The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
ADDRESS BY DR. SHAW
gRfLxrANT EASTERN woMAN
 ON woMAN's SUFFRAGE.
Greeted at Court Street Church By An Apprec,ative Audience She Was Introduced NY
 Miss Griffin.

Church last night in which she appealed for the enfranchisement of women,
 She reached Montgomery yesterday morning and is the guest Of Mrs l. Walter Black.
 About 200 women and twenty-nye men heard Dr. Shaw. She Is stout, short woman, whose face speaks of intellectu- ality. She is apparently 55 years old and her face is benevolent and motheriy, Her hair is silvery grey. She talks rapidly, but with animation and with the seif-reii- ance of one accustomed to facing inteili- gent audiences
 pr. snaw's address was fiiied with de- lightful Aumor. not always at the ex- pense of the genus man.
 These are some of the clever things she said:-.
 "If there's one thing the modern wo- men intend to do, 1t is to catch up with the brethren"
 This you men understand better than We women do-at least just yet"
 Drunk is drunk, and profanity is pro- fanity, whether 1t is a female drunk or a male drunk, or whether it is male pro- fanity or female profanity"
 You men have been trying to set us right ever since Adam tried to set Eve right"
 Whenever Southern man pays trib- ute to women. Northern men had just as well sit down.
 Men who so dearly love to represent us, should certainly be willing to die for us.
 There was snever a people who have had more parents than we. We've had forefathers. pilgrim fathers. and city ia. thers. We are fathered to death. What We need is more mothering."
 This was one case where Providence had ftrcf oor rfh o al 1H
 Tt takes mighty little to make church go to pieces. I've known them to go to pieces for less than cranberries.
 When controversies arise in small town you've got to belong to one or the other of two factions. You can't get out of it."
 pr. Shaw spoke one hour and forty minutes. her subject being "The Fate of Republics"
 She was introduced by Miss Frances Griffin. State '~esident of the Suffrage Association after pr. J. A. Rice had open ed the meeting with prayer
 In introducing Dr. Shaw Miss Grifiin ai- luded to ancient customs towards women, quoting Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and Martin Luther.
 'The newer wisdom" said Miss Grif- fin, "leaped to the higher thought and recognized that the advancement of wo- men must not be apart from men. They rise and fall together. It Is because of this advanced thought that I am able to- night to introduce to you. woman whom the nation delights to honor and whose renown has spread beyond the seas"
 Dr. Shaw began her address by declar- ing that there. is no question today which concerned statesmen more than whethe1 a republican form of government could rAmain a permanent form of government, All of the things of which the American government boasted today she declared, had marked every republic that ever ex- isted. If our government failed she said 1t would be because of moral decay .
 Tt is righteousness which builds up a republic" declared Dr. Shaw. Tt Is not done by standing armies
 Men, she said, are the aggressive power of the world; women are the consorva- tive power of the world. Women cling ts the old institutions in the rearing of their children. Men who have been the pro- viders, have asked for the more material things. This has carried then into the newer lands, where they took their wo men. When the man becomes sick at heart and wants to return the woman has the stick-to-itiveness to make him stay These conditions built up this country and other new countries.
 Dr. Shaw discussed the business enter prise the inventive genius. the warlike nature and intellectual attainments of men. These are the elements possessed by men which builded republics. but the mas culine character ~-as foremost in intem- perance immoral y, licentiouyness, dis obedience of statutes of God and of the State, and the warlike nature. These were the clements which had caused the decay of republics.
 weak" declared Dr. Shaw, "and women are strong where men are weak
 She showed how the power to vote af fected the character of a nation, embel- fishing her ideas by illustrations of polit- ical influences in this country.
 Evil men are more alert politically for their interest" said Dr. Shaw, than are good men. Some men are so good that they are good for nothing"
 If gambling and liquor men having votes are able to affect a government along the lines of their nature. Mrs. Shaw said. then women. if they had votes, would be able to affect govern ment along their nature. It was not contended that women were alike men. It was because women were unlike men that 1t was urged they should be grant ed suffrage. God created man after His own image, but it was the male and female man, and it was necessary that this should be understood for fair un- derstanding of the question.
 Dr. Shaw spoke of debates in Congress on the admission of Wyoming to state hood. She created considerable amuse- ment by repeating a portion of the speech of a Southern congressman who was opposed to dragging women from their pedestal into the arena with men," She said she was sitting in the gallery, and she leaned over and asked Miss Susan Anthony what she thought of it, Miss Anthony replied that she did not know men could keep a secret so well.
 Persons who could not vote in this coun- try pr. Shaw said were male idiots, male lunatics, male criminals, male children and women.
 And there are women perfectly willing to be in that group, but I'm not one of them' said Dr. Shaw.
 She quoted an official of Wyoming who spoke of the excellent officials of that State and declared that it was due to the vote of the women who held the balance of power. He had told her that the women demanded that a man who ran for office in that State must have moral character.
 This. Dr. Shaw. declared was one of the greatest needs of this country-that men of moral character be elected to of- flee. Back of the office and officeholder must be a voting power that was not mighty particular about who should hold ofice.
 Dr. Shaw. continued handling her sub- ject in excellent style. She presented statistics on crime, lunacy. education and politics from which she invariably de- duced the conclusion that women should be permitted to vote.