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Maryland State Archives Maryland Suffrage News Collection MSA SC 3286 msa_sc3286_scm7805-0039 Enlarge and print image (1M) |
| 240 MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS [October ^4, 1914. MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS Published Weekly By the Jutt Government League of Maryland. Editor*; l>lt, AM) KM. DONALU It. IIOOKKIL ('llffliiimt, Ml. WRflhlnKttm. M.l Contributing Editors: Mils. JOHN U, Nil SOU, 1'lt. TllADHI I S I'. Tmi'MAH. Mils It, .1, IlVRNB. Da, O. Mitu Alio Janney, I'll l'YuKKNIE It. SaHIN, Mms Mm I'inii I.ankin. Managing Editor: Miss M. It. Dixon, 817 N. Charlea Street. Bualnssa Managor: MltS. ClIAnLES JOSEPH OOLK, Itoiltul Itny, KnrlelRli ll-'klit-. M.l. Subscription Rates: l-OMESTIC. Om Yctir......................$1.00 Thiw Mnlitlis OR Tl-inl............0 Six Mniillw.......................GO SIiikIc rnpy......................<« CARABtAK, VOOnsHi One Your.......................$1.(10 On* tear.......................$LK> ui< i.n'i fir |aiiw swat »«t ss sapwtJl M mo* on sMnm label uln two WWSl fmm fetfl rvvWmV .n«ri.rt1i.li* for IIHXKWAI.. IHMOV1IS1 A*CK or < IIAKUIC »F %liimi>> sBSttM BS <«'lit two IMSSl BSfSM t»S (lute t*S} art- In no Into Bjtsit. H«»iSi «lil «"•! ••«•»' nii»lr<'pwf» iinixl nlwnytt 1m- iilvi-n. Cksasl mill (iNifl* ainl INMtBssVI BfOSfl "loinlj Is Ms* payable to Tin1 Maryland SiifTrfir- Si'wa. Advertleinu rnli-a will !»• ¦¦•nt npim appll'ii'loo In aifSfttSBS] nianan'T. BALTIMORE, OCTOBER 24, 1814 SOLDIERS OK PEACE 1 he stars hail vanisheil. The blackness nf night hail become silently iransfonneil into a general gray. Awakening soumls [iroclaimeil the approach of morning. A drummer early arrived in town came into tin. lobby of a hotel. "You won't get home until morning, molbet," be said genially to an old woman who was on her knees scrubbing the marble floor. She lifted dim eyes and ¦ face scarred with the cruel marks of poverty and sorrow. "And me goiu' on seventy," she quavered, rub- bing gnarled knuckle's into the hollows of her eyes. "And the mother of eight children, all deail except one, and him a cripple. I'.ul not the IKiorhouse—Oh, Mother of Jesus, I'd die on by bare knees scrubbin,' first." She took up her brush and dipped it into the dirty water. The drummer hesitated, reached into his pocket and look out a dol- lar bill. It's not much," he said huskily, tbrusiing the note into her band, "bill it'll give you a day off. 1 had a mother once." I le started toward the desk saddened by the tragedy he had seen, but by breakfast time he bad forgotten, as all the world forgets. He let the picture slip from bis memory, as so many others do, because he assumed thai there was no solution of the problem of impoverished old age. It was not thai his heart was hard, but that be saw no way out of the difficulty save through charity. "It is not charily the world needs, but justice!" the picture would have laugbl him bad he been able to understand ibe potential powers of government. It is not just for the community to refuse decent succor to the old when they have done their life's work honestly and well. The soldiers of war receive their honorable pensions. Are those who inarch in the ranks of toil less worthy of a sure reward? Civilization is an anachronism while old age weeps ilself into the grave uncared for. The old men who have budded our cities, who have put railroads through the desert, who have spent their lives that civiliza- tion might be—to these old soldiers of peace we offer lbe poorhouse and six feet of ground in the letter's Held. And the old women who in their youth have gone down into the pit lo bring back human life—these we forget while they scrub on their knees through the long watches of the night. "Oh. Mother of Jesus, not Ibe iioorhousc!" Listen in the night and hear that cry, and then respond with juslice and not with charity. It would be so easy, so really inexpensive, if you would turn government to account. Just a law providing for old-age pensions, and the s|H'dre would be stilled. Will you. I..... forget, like the others, and salve vour conscience with alms? "MORE THAN THIS NO MAN CAN DO" "This goes to prove that