Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 58 | Dixie Suffragists Call Ballots for Women the Best Guns for Defense

t I Dixie Suffragists Call Cal Ballots for I Women the Best Guns for Defense I t i I 1 Washington Feb 23 There J.-There There are r women from er e every state In thu th union now working for the passage by tl tilt Senate of tho the suffrage amendment In Inthe Inthe intire the tire capital and there will wil be le more here before the tho bill bi comes up for tor a vote vole E cr Every senator finds his Iris office bombarded bombarded bom bom- barded banded with requests for tor a a little talk from suffrage workers and no rio senator senator senator sen sen- ator but what gets bets su such h a a. a request some time or other from a woman woman from h iris his hI own state tc Two women omen who iro have done dono valiant work for tor the cause causo have staked out for Cor their particular attention 1 n certain wing of tho tire Senate Serrate They Ther aro are Db Dixie e women Ir Mrs Guilford Dudley nn and 1 Mrs Harry R. R and and tire the lle wins wing which gets their particular at attention is II the Dixie wing the s senators from states below the Mason Iason arid antI Dixon line litre I wonder If you OU have hae an any an- concep concep- then tion ton of oC the intense feeling of ot humiliation humla- humla humilia tion ton south southern rn women experience when the they discover er er that the to the submission of or our federal suffrage amendment to the states slates comes front from southern statesmen asked Mrs frs Dudl Dudley of an air Interviewer In- In recently She is President of tho tire Tennessee Woman oman urge Suffrage as- as Sedation The have They withheld our enfranchisement en- en for two reasons which reason we e for lor a time accepted the accepted the state tate rl rights doctrine and the n i lem C nit As to tho tiro negro problem the women of oC the tIre south feel that tho thu tInts time has como come to la lay hay once and arid for all al this tins old old olti ghost which winch still stalks the tire halls hails of oC Congress Congress This phantom has line outlived its Is time even for what is known In the south as a hant hant In Inthe Inthe Inthe the fifteen states south of ot Mason Mison arid and Dixons Dixon's line lne the excess of oC white alone over t twenty one wen one t-one years a rs ago above all al negro men and arid women if Il like I age O OIs Is There are arc on only two t southern southern south south- ern era states where the negro race Ismore Ismore is ismore more than titan 50 sa ire per cent of ot the tion ton In Iii South Carolina the tire per cent of or negroes according to the tire federal census cenSUs cen can sus sirs of oC 1910 was 6 2 In this stateS state voters must bo be able ablo to read and t trey ticy le must own and aird Ja pay taxes on OO worth of or property In Mississippi the per pel percent cent of oC negroes Is 15 G 62 and there vat vot- 4 I V 1 s F C t M AS M tA rS h. V K X MA a 5 rk v v k b ba vv vv v v F Ft w j 5 t c 4 Air Guilford Guiford Dudl Dudley y of Tennesee leloT Mr I Harry Hurry It n. 9 of ot Kentucky ers must bo be able to read the const const- The other four foU st states t s of the tho so-cale so called so-called black belt also impose an educational edu edu- test The In the tire whIte while h le population Is 23 per cent or twice that of oC the ne negro ro po population ulai Furthermore during the past nast year alone negroes have have havo left lee one southern state to go north and have gone Ione from froni three others In fn view of this fact It appears appeals that w we might transfer a share of oC our rather hysterical ll- ll cal anxieties with wih regard o 0 o th the tho menace menace menace men men- ace of the negro vote ote to other states tate When our husbands and anti brothers are going going forth to fight for demo demoI I racY we must not only assume their I tall tasks 1 at home but we must bear themore the themore I more sacred burden of ot cherish cherishing the thel InS l Ideals of oC government go for tor which tire the they I have offered their lives In order that their sacrifice ma may not bo be in vain Mrs Irs Whiteside is an art officer of or the tire Kentucky Kentuck Equal nigh Rights ts association and lives hives in I Louisville She Sire Is la a 3 seasoned 2 r. r t ft 0 i r li J W tt f t 9 i 7 A. A j j M. M r- r rf LN I P Pr K r J 4 Z FP l. l campaigner and was one of the foremost foremost fore rore- most outside talent speakers In the campaign in New York state Tho The sentiment of or the country Is turning turning surely towards suffrage Mrs Irs Whiteside says sas As I could feel It U li liNew In New ew York I can feel teel It now We Wo wil get enough senators In line we linc we lne-we we not help getting them in line lne if the they real really think think to to win In tho the Senate Serrate as wo we did in the House One of Mrs phrases Is Con Congress ress must equip American women with wih ballots They are the best guns suns In defense of or the nation