HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE Susan B. Anthony's Prophecy IT WAS a wonderful experience to be in New York City at the time of the election. I was at my daughter's house...
...In the course of his te'ling speech, Mr...
...Since then ft will be observed New York, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Rhode Island have been given Presidential Suffrage, Every one who knows anything of politics realizes what a powerful paft these states play, in determining Presidential elections...
...Michigan__1911 15 Rhode Island_1917 5 Ohio_1917 24 Illinois ___1913 29 Indiana__1917 15 Nebraska _1917 8 North Dakota...
...Louis, and has put to an end agitation in many other cities which has looked toward the same specious "solution" of the urban Negro problem...
...IT is the theory of democracy that all the pecple in all parts of the country shall have the same interest and equal voice in their government...
...The vote in the House was: Yeas, 174...
...Whether the decision is a long step toward the day when the conception of public rights will no longer be restricted by the plausible qualifications of furnishing equal accommodations and privileges, it is not for a layman to predict...
...They were dressed in white...
...Vote...
...that it prevents the deterioration off property owned and occupied by white people, which deterioration, it is contended, is sure to follow the occupancy of adjacent premises by persons of color...
...accompany the restricted working period for mothers is necessary in the United States as in the principal European countries, to safeguard effectively the health and well-being of women workers i»ow being drawn into industries in greatly increased numbers...
...William Kent, of California, has been the staunch friend and supporter of "The Congressional Union" since it was first organized...
...meeting at Cooper Union last night, which probably set a new high water mark in enthusiasm and elation for even Cooper Union, where emotion is not usually mute or unexpressed...
...I was at my daughter's house when the news of the great suffrage victory came...
...But its solution cannot be promoted by depriving citizens of theiir constitutional rights and privileges...
...I WAS in California In the first Presidential campaign where women voted...
...He endorsed it in the recent New- York contest...
...Mark the interdependence of State and National Suffrage work which the present situation demands...
...Anna Howard Shaw...
...Kent, Mrs...
...Protection for Working Mothers Protection for mothers employed on government war contracts is recommended by the Committee on Women in Industry of the Council of National Defense...
...I was profoundly impressed with the independence of women's political thinking and even more with the determination especially of the leaders to use their new power to get the vote for the rest of the women in the United States...
...Kent remarked that Lucy Burns' manacled hands had given more strength to her elbows...
...She was an enfranchised citizen...
...A LICE PAUL, the daughter of a Quaker, the hunger striker, stated in an interview published in the New York Times, the day after she was released from prison, the position of the organization of which she is the recognized leader, ate follows : "We are put out of jail as we are put into jail, at the whim of the Government...
...That is a gain, perhaps, of many years, the saving of many years of women's energy, when it is so greatly needed...
...As for picketing, we' are well pleased at what it has accomplished...
...It is claimed that a number of well known Senators and Representatives who shared the President's opinion and voted against the national amendment in 1914, have now changed their view and will vote for it at this session of Congress...
...The suffrage leaders throughout the nation are organizing with keen intelligence, intense fervor and singleness of purpose for the accomplishment of this object...
...Both the great political parties must be keenly alive to the fact that the votes of a million women in New York State alone might easily change the result of the next Presidential election...
...It is possible that the President also may have changed his views...
...On the stage, artistically decorated with the party colors, sat the forty-one women pickets who had been imprisoned...
...Our prisoners in Occuquan were released from that institution last Saturday on the court ruling that they were illegally and lawlessly confined...
...But living in Wisconsin, I am quite as much interested as she is, in who shall be President and who shall be Senator or Congressman, and in the laws they shall make...
...Besides this direct effect, the influence of the party whip can be counted on to change many votes ; provided of course that the President is not opposed...
...High Court Grants Negro Justice BY WILLIAM H. BALDWIN In The Suryey THE United States Supreme Court, in declaring unconstitutional the residential segregation ordinance of Louisville, Ky., has made void similar ordinances in Richmond, Baltimore, and St...
...I therefore offer without comment the last word from the organized opposition to the fulfillment of the Susan B. Anthony prophecy...
...Thus the two wings of the -suffrage organization are engaged in the same drive on Congress to pass the Susan B. Anthony amendment...
...Tear...
...At first it was to come before the holiday adjournment...
