The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-07-19

new YORK, july l9.-f the WOm-
aD-providing it is woman-who
conducts and manages the publicity
department of the New York suffra-
gettes during their present campaign
should ever lose her job, she would
have no difficulty in obtaining a
high-salaried position at any of the
theaters. AS a press agent she would
be worth a fortune. She has shown
the most remarkable ingenuity in in
venting new methods Of advertising
the cause of the suffragettes and has
been instrumental in gaining for the
feminine aspirants for political equal
ity more notoriety than they prob
ably had bargained for when they
employed her.
ed in a large swarm upon the lower
business part OF the city and invaded
the haunts OF j. P. Morgan. John D.
Rockefeller and others of that ilk,
trying 10 sell TO the brokers. bankers
and other business men in those fl
nancial precincts suffragette cam
paign literature and suffragette but
tons. In less time than it takes to
read this the suffrage campaigners
were surrounded by a mob of several
thousand OF those hOrrid men," who
dropped stock deals and everything
else to cheer or peer the be-buttoned
women, who made such a brave dis
play of themselves for the sake of
their cause
On the following day few of the
bravest of the suffragettes, among
them a few married women, hired a
hand organ from an Italian and
ground out doleful tunes in the City
Hall park and its immediate vicin-
ity. The financial result in both cases
was not particularly encouraging.
There are hundreds of women among
the suffra gettes who could have do
mated to the cause ten times as much
as was collected by the sale of liter
allure and buttons and by the organ
grinders. without impoverishing
themselves; but the cause" would
in that case have missed great deal
of notoriety and that seems to be the
principal aim of the manageresses
of the suffrage campaign.
The citizens not owning automo-
biles-and strange TO say they are
still in the majority in New York
are becoming daily more disguised
with the disregard which the proud
possessors of autos display not only
for the rights of others. but for the
laws which are supposed to apply to
rich as we'll as poor. There was a
time when automobiles violating the
speed laws condescended to slow
down and stop when called upon to
do SO by officers of the law. But
they have outgrown that habit and it
has come to the point that speeding
autoists simply laugh at the efforts of
the policemen TO stop their mad rush
and do not even pay the slightest at
tention to pistol shots fired by the
officers, knowing quite we'll that the
officers fire to scare, not to hit.
1t seems the fate of poets to make
enemies. Every class of poets seems
to have it's own peculiar class of
enemies So the gentle writer of
spring poems has his inveterate
enemy in the prosaic editor, the
dramatic poet in the theatre syndi-
cate, etc. There are many cases on
record where poets were driven to
emigration by the Vaccinations of
their born enemies and just lately a
case has come to public notice. in
which a long suffering poet, at last
driven to seek a more congenfal en-
vironment in another country was
followed ACROSS the ocean ny the re-
lentless animosity of his persecut-
ors.
The other day genuine, iyed-in-
the-wool poet, with long hair and
dirty shirt and name long and un-
pronounceable. arrived in New York
hoping to find a congenial job as
court poet at the White House or
something like that. But he had
not reckoned with his enemies. The