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MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
Instructions for Worker* in Maryland
Mi-s Alice I'aul. chairman of the
Congressional *. onuniilce. request*
that as mam suffrage meetings BJ
possible pass the following resolu-
tion at mice ami send copies to
President Wil-om \\ ashiftgton,
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nVtpftvrf, lint (fail meeting c;ill- .i|nm
IVe-Muit Wilson to urge, in hi- tnessttgi
convening ilu extra p*s*kmi si Can
«ri-«. tht' pftMOgV "I nil ;i!m.'!nliiHiit h
ilu- I'niii.i States ConctNnHoii kMrj
snffntsc i" women on eqnal terms with
AV.<. •/:.¦ the President OH the sub-
ject a- fre(|iie!itl\ as jm-sible prior
to thai day.
(hi Monday. April 7. a great
mass-meeting will he hcM in the
Columbia Theater. Washington,
after which the -uffragists will
march to the Capitol and present
their demands to Congress, Mary-
land suffragists are Urged to take
part in the detnon-tration.
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THE MEN'S LEAGUE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE OF MARYLAND
ItltorDoratl'd 1910.
817 North Charles Street. Baltimore
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........m. i -¦ i.....ut. i:* i- a i|tie-tiou that is often asked in our meetings' when ilisetis-
•ion is thrown open tu the Hour. The attitude assumed by many Mary-
laud sult'ra^i-i- toward the ((iiestion of votes for colored women is
dilHcult to umler-taitil. The qiie>tion is one hard to tnswer. for in at-
tempting to do 10 one is as apt to olYend the regular suffragist as to
satisfy the ini|iiirinjj anti.
We have bad for many years the vole of the colored man: neither
Democratic nor Kepuhlican politicians have heeu feverishly anxious to
he rid of it except when one or lite Other of litem found ihe vote gofalg
lite other way.
According to the census of Mjio, neyro women tuimher only lS per
rent, of Maryland's population. To refrain from asking the hallot for
lite remaining S_» per cent, white women of ihe Stat*, is tjuite as ahsttrd
as lo pledge ourselves to stop digging for gold heeattse we are sure tn
Slid with the precious metal a certain percentage of dross. As well
could v\e say we shall not plant wheat for we always have chaff with
the grain. Tin- is for them who consider the MgrtM 'Iross !
Maryland women must retleet that from earliest infancy our trusted
servant- have heen negroe-. It is almost impossihle to estimate how
many hahies are left tlaily m ihe care of hl-iek nurse maids, who do
their duties laithi'ullv ; mir wives leave their jewels in the care of then*
colored maids with ahsolute safety. Why. when we know all this, is
ihe cry of being afraid of iheir intluetiee heard so often?
We ailiuit there is a large per cent, of illiteracy among the colored
population : over -*,", per cent. While taking note of lids lei us remetnher
that Maryland stamls thirty-ninth among the forty eight Slate- in the
t'niott in the amount of money spent on its public schools. Maryland
spend* only ji cents out of every Siuo.oo of its income on schools.
Washington, where women vote, spi-nds 7J cents out of every $100*00,
The hideous un>ptakahle conditions among our colored people todav
;.re the re-ult- of our own mismauagemeiit. our neglect, our cupidity
and our stupidity. < Her 70 per cent, of our colored children are at-
tending school, and a- among the white children, more girls than hoys
.ire in tite high school-. Maryland is listed as one "f the benighted
State.- a- far as education is concerned for while children as well as
colored children. The average colored woman is everything the average
colored man i- .V >T. She is ambitious for the education uf her children ;
-he is keenly imitative of what her .-uperior- are doing: and everything
|K)iuls to the fact she would not lie a- diHieult a problem a- the foreign-
horn woman.
