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Maryland State Archives Maryland Suffrage News Collection MSA SC 3286 msa_sc3286_scm7805-0071 Enlarge and print image (1M) |
| 384 MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS [February 27, 19:5.] MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS Published Weekly By the Jiut Government League of Maryland, Editors: Dit. AND Mits. no.v\LI> It. BOOMS, CUffliUi'.-t. Mi Wit-lihintoii, Mtl. Contributing Editors! Mrs. John (J. Wilson, I»k. Tmai.uecs V. Thomas, Mm. Ii- J. Btsm, Db. O. KmvAitn Janney, l>lt. I'lOttKNCE It. S.wilN, AIisn MlUMilli 1UNK1N. Managing Editor; Miss fct It. Dixon, 817 N. Cfcarin Stout Busineia Manageri MRS, rilAlM.cs JOSEPH OtiMB, 2513 N. •¦¦¦:' !¦;¦¦- Hi., liutTimore, Mi). Subscrijitian Rales: UlJMLhHC. One Yenr........................«!.<"> Six MoiuIih........................'»u LA.NADIAS. One Wiir........................HM Tlir.-o MoiiUm 011 Trial............25 HhiKlf Copf......................Oft loiMJIiN. Dm War........................fi..io iti'MTMt'T of i"'»ni"u» itm-t not be «pr i"i ti. pfenw oa tftttrm tobd uMtaf two Vatki from ilfiii .. • hi'ti i (in M-Hi I..IMM:.. \i. I ;>ro\ i IM %\« i; ,,i ni \m;i; in-* Ali 11 Hi.km .,,.,1 i.i Ih< M-nt n ii wt'fki tn i•>!¦¦¦ i e tluta tut-y tn to ga brio offset li»uii old ft i.i> in *i ii iiit i < -1-* mil i aintti* '"• given. I'll-I., mil itcafta iiimI |;n h.iii.c DttJtH sltmilil Ik- iiiihIi' pnysuta to Tin* Mur.vlan-I ffoffniKt' Ni w.. .\iluiii-ini; ntln will !¦' ( ill"1" ii|i|'!':ill"li t" u.hvrtMiiti. ttatUtfSf, BALTIMORE FEBRUARY 27, 1915. THE NATIONAL CHILD-LABOR BILL THE Palm Owi i bit! to prevent inter ic comnicrce h> the products of child labor p. - I til Housi lasl tv< ¦!. by a vote of -'.;.i lo ),v \\1th ih . . in of two or three : g vo ¦' ¦ o] ; ¦ '<;-'.i came emi I; .....I ¦ : iuth. Tl w were no solid delegation* voting against the mi Lire, but Georg i i y of its u votesagainst it. North Carolina •j utii of it', and Missis; ppi 6 ottt of K. I here were 6 adverse voles from Texas,.; Mum South Ci rolina, i from Alabama, -• from \ Irglnia, and one eaeh from Delaware, I luriiia. Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey and <>kla- homa. "The men who voted against the child-labor bill in the House of Rep- resentative! were the men who voted against suffrage." 'This statement , made a few dayi Eg' >by Representative Palmer of Pennsylvania, who fathered the chil l-labor bill in the House and is aba a staunch supporter of woman suffrage. "A very intcrcsiing and s'gnilicaut fact in connection with the vote on the Federal child-labor bill," said Mr. Palmer, "is that all of the opponents of the bill save one were found also amongst the opponents of the woman suffrage amendment to the Constitution. < >f course, the opposition lo child-labor legislation comes principally from the colion-mill Stales of the South, where the labor of little children has long been exploited lo swell the profits of the mill owners. The theory that the little children are em- ployed with the consent and approval of parents does not gibe with the action of these members of Congress who realize that if the women get the vote the child-labor evil will be wiped out. The women of America are the friends of the little children, and if they could effectively speak their opinion by the use of the ballot the child-labor evil would soon be relegated to the realms of ancient history. "The vote on the child-labor bill is only another indication of the way in which the woman suffrage proposition is tied up to many of the great questions now confronting our people. Every vicious interest, of which the liquor traffic and the exploitation of child labor are conspicuous exam- ples, is violently opposed to the extension of suffrage to women. They know that the day when woman suffrage is an accomplished fact is dooms- day for themselves." The optiosition was based on the ground that the Federal Government was usurping the powers of the States in the control of their industries, hut, as was pointed out by Representative Lenroot of Wisconsin in the course of the debate, this same Congress, on the 4th of March, 1914. passed, with only three dissenting votes, a convict-labor bill prohibiting the shipment in interstate commerce of the product! of convict labor. "If we have the right to do that," said Mr. Lenroot, "and we have, then we have the right to prohibit all interstate commerce shipments of the products of child labor, which ought to be of a great deal more concern to this country than any other form of labor." Of the 4.