The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-12
GIRLS ATTACK JIMMY OLIVER
w mI SISTERS BERaTE HIu
~ ms OWN DISTRICT.

FOrEiNe Hisn MESS We tsas the nuf.
TRACE Rep0latIon RePoFted- While
The, re NJ %. Al Men Are nad.
The East Side Equal Rights League
,pened last night its campaign o1 ven
geancs against Azsemblyman James OIL
var for his alleged insulting treatment
~ Misc Henrietta Mercy AZ an open
,ir meeting at Second avenue and First
street Mia Mercy told her story to pervOns
~ the Third Assembly district. which
Oliver represents at Albany. She did her
Nest to make the crowd believe taAt he
Ncmen.
I went zap to Albany to represent 100
women of the Third district who are
Eager for the ballot she said. and
ssked Mr.. oliver - politely a. | could
~he,her he would use his influence TO
have our resolution reported.
He smiled contemptuously and re-
Piled that he didn't believe that cams
from the Third district because the women
down there were too poor 60 come TO
hlDauNs Ah1 AAA8N NAANy WV wv bhHN
al their washtubs.
Then he passed some very uncOmpl-
mentary remarks about tho Jews. He
said How about Rebecca at she wellp
Shs didn't want "a vote. did shsr
Now I don't know whether Rebecca
wanted to vote or not Perhaps she
did But ! do know that you people
of the Third district must keep watch
81 your legislator You must guard
your liberties Mr.. Oliver wasn't in
sulting me. wouldn't have cared 20
much about that He was insulting
you.
-Furthermore. u isn't a question OF one
legislator insulting one woman. All the
legislators insult all women. For forty
years the women Of this State have been
going up TO Albany asking the Legislature
merely 20 consider their bill. and n little
handful OF men have refused 60 report IL
cut Of committee They laugh az us and
Ger at NJ.
!, shows you where you stand and how
much you mean to the men whose salary
you help nay at Albany You have been
asleep. Wake up and show these so-called
representati YES OF the people that the
men profess to he your humble servants
befors election. hut after election they are
YOUR masters. show them that you are
the masters all the time
The crowd. which by this time had
grown to about two hundred persons.
about 70 per cent. % whom were men.
spplandsd alphabetically. A few boys
velied whenever q camera snapped the
orator. h'It they were quickly repre~sed.
There was no special show of indignation
"a the part OF any Constituent.
Thea DIR. Anna Mercy. SISTER Of Hen
etta and president of the league sa,d
ne ants we're always talking about the
tnivalry Of fnen toward women. For
Ter part she didn't have much faith in 10.
How about the white slave trarfic;-
sr- demanded How about the fact
ma, there arc in New York every year
"0O Gases Of wife deseFtion. How about
the starvation wages thar are paid TO
Srn,en, Men ret only an average 81 so
N--E Women get only an average oi
Ns Gilman beg you to consider the
'"rrarkablc attitude Of your representa-
'.s" az Albany. who advises a young
~oman to beg for votes with hugs and
s's-ss a. the women on Pearl street ash
'"- what they want.
would say TO you women Of the Fast
~Ida particulsriv where there ia no danger
~ race suicide she vent on do not
hing children into the world until the
World il decent place for them to live in.
ven policemen ere owned by corpora
"ns You can vote for whom YOU please
men ~ the Third district. hut Timothy d
sullivan decades who shall 30 sent up
there was some applause. and then
Miss Mercy announced that Miss Dorothy
brooks would address the meeting.
I'orothys hat was fastened on by an
elastic under her chin and her yellow hair
tell IN loose rinxlets to her waist Her
--ir' didn't quite reach her shoe tops.
hu' she informed her auditors that the
sIhlec' abe was about to discuss was one
~ momeutous importance. and she
Eor~d that her hearers would no, decide
against ~ without mature dehberation."
hen she proceeded 20 answer every
angie argument ever advanced Agsinst
''" ~nfranchi-em~nt oG women.
Mss Maude Malone took The neat turn
e. 10 platform. Il suppose Mr.. Oliver
'.nss that becaus~ We are women we
an hurt him she said but he will
''1 NAT women can do a lot ~ harm when
'f"v get 'o talking.
Right you are grosned several
80 60
tod Miss Mercy continued the
'ss'rf that when Mr. Oliver said % her
49, hs did about the wOmen 81 Pearl
s'r.-.' -h@ should have struck him.
s'rr0~" that feel that way because
s' 'ush. jus; a. he 10 The Jews have
a z0'f d right here a. tho Irish. and Mr..
over 80 no business IN insult ,hsm.'
Anna Mercy announced that there
v'.o . more open air meetings 70 in
y firm 30 p~ople ~ rho Third what kind Of
q ~ tentative they had.
Herr eta Mercy said that the only
say Nr Oliver could wipe out the in
-..' - had given her was 10 move that
i-s -ITrsEe resolution bs taken out %
30 rnmltt~e