The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 2, 1916, Page 1

DON’T BESLAVES Women of the West can help the women of the East to freedom by remaining free themselves—free from party slavery. Be independent. Vote as nonpartisans. Don’t be a slave to party buncomb. An Editorial BY Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch . . . . *. ———— Le Mrs. Biatch, photographed sitting at the editor's desk in The Star office today, when the acted as editor of edition. - _- =) nnn ee were SUFFRAGE IS DENIED VOTE Gilson Gardner Tells How Congress Has Steadfastly Dodged Debate and Ballot on Anthony Amendment. By Gilson Gardner y He knew that bis mother was a| | woman and believed that woman's |place was in the home WASHINGTON, May 2—In this congress the Susan B. Anthony amend ment for Woman Suf frage is up against the barbed wire entanglements |West where women of partisan and parliamen- tary opposition It is denied a vote with degraded politics. What the house of rep- | ‘These members have fesentatives might do if it |formed that something had a chance to debate | million women now have a right to and vote on the suffrage | vote: that over seven million wom 4 e are wage earners and therefore question is not pc e interested In economics and known, but may be ed | tics from what it did a year They have been shown the rec 174 in its favor to 204 against, while polled 34 for and ¢ Bince the vote was take Yoman suffrage orgs c nts in legislation nooks m statutes on the the |¢n’s rights Many of them have ehlefly the Congressior D vinced that women Woman Suffrage, have done and that as such Mucations) work considered as entitled to some of me of it has been done with the | the guarantees of the Constitution Voters and some of it with their and the laws of the nation rtant the women lobby ere was room for education ists have convinced many congress men that a proposal to amend the titut backed by any consid imber of people is more Imp Pepresentatives in congress. Th her ‘The average congressman has but | cons 8 faint comprehension of the aig-| erable Mificance and importance of the| passed by congress in oman movement; but the South-|the purpose of the featz benighted, 7" HE editor of The Star did not show up at the office t Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch on the job If you've reading The Star, you know offere b, ting sutfrage envoys get out one issue of The St and put into it anything they desired, how the agists accepted, and chose Mrs. Blatch editor-in VOLUME 19 | women of the Congressional Union | have taken him gently by |and led him into the political light They have told him (what he did | hot know) that there are states « | women actually have put ballots in | a box and returned uncontaminated and unbrutalized by their contact accomplished great women's property rights and wom may be people omen might be constitution |kalser’s reply to American subma: congressman is—or was—hope-|tmight be carried out, and in order/rine demands; generally believed (Continued on Page 3.) This is written by a member of the regular staff, to whom Mrs. Blatch suggested that a note of explanation should be made to readers of the paper Mr Blat 1 { her minence (she is one of the great suffrage leaders of reri , isn’t at all a terrifying person \e is very human, and very lovable we of The Star staff have found And also that she kno what she wants, and gets it he main order of the THE O {": THE ONLY PAPER IN JUST NEW PREMIER ASQUITH announced) c lin house of commons today that gov ernment had decided upon policy of immediate and general compulsory military service Asquith’s an nouncement came as a surprise, It had been understood the premier would give the volunteer system a “a weeks more trial before ask ling all married eligibles ao. well as angie men included In the conscription measure recently passed. Decision Is victory for David Lioyd-George and Lord Northcliffe parties. Will add to | British army force estimated at | 300,000 to 600,000 men. | Itations has been introduced in the FIVE HUNDRED rebels were) killed and 1,600 wounded during © seven days of street fighting in Dub-| lin, soidiers canvassing the city es timated today. Casualties far in ex- cess of early estimates. Many, corpses believed stil! undiscovered. | Hospitals are overflowing. Party of rebels today attacked police at Gar ristown, 16 miles from Dublin, wounding four; eight rebels cap tured; the rest escaped. Lord} Donoughmore, former British com- mander of Egypt, shot