New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-02-26
SOCIALISTS HEAR SAWYER
CIerqyman's Opening Compll'
ment Fails to Move Audience.
MAKES PLEA FOR SUFFRAGE
Therein Arouses Enthusiasm
Women Paint Pitiful Pictures
of Political Slavery.

The Rev. Roland d. Sawyer. Of Mass~
chusotts. had a hard time gathering mo-
mentum in his speech before the mass
meeting OF women socialists in Carnegie
Hall last night.
Three women speakers had suioentU
sermonized without wasting time introduce
ing a third cousin TO a jest or INDUCING Tor
second in any light and airy conversa-
ton Their success had been satisfactory
TO themselves. as could De seen by mo
far-away look I'm their eyes while they
hurled at the males poetic and prose quo
tations and little BIT more which they
themselves had committed 10 memory for
the memorable occasion.
The audience had sigrined that y vas
pleased by applauding as each OF the wonn-
on reached her final high and sat down.
And then the Rev. Mr.. SAWYER was intro
duced by Mrs. Anita G. Block. the rosy
checked chairman. and the Rev. MI. paw
yer started in TO whoop things up. IL was
much sadder than had been the entire tree
dom from attempts to wax funny OF the
women who had preached before HIM he
said that in New England an audience or
plain women always meant TO him that ~
was prepared to digest something intel
lectual And so he thought. perhaps, IN
the present instance he had better begin
with something on the lighter order.
There was no tttering In that pens've
assemblage of active brains. struggling
with tho votes for women problem. and
willing TO struggle for the cause unto
death. and so the Rev Roland ID. Sawyer
told them that the reason he had felt that
way about Il was because the women
there were all so fair to look upon II
was bad start any way you looked at II,
and the Rev Mr.. Sawyer was compelled
to cut the persifage and get into the SUBJ
ject of the evening.
| When he. minister. shouted that hs
never, never would forgive Theodore Roose-
yelt either in this world or in the life IN
come for criticisms that Mr.. Roosevelt
had once uttered against sUffragettes. the
best women on this EARTH" the audience
| warmed TO him. He said he wanted 10
| be charitable and so he added that Mr.
RooseveIt's temperament and his. other
shortcomings rendered IL impossible for
him TO think logically. This struck the
suffragist socialists as logical and the
Rev. Mr. Sawyer beamed with pleasure III
| having found a means OF getting under
steam satisfactorily 10 all concerned. When
he stormed along 10 the pronouncement
that Mrs. Anita G.. Black was greater than
Queen Victoria ever was. his success as
| sneaker was rivetted. and no doubt. II he
wishes. his lecture dates will be Tiled oy
the womans committee of the Socialist
| party before gIndown.
Mrs. Mary Wood Simons there was no
woman speaker with fewer than three
names-painted a pitiful picture Of the po-
Ii,ical slavery Of our present day. Wives
sweethearts, mothers-all. all slaves. She
also mentioned ar comparatively cheerful
note that Harvard student had advocated
"the bill' I'm Massachusetts a short tine
! ago.
Women. she said would never vote for
Republicans or Democrats. the reasons
being numerous and requiring many min
utes in passing
Mrs Bertha Matthews Fraser. Socialist
candidate for Secretary OF state OF Nc"
Work.. was strong on expressive sdiccti'es.
Capitalism. she said had laid it's foul hand
on the home and laid the home in The aus
"Womans place Is in Nh" nome. sue
snecred THAT Is the argument against
tho cause II is q superficial argument. ana
shows lack If thought We may as wen
recognize that that day has passed.
She said hell once in singing sort
NJ way using It in conjunction with 'nael-
strom." into which. It appeared, the males
were chuckng things generally.
Tho lover floor was filled and there we're
= TOW persons in the boxes, AT g and $40 a
! box.