The San Francisco call., 1909-10-31

son of the late Mrs. George Croeker-
The bride is a sister of Mrs. Alec Cur
lett who was Miss Helen Corbet. and
whose wedding will be remembered as
an event of last year. It was recalled by
the superstitious at the most recent
wedding that it was the bride who
had caught the bouquet thrown by her
attractive sister. Helen, a year before,
and that the time honored sign had
proved itself infallibIe and most sat
isfactory. Mr.. and Mrs. Hanchett have
gone away on a honeymoon trip that
will take them through the south
ern part of the state on a leisurely
journey. but they viii return to make
their home in this city Hanchett is
a well known railroadman, and host
of relatives and friends have show
cred him with congratulations since his
wedding.
Here are a few of Mrs. o. II. p. Bel
mont's aphorislns anent the suffrage
question that the society women of the
west will read with interest. even II
they have not the hardihood yet 70
openly espouse the cause Mrs. Bel
mont says in an interview in an east
The women of this country have
been spoiled in the beginning, in the
early days, the women were so much
in the minority that the men had TO
fatter and cater them Now we are
reaping the reward of it. Today the
women who have neither brothers
fathers, husbands nor lovers TO hght
,rDf hos
spoiled sisters, who nave never known
wish ungFatifed.'
1t is thus that Mrs. Belmont sums up
the need for woman suffrage IN the
United states. In announcing at her
headauarters. SOC Fifth avenue, the
unique idea of the secret society which
has organized the fight for the ballot
! Mrs. Belmont frankly confessed that
she was taking a leaf out of Tam
many's book.
81 don't think it was so awfully
| clever of me to think of a secret So
ciety." she said smilingly. Consider
what an example | have in Tammanye
| This society is especially intended TO
help those who can not declare them
..Do we have meetings? How could
we2 Not a member knows another
Each of them knows only me. No, we
/ have no password Every member
signs her name to a second declaration
! of independence, and this is carefully
/ filed away in a sealed envelope. The
| envelope will be opened when we get
/ the ballot. Then we will all know each
Il had the advice of the best lawyers
on the matter. They agreed that a
secret society is always the most pow
erful.
women who might not have the
courage to join an organization openly
/ can thus remain unknown and work
| quietly. Every signer of the card on
declaration guarantees certain sum
! yearly according to her means or de-
! sires.
Mrs Belmont replied to a question
as to her beliefs in militant methods
/ by asking another.
"Of course 1 should always advocate
| conservative methods to begin WITH an
appeal to peoples reason. But for the
| last so years an appeal has been made
| to the reason of men. and what have
we gained by it? I think the en-
I franchisement of women will come
soon. Well. it had better come very
soon or something desperate Will
| happen.
''Will women purify politics? What
do women stand for now? Everything
that is good in our institutions. They
/ support the churches. What would be-
! come of the churches without them?
/ They make the homes. And why. with
all the good they do in other lines be-
fore us, should we not expect them to
purify politics?
mo man or woman with any edu-
cation can doubt the unrighteousness
i of giving the boy and girl the same ad-
/ vantages in school and college and di-
bviding them in political life by saying
this one is superior and the other in
ferior. This is a campaign thai will
go on perpetually until we have the
ballot"
The Outsider