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; - - ' - THE NEWS AND OBSERVER. r Z SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 24. 1915. AS 4- WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE Address of Chief Justice falter Clark Before W. C. T. U. Convention - I appreciate the honor of twin aaa t to address- this Intelligent conven tion eC an organisation which baa none w macn ror (h great fauee of temperance and for tha betterment of conditions throughout tha Union, and tha world. ' Yoar order began, aa I understand, with tha ahTorta of a few good woanen at Hltlebore). Ohio, in 1171. In 1IT4, Just 41 years ago tba flrat 8tato orge alaatloa waa formed aad from thane it haa spread until H covers not only tha entire Union. but maay other ronntrlea. Tha flrat Kate organtsa tion In North Carolina waa formed 12 yeara ago for thla la your Ilrd an nual convention and you now number . In thla State to chapter and have been a powerful Influence for rood that la far mere extensive than the mere membership of your order, for your views have been like a lump of lea Ten which lesveneth the whole body politic. Among the planke adopted labour original platform the three mpet Im portant were 1. Total abstinence which waa tha pledge to be given by individual 1 Prohibition of the) uaa of epirttuou liquor by law which haa now succeed d to the extent that In if etatea' there la statewide prohlbi tion. applying to certain territory therein, ao that on the whole It la estimated that TO per cent ef the area of the Union and 4 per cent or more f f our ppoulatioa are under prohibi tion by law. a. The third Important plank In your platform waa equal auffrage. Thla laat, like prohibition haa had a wonderful growth and It la upon that Subject that I have been Invited to apeak to you tonight. Marvetoae Growth. The growth of equal aulfrage ha been almoat aa marveloua aa that ef prohibition. The two movement have crown becauea to a large extent, ex cept la the South, they have had the same poorer behind them. Indeed they hare the eame great object in view of the betterment of the maaaea and rt tha condition of the people and it ia very certain that they have the am great foe. The greatest oppon ent of equal auffrage. the 'element that furnishes The money that la fight -'ng Ita progreea 1 the eame that ha fought prohibition that la the power ful liquor interest of tha country who find their profit In debauching men end the vicloua lntereata that find their profit In debauching woman. The National federation of Labor aad State and local organisation everywhere Inaiatently demand equal suffrage for women. At bottom the movement for equal suffrage I a de mand for Justice as to compenaatlon for women who are now employed in every department of labor and for fair treatment to women and chil dren by restricting the hour of labor and an age limitation upon the ex ploitation of children. The United State Induatrial Commission which haa been examining for two yeara paat Into the condition of labor haa reoom mended a on of the most urgent and surest aourcee of relief auffrage for women who, they say. are now exploited by unjust im and over worked hecativ? thev are without tire protection of the ballot. There are a great many good men who oppose hoth measure, and with enure sincerity and without eel fish Interest. Such men must be reaaoned with arid n"bl, denounced because they difler from you. Thl haa hern the pf'.llcy which has been pursued by your organisation and by the Kqual Suffrage League. The majority of men mean well and are honest and Just. Vast numbers are for the exist ing order of thing because by tem rvrament they are opposed to change or heciute they have not been In formed to the injustice of the ex isting status or of the betterment which haa been obtained by actual trial of new measures elsewhere. To secure ay betterment or any reform require, therefore, long agitation and many campaign of education. ' The majority at bottom mean well. How ran they be Informed unless they are ehoern In 11 on a referendum In this State there whs over lOd.000 ma jority against prohibition In H08 on nnother referendum there ws 44.000 majority for It. . JausttSabtjr Rapid Kxteaiatoa The cause of equal auffrage haa beea .'unified by it rapid and Irresistible extension. No reform movement caa pread to new territory unless It haa been tried and found to be an ad vantage In the communities in which li haa been adopted Equal suffrage nn be Julg-d by this standard for no tireat movement has .been more lr tesistible In its sweep. It haa long been, adopted throughout the great island continent f .Australia which covers a larger area than the United Stateeyand In New Zealand which la aa large a Great Britain and Ireland combined. It has been adopted In Norway. Sweden. Denmark. Finland, and Iceland,. Nowhere haa ft been repealed. In 12 -etatea and t territory ' olxhe United SLetca embracing 4t per cent of the area of thla Union It haa bean adopted and 4,400.000 of women ere now Oafranchrtsed voter for Presd- f ro. uarm to Qwtt Totmotio T T 1 I I , IT A nil ii I v'n do. A' Rb J. 