The ev ils of whieh we seem lo be afraid and which obscure the real
rth of the colored woman are easily remedied by giving them better
i»ou>iug conditions, in addition to compulsory education along Hues that
will til them for the positions that are open to them as society is todav
constituted. Vocational training for the negro i- the crying need of the
1 ace.
lint to come to the crux of the matter. We have already enfran-
rhfsed the black man with his shiftless, lazy, paristical attitude toward
life. \\ ho is it that works ami sup|H,rts the vast number of black chil-
dren in the land; Is it not the black mother? Who t> it that guarantee-.
in mi-taken but faithful devotitin the attitude of the black man: Do vve
not all know of poor black soul.- loyal lo the man who only knows them
hut to live upon them? Are we to say we are suffragists, willi a decent
comprehension of what sutTrage means, and Bay that we will not have
the black woman who has heen made to bear the sins not only of her
black mate but the white libertine a- well as the Iwo million mulattoe-
of the nation bear sad te-limony. are we tit say thai she shall not have
the mean- of protecting herself, if that means he incorporated in the
ballot;-
If there i- any class that needs the ballot it is the class that i- Buffering
from conventional inju-iice. The black woman need- the vote far
more than the black man: by the very force of her character she is
1 '*tter able to exercise it in decency than he i-. lie has it. As long as
^-*o, how can we in justice deny it lo her. She has a two-fold need
! 11 *ceds it to compel such legislation as will protect her agaiu-t
I. . • own race, and against the white males who are respon-
-1.. 'mi of the black race a- evidenced in the mongrel tribe
of hah -d over the land. \\. |. |',.
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President of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Mr.-. C'att will speak at the Academy of Music on Sunday. March jQ,
;.t ,!, I'. M. under the auspices of the Maryland Woman Suffrage Associa-
tion, nf which Mrs. Kmnta Maddox I'unck is president.
She is a woman of charming personality; -he is one of the mo>t eja-
uncut and logical speakers upon the public platform, a woman of rare
executive ability and earnestness of purpose.
She has traveled mirth, east, south and we-t: has lectured in nearly
every city in the 1'nion. ami heen as-m-ialed with every important victory
that equal suffrage has won of late vear-.
She was Miss Su-an It. Anthony'-, choice as her -uecc-sur. "an Ideal
leader" a- Miss Aulhony called her.
Mrs. I att ha- but recently relumed from a two-year trip around the
world, and will bring to lialtimore much interesting information a- tu
the conditions of women in other countrie-. K. A. E3,
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Mr. Mythen Wll, I Friend.'
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1 in the invitati'in I (rinoi-
|,.,l. Mr. E. C Wilson, el Mr.
Mytlien will ;nlilress tl. • of
ilu- Friends' Softool on ¦ • •
mie on Monday, March 31. i
art alreail. a mnnlier i,f tun ; I
in attc'iin \\ eduesday evening, March
V). the Twenty-third Ward Social-
ist Club held a smoker and enter-
tainment, wlueli was attended by
_'oo people. There were several
speaker- on the program, among
them Mi-s I.. C. Trax. who spoke
upon "The I htmru and < »nts," treat-
ing the subject from a political a-
well as economic standpoint. Mi--
Trax .-aid in part:
"lialtimore has its clown and ottU,
And for every man who walks the
street jobless, there is a woman or
a child who loils in our factories,
and the problem of the down and
outs is woman's problem, too. Pro-
duction has been socialized.
"Wage- are partly set by the un-
employed at factory gates, who.
with lean, hungry hands grasping
for bread, take any wage at all just
to live. The average wage of a man
worker in the I'nited States is Ł<)
per week. The Chicago Commission
says that SS per week is the mini-
mum wage for a self-suporting wo-
man. Maryland women work for
an average wage of $4-.M- Do you
wonder we have down and outs? Do
you wonder we have prostitutes?
"You men urge women to hold
union cards with no preliminary
thought a- to whether they have a
vision of the ultimate common-
wealth. You know the union card
brings education. Just so must you
urge women to hold another print-
ed s!i|>—the ballot—with no pre-
liminary i|iiestion as to how" they
may use it. The ballot brings edu-
cation. The ballot will bring the
bloodless revolution. The ballot
will help solve the problem of the
down ami outs."
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