Show GERMAN WOMEN DEMAND BALLOT Suffrage Question Is Ts Male Made Issue Despite Governments Government's Govern Govern- melts ment's Orders Amsterdam am Jan 23 3 Despite the governments government's forcible Insistence that j I suffrage and kindred questions must j not be made the subject of agitation until after th the war three formidable national organizations ar alt are now openly behalf of ot Campaigning In G Germany on womans woman's suffrage tue the the womans woman's de- de department of or the social part party the German Imperial union for womans woman's suC suffrage and the Germ German Womans Woman's Suffrage society soCiety- These or organizations or- or have Issued a united manIfesto manifesto man man- which Is rp regarded ar ed an as the tho opening opening open open- I in ing gun Jun In a n. determined campaign I IThe The They sa say I Up to the pre present nt Germany stands I In the lowest 10 rank of nations as re regards re re- gards women's rl rights In Iii most inot civilized civi I land women have havo already been given a n large e share In public affairs German women ha have been granted rante nothing except within the most Insignificant limits 1 Among us Germans not on only I the thc national but ht even ewen the communal fran fran- ranI ran ran- I chise Is denied or even a share elmre in the I industrial anti and commercial courts Inthe in I Ithe the demand for Cor forthe the democratization of or I German public life lire our legislators do donot donot o I not seem Cm to even admit the existence i of or women J But lInt during the war th the operation co-operation of oC the tho women I In public life lire has unostentatiously unos unos- t tf grown rown from Crom year tar to year ear until today the number of women cnn engaged engaged en- en enI I n cd in various arlous callings g in iii Germany German I exceeds the tho number of or men The work they ar are doing Includes all spheres of male activity without them it would j jno no longer be e possible to support the economic life lire o of the people Women omen I have done their full Cull share shore In the work of oC the community Does not this performance performance per- per of or duty Involve ol the right to share chars In the building up and extension I of the social order The women protest against this lack I of political Ti rights They demand political poUt poUt- ical leal equality with men This first Joint pronouncement on women's demands will vill be followed h by others until the I victor victory of or our cause Is ison won on |