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Throughout Can da they hare this partial auffraga and the prime minister haa announced that ha will aubmlt to the coming Parliament the measure of full auf frage for woman equally with men. The Queen ef Holland who with rare ability haa succeeded In keeping bar country out of the vortex of w though surrounded on all aide by th warring nation of Oermany, Belgium and England announced recently In a speech from tha throne that the ques tion of full auffrage would be sub mitted to thla Parliament with her recommendation for it adoption. It I no wonder that aha think other women competent to, take a ahare in the government equally with men when ah has boon so successful ip that Una herself. In Italy there are Indication of similar action. Through out Oreat Britain and Ireland women have had the municipal auffrage, th right to vote in city elections, for 10 years, and they have been shamefully postponed la achieving full auffrage by a Parliament which waa elected on a pledge to give them full suffrage and which haa voted by a two-thirds vote 7 different times for the bill on Its second reading-only to be thwarted by great Influence which are aald to be largely in th lntereata of the great breweries of lh kingdom. . Many Giro Bapport- Thor are other amaller localities snd countries which have adopted equal suffrage in whole or in part In thla country It will be sufficient to look at the development In the laat few days. The Prealdent of th United States haa announced hia ad heaion to equal suffrage and hi belief that It will benefit the exardae of tha suffrage by all. The Secretary of war. th Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Navy and other aecretarle bestd the personal sec retary of the President, Mr. Tumulty have made the earn announcement In fact ao far aa known, not a single member of the Cabinet opposes equal suffrage Vlce-Prealdent Marshall. Champ Clark. OuTSpeaker of th House (and air. Wilson leading op ponent for the nomination at Balti more) favors a.ffrage at did one of hia ablest predecessors. Thomas B Reed, J. R. Mann, the Republican floor leader in the House; and even Joseph O. Cannon, the ex-speaker of the House and a atand pat politician of th most pronounced order, have announced themselves lor equal aur frag. Theodore Roosevelt twice Prealdent of the United 8tatea and th leader of the Progreaalve party Is also a pronounced advocate of thla groat measure of equal rlghta to all. In the last national campaign th Progressive party, th labor party, tha Prohibition party and tho Socta list all placed In their platform a plank demanding equal suffrage. The Democratic and. tho old lino Kspuoti ran platforms were silent on the sub ject it Is very certain that if either of the shall place a plank demand Ing equal suffrag In Its platform at the next national convention the other will do th same. Archimedes th great engineer aald that if he .could only And a fulcrum, a plae n which to rest his lever, he could turn the world over. Th4 worn aa have found their fulcrum and their lover. They cast on hslf th votes already In If tatea which elect one-fourth of tho f'nlted Statee Senate, one-sixth of th House of Representative and one fifth of the Presidsntial ' lectora There are 4. 000. MO women who now have an equal right with men to vote for Prealdent. and It la beyond any question, that no man can ever here after be tee candidate of any party for Prealdent who la opposed to equal suffrag. No political party could ar ford to risk such a candidate with 4, Of women holding th balance of power. Powerful Influences Against. Beside thla. T state are to vote In Was than a month, upon the admission of Women to th ballot box. Among these are such states aa .New York. Massachusetts. Pennsylvania and New Jersey. No one can fores how these states will go. We know the powerful Influence of Inertia and of opposition to chanr and the effect of the vast iints that will bo span! by the- tlquor nd other Interest opposed to suf frage. Bak If any of these state ehould show a majority for the measure, or even a powerful vote In It favor, the effect will be enormous throughout tho country. There Is a constitutional amendment proppeed to prohibit any discrimination by th tatea, by reason of sex, a to th suf frag. Thla measure obtained a ma Jority in the laat Senat aad very pearly a majority in th House. If suffrag shows up .strong In these elate that are to vote shortly there cob be little question that the cony stltutlonal amendment Will receive the nst oasai ; two-thirds thl winter la Omtotfy mm rmttymiuiCnoy 1 0fM mum m mommt mmnmr ' f a s u Station C,riew York, W.V. m hi h i h i ia,i !. efu Is iihiisi e ii i r