Show I NOTED ATTORNEY SAYS THE TI LAW LV IS ISTO UNFAIR TO WIVES Should Consider Consid r Latter Equal Partner in Money Haney Earned and Saved By International News Service NEW YORK Fob cb 29 uThe The allowances allow allow- ances ancos mad mado by the courts to deserted i and betrayed wives are re grotesquely in adequate Under our divorce orce laws as administered b by the courts the wife is absolutely at the mercy of an unconscionable un un- uni i conscionable husband After he ho has taken tho the best part of her life HIe ho he can put the tho pressure pressur upon her necessary to get ct nil ril of h eri h her r if he wishes to abandon her and remarry She is is forced to choose between comparative poverty and the acceptance of his terms 1 In lu such strong terms Samuel ITs Un- I t well welI known lawyer lawyor denounced the injustice 4 of laws law that affect women wo wo- i imen men men in a suffrage o speech at a bi big suffrage o rally last ni night ht in in tho the gras grand ballroom of tho the Hotel Astor Owin Owing to a a. death in his hia family Mr Jr sent his hi speech to the time committee committee com corn in in char charge e of thO the tho meeting to raise funds for the Wisconsin suffrage c camp campaign j n. n where a a vote voto will win be bo taken on tho the measure by Lythe bythe the people of the state this fall Inez Inca ead read Mr r. speech to tho the bi big au audience audience au au- ienco and it ft was ivas received With cheers Referring to the time injustice done to wives fives through divorce proceedings Mr I said This situation is is is' due ue to the refusal refusal re re- re of our pur courts in mu providing for lor forthe forthe the tho wife in marital cases to recognize her sharo in the tho dio of the husbands husband's fortune She Is Rightful Partner Tho The property relation should be beono ono one of partnership and and community of interest Instead of this t is vo wo have o the barbarous situation whereby husbands have havo tho right under tho the law absolutely absolute absolute- 1 ly to disinherit their All AIl the tho personal property acquired by him hits is iii 6 his bis own Sho She has no claim upon it even where there are no children It tilt is intolerable that women being the mothers of our children in Whom rests t the o future futuro hope of oi mankind said Mr lr should be the tho victims of such manifest t injustice as that to which they the theare are arc subjected in int inthe t the tho he present ent day Hearing that W. W M. M SInister was ivas present Inez Inca was delegated to ask aek him hini to address the meeting Mr paid a a. glowing 1 0 tribute to the Persian women declaring that it was due duc to influence and aud work largely that Persia was able to shako shake off SOO ISOP years ears of monarchy t tr r I never evor saw the tho races faces aces of Toiled women nor did I or o learn carn tho the name of ot their bi big strong stron or organization but I know tho the work actually accomplished for Pe Persia ia b by these loyal earnest earnest earn earn- est women weighed down as the they havo been by an ancient tradition and ano their hampered life I am sin proud to fo sec see lice said Mr r. r ter U the women omen of 01 this thi country work work- iu jug side sido by side with the J men nion on in the tho common cause of liberty and aud justice for the preservation of the homo home and ana anti bettered conditions in in government O nt Max Mas Eastman secretary of the Men Meris Meri's s 's Suffrage e league leane rapped Colonel Boose- Boose volts volt's recent editorial on suffrage in inthe the tho Outlook It was all aU kinds o of an editorial ho lie said aid The The only difference between it and one on of Emma Goldmans Goldman's was that the tho latter goes oes a s. little farther r in th same name direction Dr Dl Anna Ann Shaw Doroth Dorot r Dix Dh and Beatrice Forbes Robertson also allo spoke poke In Iii answer to the appeal for a Wh Wisconsin Wiscon con con- sin fin campaign n fund of f 2700 OO to meet tho the ne necessary expenses the tb entire sum stun was given |