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Show IHARDING CALLS WQMENT0 VOTE Country Benefits by Their Participation in Politics, Message Says MARluN, '. Sept, 15. In nios-saerc nios-saerc addressed to the Republican Women's Wo-men's organisation- of Aiherlcn end the Womena Harding and Coolldge clubs. Senator Harding today not foitli his views on women In politics and why they should nllpn themSelve. with the Republican party "Our country." he said, will be well served by the participation In politics of all our cltl- nship. now Justly the constitutional grant to women." The message Lfl addressea to Mrs, Ray F. Zuckcr, president of the Women's Wo-men's Harding anj Coolidge olub of New York City, ami ll Wl to all women's wo-men's organlntlons. in his message ht referred to the league of nations, declaring that "women "wo-men are too wl.se and too fine In j moral sense to listen to teciimc.il di- 1 cusslon tending to prove thai having made a moral promise by an inde-fenelve inde-fenelve international agreemept, we eoubl Induce congress m withhold ihe action needed to perform our moral oMIgatioiiM. We must measun obligations In determination to live up j to them." TEX r Ol HESS The message .said In part: "I believe thai before r emphasie the need for any new voters to Join a particular political party, WC must em-j phnslre the need for their Joining BORIC party, and giving to the party of their choice their service, conscience, wisdom wis-dom and loyalty. "Our two party system has brought progress and prosperity to America and the party not In power has always al-ways proved capable of gaining Influ- ' ence to check recklessness or vvilful-iiees vvilful-iiees of the party having control. 'We must point out eapecially to women voters that our own party of- , fers to them the best hope of mens-ures mens-ures of social Justice, aimed at pre-; nervation of our human resource and of the American home HOU$IXG PROBLf Ms "We Republican! are committed to a policy of solving bousing problems and encouraging home -owning. The platform of our opponents falls to consider thie subject. vv . h i . d ctered specifically for a long list of. social Justice ;.nd social welfare me is-' uVes unmentinm-d by the Democratic platform. We stand now, as the Republican Re-publican party stood before ihe granting grant-ing of suffrage, for participation ofi all our citizenship In the formation of the people's free will. II is needless need-less to point to the fact that Democratic Demo-cratic votes In our congress and Democratic Dem-ocratic presidents and Democrats In other State have been the forces of obstruction which prevented earlier action upon the universal grant of suffrage." |