Show 1 i t. t t t U f t I t A VOICE FOR WOMAN i t ft 4 4 4 4 4 4 M 4 MM it it appears that the cause of or suffrage a a sturdy champion in the person the of-the Hon lion homas l M. M WaIler Waller Governor of Co Connecticut j leAking at the Washington ashington Birthday banquet of the jit Q Sons of the thc American Revolution in n New NewHaven ew Haven last Saturday Governor Wailer Waller referred to toe toie The ie e liberty Americans enjoy as a result of of tile the h heroism of their Revolutionary fathers but s said aid he ho Itis s you know but a few years jears ears ago that with the tile freedom we WC then had we held in slaver slavery four foul mil mil- ii ji lions li S of people and en even n today our freedom enk enMa en- en k Ma f as it is refuses to give gi to one half our peor peo- peo I peor copie co- co r r pie and the mothers of the other half a right to tov say v i say ay n a word as to who shall shah rule over them I Governor WaIler Waller supplemented these pointed 1 JB with t th e statement that he believed the time would K come come when the men of this coun country r would I r wh why women ever were held in political I l bondage j If His Excellency were to pay Utah a r J T would find plenty plEnt of our male citizens ex's ex ex- s 's I pr ing the s ame iame mc wonder Female disfranchise disfranchise- disfranchiseS S ment 1 where ere it it exists is nothing more and nothing j i j. j t t than han a relic of t that at barhm barbarism sm which re- re Q wo woman an as a chattel chatt I and from the the bonds of i which modern nations ar are but just shaking themselves them them- J sel selves selS S free i Closing l in his brilliant and incisive c speech Govi Gov Gov- i l Waller said 1 1 cannot for forthe the life of f me meI I thank for the of freedom 1 large measure Amen Ameri- 1 can ean men nen en enjoy without speeding th tIme the day when when American can women can if thc they enjoy a like measure of it And ih in spying s ing this I to know I now that I am echoing M the time words of the illustrious John JohnM Marshall and a long line lime of other great men whose careers adorn our history Such a Daniel come to judgment as the tile gallant gallant gallant gal gal- lant and eloquent Nutmeg Executive is not to bp G lost sight of in a naughty world His us usefulness to toa toa a a great eat cause badly in need of powerful advocates in a section largely deaf to its claims and appeals ought to be bc great and amI the tile national organizations Of Af women who are fighting the thc battle for th the general ral enfranchisement of th their ir sex should se see thit to th it that he is thanked antI and ml encouraged to fresh efforts s sill ih ill their behalf For one thing he should be induced induced in in- to see sel for himself t the 1 workings of woman suffrage sixth in iii inthe the Western Vestern States which have had the independence of thou thought ht and sense of justice to tu establish men and women upon an equal pla plane le of f political rights He would find conditions the tue co con contemplation con con- 1 I of which would increase his ardor in the tile fight and would return to New England a a. dou doughtier dought ht ier champion than ever eyer of the wives and mothers of f fhi f hi his bis Comil Commonwealth t i |