New-York tribune., 1910-02-01
WAR TO THE KNIFE
HISTORY NAY REPEAT
Sufrogettes Issue limitations
to "Gotham Beef Party.'

A plump little woman in blue suit and
fluffy furs, who said she was acting for
the Benchmen's Association OF Retail
Butchers, divided honors with Mrs. Sofa
Loebinger and the other Leaders of the
National Progressive Woman Suffrage
Union at the abstain from meat for thirty
days mass meeting held by that organi-
cation in Madison Square yesterday after
noon.
The plump woman stood up for the
butchers. whose business. she said Mrs
Loebinger vas running. till she was the
centre of a mass meeting of her own
Maybe I disturb t'ings alretty," she OBJ
served serenely. but vat would you do II
your husband vas a butcher?'
1t was a motley crowd that surrounded
the drygoods box which was the suffra-
gettes' rostrum-Women in furs and silks
and women with shawlS over their heads,
men who sleep at the sign of the Park
Bench and prosperous men in good over
coats. One tall silk hat attended the meet
ing. but left early for neighboring bank.
Miss Helen Murphy read the petition
which the suffragettes will present to the
Board OF Health on Wednesday,, asking
that cold storage warehouses be investi-
gated. and that all foods in which deconl-
POoAIAOli iIdo SCI III De IuIUeO over 70 the
women of the National Progressive Wom-
an Suffrage Union.
and I invite you all to come TO our
Gotham beef party and see us dispose of
that food" cried Miss Murphy. I'VE won't
throw it in The water, as our ancestors did
the tea. but we1l have a great bonfire and
burn it up"
I'VE want no more talk about investiga-
tiOn- bo
Health said Mrs. Loebinger as she mount
ed the drygoOds box. LAS for the Meat
Trust. we women declare war to the knife
Abstain from meat
If your husband was butcher you
wouldn't be up dere taIkin' dat way"
shouted the woman in the blue suit
'You'se putting wrong ideas in folks heads
Vat is de butchers 20 do ven you shpoil
der trade?"
What are the thousands of people to do
whose wages are so small they can't buy
meat at the present prices?' retorted Mrs
Loebinger.
''Starve," muttered a gray haired woman
in rusty black. who stood with a knot Of
housewives in the ba ckground.
Meanwhile. Mrs. Sophie Kramer, Miss
Mary A. DonnelIy and other energetic suf-
fragettes were forcing their way here and
there through the crowd, getting signatures
to the petition. Wont you sign? Won't
you sign? Anybody who doesn't want to
eat eggs that were laid in the time OF
the Pharaohs, antique meat and chickens
so old they have grown whiskers please
sign our petition they chorused.
And people did sign. scores upon scores
of them. Every signer was requested to
put down his or her occupation. and it
was noticeable that many of the male
signers were clerks, statesmen and the like
few manual workers. The jobless men
didn't seem to approve of the petition.
They met all requests for signatures with
Il stony stare.
The suffragesres intend to invade the
Board of Heattn in a body with the Pc
tition. Anybody who didn't attend the
meeting and wants to sign the petition
will have an opportunity to do so to-day
or tomorrow at the suffl agette headquar-
tiers, No. 122 East sd street
To-day the suffragettes are going TO the
City Hall, Just so Alderman Frank Dowl-
ing won't feel lonesome when he introduces
his ordinance calling for stamped dates on
food put into cold storage. Another plan
of the suffragettes is to have cooking
schools In the streets-verbal ones. They
will hold a series of meetings in the down
town districts and declain recipes for mex
pensive dishes