Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-05
RloToUS SUFFRAGETTES CON-
DENIM POLICY
POLICEMEN CALLED TO PREVENT
THREATENED MELEE
Trouble Starts at Meeting of Organ
izatIon Opposed to Woman suf-
frage, Or. Lyman Abbott
Presiding
fcontInned from Page onel

TT is her work in the household in
the home. her work in bearing and
rearing the children, which is more
than any mans work, and 1t is that
work which should be normally the
Honnan's special work, just as normally
the mans work should be that OF the
bread winner, the supporter or the
home. and If necessary, the soldier
who will fight for the home.
There are exceptions as regards
both man and woman, but the run ana
perfect life, the life of highest happi-
ness and of highest usefulness to the
state, is the life of the man and the
woman who are husband and wife,
who live in the partnership of love and
duty, the one earning enough to keep
the house, the other managing the
home and children.
Sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Letter from Root
DR.. Abbott, who was the principal
speaker at the meeting, argued against
what he held would be the infection
of new and unnatural responsibilities
and duties upon women by forcing upon
them the obligations of public life.
The title of his address was THE AS
sault on Womanhood."
Secretary Root in a letter which
was read, said:
IT do not myself consider that the
granting of suffrage to women would,
under the existing conditions, be any
improvement in our system of govern
ment On the contrary, I think 1t
would rather reduce than increase the
electoral efficiency of our people.
Il am inclined to think, however,
that If the women of the United States,
or any very large majority of them,
should really come to want the right
of suffrage for themselves they would
ultimately get it.
For the purpose of exercising the
right of the suffrage, if they should
ever get it, and for the purpose of
determining intelligently whether they
really want it, the women of the coun-
try generally ought to have and to seize
the opportunity for greater degree
of education in questions of govern
ment and in the art of government
than they have had up to this Time"
Many Hear Address
An audience of women that filled Car
negie hall to the topmost gallery paid
enthusiastic tribute to Mrs. Philip
Snowden, wife of a member of the
British parliament and leader of woman
suffrage in England, as she told to-
night of the suffragettes in her native
country.
Mrs. Snowden was the principal
speaker at the mass meeting, which was
Gait, chairman of the Interurban
Woman Suffrage council, and at which
Rev. Charles F. Aked. pastor of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist church, and Rab-
bi Stephen Wise were the other
speakers.
Mrs. Snowden made her plea with
youthful energy and earnestness. In
telling of the pictures the newspapers
would draw of the suffragettes in En-
gland she displayed keen sense of
humor.
Rev DR.. Aked, in the course of his
address, scored the leading political
parties and declared he did not know
which was the worst. He pointed this
comment with the story of a man who,
being worsted in debate with a wo-
man, exclaimed as last resort:
well, no man ever had seven devils
cast out of him."
mo-" replied the woman, "the devils
are still in the man."
1.-THE devils have not been cast out
Of one of the political parties" declared
DIR. Aked, land they are still in the
other One is different only in it's at
tempts to be worse than the other
What sort of condition can it be that
brings justices of your supreme court
and your district attorney to groVel
before retired rumseller and chief of
the Tammany wigwam?"
DIR. Aked's reference to the recent
0IOkeI anu MS ucC-
laration that the birth of a new i'm
pulse was needed in American politics
won applause.
Many prominent women, leaders of
New York society, occupied boxes to-
night, Mrs. Clarence Mackay being one
of the organizers of the meeting.
Mrs. Snowden, in telling the story
of the suffrage movement in Great
Britain, declared that despite the fact
that some of the papers would picture
the suffragettes as altogether and
hopeIessly disreputable," they were
asking for nothing new in Great Brit
aim
Were Dsfranchised in 1882
ut was only in 1882 that British
women were legally disqualified from
full exercise of the right of suffrage.
Even now they may vote for every gov
erning and administrative body in the
kingdom with the exception of the par
lament. 1t is the right to vote for
parliament that they seek. Three
fourths Of the members of the present
parliament ar5 pledged to support wo-
man suffrage, and the suffrage bill re-
Gently passed its second reading by a
vote of 3 to /. But even if all the
members Of parliament were in favor of
suffrage, we cannot gain the desired
legislation so long as the cabinet re-
mains divided. 1t is with the cabinet
ministers in England that our fight
lies. They are all powerful"
.Irs. Snowden explained the differ
ence between the old suffrage society
in Great Britain and the new suf-
fragette organization. One of the chief
functions of the new society," she de-
clared, was to advertise the movement.
1--WE have got to keep the subject
alive" she said. TT is our advertising
of the movement that you perhaps
have heard the most of, but don't mag
inc that women are going to prison for
the cause, that they are risking their
lives at public meetings for the fun of
the thing.
ut is no fun to spend three months
in a lonely, cold English cell. 1t is
no fun to be kicked like a football
down three or four flights of stairs.
have seen pale little women struggle
with great brutes Of men, feeling that
their own little dignities were nothing
compared to the dignity of a lofty
principle and a mighty cause.
you women Of America live under a
greater enlightenment. If American
women would be treated the way some
English women have been there would
be lynchings in this country"
Mrs Snowden urged the American
women to join with their English sis
tiers in the fight for the right Of ballot.