ssi mi ihwsm line sij sis siini . tl f DO it, ine 1 ' d OBBBV . ii, . A (csiti t: (HI I? hoth houae of Congreea While we of tha South do not favor federal constitutional amendment! affecting the suffrage th effect of tho voting In the state named will probably command the necessary twe-thirda vote In Congreea. The national con vention of W. C. T. IT. passed a reso lution In favor of equal auffracTO In lttt and has done ao at every session since. The same haa been dons In nearly every atate convention, though I do not believe thla haa been done by your State convention In North Caro lina. Having spoken of the Irresistible progress of the movement and the strong proof thus given by axperlewce of the benefit of th measure wher ever It has been adopted. It may he welt to name briefly a few of the other reasons in favor of it. Thomas Jefferson 1 00 years ago said "It la Incomprehensible that govern ment ahould refuse th ballot to tha best and most Intelligent woman.. but confer It on th most besotted aad Ignorant of men." Abraham IJncoin aald "Suffrage, should ha confers! upea all of Suf ficient age and Intelligence by no mean omitting women." Reduced to the last analyst th Justice of the demand for equel suf frage and therefore It aurceea or fall ure depend upon the question wheth er women a a claaa have sufficient in telllgence to vote. Stripped of all aham compliments and evasion by Ita opponents, thl I th whole question The 'Mohammedan were 'unwilling to admit that women are the equals of men and therefore hold that thy have no souls and can not go to Heaven when they die. There are men among ua who are unwilling tq admit that women are their equals of men In intelligence and therefore they oppose granting them a share In the government by giving them a vote at the ballot box. Th DisqaallScatloBS. Th North Carolina ih only two dl- qtialiflcationa for auffrage are lark, of intelligence and lack ef character Children do not vote because thev have not the requisite Intelligence end Ar. arbitrary line le drawn at 11 year of age. Idinta and lunatics are de barred because they are mental de fective. Convict, becauee they are moral .defective And then the only other cles debarred are. women. We know that they are not debarred as moral defectives because your Jail snd penltentarlea will show to men or more for every woman therein Im prisoned. The only ground of dis qualification therefore that can be aa. Signed 1 that they ar mentally In competent. Illiterates (If negroes) ar disquali fied becauee a a class they are not dgjemed mentally oompetent. Why ehould the mothers, wtvss. daughters and titers of the whWe ef North Carolina bo disqualified from a share in the government by being placed with those dlafranchlssd for the above reasons T Tasattoa WMhetu RepreeentatloeL W fought th great war for Amerl caa Independence upon the propost tlen that taxatloa without repreeen- tatlom waa tyranny. Men, died l that 'prlneaBl and our Independence was based upon its recognition. It is said that one-third of the property In North Carolina Is owned by women and that more than one-half of the reperty In the groat city of New Tork te ownd by them. In last Sunday laaus of the New Tork Time appear ed a nst of over iO person who had been asssssed for taxation on more than II. . of personal property. Among the names of tho very weal- thieet. I were women. Tot aot on ef them was deemed of sufficient in tetligene to cast her vote as to how tne. taaee paid oy nor anouia oe ex pended, or who shoeld be selected to expend them. K newspaper writer baa demoted the eeeae at the last president! stsnttoa when atlas Helen OouloV (ojho 1 now married) came dewa the street ea election day tn her state. It was stated that she owned e-rer l40.Mt.Stl of property: that aae paid probably one half million dollars or tax annually and taat waen uie aute stopped near the voting booth hr negro chauffeur got out and do posited his ballot for- prestdset and for all ether official a, state aad city, while she' who by her taxes eentribat- ee largely te the' support of the irsramsat was allowed ae vote. Why T - Solely because she waa gtrllty tatf visas' ft fBrtsWfsf'af 'fctsOff BaV" man, snd for Be other reason. Ia (a telllgenea, patriotism and personal character she waa th equal of asy maa was put a ballet ta the sex mat day. bat she here the Stigma ef being a woman and was held asrerthy. chlsad. - Our immortal Declaration ef Independence declares that "all men are born free aad equal". This esr taUnly een brace women -a welt as ausJ 4. ad aae armada aaaassa asT Sao J)&!ffiGD(c3 Why don't you save money on tires like your friends do? Have you asked any friends of yours how their Diamcmd Squeegees are standing up on local streets and the roads in this vicinity ? a - - A. nrsT. cnance you get. You don t want to spena any more money than necessary, on tires, do you? YouTl be interested to learn what un usually