The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-03-03
SHE IS FOR WHIPS.
NOT KISSES, TO AID
VOTES FOR WOMEN
Oscillation Wouldn't Move So
Ions, but $1,000 Bills Might
Prove Effective.

Now York March 1-Erac fror. being
In favor of kisses as a means Of in
fluencing Albany legislators to grant
the vote to women, Mrs. Alma Web
.ster-Powell, the Brooklyn suffrage
worker, says that she is in favor of
much more violent tactics, and if she
had to choose between kisses and
blacksnake whips to get results with
the Solons up the river, she would pin
her faith to the whip every time.
1T is quite untrue that l ever rec
commended any osculatory crusade"
said Mrs. Powell to a reporter, land
the misrepresentation grew from a
man recently stated that If the vote
was granted to women any woman's
vote could be purchased with a new
hat or an automobile ride, and aid
that any man who had such a stand
ard of honor, his vote could be bought
with a kiss.
But l don't care for n such gen
tie methods myself. I am heart and
soul in the cause simply as it will help
the working class. / am ready to die
for it, if necessary. I sing to help get
funds and l speak wherever I am
Let a Revolution Come.
Il think the thing to do is to go
down on the east side and tell the
people there how their conditions could
be bettered by the vote-how all the
women, working in the shops. could,
with he vote, compel the passage Of
better labor laws n insist upon bet
ter prices for their work.
Tell them how they are being
cheated and robbed and stir them up
stir up the mud! When they are
aroused the legislature will have to
grant their demands. If there should
be a revolution arising from such pro-
paganda, let it come. That is the gos-
pei 1 shall preach"
In regard to the whips, Mrs. Powell
said:
Tn not big enough to horsewhip a
man., but some women are. I think the
whip Is a woman's legitimate weapo
Scolding and vi~tuperation make her
look ridiculous; a gun puts her within
the clutches of the law, but a whip
makes the man suffer and Furnishes
him adequately.
on the legislators at present. I don't
advise a lot of women to go to Alban
carrying whips to try to get the vote,
but I do say that those men who side
track u resolutions and tie them up
in the committee should be whipped if
they keep on doing so simply to show
our contempt for them. Nothing can
ever show it like a good old fashioned
lash and a few blows across the face
with 1t.
Kiss Wouldn't Move Them.
Most of those men up there couldn't
be influenced by a kiss. All that would
move some of them would be a thou
sand dollar bill or a dreadful scare
thrown into them. The time hasn't
come yet for the whip, but it will soon.'
Mrs. Web~ster-Powell says she hates
class lines, and that at all her enter
tainments she is going to have some of
the east side girls that she has met
in her suffrage work. She is going to
see, herself, that they are we'll dressed
for the occasion and that they have a
good time. IF my friends don't like it
they don't need to come to my house,
Mrs. Webster-Powell SPOKE very dis
paragingly of the part fashionable
women are playing in the suffrage
cause n declared that she thought
their influence rather harmful than
otherwise. with them present a
meeting becomes a kid glove affair that
will never get us anything"