The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-13

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49,, N,thodists and the Suffrage.
via .r,i.surrage plot il bubblinS and hoil-
.,A president Caroline Corbin Of Chicago
fielding the spoon vgorouslrN SURFING
" -. ,os,v puddin1 The Boston ana New
w ,n,. are resting after their intiguing
,,,,s at Washington last winter, but Chicago
y. ,unped into the breach manfnlly' or
-, uomantully. Heaven forbid that any
.sa, should be- said in this connection when
"-nId tend 10 "unsrct' the ants Pr"sl-
w., co,b,n il out with her annual manifesto.
..ob sha claims 10 represent the retiring
nan " and i, is accompanied with a blg'
,.".ds,ds plcture Of this lady. Just rs If she
hold brazen surragist In fact. when
-, .as these ants making speeches 10 Com
,,s..ional committees, Lobbying about me
,.,lslatres, declaiming from he bnolc pat
.,ns carving on state campaigns holdlhS
.nos organizing clubs and Loading down
Is. waste baskets of the country with their
n,o,.sanda. YOU would never know they were
Nv more retiring" than other women II they
AID not keep telling you so,
Ibi. las, document has been answered by
A. MANY clever writer's that IT Is not necessary
% dssac, il here. Possibly that State o'il-
..I ~ the ". C.. T. L. put the case too strongly
~, abe said thai Mrs. Corbln from her
:, svt, inslnuations evolves n syllogism and
,..r proceed. to build upon 1t a proposition
,s,, /. unworthy Of a place in journalism. -
III. rr,e. however. that the ants have so much
N .ay about the sex question that IL IL realIy
.mharr sssins 10 a sufragist, and puts 'he
argument on 40 low a plane that II Is huhll'-
,,ins to come down to it. To say of the sui-
tr,s. movement OF to-day, As President Cor
hin does, that 1T Is entaneled with free-love
and allied with the lowest forms OF socialism.
carries one back 10 the dark ages OF hity years
ago Then bigotry. yulgarity and ignorance
hurled these chars es at Lucretia Mott, EllAa-
hath Csdy stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan b An
thony and the others of that little band OF
,ohls. self-sacrihcin2 women who struck the
Ara, blow for the freedom which to-day all
women, including the ants, are sharing alike.
When future generations search history Tor
the greatest American women Of the nineteenth
century. thew will find therein the names OF
those who stood unhinchingly for equality
O., rights for woman, and not Of those who
fought every progressive step while they
shattered OF sex distinctions" and modest
retirement
Tho Chicago ants. it is said, are sending out
1900 copies OF this leaflet 10 Legislators, min
.,ers, newspapers and club women. Ii charges
that the Socialist party advocates political
slualty as "a means Of breaking up monogamic
marriage and the homes OF the nation" The
Prohibition party has advocated it for a number
- ,aar- and vat fhls nurtv claims tn stand
above all else for the protection Of the home.
Various State conventions OF Republicans,
Democrats and Populists have put woman suf-
frage planks ~ their platform and yet, although
they accuse each other OF most OF the crimes
IN the catalogue. these never have included
breaking up monogamic marriages and the
homes Of the nation" A large number OF re-
lxlous bodies OF many denominations in conven
ton assembled have Endorsed suffrage fol
women, but the churches surely are not mar
rage and home wreckers. Labor organ2a'
tons, representing millions OF men. have de-
clared almost unanimously TOR the eniranchise.
ment Of women. In fact. there is little difficulty
in securing a resolution Of this nature in almost
any kind Of a convention. if It's rules do not bar
on, questions foreign 10 It's special object.
According to the logic OF this Chicago circular.
all of these great parties and organizations
which indorse the political equality OF women
10 so as part OF a plan for breaking mp marriage
aud home.
In this vicious cabal we must include the W.
T.. /. L, with Frances +. Willard az its head,
with God and Home and Native Land" in.
scribed on it, banner, Tor II stands for no one OF
H., principles more tenaclously than that of
woman suffrage. The Noman's Council, COM
posed OF twenty national organizations, among
them the suffrage association, while il makes
no specific declaration, has never failed to have
a President and Official board Of pronounced
'urragstS. In a large proportion of the various
wom"n's organizations Of the country, the Lead
ing members approve of equal suffrage. IL a
long list were prepared Of the most distinguished
women of the United States. outside Of simply
social distinction, the vast majority would be
found IN favor Of Embarrassment. And yet
this little handful OF ants. infinitasimal in num-
bers and still more 30 in achievements. would
have the world believe that with them lies the
task Of preserving "monogamiC marriage and
the homes OF the nation
The Chicago branch has imported q Jews
paper woman from Washington. a Mrs. Clara
Bel Brown. who has been stirring M such a
wave OF anti suffrage enthusiasm with her leo
tlre on Woman Love, not Woman's Vote. all
over the country, that she finds herself the chief
worker in the organization opposed TO the en-
iranchisement Of women.
RODE rIHnt IN on the crest OF The wave. so to
speak, but who ever would have thought that
chicago would have 10 import a woman. and
especially a newspaper woman, for any pLr-
pose Mrs Brown Says:"This Organization will
not be composed entirely Of women. as one might
might fancy o, no. one never would fancy
anything Of the kind. II is only the bold. un-
shrinking sufragists. who flock by themselves
Inese nnld, retiring ants always feel the need
o. a man 10 lean upon several OF him, indeed
Nobody ever has doubted for an instant that
ther organization was backed by men. Mrs.
Brown says they have enlisted a large number
q men. whose names stand for reliability and
integrity, She ls not at liberty to name them
llst now, in fact. the whole plan is undeveloped.
o.lt there ls no doubt 1t will grow rapidly '
None whatever. Jonah's gorlrd will not be A
circumstance.
when Mrs, ltdmiral) Dahleren memoriali7ed
thA senate Of Privileges and Flee
IONS inplorlng them not to open 10 women
tnls Pandora's box Of evils" /, e.. the ballot
p21 MIS- YCienJ sherman and Mrs. .Almira
Lincoln Phelps were the other officers of The
dht-sll1raS" society whose membership never
was disclosed. The "remonstrants" of Ma~sa-
chl'nttS were organized at least fifteen wears
a3o' hnt after giving An object lesson in re-
urenent for a decade and finding that the
plhhc was not vet aware of their existence.
lnry concluded 10 come out into the omen
VOW thev INITIATE every move Of the sunragiSts.
MAKING themselves even more CONSPICUOUS
ui proclaim from the housetopS that ihav are
a~'carlols sacrifice for their retiring" sisters
Nul aWa'S we are assured that their aSsnc,a-
Iprn : amour To astonIsh the world. Perhaps
lara 1911 Brown, may succeed in doing II. bnt
mere Is one point W. would like TO have ey-
Eld'hed They state that rhov also will Gch,
T.EIinye prohloltlon. l. this, too. an agency
,I me breaking NJ ~ the homes Of the ma
n2hi Ana are ther not exposing tho men
VINO ~" behind their organization?
In This connection one fact should he horne
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