Ave. cars, east.

32 Postoffice and Custom House—Oak. St,
39 Protestant Hospital—On N. Park St. near
Buttles Ave., one square west of High.

41 Public School Library—E. Town St., one-
half square from High. |
56 St. Anthony’s Hospital— Taylor Ave. and

Manni Sts. ~tlLong St. cars,-east. |

25 Scioto Valley Traction Station—Corner E.
Rich and Third Sts. }fSteelton cars or any
car on High to Rich, walk one square east.

46 Schiller Park—*High St. cars, south.

31 Southern Hotel — *High, Schiller, Living-
ston, Main or tLong St. cars, south. :

31 Southern Theater—* High, Schiller, Living-
ston, Main or tLong St. cars, south,

40 St. Francis Hospital—State St. near Grant
Ave. FOak. St... cars, east.

58 State Fair Grounds — *Fourth St. cars,
north. At. Fair time all cars marked “Fat
Grounds.”

47 State Hospital for Insane—Broad St. cars
marked “West Broad.”

39 Starling-Ohio Medical College—N. Park ‘Sk
near Buttles Ave.

1 State House—Any car on High St. passing
the Union Station.

62 Steel Plant, Steelton—*High St. cars south.

51 St. Vincent’s Orphans’ Asylum—*Main St.
cars, east.

27 Toledo & Ohio Central Ry. Station—Any
‘car west on Broad St.

15 Union Station—Cars on all lines marked
“Union Station.” \

39 U. C. T. National Headquarters—Park and
Russell Sts. .Any.car northon High) ,

$4 Uc, T. Hall—Goodale St. near High. Any
car on High St. north, passing Union Sta-
tion.

37 U.S. Barracks—jyLeonard Ave. cars, east.

17 Virginia Hotel—Gay and Third Sts., one sq.
east of High.

4 Y. M. C. A.—Third St., opp. State House.

Mile circles radiate from the State House,
No: 1 )
*Cars pass Union Railway Station.
+Cars do not pass the Union Railway Sta- -
tion. |

HALLS AND THEATERS WITH SEAT-
ING CAPACITIES.

Franklin County Memorial Watoos ok. 6000
CM FRA, Oe eee Ga dls oc ele cuenta 4000
ORS Coats Ga Ae aban
eae On! ee ir ae 2000
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Peivemian Thester oe oe eas . 2000
Kenn se ol heater aye. 4 Le wee albes whats 2 000
Grand Opera House...... SE yg RE Woo vie 1500
Prt cireet: PNOAtOR.. ol oee ok. lak 1700
Gonna! T hemtere oo! Va | (eu ae ke 1800
OER © PERRO Fi tata Whos ee, Glee te 1000
Soutmerie TH Otee Palle. et, oe ai yea +, 1000
Chittenden Hotel Auditorium:.....5....% 1000
AS AL Me alee Te ask. oa: 1000

And many others of smaller japan lay in the
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io ** Equal Suffrage Bulletin



Symposium: Why I Believe in |
Woman Suffrage

Contiuned from Page 7



ests of themselves, their children, their homes
and society, ;
Third. Because nearly all our civic leagues

are manned by women. They are doing the ©

work left undone by men. They are devoting
more time to civic and social problems than
men. ="Inivfact ithe platforms drawn up by
the National Federation of Womens Clubs
are twenty years ahead of: anything ever pro-
posed by the great political parties.” so says
Professor Zueblin of Chicags University. Fi-
nally the demand for the ballot is basec upon
simple justice. The ballot is not bestowed
as a record of merit hut as an evidence of
citizenship. :
MRS. OO: Ke CHATFIELD,

Sharon Centre, Ohio.

Why I Believe in Equal Suffrage.

I believe in equai suffrage—because we as
women honestly and conscientiously feel the
cause is of fundamental and vital importance
to all women of our Nation.

Because we want the best laws possible
for the protection of our homes and surround-
ings, that our sons and daughters may be
saved from the present evils around about our
homes, and that the liquor traffic may be ban-
ished. Justice brought to the weak, and a
higher standard of Purity set a casting out
of evil and an enthroning of Righteousness. |

MRS. JAS. M. GUTHRIE,
Logan, Ohio.

All people should take part in government.
Women are people. Mankind are and of a
right ought to be free and equal, entitled to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All
human beings are entitled to protection be-
fore the law. No man is good enough to

govern another without that other man’s con-

oo

sent; taxation without representation is tyr-

anny. Our governmen: is founded upon the

_ doctrine of equal rights to all and special priv-

ileges to none. If we believe in the principles
proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence
we cannot admit that any class has a right
to the usurpation of these powers, or that
these principles of right can justly be denied
to any intelligent human being on account of
sex; :
Yours for the good of the cause,
CYNTHIA GREINER,
Washington C. H., O.

I Want to Vote,

Because I must obey the laws just as imen

do, therefore should have a say in them.

