The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-29
GIBBONS AR0USES
SUFFRAG|STS' IRE
Mrs. Gait Says He Is Unfair II
His Attitude Toward
Them.
HIS INFORMATION FAULTY
Mrs. Brannan Quotes Carolina
Moran's Praise Of Votes for
Women.

New york. November 2s.-The sur
fragists of New York had something
to say about Cardinal Gibbons's
criticisms Of woman suffrage be-
fore the students of st. GATHERINGS
Normal Institute, In Baltimore, on
Friday. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
president of the International Womans
Suffrage Alliance resented what she
considered the cardinals unfairness
TT is a very unfair attitude OF
mind she said, "for man to con-
denim a whole class OF women be-
cause few have displeased him"
The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, D. D.,
president of the National Woman's suf-
frage Association, was more emphatic.
~ agree with Cardinal Gibbons in
advising the students not to follow
women who are manntsh.' she said
II do not agree with him when he tells
them not to follow women who are
not mannish, but merely human beings
Interested in ali that concerns hu-
manity. The thing that is OF the
greatest concern to all humanity is
government. Every normal human be-
Ing must be interested in his own gov
eminent and the only normal human
beings are suffragists.
.
is concerned, / cannot see why a mai
who is at the head of great church
which has distinct orders getting apart,
to live in celibacy, thousands and tens
of thousands OF men and women who
might be making homes, should direct
| his attention to making homes for
other people. We will take care of our
own homes II we have the ballot to
| do 1t with"
"As L read the statement Cardinal
4 IA n q of
GATHERINGS Normal Institute" said
Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch, of the
Woman's Political Union, that the wo-
mans place was the home, could
anything to do with preparing young
women for teaching a profession
which takes them out of the home. 1
| am amazed that he cannot see the
| wickedness Of his course. OF course,
II he turns these young women out,
he must expect that they will be af-
fected by modern evolution. Every
political or church Institution which
Asts itself against the logical de-
velopment Of democracy will certainly
suffer.
Just as the churches in Spain and
Portugal have set themselves on the
side of the retrogressive movement
and have experienced the natural re-
suits, so it Will be with an individual
who sets himself or herself against
modern evolution. They will suffer
from their own mistakes. II the Cath-
Ollie Church sends its young women
out to work In the world the young
women themselves will find that they
must accept outside conditions as they
are and they will see that 1t Is to the
interest of every worker to influence
development of the Legislatures"
Mrs. William NJ. WINS, who spent 6
hard summer refuting anti-suffrage
arguments. implied that the cardinal:
Views We're antiquated and hardly
worthy of her metal
IT can only say" she said. that the
suffrage cause is simply languishine
for new argument to fght''
Mrs. John Winters Brannan. wher
lasked her opinion, quoted Cardinal Mo
ran, of Australia. Don't you thinl
1T is very nice to have one cardina
answer another" she asked. II thinl
it is rather stylish" and she laughed
Cardinal Gibbons only speaks from
Imagination" she continued. SCar-
dinal Moran speaks from experience
He has been an intelligent observer o
the results of giving women the bal
|. lot from the first, and he says 1t ha
had a most beneflcent effect bot
e upon the state and upon the family
To quote him, he says:
"If any woman thinks that tyin
on her bonnet and going to the poll
q to cast her vote is going to make he
) unwomanly she Is a very silly crea
ture'"