Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1920 — APPEAL TO WOMEN VOTERS [ARTICLE]

APPEAL TO WOMEN VOTERS

To Use Intelligence in Casting Their First Ballot In November. The following letter, signed by five of Indiana’s leading thinking women, should have much weight with women who wish to vote conscientiously.—Mrs. J. I. Gwin:

To the Women of Indiana: ThiS is an appeal to you to use your first vote to save our country from war and dishonor. The cause of world peace ought not to be hawked about in the political market or confounded with the strife of parties and the schemes of placehunters. Neither ought it to be placed alongside of the comparatively trifling and ephemeral issues on which parties are today divided. The league of nations covenant ought to be ratified because its central, life-giving principle is the brotherhood of mhn and its mission is the practical vindication of this truth. To vote for the league is therefore a confession of our faith in Christianity itself. The fact that this great cause of world peace as embodied in the league covenant is being grossly misrepresented and belled ought only to inspire us to renewed efforts to set it forth clearly and truthfully. If every woman will read carefully the league of nations covenant and use her Independent judgment, the November. election will be won by the Democrats. A vote for Governor Cox is a vote for world peace. There are no real arguments against the league; every so-called argument has been answered again and again.. Perhaps the best answers have been ( given by former President Wm. H. Taft, who says that the four great fundamentals of the league are proportionate disarmament of all nations, arbitration of International dis Acuities, no more secret treaties, and lastly article 10, whlc£ he calls a great international commandment, thou shalt not steal. Assuredly this is what women want. Then let every woman who reads this message at once set about reaching as many other women as she can, by personal InteYview if possible; if not, by letter or telephone. There is no time,-to lose. Election day Is less than thrde weeks off. Let her ask every woman with whom she talks to reach 10 other women with the same message, and each of these, 10 others. We can win if we are in earnest- To fall in earnestness now is to betray our country and the world. “Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.” Ratification of the peace treaty is the only way to complete our mission in entering the war. By our vqtes on Nov. 2 let us say that we are ready to join the chorus of forty-odd nations in declaring “It shall never happen again.” Send to No. 17 E. 41st strbet, New York city, for league folder. (Price 10 cents) setting forth text of covenant with valuable information prepared by the ProLeague Independent committee - of which Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale is chairman. Signed, GRACE JULIAN CLARKE, MRS. ALBION FELLOWS BACON 4 MRS. H, E. BARNARD, MRS. DEMARCHES BROWN, GEORGIA ALEXANDER.