today while motoring north of Dublin; slightly wounded, Small squad of rebels fired on soldiers near Wstland sta- tion, Dublin, last night. Machine guns wiped out entire party. City re suming normal life. Shops reopen ing. All rebels who bore arma in uprising being taken to London for court-martial; several hundred al-| ready Imprisoned there; all may be| executed if convicted. Countess| Markelvicz, who surrendered with 100 rebel followers, is among them. Trials of others to await tWigt of Roger Casement. | FRENCH TAKE offensive at Ver dun; capture 550 yarde of trenches near Fort Douaumont. MRS, JACK BODIE, Manhattan apartments, quarrels with husband and drinks polson; doctors save her. WASHINGTON TODAY awaiting Germany will yield and promise to PAPER {": THE ONLY PAPER IN ! SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SEATTLE, day is, of course, news of WASH., Tl nt methods of subma- rine warta SENATE LEADERS will probably approve Philippine bill as it passed house, which last night downed ad. ministration bill, with Clarke amend: ment, promising island indepen dence In four years, and accepted as substitute the Jones bill, providing greater self government and ulti mate Independence, with no date given. RUSSIA WILL continue “dry” efter the war, so far as vodka is con cerned; bill for prohibition and lim duma, and its passage is assured, WITH RETURN of Roosevelt from first speech making tour to Chicago, and opening of headquar.| demand JESDAY our fight for the suffrage amendment,’ ewe IS THE SPECIAL SUFFRAGE EDITION OF TIEIE SEATTLE ’ she told the staff “But we don't want to bar the current events altogether, so you boys write itt AND KEEP IT SHORT.” That's something, by the way, that we always try to do. But Mrs. Blatch she wed us things about densation” that we had never seen before. There were a few--a very few—excepti The courthouse reporter ding in the jail MAY 2, 1916. BY MRS. HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH (National Vice Chairman of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.) Acting Editor of The Seattle Star Today. WOULD make a special appeal to the men of the West to awake to the invidious position of their own women who have been enfranchised by a mere state amend- ment. He wanted to know if he cc telephoned in abc The Seattle Star ony ONE CENT Seyi itns The men and women voters of the suffrage states So there you We hope you'll enjoy reading today’s paper as much as we enjoyed helping the suffragists “lick it into shape.” LAST EDITION Suffragists, embarked on a serious politi- cal voyage, can hope for no fairer weather than they have enjoyed in Seattle. Fore- caster Salisbury’s promise is: “Fair tonight and Wednesday.” are not on a plane of equality, because the man is protected under the great fundamental law of the nation, the United States * * *% * constitution * * ” * * * * EN have written the charter of their liberty in that instrument, but they have for- gotten to do women the same service. Article V guarantees men a republican form of government, but women liye under a male obligarchy in 36 of the states. * * NDER the XIV Ss. &* "Ser see ie ee oe amendment, a state which disfranchises a male citizen receives just punishment by the cutting down of its representation; but state after state disfranchises women with impunity. suffrage states. * * * * * * * @ THE KIND WE’D PUT GOOD “HEADS” ON IF THIS WERE AN ORDINARY DAY ters for Root and DuPont booms, presidential politics became active today ONE HUNDRED special police from Carnegie Co, brought to Pitts burg district today to guard Edgar Thompson steel plant at Braddock d other establishments where strikes are threatened. FIRST WOMAN DRUGGIST to be arrested on a charge of violat ing the dry law went on trial Tues day. She is Mrs. Mary A. Wood UT let a woman venture to fall HAT a travesty of justicel women, as well as that of men, for a national woman s uffrage s * # into what she is not, an alien. * * amendment. STRIKE BLOWS FOR SUFFRAGE Jwage scale, which is average in-} crease of 10 per cent FOURTH CONVOY of Russian troops arrived today at the West- ern front A RACE WITH DEATH was lost at Santa Rosa, Cal., when Pacificio Roschetti, 30, miner, died from ter rible burns while rushed to a hos- pital here. Last night Roschett! spiiled gasoline over his clothing, then entered a mine at Preston with his candle burning cock, proprietor of Woodcock’s| pharmacy, 604 Pike. THREE HUNDRED shingle weav: ers, meeting at Ballard Monday night, voted to