Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1909 — TAFT GIVES HIS SUFFRAGE VIEWS [ARTICLE]

TAFT GIVES HIS SUFFRAGE VIEWS

Says Women Will Gel Vote When All ol Them Want It. HIS IDEA OF TIME TO MARRY Declares That Her Circumstances Never Ought to Force a Girl to Take a Husband, That She Should Go to the Altar Only When She Chooses to Do So—Asserts All of His Money Will Go to Daughter. Birmingham, Ala., Nor. 3. —In a speech before 500 industrial scbool girls at Columbus, Miss., President Taft made this statement: “I shall be glad that I snail not have any property to leave to my boys, of whom I have two, but only a good character and a pride in themselves and a good education. For my daughter I am going to scrape together as much as I can give her and she will get as good an education as I can give her so that she may follow the lesson that'l have sought to teach her, that she may marry only when she chooses to marry and not because of circumstances. "The great trouble has been that we have not given the woman a fair show We have not opened all avenues to a livelihood that the woman is quite as well able to fill and in certain respects better able to fill than we are. "I am not a rabid suffiragist. The truth is I am not in favor of suffrage for women until I can be convinced that all the women desire it. and when they desire it I am in favor of giving it to them and when they desire it they will get it. too. I believe that one of the advantages or giving them that kind of influence will be more certainly to apen the avenues of selfsupport to them.”