women should stay in the home, where they are safe, and that ihey should not attempt lo do men's work," said an anti-suffragist laying down the newspaper that contained an account of the shooting of Mrs. Kaber. The remark was not intended to lie unsym- pathetic. The woman was merely expressing her view of life. She had read the story all through and bad seen that a policeman as well as a |iolicewoinan had succonibed lo the attack, but she had failed to draw lbe inevitable inference of her own philosophy that men as well as women must slay in the home if personal safety and not the protection of the community is to be considered of major hn|>ortancc. Woman's lesser physical strength accounted to her wholly for Mrs. I'aher's vic- timization. The fact that a bullet is equally deadly, whether directed at a man or a woman, passed her by. Such is the effect of prejudice and custom on reason. To those whose vision is not so clouded, Mrs. Taber's tragedy presents a very different picture, especially when viewed in the light of the suspicion which rests upon her assailant. The man who struck Mrs. Kaber down is also accused of brutal assault ti|»n another woman, the other woman being not a member of the police force, but a wife and honie-niaker. one whose work lies along time-honored paths. The double tragedy indicates well the position in which woman funis herself. She is safe neither within nor without the sphere which cus- tom has assigned lo her. Is it to he wondered, then, that, seeing the peril in which she and her sisters stand, she should demand the right of self-prouction for all women? AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC SERVICE An invitation has been received at headquarters for women watchers at the poDl on eleclion day. This is a real opportunity for public service. ()ne of the vital demands of democracy is an honest count of the liallots. This the women can help to assure. Fifty women are needed in this work. Will you not volunteer your services? The watchers serve from the lime the polls close, at live I'. M. in the city and at six 1'. M. in the counties, unlil lbe vole is counted. The time involved is from one to three hours. Will yon not assist to this extent in insuring honest govern- ment for Maryland? I'lease send your name to" Mrs. 1). U. I looker, 817 North Charles street, if you are willing to serve either in the city or the counties, and credentials will be forwarded to von. JANE ADDAMS TOURING FOR SUFFRAGE Miss Jane Addams, First Vicc-l'rcsidcnt of the National American Woman SulTrage Association, spent lbe greater part of (letoher in a campaign tour in Nebraska, Missouri, Nevada, North and South Da- kola, wdiere suffrage amendments will be submitted to the voters in No- vember. Miss Addams' speeches are regarded with great interest as campaign arguments, because she told what has been accomplished by the women of Illinois during the years since Ibey were granted partial suffrage. I. AN IMPROVED COl'RT IN LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, where the women vole, ihey have a special police court for women offenders. 'Ibis court is not open to visitors who out of idle, morbid curiosity, or possibly with worse motives, are admitted to stare at unfortunates. This court is one of the improvements since the women came into the right to use the ballot. SUFFRAGE IN SWEDEN Mrs. \ elma Swanson Howard, (he Swedish translator, who has just returned to this country from Sweden, says that the suffrage bill reported to be defeated in the Upper 1 louse of the Riksdag merely met the fate of all bills introduced for technical reasons. "In the emergency of an impending war," said Mrs. Howard, "nothing else was thought of, and the bills thai were presented, among them suf- frage, were merely brought up to be disposed of in the official manner, so that they would be ready for the next session. Otherwise, a bill must wait three vears. It was not considered a defeat." VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: For Clerical Work. Will YOU live an hour each weak to SUFFRAGE? Sand your name to HEADQUARTERS, 817 N. Charles street. HILP TH« CAUSt—Mentlon the Maryland Suffrage Nawa Whan Patrenlilng Our Advertleere, |