fine mueages DiamorKl Squeegees are delivsrinc right her smoof your friends snd oquairitance. Then remember mat you don't pay " high-list " prices for Dialnorid Squeewees. They sell at Fair-Llsrt " prices. Your local Diarnond dealer will gladly teTJ you of other records that he knows about. DIAMOND 'rAnt-LIST" PRICES . . . Dlamoexl , . Diamond mam Squeegee) bbss) Squeegee SObS 4S 94b 4 I203S WilH 12.20 Mb4 18.70 22 b 2H K M 27 bS 33.00 Mb 4 20.00 bH 44-00 ernraeat damaada "equal rlghta to all and special privilege to none " Why then thla discrimination agalnat one half of the raroT Pats Woaaea WIUi -Year Olds The ahawer le to be found In th unguarded statement of a well known public man who, when aaked If he favored auffrag for women, replied "Certainly. I am In favor of women voting and children. down to ( year old." He thus stated frankly, what others conceal by unlimited compli ment to the sex. that he believed that women had no more intelligence and were no more fitted for th auffrage than year old children . With the record that equal euffraice haa made in tha Stctea and countries which hav adopted It. and with the list I have already given of the leaders or all political parties from President Wilson and Vice-President Marshall down It la Strang that any Intelli gent man ran avow thla belief. It Is stilt more strange that any woman In the land can endorse auch statement. Among the reaaons for equal suf frage te th fact that women today ar engaged In almoat every Industry at breadwinner and their active par ticipation in public affair meana bet ter government not only for them but for all. and a fair (hare In the dia buraement of the fuada to which they contribute so largely by texatlun In North Carolina I believe the women are nearly nlnr-tentha of the teachar and they receive on an average about one-half the rate of pay given U men. which laat do not receive adequate compenaatlon themselves. Certain It la that women do not receive In that calling or any other In this State "equal pay for equal service " They will not do ao until they command respect and Justice by casting the bal lots which shall select public servant and ahape lust legislation. In North Carolina women serve as clerk In public office end In fait discharge official duties In some of our moat impur'.ant omces whose nominal offldala are frequently absent from their poet of duty. In our coun tiea women have been deputy clerks for the Superior Court clerk and have taken probate of deeds. Competency to do this Is not a matter of aex. Under the Federal Constitution, wo men la not disqualified to hold any office from President down. Women have often been postmasters and filled other offices under the government Neither in England nor In any con stitution of North Carolina haa there ever been a requirement that the right of suffrage and the right to hold office should be the ami. Nor waa there any reason why thsy should Suffrag ha been conferred necessari ly on arbitrary Una as to age. or property owning, or otherwise, mark ing out certain large classes nut office holding la at). individual matter requiring; peraonal selection of indi viduals competent to fltt the duties of in position. In England many thouaeudi of Its office holders were alaraya. most especially down to the recent exten- aion of auffraga In that country, -not qualified voters. Change In Qaalfcatioia In this etata for years after our ConsUtuUoa was adopted at Halifax no one could vote for Governor or for many other office unless he waa a member of the Lstgialaturs; for it yeara no on waa a qualified voter for the Staee Senate ualeea tie owned St ST. MARY'S SCHOOL - RALEIGH. 9. O. a- roanded tn 1S4S by Maw. Alder Ssaaafea, O. B, SatFTCJatBER IS, 11S. rtiACES ASUGXED - Df ORPKR OF - ATTLfCATIOir. ; Br CatsJofw aad f1lsteaef REV.GEO.tW.-IAT irJL., WDCTOS. - - - acres of land; for M years a one waa a qualified voter for other state effleers tha Governor or (or Jadgea -Bales he ware a member ef the Legislature. Yet during ail these yeara It waa atver euTgwetd that unless s aaaa were a. ejallBd voter tor particular efloe he waa not eUgthle te held it A artaa - oeald be ohoeea Qevernor or Judge without being a umber ef the Legislature. Under the proeent Oba stituUoa of lltl, aa under prevloea ones, there are qualifications required for, office holding which are aot re quired for voters and qualifications for voter which are aot required tor office holder. The latter .are publlo servants and there ta ao reaaoa for preventing- the public having the oea v'.cee of those competent to fill a posi tion. Beyond the constitutional restriction aa to the age at which any one can Income Governor or State Senator there I In our Constitution, as It la written, no restriction whatever as to holding office. There were formerly restrictions requiring certain offldala to own a certain number of acre of iHnd but thee have been repealed. The only