The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-18

tas upliluny Of mons hie." How the preludioss
drop away II has been such . very shoi, ums
s.noe we were solemnly warned hat NC msne.
education would totally unit woman Tor domesuc
duties, That instead Of uplifting the nome u wouia
disrupt II. and that no one VINO understood Iasno
maucs and the Classics could he a good wiz a
mother. Women should not waste any vino
in argument against these ridiculous prophe.iesi
but should go straight ahead and give u pfaeucM
uemonstratlon OF tlsir absuIdlly
In pleasant contrast to the denunciation Of If
Talmage IL the recent lecture VI d. FRANK VI.
Bristol, pastor Of the Metropolitan MetlvIs.
thurch IN Washington, when numbers iieslueh'
mckinley among It's COMMUNICATES ne Hou,
Al a drunken man can vote, see no reason Why
a sober woman should not. II an lgnordnl man
Is permitted TO cast a ballot see no reason Why
all educated woman should he deprived ~ WIS
privilege"
Iue ttey. John Van Schaik Of the Unlversallst
Church Of Washington. II preaching se'etaI
sermons to show the debt America owes T. her
women, and has declared III the strongest "l"s
his belief IN women suffrage
The friends OF equal suffrage have had for the
last twelve years a standing challenge in'ltlng
ITS opponent, "a find two respectable men IN su
Wyoming who will assert over Their own names
and addresses that 1t has had any. bad results
Inc opponents mus lar have Jailed 10 itspChu.
Mrs. A j. George Of Massacre setts, who con.
Quoted the recent hearing for the opponents OF
woman suffrage before the United States House
j Judiciary Committee al Washington, also spoke
q G ltNNh kO AZ Il ltkk SlnuNN Nv hhiis "a AN''S
on the same subject She referred TO her vlsii
tn the national capital and said: one oil me
wyoming Senators told me that In " wyoming
woman suffrage had been a negative iaslot, Duss
In Colorado II had been an unqualified disaster
In answer TO a letter Of inquiry from Miss hlce
Stone Blackwell, United States Senator Frances
Z Warren Of Wyoming writes. ! never SPOKE
against woman suffrage in any way, AZ any
time, or anywhere, and Of course could not have
SAID Woman suffrage in Wyoming u a NEGATIVE.
factor but IN Colorado an unqualified disaster
Senator Warren has often borne ~
public and IN private, TO the good results of equal
suffrage, and his wife was one ~ the speakers
at the celebration Of Mss Antaony's birthday, :,
United States Senator clarence D. Clark OF
Wyoming Is even more emphatic lie writes
y have never said that woman suffrage IN ".
omlng is q negative factor, or tina, IN Colorado
IT i, an unquah fed disaster | have no knowl-
edge that would cause me 70 say anything but
tina, in Wyoming it ia an unqualified success.
| know httle. II anything about us operations
IN Colorado"
In her speech at this Senate Committee hear
ing. Miss Emily T. BisSell OF Delaware re.
fcrred with much scuru 10 the small NUMBER oil
inhabitants in the four Western states where
woman suffrage prevails, The Boston " oman )
journal calls her down a. follows
|, l. amusing TO observe the naive provIncialIsm
with Which intS daughter of lrlr Delaware WIN Us
2.l2l >Hrhr" miles and lSN, ioa ihhinllhnis, drpttc, vs.
where women have thr ballot. Colorado" she says.
has less Inhabitants than baltimore" True but the
pOphllIbl tI I OiOIdup ~ VIZ l'Ns ~ hhu ~ Ann'
times that OF the State Of DrlANarr. Miss Bl>srlls
tiny State sends only one RepTrS NATIVE and TWO
send ne Representatives and eight Senators IN
area the woman ~ frage States exceed 100000 square
miles nearly one hundred and nifty times that OF
Delaware. indicating a future population enormously
greater than now.
And vet Miss Bissell asserts, with the greatest
complacCncy, that she represents the vast ma
iDrity Of women
At this same hearing Mrs. Helen kendrick
Johnson, one " the antis, said that woman
suffrage ALWAYS was allied with one OF the TWO
extremes - T3rylsm or ultra TnallsR G om
fun franchise in New Zealand for seven years
and the Literal party has been kept in power
eyer sInna n was granted To them. IhlS party
has lust carried the election ior IN" iourth con-
s%rcuiye time one has to keep q hammer con-
slantly in hand to nail the presentations OF the
ana sufraglSts
That is a PERFECTLY logical provision recently
adopted in British Columbia that a man whose
wife owns property may cast two ballots, In
that country 1t ~ the property and not the in
diNiduhl which is represented on the registration
list The powers positively refuse To allow =
married woman to vote. Therefore the only way
in which her property can have It's rightiul repre-
s|entation is for the husband to vote twice. .
\ similar rule ought 10 be adopted in III" United
States. \ republican form OF government guar.
sn,eps thai every individual shall have a repre-.
spntation, which cannot b. had IN any other way
except by a vote. But women are disiranchised
and no man can represent but one person with
one ballot Therefore the fathers. husbands,
sons and brothers should cast as many extra
ballots as there are women IN the family over
81 years Of age Either thus should b" done
or women should be- permitted to cast their own
votes or We should drop the pretenoe that this
is a representative form OF government
petnra and during the recent AtIonal Woman
Suffrage Convention in Washington the senss.
tnnal Journals If the country contained num"r-
Gus articles WITH scare heads, describing tho
great row among thr sutIragis,S' over the -
lection " Miss AnthOny : successor = the I'reSl.
danrv rs a mhttT Of fact when the trends 81
Mrs. Lille DnV"r"uN Blake found mat u was not
possible ior her - secure enough yut, u elect,
Mrs. Blake IN n dignlied speech withdrew from
the candidacy, and Mr., Carro Chapman Gait
was 81 ct'd bv 25i ont Of thr 2i7 VOTES cast IN q
perfectly harmonious convention, the other 20
b'inC divided among four persons.
Since that tim" the SAM new anerS nave CON
tinupd T. a ;S,t that Mrs. Blake and her party were
going u secad' from the orRa1iLatlon. In the
Boston W0m7rS Jogr71i of March 3 Mrs. Blake
SAYS over her own signatutr:
Since the national convention At Washington all
sorts Of rlrors have been SCI afloat by irresponsible
persons rs TO what my friends are going TO do In the
iutnrt, ! have been pursued BY r'poit,ri' nI, haye
and am not responsible Tor articles which are not
by me. TO all susgrStions Q! the formation
piled that ! would not In any way colnteuance such
an effort lam. Of course, free 10 turn my own actiy.
tiles into any dlrrctl'n ] may CnoDSr, OlI snollu cf'
tainly never wish 10 an'avonize those with whom
| have so long been associated.
The cause Of woman suffrage has no more
efficient and devoted a1hsrent than Mrs. Blake
and none who under lands more fully the neceS.
s,ty Of unit,d organized effort and the fatality
Of dividing the forces, Tn" recent convention
c, SD without thu slightest apparent detection;
SIS, OOD warp raised - b'yin the years work, and
il was the general ppini N that the movement ~
seCur, the enfra1ChiS'n mt Of women never was
IN - favorable a condition.
lDA Hustled HARPER.