strike today If miil owners do not meet wage increase } ask reinstatement of 1914 THE CRIME DOCTOR @ He believes crime is a disease. @ He believes criminals should be treated medically. @ He does not think they should prisons. be confined in @ And he has a hospital where he makes a specialty of making crooked minds straight. @ Doctor Dollar is his name. @eE. w. story, “The Crime Doctor,’ Hornung. tells about him in the great which will be the next in the novel-a-week series to appear in The Star. It will start Monday and end Saturday. | AUTO KNOCKED off fire hy drant at 63rd ave. and Hillman |place Tuesday morning; water flooded neighboring basements ORDERS CALLING out every garment worker in New York |threatened a complete ticup of the clothing trade today. SENATOR CUMMINS will leave for Oregon late this week to sup port his candidacy for the presi dential nomination In the primar. | ies. TEN THOUSAND employes of In ternational Harvester Co., Chicago, |went on strike today for better working conditions GEN. HUGH SCOTT, armed with new Instructions from Washington, holds second conference with Gen |Obregon this afternoon, Deadlock lis expected on Obregon’s demand |that U. 8. troops leave Mexico | CASE OF HARRY MUSIEL against Harry Whitney Treat for personal injury damages amount ing to $3,175 began Tuesday. Mu siel was injured In a collision RESUMPTION of Pittsburg street car service with the strike still unsettled is assured today. H. L. SHREWSBURY, city fire chief, and Assistant Clarence Grow were fatally injured at noon téday when auto tn which they were answering a fire call collided with chemical wagon, should be The message of the un- enfranchi The XV amendment protects men of every race and color in their political freedom, but sex remains the one brand of political slavery. A man from a suffrage state can take up his residence in any other state he chooses, and he will enjoy his full rights as an American citizen. Let one of them dare to migrate to Nebraska New York, and she will find herself a political outcast. * * * No so with the women of the to Massachusetts, to eo &.8: & eS MAAN is free to marry the woman of his choice without jeopardy to his political rights and, above all, to his citizenship. alien women, one after the other, and he remains what he is, an with all the rights of a citizen. alien, a whole string of American citizen, can marry ana * * © 8 € # love and marry just one foreigner, and, tho he be domiciled in this country, that woman loses not only her vote, but she is made * * * 8 & & There is supreme need that the enfranchisement of written into the federal constitution. Regard for their own women should push men in the free states into putting their shoulders to the wheel and rolling up a great voting constituency behind the demand Women Speakers Exhort Big Audience at Mass Meeting Held in Theatre; Appeal for Voters’ United Aid Jot New York; Miss B the District of Colur ed women of the /Harriot Stanton Blatch of New as delivered to an | York + Must Unite Vote audience that filled the Mrs rs pointed out that the theatre Monday ae women voters could direct the un mass meet- | “The won 1 States wish ’ oe equal terms w * she said. ays: from ; uf This can be secured only by a fed- pecia who have |eral amendment. It is the quick- West to ask aid and the most dignified way to om their visiting sister saa ae 3 7S Histhved thus Wao tHe will etd Freedom in Hands Suffrage for all women ce: national woman's now if the women votre sab Oh tk. eek hey hold the freedom of rit filled the hearts of|'!nenfranchised sisters in the : a cage ae { believe they will answer 4 cctihue juan phaly te eal to them to put vain, and that a newer, |; °aere Pe ee at aud Beant wowen| ates Insist on the passage of women of East and Weat |'%@, Amendment now. 1 belleve their common task wilh recuse pport the nant t if it fails to pass Woman Judge Presides H B. Anthony amendment Rhe May Whitehead 1 t ession of congress.” at ar kha Sheaaene ethat Fought by Mill Owners SeneL MAAR URE thereall |: at Helen Todd told how {Introduced by Mrs, Harry | big business interests who wring Treat ofit from the toil of women have Samed. 7At Meabineton (Continued on page 6.) hould feel that as long as there ts woman in the United| WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE States who wants to vote, but wh re retmdine @ or} Water w ff on Federal he sald ave, betwee st. und Bos- ie TKN sintlnwemnllt » May Mrs. John Rogers, Jr a. m, to dith Goode, of bia, and Mra. other