restriction now In our Con Mltution leealdea tho as to age of certain official! lr th provision pro hibiting the legislature from barring any voter krim office unless such oter I disqualified a a convict. Krason For RaetrtoOon. Tha reason of thla restriction was becauee when the Constitution was adopted In I Mi negroe for th first time were admitted to suffrag. and those ithen In power feared that the time Would come when the oppoeite political party might eek to disqualify them from holding office. Tat auch la the power of preconceived opinion ' 'hat we now behold women debarred fiom holding any position whatever without any constitutional provision or Iclslative art forbidding them and indeed contra rv to express legislative authority enabling them to do ao. An examination of the law from the earliest time In England down to the present time In thla country will (how manv moat u r. J ust discrimina tion agalnat women In almoat every respect, but It will show. alao. that with scarcely an exrtptlon they have all been created by judicial decisions and not by legislative enactment. In deed, th leglslaturea have been buav from time to time removing thee un tuat discriminations created by Judge Wnmin. however, cannot expect a re mnva! of all unjust dlaerlmlnatlona against them, which ran be renewed hy construction of some court aa taat as leclslatures remove them, until they poaaeas the power of the ballot Nov women have to beg and beeeech for Justice and an equal opportunity to mave a living With the ballot In their hands they ran command of legislature and all others. Justice for themselves. There ar n Inlqul'le a-ree4e .then those reused by war No suffering that romparea to that inflicted by It If It were required that no country ehould enter upon wur without a re ferendum to the ballot box there would be few wars and If the referen dum were made to an electoral one half nf whom are women, upon whom chiefly falls the burdens and miser! of war. w should at last ree that day fcretold bv the prophets of old "whan there shall be no more war" and not till then AraaaueuM Against. It may be well to nolle a few of the arguments urged agalnat thla great act of justice to one-half of our people ard lv no meajis the worst half. Mr Taft. who la one of the few men of national Importance who atlll avo hie opposition to auffrage. in a recent article was 'ulr enough to admit that the hoary argument that becattae wo men do not bear arms thev should not cast votes ha no villdlty for h frankly said that a verv la.rgepropor tlon. more than half of the men who dp vote, hy reason of age. or physical debllitv ar Incompetent to r aoiaier He also frankly admitted that there were 1 000.000 women who were earning their-own livelihood In thl country and who were not voting through their husbands because t mil lions of them had no husband or were wldowa snd that In many casen th husband did not vote th wishes or for th lntereat of the wife Certainly the men who vote on the side uf llqour could In very rare Instance be said to represent the view nf their wive Mr. Taft waa driven as th last resort to th proposition that where eaual suffrage had been triad while It had not brought about propheaid evil It had accomplished no good In parucu lar. That poaitlon ia utterly Illogical bemuse If the suffrage I a cipher where It haa been adopted how can It be a prospective harm In the state where It haa not been adopt j? Would S lot lte Compulsory The only other argument Mr Taft could advance was thst the women did not care for the suffrage Thla hi also Illogical for how ha It happened that an many atate and ronntrlea have adopted It and that It Is pending In so many more as In Italy. Holland. Kngland and ranaria besides the state of thl I'nlon which ar to vote on th question In the next few days? Surely eom women must be In favor of the measure. It 1 Iru that all women do not want It but that la no reason why thoae who do wish It should be disqualified There is no law requiring men to vote nor will there he any requiring women to do o We know ttrrr tn rht Hrat not- more than "70 per cent of th whit men entitled to vote go to the ballot box at any election. And that ''.the average in most of th State. Over thrre In Virginia I believe only 4t per cot voted at the laat election, and In Mississippi not more than 10 or It per cent voted. Rut no one would think of restricting male suffrage upon that ground. In State whre the wo men vote about the earn par centage of men and woman go to th polio. Thla Is a complete answer to those w ho say that women do not wish to vote. Km To Woman' Sphere. Then there la the triumphant argu ment that "woman'a aphere I at home." This 1 ths argument of thoee who at heart believe, like the Turk that every wife should be a prlaonsr le her husband a house. But there are aorae 10,000,000 womenf In thla cruntry whoee dally aphere la not at home but In tolling In tb great In