...This tory journal, the ancient and scornful enemy of woman suffrage, is entitled to credit for the wide range of suffrage news carried in its columns...
...Then would end the overcrowded, filthy Jim Crow car with empty white coaches behind, and with Jim Crowism would end one of the greatest indictments against the South's treatment of the Negro, What that would mean must be considered in the light cf the sense of value which has come to every individual as the result of war production, economy and financing, and which is accentuated in the Negro by reason of the great emigration from the South...
...The vote in the Senate was: Yeas, 36...
...Many States have biennial sessions and elect their state Senators for four years...
...There was great applause when Mrs...
...While most of the speakers referred to the evil conditions and the cruei punishment endured at Oc-coquan prison, they did not dwell upon that phase of the questi6n...
...Electoral State...
...including medical, nursing and obstetrical ca as well as cash payments...
...1917 6 * * * THE last vote in Congress on the Woman Suffrage Amendment was in the 63rd Congress in 1914...
...We must be alive, thinking, acting, contributing in all the ways we can, if we vould make the centenary of Susan B. Anthony's birthday the jubilee year for the fulfillment of her prophecy for 1920...
...elected...
...They tried to terrorize and suppress us...
...My mother's heart rejoiced no les's for the brother's sake than for the sister's...
...Look out for holdovers...
...The following resolutions were adopted and directed to be sent to President Wilson...
...All European countries that have this restricted period also have maternity insurance as a protection against suffering, destitution, and impaired strength of both mother and child...
...That such a referendum could lead only to a division of public opinion and become an instrument for the encouragement of resistance to the selectrive draft and to army discipline...
...He voted for suffrage when it was an issue In his own state...
...Maternity insurance tt...
...Make them understand that their conetituenti^are alive to the new conditions, that they want the suffrage amendment passed now, and that they don't want t6 be represented by back numbers...
...It was a stirring and dramatic occasion...
...Malone made the point that picketing was the laboring man's method of protest and that thousands of working men in New York had voted {or suffrage out of sympathy with the women who had been wrongfully imprisoned for peaceable picketing...
...By its provisions it was made an offense for a person of color to move into a house on any block where the majority of the houses are the home of whites, and, conversely, the same restrictions were placed on the movements of white residents...
...No woman," says its recent bulletin on industrial standards, "shall be employed during a period of two months prior, or two months subsequent to childbirth...
...THE New York campaign was marvclously well organized and had extraordinary leadership...
...She presided at the meeting...
...not voting, 46...
...Vote...
...If a man who resides in New York State lost his vote whenever circumstances compelled him to move to New Jersey or...
...Begin now" to work for a state legislature that will ratify the National Amendment...
...James W. Wadsworth, wife of the United States Senator from New York, a very charming woman, is president of the Association...
...They will have corresponding influence in securing the two-thirds vote necessary to pass the National Suffrage Amendment...
...It must get two-thirds of both houses of Congress and then it must be ratified by three-fourths of the states...
...All suffrage workers have observed that the farfetched arguments of the Antis often make converts to equal suffrage, when plain reason and common sense make no impression...
...But what we do depends on what the Administration dees...
...PRESIDENT WILSON up to the present has not favored the passage of the national suffrage amendment...
...RESOLVED, That in the recent election in New York State woman suffrage was carried by the increased pro-German, pacifist, and Socialist vote cast in New York City...
...The action of the Judge in commuting our sentence today acknowledges it was unjust, arbitrary, and a gross discrimination made in an attempt to suppress legitimate propaganda, an attempt which failed...
...The Administration has found that it dare not imprison American women for asking a share in the democracy for which we are fighting abroad...
...She is a beloved and adorable leader and counselor...
...Justice Day, who wrote the opinion, "is sought to be justified under the authority of the :state in the exercise of the police power...
...Thi3 drastic measures," says Mr...
...Nays, 35...
...Again I am indebted to the New York Times for the account of this meeting...
...I am glad my daughter living in New York state now has the vote...
...There is no possibility of a snap judgment...
...New York won, and these experienced and invincible workers are now moving on to the Capitol at Washington...
...Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs...
...They could not, and so freed us...
...Shaw, "will be the hundredth anniversary of Susan B. Anthony's birth, and I hope we shall celebrate it by ompleting the triumph of democracy...
