New-York tribune., 1910-02-06
TALK ON SUFFRAGE
ROTH SIDES HE4RD.
"OId-Faslaoned Woman En-
E0gised IN Debate.

The Rev Andrew F. Underhiii' OF tne
C,burcb of the Ascension. was niue
beiIirerent from the start. lie was the iaS'
- 's,,ogl, At ,b,, debate on woman's suffrage
AZ the City Club yesterday.
t4e sidn.t like many OF tire things fhat
we're said bv the Rev. Anna Shaw VINO
,racede5 him. and said without waiting
for music. When he quoted an article from
q monthly magazine written by a woman
u1,o had voted in Colorado, and who prom
;sad TO dc Sc no more. for reasons that ne
-es5 il REQUIRED many sips OF Ice water LOT
cvon1en present TO keep even comparative!
cool
Those who talked in favor of woman SUI
trase besides the Rev. Anna Shaw Were
Professor Max Eastman, secretary OF tils
Mems League for Woman Suffrage a'lu
Oswald Garrison Willard, who pres'de"'
Opposed were the Rev. Dr. Henry A sum
SON uf the Manhattan ConsTeea'
church. and the Rev. Nh InderhHi- 9i
T-ndeY-hill challenged the statement tiai oi'e
ballot would uplift women lie salo 'ha. - :.
would quote from "a woman sun
The titfer seemed 10 surprise him ana ne
corrected himself by referring 10
frgCette woman" He then read rum ~
magazine article as follows
nave r,et-one hardly cares TO say sne
Lao+,-e tber1-several professional women women
go n};,s<is,,~ in Colorado. few of these are
district leaders, others are hleieiS
heelers- Ia easbioned type of
.,1lssfockfns heavy booted short skltteu, t
crav headed and much spectacied. og. g e.S- rtarS
sre trrfeu7inne souls III the ordpplSu 49,
of their sex They call each oliieI ~ I,l
last names without any prenN AheS IN ~
.reEate in cafes and discuss 1ne siLa1a ~ 80 80
over glasses just as men 40 - : none
r--+sa= of
trare 1he yilest dives TO dig up voters Si gnu
f18uence these apologies for men pg N'S
;nctly feminine wiles- ..,,7 ,,,ale
They unload a group OF pesolteu ,,,lII;1,g trle,
of.srS from an automobile at a poIlills
,orb with all the bTaVado OF 1aInillaIS 1a
5ri1,r 597Ise district And at rounding
-, ..rerea terS-- they have been proven ull-
17-arled Sometimes they are properly Ie-
-s-,5ed bv the machine and scineulIles
-a,- a ra NOT In the latter case theE Iahe
rorher chance at the next elecuoh any, aIiu,
lci5entally, they plck up ,iIe tlie eeanpis'
ell spread table. ~ 1000
fest ia the strata OF suffragettes come
sr-c p0or. driven creatures whose HiaSsso ~
rfs hzs built up a political machine more
a--fun and more subtle than IanfnahS-
rel thousand OF these women were + Sn.
franchisea in Denver alone Tiaem 7Ia le ibaitered
.i~tcl~. Ten thousand Of them conuo1r r, lIle
aave that in turn controls them: 1neg
hold the balance of power IN city 1Ll9 sa9
.-e,ll1,rz- elections and that power Is WleIqe9
- q machine which makes the City Hall
;.S stronghold. -, 49, :, Toenyer
II fl-ev vote wrong they move on
tFe closed with a sturdy eulogy Of the
--old-fashioned woman and the home. A
e,,ff,-a aist said TO him after the speech that
she was 2 grandmother, had always been
sufTragist and had not broken UP any
homes 50 far as she could remember
Professor Eastman said some famlilar
7bings in the affirmative in an unfamiliar
way and was SO wholesouIed an advocate
,,,s1 the women shiYered with pleasure at
some Of his periods.
DR.. Stinson was an orthodox antl-sui-
frage speaker. confessing TO slight conf
dence in the good that would result from
Noulen's voting. and adding that, IN his
district. Abraham Gruber and Lemuei h
Quigg would still be in control OF the po-
,itical situation. because Of their superior
knowledge of how 10 go about it.
Miss Shaw said that the conception of
republic mad never been realized in the
United States OF in France, so-called re-
nubIics Human beings are not consulted
only a portion Of them are consulted she
said. 1T may be that women are virtually
represented, but virtual representation Is
no representation at ali. That is being
ruled. not represented.
1t is said that womea do not exercise
the right to vote. as shown in Massachu-
sets. The trouble with Massachusetts, is
that the men have lobbied successfully TO
prevent US from getting into the primaries
If you make the home the unit Of gov
ernment you must give each home vote
Yet many homes have a woman at the
head and she has no vote, while other
homes have five or six votes
After an attack on the laws of South
Carolina, which allowed the queen Of the
home 10 be deprived of her children, Miss
Shaw dwelt on the necessity OF the ballot
for women if they would protect their legal
and industrial rights.