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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1919
Page
30
Prominent leaders including Wilson Lansing McAdoo Baker Daniels Lanz Clark Gregory Colberson Thomas Thomason and Vinson express firm support for woman suffrage. They urge immediate passage highlighting democracy justice and wartime service by women along with Texas May 24 ratification hopes.
The text compiles party stance statements from 1912 to 1916 on voting rights for women. It covers Democratic, Republican, Progressive, Prohibitionist, and Socialist positions, noting support for federal and state action to extend suffrage and endorsing universal enfranchisement without sex restrictions. It reflects historical debate before the 19th Amendment.
The article extols milk as a versatile food that can replace meat for protein and energy, improves growth with calcium, and supplies minerals and growth-promoting substances. It notes milk lacks iron, recommending iron-rich fruits and vegetables, and cites Dr McCollum urging daily milk for all ages and equal spending on produce to meat.
The suffrage question has clearly strengthened women's resolve to assume responsibility and endure hardship. Across occupations, women have shown efficiency above precedent and intelligence beyond what was seen before, earning recognition for their leadership and role in society.
At the May 25 meeting in Dallas Texas the Annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States passed a resolution endorsing woman suffrage. It asserts the justice wisdom and righteousness of enfranchising women and calls on Christian wives and mothers to help bring practical Christianity into civic life.
At the Baptist General Convention of Texas in Dallas on November 24, 1917, about 5,000 Texas and Southern Baptists voted nearly unanimously to indorse woman suffrage. Dr. George W. Truett presented the resolution, pledging support for the war effort and the right of women to vote alongside men.
The Church has not set an official view and leaves the matter to the faithful to decide. Rev. J Elliott Ross of Austin argues there is no argument against equal suffrage and that denying votes to women would fail against men as well.
The 16th Farmers Congress of Texas at College Station in July 1913 adopts a resolution endorsing equal suffrage for all Texas citizens. The vote is unanimous.
The American Federation of Labor resolves that injustice is intolerable and demands the U S Senate immediately enfranchise women by passing the Federal Suffrage Amendment now pending.
The Tactics of the Modern Maccabees, a group of over 50,000 women, reaffirmed support for national woman suffrage in a resolution adopted at its July 1916 biennial review in Grand Rapids Michigan. The declaration cites quotes from Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson urging women's voting rights and urges a vote for the suffrage amendment on May 24.
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