The sun., 1901-11-10

Hard but Ignoraneiy In . CampaiEn
where She Has No Vote, but VIII
DO Nsthing 10 Get . Vote for Hcrself
MIR. Low on "Unfvorsal suffrage
Eighteen years ago Joseph MedilL the
well-known editor Of the Chicago Tribune
said in a tribute TO Susan b. Anthony;
while others demanding reforms were
cowcd by the ridicule heaped upon them
she used this opportunity to show women
the real opinion OF them entertained by
the stronger sex
This caustio but truthful statement has
been many times recalled during the cam
paign lust ended, In which women have
taken a moro prominent part than ever
before. Just one man-William Travers
Jerome-has had the courage TO give them
a large dose OF undiluted truth. II is to
be hoped that at Its next annual meeting
the National Suffrage Association will not
fail 70 adopt q resolution thanking him for
his services In this respect.
In time of a hard-fought political cam
paipn there Is no instrument too humble
TO DO deepised. Each day OF this last one
4 crowd OF little ragamuffins gathered
around the entrance to Tamnany Han
and got Q lot OF buttons and leaflets 10
dietribute. Every day the women OF the
various political societies We'd with the
aforsesid ANAL boys In circulating leanets
and buttons. Beautiful spectacle. these
women from the uptown districts elbowing
their way through the sweatshops, the
push carta, the swarming children and
the unsavory men Of the lower East Side,
hradins out circulars In Italian, Polish,
C;rsek and Yiddish. The burly Tammany-
its expressed the situation perfectly when
he aid 70 one of them, "A Republican. heyf
Well, bein, a woman ye'rs harmless!
It's funny. isn't 1t, that when woman
of the so-oalled upper GLASS determines 70
reform something she always makes
bse-lins for the slumsP
These women were very sincere In their
desire to help the party Of their choice and
they honestly believed they were doing
Il. until Justice Jerome came down on them
Like Q brick house.
Il understand that you ladies want to
help, Well, your offer comes too late.
You can't pick up this sort Of thing In two
weeks. You belong to class that has been
negligent Of It's duty for years: ! am told
Fourteenth street You would lose more
votes in ten minutes than we could win
back In a month. The women on the lower
East Side know more about politics than
YOU do. You come at tardy time 70 ask
me what YOU shall do. You are too late
10 do anv real work, but you can get the men
in the brownstone houses 70 give the money
necessary for the legitimate expenses OF
the election, and you should keep night at
this until II is over
II did not require a 1.-THE OF the courage
TO take an axe and raid pool room that
40 "A a hn hatnhpt
Of these women. But they took their
medicine bravely. They did know how
10 raise money, for had they not always
been doing IL, for the churches. the mis-
sion ary societies, the hospitals, the various
homes and objects OF every possible
sort? Within three days they had poured
into the campaign Golfers S32 500 10 which
they added several thousand more, and
thenceforth, with meekness and humility,
as far as il was within their power, they
worked foI the ticket, which was elected.
Now that the contest IL over let us con-
si1ier he situation. Here was "a consider
able body Of women. containing wealth,
brains business ability, executive force,
energy, integrity and an unselhsh ana
conscientious desire for better conditions,
and Vet the entire body ranked politically
with idiots the insane and the inmates
of the pcUitentiary. Any attempt 10
controvert his fact in wholly useless. Only
these four classes are disfranchised In
the State al New York Throughout the
campaign this hlniliatiLg fact was utterly
ignored. not only bv the men but bV the
women themsaivs- Only twice during
all the weeks was tle subject mentioned
Once " was N a meeting ~ tho Ladies'
Democratic CLUB held ia IaIunat Y
Hall. when the three men speah hcfs. VII
liam Sulzer. Henry VI. Goldiugr aud
John II Crosby declared lu favor 81 woman
~ Ian e.
With wild and uImullufu apl lause hv M"
so women present ~ 80, the pauerS
neglected g. mention b..
The other o"ca-iuit vJ- ~ n plfl1r meet
ing ia the Wee. I'D, presided over hy
Mn 4 " Betf- The 40 orators, Everett
y Wheeler and + n HIurch-. both pro-
nounord iu llNur of rly ballot fur woman.
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