Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1920 — REPUBLICAN SPEAKING AT MOFFITS SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN SPEAKING AT MOFFITS SCHOOL

The people in the vicinity of Moffitts . School, Union township, were privileged to listen to able addresses delivered by Miss Maud Daugherty, Mrs. A. H. Hopkins and W. L. Wood of Rentselaer, at Moffiite school'house last Saturday evening. Each speaker is deserving of special mention because of the particular manner in which he presented his subject. Miss Daugherty • presided and she performed this duty with a* grace becoming an adept parliamentarian. She briefly traced the struggle waged- by heroines in behalf of woman suffrage, and urged the women to prove themselves worthy of the franchise, won by others in their behalf. - Her suggestion that many men were not opposed to equal suffrage as a measure of justice and equality, but feared the emotional tendency, and a spirit of hero worship by the “fairer sex,” was timely. She gave a sane fanpassionate address and her audience was delighted and instructed. Mirs. A. H. Hopkins, next on the program, is never disappointing. The writer has heard her upon several occasions but she undoubtedly was at her best Saturday evening as she spoke to this people. Her brief review of American history and American institutions was institutions was inspiring. As we listened to her description of America, her natural resources, her institutions, her homes, her stalwart manhood. As we listened we saw more vividly than ever before the grandeur of Our Americp, and in our hearts we were made to rejoice that our lot was cast in a land so glorious, where we might continue to “sit ' under our own vine and shade tree” and none dare “molest or make afraid:” Hon. W. L. Wood’s address had to do principally with taxes and state affairs. Tax payers especially, who were not present, missed their best chance of information by not being present to hear from the lips of* their own representative this subject most thoroughly defined. Tax payers should have an intelligent understanding in metiers pertaining to a subject so vital, and this might have been obtained by more people if they had only sacrificed, a little time grid came out to this meeting. These speakers exercised great judgment. They were conscious that they were face to face with an intelligent audience, an audienee open-minded and receptive. This is a “Campaign of education.” Men and women are serious. They are thinking. They propose t» exercise their own minds in .the matters so vital to America, but are not adverse to outside help that will direct them in the right way. The people of this vicinity extend a hearty welcome for the return of these speakers to our/community. ' '