SUFFRAGE NOTES AND NEWS
Etz, Anna Cadogan
Suffrage Notes and News By Anna CaJoaan Ctz IN COMMENTING on the recent aldermanic election in Chicago, The Xew Republic notes that in eighteen wards scattered in all parts of the city a larger...
...IF the recently-revealed fact that five thousand children arc working in the beet fields of Colorado proves that woman suffrage in that state is a failure, then according to Owen Lovejoy, the secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, it is a strange thing that the anti-suffragists have not suggested taking away the Vote from the men in Iowa where it has been known for years that .Hi.000 children are in agriculture, and in Kentucky where they number '53,000 and in North Carolina where they number 120,000...
...Women also vote in Norway, Australia, Sweden, Denmark and Finland...
...Women have voted in New Zealand for twenty years...
...If the indifference of men counts as nothing against any law for their benefit, is it not time to sera]) the argument against votes for women based on the indifference of women...
...SUFFRAGISTS were interested to note that the Ilollis Rural Credits bill was opposed on the ground that the farmers were not themselves interested in rural credits legislation...
...The lowest death rate for babies in the world is in New Zealand...
...Suffrage Notes and News By Anna CaJoaan Ctz IN COMMENTING on the recent aldermanic election in Chicago, The Xew Republic notes that in eighteen wards scattered in all parts of the city a larger percentage of the women than the men voted without regard to party affiliations and for candidates recommended by the Municipal Voters' League, and it adds, "All sorts and conditions of women, rich and poor, ignorant and intelligent, native born and immigrant, united to make their city a better home for their children...
...The next lower death rate for babies in the world are these countries...
...To which protest he made his famous reply: That only shows how much...
...HERE is something that the suffrage press never misses a chance to quote...
...they, need it...
...Protest was made to President Lincoln against freeing the slaves on the ground that they did not want freedom...
...This time it is found in the editorial column of The Independent...
...This contention was admitted as a fact but not as an argument against the bill which duly became law...
Vol. 8 • June 1916 • No. 6
