The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-23
HARVEY PLEADS
FOR FEMALE VOTE
Noted Editor Makes Brilliant
Address Before Equal
Suffrage League.
RI0IcuLEs OPPOSITION
Says Genesis Was Borrowed
Book and Paul Did Not
Write Ephesians.
RlDIcULEs OPPOSITION
Colonel George Harvey.

Colonel George Harvey OF New
York, editor, author and scholar. last
evening addressed a distinguished
audience on the theme OF equal SUI.
rage in the auditorium Of the Jefferson
Hotel DR. Harvey was introduced BY
Major j c. Hemphill editor Of Tie
Ilmes-p Dispatch and was received With
applause In the audience sa. IL mum
Der OF state officials and municipal dig
nitaries although the house was large
~ composed OF the gentlei sex, mem
bcrs OF the Equal Sufras 60 League OF
Virginia
Sng less than brilliant ana for an hou-
and thirty minutes he Kept his audi
once swayng between smiles un,, tears
lie speaker dwelt largely in ridiculc
intersporsed With frequent appeals TO
the moro tender emotions Ills 40.
dress was happily devoid OF statisti-
cal citations ana the rapt attention OF
his hearers was never lost
States Emil In Line.
he speaker began BY SAYING the
States of California. Nevada and Kan
sas had in the last few weeks bec.!
won ovod 70 tho cause for which he
pleaded he pronhesied that other
commonwealth would soon follow
their lead y vital TRUTH said Or.
Harvey, mus, be accepted by all PEG
pics Of rcspcctahility and a truth once
accented can never Gie.N
DR. Harvey continued by. citing soma
faNorite and time Worn arguments.
stlll Very much in vogue among those
hostile 10 tho caiisc Of sutfrage FOR
women Prominent among these was
the OLD ma Kim, generally employed BY
decrepit philosophers. that woman
being unable to shoulder muskcts, hal
no right 10 aspire TO voice in gov
eminent BY this method Of urgu.
mcnt." said Dr. Harvey, "a cleopatra.
would have been less than a black
smith Sui il is my conviction that
brain is not always founded on Drawn.
or else would take Oft my hat to a
mule
Argument lnIust
touching upon the question OF
abandoned women. which argument,
said the speaker. is frequently urged
against the movement Of ballots FOR
both sexes. he was not al all disposed
TO deny justice to virtue that he might
thwart vice, nor did he see that any
rigid qualification Of clean living was
'rnpostd upon the masculine soverclSrs
now empowered With the privilege 10
Women" said Or Harvey. per
Ronally OWE more than forty per cent
OF tha Pennsylvania Railroad ana OF
the Western Union Telegraph Com
DanN- Yet woman is denied that tyn-
damenial right In the government OF
this republic enjoyed BY the imported
foreigner who lays rails OF The Penn
sylran'a tracks, OF The Scandinavian
who labors in the coal mines OF West
Virginia. and tic Italian. who exhibits
g monkey for the dclectation Of the
children Of the stree s''
The speaker was aware tina: wo-
mars provence was considered by
10 ij,,. cn1 al, ir I, - :. =
home circle; that there. with lier hand
uron the cradle. She swuyed the dcs-
times OF empire and shaped tic course
and progress Of the world But il was
misfortune with Dr. Harvey that he
~ tiines was plagued with memories
Of that acme Of pagan domestic felc-
ity when the wives Of the citizeIIs Of
Athens were locked ard bolted ana
confined behind walls
No doubt these Athcnian mothers
rocked cradles. But he would have
ballots were not At all lrrcconcilah bic
as Was fondly imagined i,y mnnlind
The HfhlicnI P"sition.
iha Or. Harvey ..dsei'icd 10 HOLY Writ,
lie regretted that some ministers good
ainia aSvout mon. We're neNertheless
believing and proclaiminp tHat woman
IS forbidden by the Scriptures 10 have
n,ny yoice IN gove,rnmcn,al affairs:
~ Ntu u tHc WlIplt matter ncre,3
said pr, iIarvcy lies III the question
u whether or not woman is possessed
Of soul. This is, OF course to raise
! distinct issue between Buddhism ana
christianity. IF, then woman lie pos
sessed OF 4 soul she is worthy OF per-
*onai liberty, and there can be no lib
"rtN. as there can be no ri-ut where
justice Is denied"
The speaker believed that when it
NJ once ADMITTED that man and wo,
soul. il must follow that the one is in
TO wise inferior 10 The Other But
continued he. the ovcrzeaons clergy
man tells rs that in the BOOK Of Cen
essis woman WAS fashioned from the
rib OF man. Man therefore. looked
Gown pityingly upon his sister fash
toned from bone. remembering thai
fruit Eu, does he stop 10 consider
that he himself i lineal ,iescond;nt
o. art norm TO vote and TO rctNrn
unto dnst?"
Wives In Subsection.
pr Harvey next indill,ed in some
niSher. Criticism Of certain Books in
e.criptnral writings lie pointed oUt
mat II had been discovered that GER
tain nartS. y not ~, whole. Of Gem
legends. he referred to that part Of
the writings of st Paul wlierei:l inc
apostle enjcins woman saying: "Wivns
&c sn6 IN tsnnleclio4 70 Ionrr islands,
some sort snbsided hc made the an
nouncernent that the APOSTLE Paul was
rot the real author Of the EpiStlc 10
thc Ephesians, Which writing lie as
cribed to some unmcntionea scribo
Dr Harvey dd not leave this part
OF his address without Expressing His
conviction that the world Was Setter
of for The presence and pTcachine Or
Fl PAM, even admitting that this amos
tie had entertained some rather radi-
Cal views regarding the prOper prov