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SUFFRAGISTS IN MASS MEETINGAttendance Was Not Large But 13n-tfjnwIiwjJn Makes Up For Lock of Numbers.—Suffrage Widely IMacussed.REV. HOLLAND FOB THE 'WOMENSecretary of Iowa Equal Suffrage Association Told of Work ofOrganization. [ «keHAIterProiITJ.ricktratdellSunFrom Saturday’* Daily.The suffrage mass meeting at the high school auditorium last night was attended by a small but enthusiastic audience. The addresses given by Rev. J. W. Holland and Mies Mabel Lodge set forth the reasons why we should have equal suffrage, the advantages likely to arise from the granting of the ballot to women, and the progress of the equal suffrage movement in. the United States.Mr6, Marlon McFarland Walker presided st the meeting and the Invocation was given by MrB. George Philpot. In his introductory remarks Rev. Holland stated that the arguments against equal suffrage largely sprang from ignorance and bigotry and that civilization now 1b just about as high as man alone can push it. In his address proper Rev. Holland dealt with woman suffrage in its relation to the great moral and child welfare questions now before the voters. Among the points brought out by the speaker were tlie following: Women are naturally more interested in moral and child welfare tjueBl.lons than mon can he; that it is suicidal for civilization to continue to deny the ballot to the bettor-half of the population; that we are now disfranchising our largest class of native horn citizens; that the ballot will not deprive woman of her love for children; anti that the mother can protect her child better by the ballot than ly stumping the state.Miss Lodge, secretary of the Town Equal Suffrage association spoke chiefly on the work of the association, the legal processes uaces-ee sary to secure the full ballot to women, and the progress of the moye-to meat, According to the figures presented by the speaker, nine states now give woman the full ballot, nineteen allow women to vote on school and municipal questions, Illinois also allows them to voto on moral questions and two give them the privilege of voting on bond issues making thirty-one states in which women have the full or par-tiar ballot. Equal suffrage will bo a prominent issue in the November elections in seven states this fail and in four slates the equal suffrage amendment bus already passed one session of the state legislature. The benediction was given by Prol. D. S. Wright.Preceding the meetingan' automobile parade paBsed up and down | [■( the principal streets. The autos were decorated with Votes for Women” banners and . pennants and the continuous tooting of horns served to call the attention of theI LI,. . „ 1L. *Vln fino tbnreg:resiill 5] ma1 the bin let. an for fro ani enlt; ma gre floe lea ]olda i ha! ofSOIofwhedandeglibisth.wiHiMiWGIdFiline
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Cedar Falls Record
Cedar Falls, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 15, 1914
Page 8
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