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Show MAKE A FETISH OF 80LDIERS. Rabbi Gives Reasons Why Women 8hould Be Allowed to Vote. Chicago. Kabbl Kmll Q. Hersch, addressing an audience at a mass mooting under tho auspices of tho National Na-tional American Women's Suffrage association as-sociation on Sunday, scored tho tendency ten-dency which ho declared prevails, both In this country nnd abroad, to make a fetish of tho soldiers and glorify agonts designed for tho destruction of human beings. "Tho military Idea," ho assorted, "which among tho curliest civilized nations na-tions caused war gods and tho wnr-rtors wnr-rtors to bo so absorbingly worshipped that fomalo children, because of tho unfitness of tho sex for war sorvlce, wero destroyed at birth, Is tho reason why today man has not granted and refuses .to grant to woman tho right to voto In mnttors of public policy." His conception of tho Ideal government, govern-ment, ho said, was ono founded on tho home, In which tho mother and other women wero endowed with tho right to a voto at tho ballot box on all questions portalnlng to tho government govern-ment of that homo nnd Its children, aa well as on tho lnrgor questions. |