} members wdio voted against the child-labor bill not one voted against the eonviet-labor bill. Thirty of them voted for it, 2 voted present and 9 did not vote. THE DISTINCTION OF "SEX" It is well to remember, when the amicable, well-fed, well-dressed anti- tuffrogistt, who have so much time to "protect women in the home," and who slate so calmly thai"sex is a distinction imposed by Xaturc which pre- cludes men and women from doing similar work equally well"—that it is not difficult now to prove to the antis that women "unscxiug themselves" by deserting their homes to compete with men in masculine employments is not a matter of choice, but of sleru necessity. Of the women who work, it has been found that more than 85 per cent, are forced to leave home by being compelled to support themselves and others. Every woman who docs not need to earn a livelihood has a responsibility to every one of her -Mei's who ha-- to work. 'That responsibility is certainly nothing less than to look it] mu the suffrage question in its broader aspect. Not as a personal matter of what -he herself wants, hut as lu what the woman who must work needs to make lighter the handicap endured by the weaker ses. who of nece*sitv must earn lur daily bread WHY WOMEN WANT TO VOTE The United States Government upends 63 cents out of every dollar of the total yearly budget for wars past, present and to come. Politicians are filling the newspapers with their pleas for more money for an "ade- quate army and navy." Vet Dr. C'laxton. United Statu Commissioner of Education, says there are between |.< OO, 00 and 5,000,000 Illiterates In this country, and that S.'u.oooa year, for ,"ii years, properly expended, would wipe out illiteracy. I he I'nited States Government also spends 4 per cent, of its annual income or) the Department of Agriculture. It spends lull one-fiftieth of 1 per cent, on the Federal (. hiMun's Bureau. WAGES AND BABIES Tlie report of the Federal Children's Bureau shows thai babies whose fathers earn less than $10 a week die at the rate of 2j6 per thousand, while those whose fathers earn $J5 or more a week die at the rate of 84 per thousand. Where mothers are employed a large part of the time in heavy work babies die at a rapid rate. In one group of nineteen mothers whose babies all died, lifteen had been keeping lodgers. In houses where water was supplied by pipes the death rate was 118 per thousand as against n;8 per thousand where water was obtained from the outside. BE SURE TO TELL HIM The Xcw York Slate Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is urging its inembi 's to "tell every man you meet, your tailor, your |>ostman, your grocer and your dinner partner, that you are opposed to woman suf- frage." The \ew York Tribune hopes the 90,000 sewing-machine opera- tives, the 40,000 saleswomen, the $3*009 laundry operatives, the Jo.ooo knilliug and silk-mill girls, the 17,000 women janitors and cleaners, the u.ooo cigarniakers, to say nothing of the 700,000 other women and girls in industry in New York Slate, will remember, when they have drawn off their long gloves and tasted their oysters, to tell their dinner partners that they are Opposed to woman suffrage because it might take women out of the home. THE COMPANY HE KEEPS Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan has publicly declared that the Democratic party cannot afford to stand with the brewer and the saloonkeeper against woman suffrage. At a dinner of Democratic editors in Indianapolis he said : "A man is known by the coni]>any he keeps, and I want to tell you now that the man who prefers the saloonkeeper's company to that of his wife will not be in the Democratic party long. If we are going to favor woman's suffrage we might as well go the whole hog and drive the saloon out of polities. HELP THI CAUSE.—HMbISSJ •*- MtryUid luffraf* N.w. Wb— Patroniiiag Our AdvwtiMn. |