New-York tribune., 1911-12-14
WGNTED-A SLOGAN
Suffrage War Cries Are Out
worn, SAYS Mrs. Dodge.

| To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Unless the suffragists get together
/ and select a slogan or two. and stand
| by it, they will soon find themselves with
out an excuse for their propaganda. Tax
alton without representation is tyra my,
was. until recently, n favorlte cry OF the
suffrage leaders, and it is still used liberal
" in small communities and where wom-
en- want suffrage and don't know why they
want it. But so high leader in the inner
circles Of suffrage as Ida Hustled Harper,
in a published statement this week, calmly
announces that the taxation without rep
resentation theory has no relation TO suf-
frage. even as we of the opposition have
been preaching for. 10. these many years.
Prohibition used to be another cry Of the
suffragists that was always sure to rally
a certain element around their banner, but
that, too. is no longer used. save in isolat-
ed communities and where prejudice may
be safely appealed to by the suffragists. II
is not so long ago that the suffragists de
clarcd that every one opposed to their
movement was in league with the liquor In
terests, but since the women have had A
chance 10 vote on the question of prohibit
ton I'm various suffrage states the soft
! pedal has been put on the cry OF the suf-
| fragists that prohibition and abolshment
/ OF the saloon will follow In the wake Of the
woman vote
| The liquor bogey is not dead however
, but only sleeping, and brought 10 life now
and then. For instance, when the suffrage
/ headquarters in West 41st street was dedi-
Gated the other day, the Rev. Anna Shaw,
president of the National Suffrage Associa-
/ ton, declared that she knew the people at
! the head OF the National Association OPP
/ posed 10 Woman Suffrage we're able 10
| finance their fight against suffrage without
appealing for aid TO the liquor interests
/ "as the antis did in Colorado" That part
Of her talk was reserved for the press bu-
/ reau. to circulate in remote communities,
! and it is now going the rounds of the rural
papers Even some of the Canadian papers
/ are still quoting the remarks OF the Rev
/ Anna Shaw at that meeting, while the Den
/ yer and other Western papers have only
( concluded the story Of Mrs. Smith, presi-
] dent of the Equal Suffrage League OF
| Washington, 30 the effect that the liquor
! interests Of Washington helped the women
! Of that state TO obtain suffrage. Since Mrs
| Smith was on the ground and ought TO
] know what she Is talking about, and since
! the vote of the women wherever they
: have been enfranchised has been against
prohibition, It must at least be admitted
/ that Mrs. Smith has the advantage Of
| Miss Shaw, as far as facts are concerned
/ The suffragists are making a hard fight
! TO have suffrage submitted TO the voters OF
! Michigan, and now are endeavoring TO
have the farmers clubs OF that state in
| dorse suffrage, with the understanding that
( II will bring about statewide prohibition
for the Wolverine State.
This. i'm the face Of the fact that, with
women voting in Colorado prohibition was
defeated from Denver and Colorado
! Springs down to the small towns and nam
| let's In Los Angeles, the other day, the
women voters were Overwhelmingly against
prohibition, and now come the returns from
| New Zealand, that paradise of suffrage, to
| show that on last Monday prohibition was
| defeated by a vote OF 255, ,S6i in favor, to
/ 2O2. Cos against It has been proven that the
woman vote will not settle the liquor ques-
/ ton, and it will not mean prohibition. 1t
! VIII not settle the social evil, as witness
! Colorado and Utah and other suffrage
states. and II will not raise the wages OF
working women. In not d sihslc AH'a'0o
! has the woman vote benefited woman, eX-
! cept as II benefited the woman Politicians
| I'm Utah, according 10 the United states
census reports, six men have obtained d.
vorces from their wives on the ground
/ Of non-support, and yet unthinking women
viii follow the viii O. the wisp of suffrage
as sheep follow a bell-wether, seeking they
know not what.
JOSEPHINE NJ DODGE.
President of the National Association OPP
posed to Woman Suffrage.
New York Dee. II. 1911.