Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1916 — World Has Suffered Through Failure of Men to Accord Women the Ballot [ARTICLE]

World Has Suffered Through Failure of Men to Accord Women the Ballot

By REV. MORRIS H. TURK of Kansas City. Mo.

Just as now no one who is sane would think of defending slavery/ so in two decades no one who is unwilling to be laughed at will attempt to give a single reason why ■women should not have the vote. It is in perfect accord with every decent ideal of our social order. Women must, for the good of the race, be allowed to express their social convictions the same as men—by the vote. The world has suffered greatly through man’s failure to appropriate women’s sense of intuition to help man in solving social problems. “ All problems are moral, social and religious. It is impossible to separate these elements':' And as long as this is so, we are doing the race an injurv in not' taking advantage of the immense assistance women would be able to give us in-solving our problems. The whole world is working toward a more democratic ideal. It is idle to attempt a true democracy when you have one-half of the race absolutely shut off. We must embrace the opportunity to have with us in our struggle the foundation *of the family —the women. f •)