The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-10-28
BOX
CRITICISED
He Made Rabid Utterances
Against the Cause of
Woman Suffrage.

Workingmen and workingwomen, do
not read The Ladies' Home Journal. 1t
is not intended for them. The publisher
caters to "ladies," not women. The
journal even carries page for gentle
men," but nothing for men. In the cur
rent issue just out there is an article
on woman suffrage in Colorado and the
other suffrage states, which shows the
attitude of the Box publication to-
wards the common people. That the
article in question is rabid against wo-
man suffrage goes without saying.
Judging by past performances, the arti
Gle would not have been printed if it
had been favorable to granting politi
cal rights to women. Governor Sha-
froth wrote an article for the Journal
on woman suffrage in Colorado as he
had seen it. That high official was
enthusiastic over the results, but the
article wasn't the kind Mr.. Box wanted
and though the author was the COVER
uor of the state and his article very
readable one, Mr.. Box refused it pub
lication and it was published in the
Denver News instead.
The writer of the Ladies' Home
Journal article, according to the edi
tors statement, spent several weeks
in the four states" where men and wo-
men vote on equal terms, and he finds
conditions absolutely appalling. The
English language is inadequate to ex-
press the absolute failure of woman
suffrage. And yet, as against the con-
clusions of man who must almost
have made his observations from a
Pullman window, judging by the ter.
ritory he had to cover in very short
time, the testimony of thousands who
have lived in the suffrage states for
years is altogether the other way. Gov
ernors and ex-governors, United States
senators and congressman, lawyers,
judges, clergymen, editors, labor lead
ers, men and women in all walks of
life everywhere throughout these states
speak in the highest terms of the in
fluence of women upon the political life
of their respective states.
The article attempts to prove so
much that it is absolutely unbelievable.
1t would probably be impossible to in
stitute libel proceedings for slander of
womanhood, but the article ought to
carry with it an affidavit 1t is along
the same line as that Los Angeles wo
mans objection to woman suffrage that
for every intelligent and educated wo
man would vote there would be fifty
women voters who were neither intelli-
gent nor educated. Mr.. Box would put
the enthusiasm of an English suffra-
gette in the shade by his earnest ad-
vocacy of woman suffrage if the suf-
frage could be so restricted that only
Ladies' Home Journal ladies could vote,
The trouble is all with the women
of that larger class which fights its
own battles in life and needs every
weapon of defense against their home,
character and life itself. This is the
closing sentence of the article:
"Woman suffrage in this state is a
joke when it is not a shame. High
minded men ignore the woman voter;
to low minded men she is--well, the
less said about that the better"
That statement has no reference
whatever to ''ladies"- who dandle pood-
ledogs in their laps and have monkeys
as their guests of honor at sumptuous
i dinners. 1t is a direct thrust at the
women of the working class. The La.
dies Home Journal article is one in
stallment of the slush fund provided
on the eve of the election to defeat the
enfranchisement of the women of the
states where suffrage campaigns are or
at the present time. No better argu'
ment for woman suffrage could be of
fered to the working men of AmericG
than the fact that the Ladies' Home
Journal is opposed to It.
EVERETT SUFFRAGE CLUB.
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