The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-02
VOTING AND The PULPIT
Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw
Again Address the City
Members.
DIR. GUNsAULUs TO LECTURE.
The Presbyterian Election - Metho-
dist Preachers Take a
Vacation.

The auditorium of the Young Mems
Christian Association was crowded yester-
day afternoon when Miss Anthony, Miss
Shaw and the ministers of the City were
the guests of the Congregational Monday
Club. Miss Anthony commenced her ad-
dress with: "Mr. Chairman and minis
tiers: (How many ministers there are who
wear bonnetsD There is no reason why
the churches and schools are sneered at by
men of affairs except that they know there
is no strong voting constituency behind
them. The average boy holds his mother S
opinion in disrespect, no matter how much
he loves her. She tries to teach him that
he should shun tobacco and strong drink,
but he sees his teacher and the superin-
tendent of schools using the weed, and
some one has told him that when the
Forty-seventh Congress adjourned only
one man was sober, and that was colored
man. Hearing of these or parallel cases,
he revoIves them in his youthful mind and
says, Mother, you don't know anything
cannot be expected to hold his mother
opinion IN higher respect than his father
does"
The speaker was emphatic in her state
ment that women are greatly hindered
in their natural work of education, charity
and reform by their lack of the ballot, and
said that few unscrupulous men by their
votes can outweigh the good will and
wishes of hundreds of women.
Miss Anthony believes that there must
be revolution of existing laws. Condi-
lions must be entirely changed before
woman reaches the maximum of her use
| fulness. She said: IF some of the women
don't want to vote it is because they have
not been educated to want that right.
Every woman in the possession of brains
and morals should want to vote
Rev. Anna III. Shaw was introduced as
the woman who had made politicians
squirm and ward-heelers squeal," and she
remarked that she found herself in more
congenial society at that moment than
Of the classes named, even if she is
woman who wants to vote. She said
that the directors to woman suffrage use
sentiment, not arguments, in debate.
| After listening to such sentimental twad-
! die she declared she always felt fatigued.
Women may say and truly" she said
that the franchise will be an added re-
sponsibility, but it will also relieve women
/ OF many heavier responsibilities Argu-
| ing IN this line she pronounced the bulle-
tin boards of San Francisco educators in
vice and disgrace to the City. Answer
! ing the claim mat women SuffraglStS de-
nounced the men she said such denuncia-
tions came from the other side; that suf-
I fragists believe the average American man
I a pretty decent fellow to live with and
vote with, but the opposition claims he is
I so egotistic and pigneaded that if his wife
holds other views than his he will quarrel
+ with her. She considered that the only
+ freedom lies in discussion between equals.
When one does all the ruling, the other all
the. yielding, tyranny and slavery are the
results. She ascribed the adverse reports
/ on the workings OF woman suffrage in
Kansas to the fact that the opposition
+ controls the Associated Press.
Referring to Paul's mueh-talked-of in
junction to.women she said that the op-
position harps on the sayings of Paul and
Timothy, but lodges those of Christ. In
conclusion she expressed the heartiest good
will. for California and its jewellers, and
said she is confident that in the election
next year the men of the State will place
women On an equality with native-born
Chinese.
Rev. James D. Eaton of Chihuahua
Mex, will address the club Monday or
Mexican missions.