...The states with conaplete Woman Suffrage and their Electoral Vote w'Mch corresponds to their vote in Congress ari as follows: Electoral State, Year...
...They are tired of lobbyists and interviews and hearings and pickets...
...Why not wipe out by constitutional amendment the wrongful discrimination against women, now created by invisible state boundary lines...
...They will not quit the job until the Susan B. Anthony amendment has been written into the...
...It 'is saidl such legislation tends to promote public peace by preventing racial conflicts...
...Before an amendment can be written into the United States Constitution, it must represent the well considered judgment of the nation...
...Three years Is a brief time in which to make certain of three-fourths of the states...
...New York meant the national amendment* It would not be long before all the women of the United States had, the vote...
...The design was a cell door with chain attached...
...That the passage of the proposed Federal amendment would encourage all pro-Germans, pacifists, and Socialists of both sexe.i in their demands for a national referendum on the war...
...Senators and Representatives here should be made to feel all the pressure that can be brought to bear on them from home...
...We have one aim: The.immediate passage of the Federal amendment...
...0. H. P. Belmont, Miss-Maude Younger and Mr...
...But for some reason, the vote has been postponed until after the holiday recess...
...They have the promise of an early vote...
...Looking across the table at my daughter, I felt a sudden thrill...
...blessings of political justice and equality for men and women...
...Anna Howard Shaw, the veteran suffragist leader, at a jubilee meeting following the New York election...
...Norman de R. White-house, James Lees Laidlaw, Judge William H. Wadhaus, and other men and women who have worked for their victory...
...But ho has contended that woman suffrage was a question of policy which each state should be left free to decide for itself...
...MOW is the time for intensive work, concentrated * ^ effort, persistent drive...
...The suffragists were cheering nearly all the time—cheering loudest, perhaps, for President Wilson and Dr...
...What a Christmas gift an affirmative vote would be to the nation...
...Following the New York election, the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage held a meeting in Washington...
...The recent decision of the Supreme Court is a distinct end in itself...
...At the same time, the decision has heartened Negroes throughout the country, as it is a reaffirmation of the fact that the colored citizen is on a par with his white neighbor in the eyes of the fundamental law of the land even if prejudice at times and in places rises to gall his feelings and to make him the victim of gross injustices...
...She had the same political rights that the state bestowed upon her brother when he anived at his twenty-first birthday...
...Besides Mrs...
...They know it is not safe to assume that the votes of the newly enfranchised women will not disturb the political balance...
...But that is all speculation...
...The fact that their states have granted suffrage to women is, in itself good and sufficient reason...
...Practically one-half the territory of the United States— not including Alaska—now enjoys the...
...Governors and other public officials are likely to be re...
...Justice Day points out that "in the slaughter house cases (the first to come to the Supreme Court under the Fourteenth Amendment) it was recognized that the chief inducement to the passage of the amendment was the desire to extend federal protection to the recently emancipated race from uinfriendly and discriminating legislation by the states...
...Wyoming ____^____1869 3 Colorado _1893 6 Idaho -_1896 4 Utah _1896 4 Washington _1910 7 California_1911 13 Kansas _1912 10 Oregon _1912 5 Arizona _1912 3 Nevada ___1914 3 Montana_1914 4 New York__1917 45 States with Presidential Suffrage and their Electoral Vote...
...Many Congressmen, now that they see that Woman Suffrage is bound to come, will gladly vote for it just to have the matter disposed of and out of the way...
...To this reiteration of an earlier decision the: justice adds the following words, which undoubtedly will be quoted by future terms of the court in rendering yet more progressive opinions: "That there exists a serious and difficult problem arising from a feeling of race hostility which the law is powerless to control, and to which it must give a measure of consideration, may be freely admitted...
...At this memorable meeting, said to be the largest ever held at Cooper Union, from which '.housands were turned away, the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, That we men and women voting citizens assembled in mass meeting to celebrate the victory of woman's suffrage in New York state, do hereby renew our appeal to Congress to submit the Federal Woman's Suffrage Amendment to the Legislatures of the several States in order that the suffrage campaign, stretching over a period of more than half a century, may be brought to a speedy close, thereby releasing the energies of the women of the nation from the struggle for political justice, so that with singleness of purpose we work for worldwide democracy...