Because I pay taxes and support the govern-
ment.
Because'I want better laws for children and
women generally. e
Because I am a busy housekeeper and can-
not give much public service and can only
serve the State by the same means used by
the busy men; namely, by casting a ballot.
Because I am a citizen of this government
which gives the right of the ballot to its
people and women are people.
| MRS. J. Wo OAWILL IS: .
Washington, C. H. Chio.

| 7
I am an equal suffragist because women |

are intelligent and sentient human beings and
@

suffer as much or more from misgovernment

than men; because there is absolutely no rea-

son why they should not have a voice in mak-

ing the laws they must obey and the candi-
dates under which they must live: because
a disfranchised class is always at a disadvant-
age; and finally, hecause the development of
woman’s mind and soul should not be cramped
by artificial, burdensome or senseless restric-
tions.
MES). L. Man LE ZOLEE,
Athens, Ohio.







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_An Appeal for Equal Suffrage

(Continued from Page 2)



happiness, the highest Aare of comfort, to
the one sex will to the same extent and in
the same way best promote the happiness,
comfort and convenience of the other SeX,
so that by placing woman on an equality with
man politically she will be afforded the Op-
portunity of aiding him in the development
of a higher moral standard in the government
of our State and Nation. The women of Ohio
are not asking for equal suffrage as a favor,
they are seeking it as a right, not selfishly for
their own exclusive benefit, but for the good
bt. Alt, :
_ The women of Ohio desire to aid in the
making of our State. better and more glorious,
by helping to strengthen and purify our
homes, at which lies the very foundation of
good government. ae
It must be admitted that without good, pure
people it is impossible to have a good, pure
government. The building of a nation c:m-

mences at the cradle, and there is much force .

in the saying that “The hand that rocks the
cradle is the hand that rules the world.” We
therefore ask the men of Ohio to give to this
all-important question the consideration which
it deserves. We are trusting that the sons
of Ohio will grant to their wives, mothers, sis-
ters and daughters equal suffrage at the elec-
tion to be held on the 3rd of September next.
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HOW WOMAN SUFFRAGE WORKS
i INADAHOS
By James H. Brady.

The giving of the ballot to the most intelli-
gent class of our citizenship has resulted in
much good, and has naturally tended to purify
politics toa great extent; resulted in many ex-
cellent statutes that would not have been en-
acted into law if it had not been for the
hearty support of our women, and the placing
in office of men of a higher standard than
prior to the enfranchisement of women.

In our State many of the county offices are
held by women, and they have served not only
with credit to themselves but to the whole
State as well. The State Superintendents of
Public Instruction for years have been chosen
from the ranks of our womanhood, and Idaho
ranks well with all of the States of the Union
as to her educational advantages.

On election day it is almost necessary to
secure a guide in order to locate a voting pre-
cinct, as there no longer exists a disturbance
‘around them, while prior to the ballot being
given to our women it was almost necessary
ve have the protection of a peace officer in or-
der to exercise the right of suffrage.

No good reason can be advanced why equal
suffrage should be denied the women of our
nation, and should be made in the six States that have
already accepted the equal rights of sexes it
-would be found that all of these States realize
that it was a step in the right direction when
they granted the womanhood of their States
the right of the ballot.



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Who will rock the baby?
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13



A WORD FROM COLORADO +

Robert W. Speer, Mayor of Denver. — Woman
Suffrage has been an important factor for morality
and better government in this state. Besides it does
away with the cparice of taxation without represen-

tation.

E. E. Nichols, Manitou.u—Women vote in consid-
erable numbers and have been the means of purifying
our politics. Majority are in favor of law and order,

and a large majority act and vote intelligently.



LIFTING UP FALLEN MAN.

In ages past the muses sung
And poets used the pen

For O! the need was pressing great |
To lift up fallen man.

They say that this is woman’s task |
And further that she can;

So let us enter on the work
And lift up fallen man,

Untrampled freedom we must have
If rightly life I scan,

We must hove perfect liberty
To/ litt up fallen man. ,

Freedom of thralldom ne’er was born
T’was never in God’s plan?

And we from bondage must be free
To lift up ‘fallen man.

The stream must be exceeding pure
As pure as ever ran

We'll clean our bodies, minds and souls
And thus raise fallen man.

There dare not be one lustful thought
For Virtue leads our van
AG Holy Love is on the way
To lift up fallen man.
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14 Equal Franchise Bulletin



On Thinking and Being Womanly

(Continued from Page 1)



tainly I was coming to that all the time—
- nine out of ten refuse to think about that sub-

ject. They will “feel” about it, oh, yes, and
shiver dreadful shivers and say, “Women must
be womanly. They must bear us many chil-
dren. They must darn our socks and make
us pies and scrub our floors. They must keep
our homes clean and healthful. And all the
time they themselves must be kind and sweet
and good to look on, but they must never
vote!” Nine out of ten can “feel” a dozen con-
flicting sentiments why a woman must not
vote, but not one in a million can ever think
a single sane, logical reason why she must
not. A few people over fifty years ago did
think about this subject and decided a woman
should no longer be legally classed with the
infants, idiots and criminals, and be disfran-

chised. Thus Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady.

Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and other. noble

women started a new idea. As ever, people

held up their hands and asked if these per-
sons would take a woman from her sacred ped-
estal and away from her womanly washtub!

Well, that was a lifetime ago and people are
still crying the same nonsense, but fainter
and fainter. The subject of woman suffrage is
slowly passing from the consternation class
into the toleration class. But there is still
some thinking to be done.

We are still ruled by our sentiments more
than our reasons. Because the unthinking have
said the sentiments of ages are against women
voting we blindly refuse to accept the thought
of progress. We continue to hold a woman
responsible for the welfare of her home with-
out giving her the best known weapon—the
ballot—with which to protect it; we continue
to expect a woman to provide pure and whoie-
some food for her children without permit-
.ting her a voice in the enacting of pure food
and inspection laws; we continue to cry about
race suicide when 7,000,000 women in- the
United States, many of them married, are
forced to earn their own livings because of
unjust economic conditions the men alone
have made by their votes; we demand loudly
that women be womanly and we forget that
we are surrounding them. with economic con-
ditions that annually force several hundred



thousand women into the depths of moral deg- _

radation in a vain effort to keep their starved
souls in their starved bodies. Unthinkingly
we accept all this and insanely repeat the
mouthings of the crowd: “It would be unwo-
manly to let women have the ballot with
which to protect their children, their homes,
their country and themselves.”

But the times are changing and we are just
beginning to really think of woman suffrage,
frankly and unbiasedly. The idea is becoming
old and therefore is losing much of its terror.
When we have thought just a little longer we
are not only going to permit, but urge, the
women of the land to take an active and pa-

triotic interest in their country. We are not

only going to permit but urge the women to

help make this, their country, a fit place in,
which to rear their children. Can this be.

unwomanly?

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A Distinguished Visitor -

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a widow when 23, Then she went to Genessee

College, at Lima, N. Y., and graduated with a
Bachelor of Arts degree. When 38 she mar-
ried Dr. Ezekiel Lockwood, and was admitted
to the bar of the District of Columbia before
he died in 1877.

She had taught school, and at one time she
worked for and secured the passage of qa bill
giving women employes of the Federal Gov-
ernment in certain classes of work the same

pay as men associates.

Prominent as Mrs. Lockwood is among the
women of the country, she devotes most of
her time to “sticking to business,” as she ex-
presses it. She is the only woman in the coun-
try who holds an LL. D. degree. Mrs. Lock-
wood is a lawyer primarily, a lecturer or wo-
man’s rights worker when she is needed in
those fields. 7

To see what she has done among the move-
ments fostered mainly by women, one would

think she had little time for practicing law.

One month ago today she became attorney
general of the American Woman’s Republic,
an international league of women organized

at St. Louis with the same form of govern- |

ment as the United States.

Her hobby is world peace. She is presi-
dent of the Peace Arbitration Society of the
United States and was the only woman dele-
gate from this nation to the first international
peace congress, held in Paris in 1889. The

next year she went to the London congress .

and was a delegate at the Berne congress in
1892, when the international peace bureau was
established.

| Active Worker for Peace. ‘

It is said to have had its inception in a paper

presented there by Mrs. Lockwood. Appoint-
ed a commissioner of the bureau then, she has
held the position ever since.

In connection with that work, Mrs. Lock-
wood became the author of a bill, passed by

Congress, to have the President appoint a
commission of five to meet with similar com-
missions from all civilized nations to develop
méans to reduce armaments and arbitrate dif-

ferences between nations. She is secretary of

the American branch of the international
peace bureau, : |
Allied with the subject of international —
peace, Mrs. Lockwood is interested in social
charity work. She represented the United
States at the Bongress of charities and cor-
rections at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1896. The




nominating committee for the Noebel prize in-
cludes her name.

When she was asked to come to Columbus
to deliver an address on woman suffrage, Mrs.
Lockwood accepted at once. It will be her
first speech on the subject for some time.
Even though she is president of the District
of Columbia Woman Suffrage Association, she

is not a professional suffragist speech-maker.

Marriage Not Failure.

‘After preparing the amendment to the state-
hood bill, granting woman suffrage in Okla-
homa, New Mexico and Arizona, one might
think that Mrs. Lockwood is a _ high-and-
mighty, think-nought-else suffragist. But
among the subjects on which she used to lec-
ture is one which brands Mrs. Lockwood as
extremely feminine. It is this: “Is Marriage
a Failure? No, Sir.’—Ohio State Journal.



IS SHE SO LOW?

Is she so low as the lowest serf
That dare not raise his voice?

Or is she so base that she has no place
When a nation names its choice?

Is she so weak that she may not speak?
Is her soul too feeble to save?

Or is she one with the things we shun—
The criminal and the slave?

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