The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-26
DR.. Shaw Asserts That
Man Is Dominating
in Everything.
VOTING WOULD BE
VERY LADYLIKE
Distinguished Speaker Tells Au-
diencc That When God Took
Mans Rib to Make Woman
He Also Took Joint Of
Backbone-Imprcssive
Address.


moral basis. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
last night before q large audience in
the Jefferson Hotel auditorium, pre-
sentq1 tho cause OF "Womans Suffrage:
Its Relation to the Home and State in
q voice resonant with power and sweet
ness and with logic and force OF ar
gument that caused those who came to
scoN to remain and mediate, as thosa
who listened to the preacher in Cold
smiths Deserted Village"
The auditorium was flicd from end
70 end The audience contained as
many men as women. as many young
voting masculine buds as girls who
have not yet arrived at the age of legal
discretionary powers, as many against
the cause as OF those who, dcfying the
opinion OF the majority, have thrown
down the gauntlet and openly eepouscd
woman's suffrage.
Too Little MotherluE.
Dr. Shaw contended that there had
been too much fathering and too little
mothering In civic and national gov
crnmcnt. that the extension OF suffrage
among women would not destroy the
home, as is claimed b. enemies OF the
movement. and that, in short, no gov
ernment could be purely democratic
which does not give equal power to
all, whether man or woman
The distinguished speaker was In
PRODUCED by President Lyon Gardiner
Tyler. OF william and Mary College,
who, In HIS few remarks. evinced his
inclination to take up the sword In
wornan's behalf IL need be. or, at least.
TO lse such power of argumen, as he
could In its favor. women" he said.
have the right to life and the right
TO protection OF their interests and
~,,Sp,.a !.
As the greatest picader of the cause.
he was proud to Introduce Dr. Shaw.
'Gentlcmen and ladies' she began.
''I hope the time Will soon come when
man will be as welI-knoSn for his
sense of justice toward women as he
is known for HIS sense of honor and
chivalry. 1t has been always taught
that the son is free who is born OF a
free woman, but really, men are not
free, because their mothers are not
free. None has deemed ican to be
free who has no, voice in his own
government. and no man can he hon
est who does not believe in woman's
suffrage.
Women should Vote,
What is the dirterence between q
monarchy and democracyf II a
democracy Is anything at all, it is @
government y. al lne puppy, anu W.
Ill you can prove that women arc not
people. then this government nor any
other is a democracy.
Your representatives have been
elected by men--and l must admit
that they are an admirable part of the
pcople-but they are not all the peo-
pie, and until you are elected py wo-
men and men people this is not q
true republic"
Or. Shaw spoke of the various ad-
vances made in government. from the
1nonarchical to the republican form,
and said: But you are not repub-
lie, because this is an olisarchy OF
sex What difference does IT make
IL you are ruled by one man called a
king, or by thousand men called
voters?' She showed what an I'M
portant mart the Southern women had
played In the Civil War, who, when
their husbands came home no more
and their sons and their brothers
were left on the field. nursed their
children and waged the struggle for
existence and their homes. "So. she
said, "has the government of the
South been more accredited to women
than TO any other one cause"
.And so to the beginning OF the
nation, more than 500 years ago. she
said, "you men thought you could set
along without u.s.. You came by your
selves, and We're either killed by In
dtans or by each other. But finally
you brought the women. and then you
had to stay. For you remember that
when Good took one of mans ribs
to make a woman, He also took a
1oint Of the backbone along with II"
Voting Not Unlnlylike.
Yvava5 aside fhe OhfeCIinnN that
voting is so unladylike by saying that
TO her, voting was most respectable
ladylike, digntf1ed and noble. especial
ly to get the things one wants"
'.As 1t is now she went on, ''we
can have no voice In the election o1
men we want. and we have TO lobby
and to lobby is the most loathsomt
thing person could do. She spoke o1
Mrs. IIumphry Ward. the Englisl
novelist who, instead of voting. te
which she Is opposed, has been cleo
ttoneering to help her husband get {
scat in Parliament She assailed sen
timental objections by her argumen
that woman, when II comes to senti
ment, is not In pacing distance will
man. when he begins to talk O.
u home and mother she said. amlc
laughter, you had better so to sleep
He talks of the stars, and goes OF
up, but when breakfast is not read.
he wants to make you see other kind
OF stars"
Sprlnging from one bright allusiol
to another and from one step to an
other in her argument. DR.. Shaw ar
rived at educational qualifications, an,
declared that the majority OF women
Z are better equipped than men to ex
erclse the privilege Of suffrage, 70
two girls to one. boy are graduated II
the high schools and colleges, AM
more women. she affirmed, than mel
can read their ballots. AS one reasol
for this, she referred to the larg
number OF Immigrants, the ma1orit.
5 OF whom are ignorant criminals Q
paupers from Southern Europe. com