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Maryland State Archives Maryland Suffrage News Collection MSA SC 3286 msa_sc3286_scm7805-0030 Enlarge and print image (1M) |
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October 3, 1914.]
MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS
215
Correspondeet* to the If MMM iDmiu
Nawa are requeated to addreae all commual-
ratione for the Letter Boa to Mr*. P. P.
Mill, 1614 Bolton St.; to nee one aide of
paper only, to leave apace for beading, Wllta
legible, end hare letter In auch condition
(hat It can be forwarded Immediately to tbe
printer.—En.
We Hope That the Dealred Informa-
tion Will Be Forthcoming From Our
Democratic Readere.
AViir liditors:
I am writing to the N'kvys as a
medium tliroiigh which I may
gather information. I was much
pleased with the declaration from
the meeting of suffragists who met
al Mrs. Helmonl's residence.
II seems that this body of women
have pledged themselves to work
for a Federal amendment to the
Constitution and for the liristow-
Moiidcl! amendment. As a South-
ern woman I have considered very
carefully the Federal amendment
and have been rather opjKiscd to it
as interfering with States' rights,
hut I have always been o|kmi to con-
viction.
I am now convinced that those
who desire suffrage for women
within a reasonable time must ad-
vocate the Federal amendment.
For each State to have to fight for
suffrage and overcome all kinds of
ignorance and narrow prejudice is
a tedious and a costly business. As
women and men become more edu-
cated to the justice of the cause
and to its ini|jortancc as a factor
for good, they readily become its
warm supi>orters, anil so we make
converts. Hut there arc others.
There are those whose prejudice
will never change; there are those
who for entirely selfish reasons
will never work for the success of
suffrage; and while these are stead-
ily decreasing, they arc still numer-
ous enough to block legislation and
to use their influence against it.
Why should each State have to
go through the same experience
with this clement, spend money on
literature, meetings and sjieakers
and all the other endless work en-
tailed, when by a Federal amend-
ment we can get suffrage for all the
States at one stroke, and so let the
prejudiced and the narrow learn
gradually, but not at the sacrifice of
the liberty of thousands of citizens
while they are learning?
I am anxious to get information
from the Democrats whose idea of
States' rights is such that to them
it comes before anything else. I
should like to hear from them why
they think it better for each State
to have to fight for a right that can
be conferred at much less cost of
time and money by Congress.
Sally M—.
INQUIRY COLUMN
"IMscuulon le the greateet of all reform-
era. It rationalise! everything It touches.
It rolls principles of all false sanctity and
throws them hack on their reasonableness.
If they hare no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
rrusbes them out of existence and sets up
its own conclusions In their stead."-- ll'ood-
role H'ffeon.
Inquiry:
Have you any statistics dealing
with war and the cost of war? If
so, will you please publish them ?
A. M. K.
Answer:
We take pleasure in reprinting
herewith an extract from a recent
issue of the Maryland Progressive:
The Cost of a Great War.
Dr. Carl Kichet, a statistician of
the University of Paris, is (piotcd
as estimating the cost of a war in-
volving England, France, Germany,
Russia, Austria and Scrvia at near-
ly $55,000,000 per day. He as-
sumes that 20,000,000 men would
be called to arms, of whom one-half
would be sent to the front. His
calculation follows:
Provisioning of troops. .$12,500,000
Feeding of horses...... 1,000,000
Pay................. 4,250,000
Wages, arsenals anil
harbors ............ 1,000,000
Mobilization.......... 2,000,000
Transport of foodstuffs,
weapons, etc........ 4,000,000
Ammunition—
Infantry........... 4,000,000
Artillery........... 1,250,000
Ship artillery....... 375,000
Fitting out of army------ 4,000,000
Ambulance service..... 500,000
Movement of ships.... 500,000
Deficit in taxes........ 10,000,000
Support for ]>opulation
without means...... 6,750,000
Requisitions, damage to
towns, bridges, etc... 2,000,000
Total ..............$54,125,000
This estimate apparently does not
include all naval expenses of the in-
direct loss and waste of war, such
as depreciation of stocks; nor docs
it take into consideration the very
appreciable injury to the business
and commerce of neutral nations.
That the world's wealth is being
wasted by the present European
war at the rate of $100,000,000 a
day is by no means an extravagant
estimate.
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