WOMEN'S PARTNERSHIP
PRESIDENT WILSON AND THE
SUFFRAGE,
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received October 1, 1 p.m.) , WASHINGTON, 30th Sept. ' • • .Addressing-the Senate, whore, a difference of opinion on the question of women's •■' suffrage prevails, President Wilson advocated the-early passage of the measure, on the ground of national efficiency in war-time. ■•■■;.. ■ . ' '■'
The President : said this was the people's war; and therefore they must unite the people in .the prosecution of the war.- 1 The United States, would be unable to profess democracy vabroad unless she practised it at. home. Through many channels intimations had reached the White House of the people's real views: ' They' paid no heed to the voices of agitators, but realised that the time had come when, if democracy was to continue beneficently, women.' must be placed on the same footing" as men. The women were partners in the war, and therefore they must be made partners in peace. Without the counsellings of women, a. nation was only half wise.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1918, Page 8
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161WOMEN'S PARTNERSHIP Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1918, Page 8
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