...A NO less significant mass meeting was held recently at the Belasco Theatre in Washington, under the auspices of the National Woman's Party...
...It is safe to predict that the Senators and Representatives from the newly enfranchised states, whatever their previous attitude toward woman suffrage, can be counted on to vote for the National Amendment...
...That year," said Dr...
...As they filed in to take their seats they carried banners with inscriptions, many of them apparently the same as those that had been borne in front of the White House gate...
...If the same conditions respecting the right to vote in this country applied to men that now apply to women, it would not take many elections to secure a constitutional amendment correcting the inequality and injustice...
...The title of the ordinance in question is: "An ordinance to prevent conflict and ill-feeling between the white and colored races in the city of Louisville, and to preserve the public peace and promote the general welfare by making reasonable provisions requiring, as far as practicable, the use of separate blocks for residences, places of abede and places of assembly by white and colored peiople respectively...
...hardly less enthusiastically for Mrs...
...That the Federal suffrage amendment, is undemocratic and unjust, a destruction of the right of self-Government and would tremendously increase raciol problems and all other problems of Anjerican democracy...
...Ah, the time was not far off when those fal.se distinctions, those unjust discriminations would disappear fr.om our national and state constitutions...
...There was much re,-joicing...
...It should be remembered that a Federal Amendment is very difficult to secure...
...At the beginning of the war Administration leaders told us to wait patiently until the end of the war, and then it would be time to talk of suffrage...
...Connecticut or some other state, he would think it a very foolish and very unjust state of things in a free country and would make a great kick about it...
...hope that no more demonstrations will be necessary, that the amendment will run steadily on to passage and ratification, without further suffering...
...Dudley Field Malone addressed the mass meeting...
...Then there is the onward march of suffrage that is to be counted on to break down the opposition...
...Wo...
...therefore, be: it Resolved, That the 'aath administered to all members of Congress and officers of the United States Government "to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all foreign find domestic enemies," morally and truly applies to the present Constitution and to the proposed Federal Suffrage amendment...
...Now they prophesy suffrage at the session opening in December...
...As the freed pickets filed by—one of them was a gentle white haired lady of 73—Mrs...
...that it needs to maintain racial purity...
...Constitution of the United States...
...That the suffrage victory in New York has caused suffragists, Socialists and pacifists to demand the immediate passage of the Federal Suffrage amendment...
...Yet it does seem logical that if a Negro is now sustained in his right to buy, sell and use property—and therefore to reside —where he will, he ought also to have full right to choose his own seat in a public conveyance...
...Whatever their personal views on the subject of woman sufA frage, the party politicians are now nguring for party advantage...
...The speakers all put the emphasis on the principles and results involved in the struggle,—fundamental democracy, justice, liberty...
...Such a prohibition is already in effect in four states in this country but no provision has yet been made for the care and support of working mothers when thus deprived of their wages...
...Mrs...
...To afford full protection of motherhood among families of industrial workers in the United States, -the workmen's insurance bill prepared by the American Association for Labor Legislation in co-operation with the ican Medical Association (now being studied, a view to legislation, by legislative commis.- in eight states) provides for maternity ber...
...The spirit of this meeting is indicated in this extract from the New York Times acceunt: "The first day of rejoicing by the women of New York over their newly won enfranchisement reached its climax in a mas...
...Furthermore, national affairs concern the women of a non-suffrage state quite as much as they concern the women of a suffrage state...
...There is much more than a fighting chance that the National Federal Amendment will pass this session of Congress...
...It was humorously noted that the Washington police were there: not to arrest the pickets, but to hold back the" thousands who were pushing, and begging for entrance after every sea'- to the very root' had been taken...
...In other words municipalities are given notice that whereas they can experiment with zoning systems to prevent encroacihment of certain kinds of business upon residential sections, they will have to find other methods of solving racial problems...
...In 190G Susan B. Anthony prophesied that by 1920, the women of this country would be enfranchised," said Dr...
...Nays, 204...
...Kent decorated each with a pin...
...That the present Constitution of the-United States and tne Constitutions of the several States and the national platforms of both great parties "recognize the right of each Stale to settle this question for itself...
Vol. 9 • December 1917 • No. 12
