New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-12
NEW SUFFRAGE CITADEL
Political Equality Association
Opens "Shrine of Liberty.
ENGLISH METHODS OPPOSED
Women Will Rise to Any Physical
Emergency They Think Adj
visable, However.

Thanks TO Mrs Oliver H. p. Belmont
the stanch champion of votes for women
another suffrage citadel was opened last
night i'm East saith street. near Lexington
avenue. On one of its white walls hangs
the blue suffragist flag. with five stars, rep
lesenting Colorado Utah. Wyoming. ldsho
and Washington On the flag is an inqulr-
ing "?'' and crooked under its elbow the
letters IN " For the suffrage advocates
expect that this state will be the next TO
join their ranks. There are also pictures
and posters all about the walls, most OF
them from England. depicting red coated,
beef eating John Bulls depriving women OF
the ballot.
Mrs. Belmont was present at the begin
ming of the "14th Assembly District Gun
of the Political Equality Association, as
it is called. She asserted that few persons
really grasped the significance of the SUI
fragist movement.
WHY only a few evenings ago a man
high in public life said tn me. Mrs. Bel
mont, why are you trying to force men
to push the perambulators?' " she said. and
added that she replied that the women were
perfectly willing 10 push the perambula-
tors, and also TO give the occupants
chance for their little lives.
The audience heard Mrs. Amy Porter
Boyer who called the new hall a shrine
of liberty, describe the campaign for suf-
frage in Oklahoma. Literature for the
Indian voters was translated into Choctaw
and Chickasaw by a Carlisle graduate, and
the dodgers were printed ''on yellow ochre
paper with Indian red ink
| Okla homa did not adopt suffrage. but
! Mrs. Boyer thinks that it will when the
question is brought up three years from
now. The initiative and referendum pre-
vents it from being taken up before that
| time, and in the interim, Mrs Boyer says,
the work must he largely educational
Another speaker was DR.. Anna Howard
| Shaw, who introduced herself by remark
| ing: Il know the least about politics of
any woman / ever saw. I could be fooled
! By any politician" But Dr. Shaw made
| this statement to contrast herself with
| other suffragists, who, she says, know SO
much about politics that they cannot be
| fooled by compromises of pledges TO sup
| port a definite party. She added. sar-
| castically:
| we can't pledge ourselves We don't
| know what we will think in year from,
! now on the questions of the day If we
| did pledge ourselves the ballot would be
! forced on women
! Her idea of one way TO work for suffra &c
! is to try. through the men of the family
! to defeat officeseekers who oppose the
| cause, rearing one set of voters and de-
! feating the other" as she phrased it In
pleading for what she says women are due
| she alluded to the work of the pioneer
women settlers Of the country. and told
! grim. dramatic story of her own entrance
as a twelve-year-old girl. into the wilder
ness of Northern Michigan
My mother was an English woman.
was born in England" said Dr. Shaw
/ Everything was strange even in the grea
! cities. When we went West the tWenty-houI
| journey of to-day took us four days. One
| hundred miles of this travelled in
wagon, fording streams and with mud ant
| water to the hubs of the wheels.
! I'VE to a hole cut out of the tieer
| forest, and there was homc-a log nut
| There were no windows. no doors-only
places where they should have been. Ny
| mother sat down on the sod floor. put hel
| face in her hands and did not speak foi
! hours. We did not dare TO speak to her
! but finally she realized that we children
! needed comfort too. and she looked up
| But her face was changed, and the drawn
! look never left her all her life. ] will never
| forget it, My mothers heart broke that
day
But DR.. Shaw turned to humor too ane
| said the old You cant vote; what wouId
! you do N time of war;" argument used tc
suffragists by the men was absurd. Few
! of these men ever did any fighting. an6
! half of them wouldn't know a rife from a
! liberty pole she said with good humor.
As far fighting goes. the suffra gists
/ here won't adopt the English methods I'M
! less forced TO do so, according to DR.. Shaw,
! but they will rise TO any physical ener-
gcncy if they think it advisable. IT'S not
A question of whether it is ladylite or UNI
didn't have looking glasses in front of them
| to help their vanity" said the speaker
/ Women are ready to vote now, DR.. Shaw
| maintains for they have learner most of
the things that men had to learn after they
! got the ballot two recent magazine writers
! to the contrary Notwithstanding. The ma G.
! azine writer's came in for their liberal share
! OF criticism.
| But one great big reason women want
| the ballot is because they are mothers. and
! they want to make the world a fit Ilace
| for their daughters and sons 10 live in I
don't believe I'm the idea of reforming the
criminal so that lie is At to live in the
| world. ] Want to make the world the right
| sort of place. FIRST Of all" sha finished.
| The rev bureau of female political free
dom will be open every night in the week
There will be restaurant and elias ses OF all
kinds. even a dancing class, the purpose of
| which DR. Shaw suggested should be Ito
q, u TO- Ia.