dustries of ' ths country, helping to create Ha wealth to maintain tha gov ernment and te alleviate Buffering. Some time: ago the--women- in -New York proposed to test this queetlon by getting every - woman -to remain at home for 14 hours. Th ahock waa Immediate The. newapapers pointed out that If this waa dona tho tele phone would be silent That In most homes where there were cook who exitd wet 'rente, there would b no meals: thst In many (tores there would be no one to wait ea easterners; thai, the great factories tn many Una of wrork would cease to move; that the children would Snd few teacher to ryCeVeBqBf 'afotfll 44aart. 4a"J4fff -sffMtitf y4se) k tters, for the typewriter would cease te click; that courts would he without stanograyhsrs and haepltale without a a raw and In' abort that ine great tropohs would be paralysed a by n dagger -h4.ta hert The argument that woman's aphersree-hoBie ta thna completely dispeiiso... - Peatdes, if a woman's ehlef sphere le ia her heme,ag It le with man of the brightest and most useful member eg the sea, they are tbare doing a HOW THE BOYS CAN GET A Watch FREE Spend $10.00 CASH with us and we will give you a WATCH FREE, or return $10.00 worth of cash register receipts and get a WATCH FREE. 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They should havs a volnr In selecting the public serv ants who will se that law to our thoae vll ar put In fore under fear pt Incurring the dtspleaeur of so .In telligent a part of the elector, who will not brook or tolerate public aerv anta who neglect their doty or chaffer, a aome official do now. with th vicious lmnt- The Nesjm Araaaneat. Finally aa a special scarecrow to us southern men w ar told thst If womn are allowed to vote It will Jeopardise the disqualification of ne- aroea Whether negroea are qualified or dlaquallned for urrraae depends upon the lath amendment and the federal atatute for Ita enforcement which I a matter for th federal court. The admission of women to the euffrag by th Stat can have no bearing whatever upon th auffraga for th colored race. 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Racing trotting and running, Motor-Cycle Racing, Football iQarjij and. many other free attractions. AJGreat Midway futt of fun for'alf. " BETTER BABIES CONTEST Address by Hon. Locke Craig, Governor of North Carolina, and Mrs. Maggie L- Walker, head f the Great St- Luke Organization anf Bank. Let everybody take a day off, come visit the Capital : City of North Carolina, meet old friends, make new ac quaintances, and jee the Greatest Negro State pair lq the " United States. ; '" 1 ' ADMission 25c to HE-E -BERRY O'KElXYrPrestdeat-- . , CW. HOOVER, Treasurer.:;: PR. NUMBER II EAST MARTIN ST. negro man and th negro woaaea blned. Evan In those I ataiea tha whits men upon the actual ballot ale way heavily outvote the negro maa and our chlvalroua men will surely see to it that the whit women in " thoee at alee outvote the negro women. - The euggeatlcn that In soma -Intelllglbl way. If whit women ar permitted to vote this will permit '' negro men to vote who are now dis qualified haa as Its counterpart the. very lucid and logical statement that "the little negro boys tie the ostrich's leg te the roooanut tree and that ac counts for the milk In the cocoanuL" OisoObs of Sunneeg Those who demand that there shall be no speatal privilege for men which are not given equally to women. In sharing the control of fevemmeaO at ace there Is ao distinction la their- " bearing their share of the taxes to support government, and ths women suffer even mors than ths man from the evil ef bad government have had ' a long and weary road to travel. But tbey have made great progreea Thoee laaat few aye have boon full of wmene ; of suoreas. Th next It daya may give us proof that the hostile rsak are broken and there ia before ua the dawn nf a brighter day. in the language of th poet: "For now th deep denea plumes of Night are thinned Surely with glimmering ef the win nowing wind Whose test are fledged with mora Ing." We know not th hour but th day la aurely "on Its way" when aa the aun shall sink to rest in thee rimaon west It ahall throw back Ita raye upon a I'nlon tha laat of whose etatea In th language of the glftel Irish '' era tor. Curran. "shall stand forth re deemed, regenerated and disenthrall ed by th Irresistible night of universal emanclaptlon" In which womsn ne longer victims of unjust dlscrimlns tlon shall share In the control of the government and not bear, as now an Tjntttl0 tMfcofsBr &t 4f 9 klirAww A Hoi 4Bw4fcB' " - right to all." (hall be a fact and net a mere phrase. When that day ahall come. It will take rank with that other historic day. which announced a purer ard better civilisation, "When out of F-erypt. forth from bondage, lsral rame" J. H. LOVE, Secretary. . i f r
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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