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Show ROOSEVELT FK BALLOT FGIi WOMEN Addresses Gathering of 500 Suffragists at Sagamore Saga-more Hill. OYSTER HAY. .V. Y.. Sepi. S. omen are --rii irled to the h ill-.t s ;i r 1 ; It and l;Ot il f,l'-':', ' 'f)('if TU-Uot: PoOi'e- elt ;l patiirriuy of fiboiif. '-'"i HUi'frrj- C.it;h hi i-'.-t-iiriiorr- Hill thin a t u-rr.ojn. He dcrlared l,i;m-..'!f most ernphri t h ally in r':.".ir nf wori;,iii Mif! ;,;i. te and w.ih .f-;li'-lv applauded v. h'-n be sal. I: fiii lb w b o I ti ' I i i f fii,.-!! i' v.wnm I will ,.iv tii- g. :.. "-M ''':-'"!'' as doing tbf most ii.d;.pn. ;th.e rf all ijt:-s ik t!i.- muther. I -a ul put h-r li Ik-. t I of e r-ry of Ik I- hhin.i n I'jf Iti'. 'I'. f;V Ihe init:;f-r 1 iV- u!i- r.ti T'J in " 1 1 ic I i I i in- mt I "' j !'..-1 ; 'ju s lh.it our i h i : i iibi n t n v.ih f.i li to i:ndor-Ht:nn i:ndor-Ht:nn how we mii!d i ciin-.s;!vi;s (.if-Ki.w-r ning a rid 'leni'j'TH lie a nd y r : r ilcny It. Til is is t : Onh' mr-,'1 lug den iing Willi ;iti' maner not dire. -fly (o:iri,ct-r.l (o:iri,ct-r.l wiib Hie u-:ir at whh-h I have ron-n.-nt.-d lo Np-ak at all. I ron'-med hi this ras.s lir.-finyft t wished tu M-e tills wfir put Iluoimlr to a suc'essfui rr:-fbi.ilon, rr:-fbi.ilon, al no ina vlnniiii ' 0.t. I wish I o M- P c v f r y u i u n itr.fi c v e r v w o rn a n in I lils count r- devote every oimf. rt' bis or her Lronu t Ji lo the end. iimiI when f wIMi that demmd to be in. nli1 upon cvM'voiii; I wish corro-spmn corro-spmn I) n lc J 'is ! Ice to he ilone evfrvonfl. I Miring Hi'5 1- si t three years we lia ve bf-'-n in 1 Ik- ha hit of thinking a boil I wh:it fU-inorra'-y" men us, n nd believe that as we crow wier we will HtO.'irlUy romo to the belle," that on t bo one ha nil we inusi . in a de-iiiO'-rncy. suffer no in jiit !-e and. on the other hand, we nmut do no injustice, injus-tice, in other words, democracy iiiu.st be a typo nf political organism in which ev ;ry rl lit enjoyed is con- . d it lonetl upon a duty performed, and j every duty performed means the cor- i respond inn enjovment of a rb;ht. wish to state, with all the em- i phasls in my power, that If either j nmn or woman refuses to do Ids or j her dutv, I hold that they have no right to the privilege- of the suffrage. ! do not put it On the ground of sex. I put It on the ground of duty. T do ' not ask the ballot for woman as a favor. I say that It should be given ' tn her as h right. People say tha t If women are fciven the ballot they will fail to perform their other d titles. ti-tles. I notice that the average man ' who is most apt to say that Is the j Individ n -.il who Is not particularly of the duty-performing type himself. |