New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-14
THINKS YANKEES STUPID
That's Why American Women
Don't Vote, Says Mrs. Snowden.
TOO MANY MEN. SHE THINKS
Colonial Scarcity of Weaker
Sex Makes 1t Harder to
Get Suffrage.
I do not like the woman's vote
The reason why 7 can't denote
Eat tins one thing know by rote
: do Tot like the woman's vote

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This is the argument attributed by Mrs
Philin II. Snowden. the English suffraSis''
70 what she calls the ''unintelligent oPpo-
sition Of this country to the suffrage move
r7,e,,, for she saws that ''unintelligence" rs,
after ali. the maia trouble on this side Oh
IN. water. About six hundred men and
women heard her speak last night at the
dinner given bv the Mems League for
7ynr7an suffrage at the rooms Of the Al
dino Association IL the Fifth Avenue Build
in&.
Mrs. Snoxden SAYS that after touring
some forty states she has decided that con-
z,ertS are easily made among the men OF
the country. they being. indeed, much
more s,-muathetic than the weaker vessels
Left TO the men. according to Mrs Snow
den. all would be well. and that blue flag
would be fairly crowded with white state
rood stars. And there's a reason. too
whv the women do not respond more
readily
Your women are still living in the old
Colonial scarcity Of woman she said In
England we are cheap. There are a million
snd half more of lis than men
And then she cited the effect of those eN-
ira million and a half women on Great
Britain. Israel ZanEwiT. who founded
Mems League on the tight little isle, sad.
'No-x that YOU women have shown your
selves willing. We will help you" And he
Cid With the result that now an English
man, asked what he thinks about the mat
ter, tries TO find out The questioner's atti-
1ule before he answers.
The English woman said her connpahiots
had refrained from Fostering the govern
rnert since before the general elections in
January I'D to a few weeks ago had kept
their hands Of, but that now the battle
was on again.
IT is already won on the principle she
said She reviewed the history Of the last
fight in Parliament. and assailed Mr.. As
quith LIovd-Geor-e and Winston Churchill,
three arch enemies of suffrage
''Rut suffrage was taken seriously she
said For the first time in tho House Of
Commons the mental atmosphere ceased TO
be that Of the hack PaTlcr of d low down
saloon. There were no jokes about SUI
frage and no foul illusions 20 women.
Mrs. Snowden is not an American. but
APPRECIATES the advantages Of advertising,
and geld 70 quite frankly
The women who went 10 Parliament
never really hoped TO get inside. she dc
clared 1t was simply advertising. They
couldn't get in the newspa pers ny acting
5eCentlv: then the obvious thing TO do was
"a act otherwise over here II is easy
enough. and the movement Is given good
publicity. But we could hold a meeting in
London with ten thousand persons present
ard $4,000 taken in at the door. and there
would be just Lhat much hidden ia the ad-
yertising columns
THAT much was the first joint Of Mrs.
Suowdens index finger.
What we win do depends on the way the
.fa., fia111a
There's more thau one way Of sticking
q pin IL. one thing tho suffrayist party VIII
10 is 20 run candidates who viii have the
same platforms as those of the government
rarty-eKcept that they win ali be suffra-
Eists. We VIII feht them with their own
Sire And that won't he 50 much TO the
taste Of lite government
Before she stopped Mrs. Snowden said
that the ballot was such precious thing
IN this country that she would like to see
the man who sold it imprisoned for life.
one OF the other speakers was Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait Who said she thought that
New York would he for suffrage before
England was
L believe that when We go 10 the Legs
1ature and appeal 10 the party OF Judge Guy
md Dir. George, who are present, they viii
say. Certainly, ladies' pass il right on 10
the referendum, said Mrs tatt-
Iolln Mitchell said the fundamental rea-
son fer women suffrage was that there are
% mann women now employed as Industrial
workers Every person should have The
Fight n determine the conditions under
which they live, and this sentiment I doubt
ssot. viii eliminate in the vote for women. -
he added
Henry George, jr., conference.-the,
wro differed with Mrs. Snowden in the
riew that suffrage was a democratic idea
in England, Hamilton Holt. editor Of The
independent" and the Rev. J. Howard Mel
+sa were other Srea IzerS