New-York tribune., 1911-12-08
AID SUFFRAC|STS
Wall Street Messengers in Awe
of Fifty Men.
AMIABLE BROKERS LISTEN
DR.. Anna Shaw and Mrs. Blatch
Have Their Say in the
Business Capital"

Three thousand messenger boys and
clerks. with a sprinkllng of brokers, were
On hand at Wall and Broad streets yes
tcrday for the noon meeting announced by
the Woman's Political Union. They came
10 jeer nut they remained 10 listen. They
had to-at least they had to be quiet IL
they stayed About nine thousand pounds
pf police. ten uniformed officers and forty
UIainclothes men. We're there ready and
waiting 20 sit upon any disposition on the
part Of the crowd 70 yell
There was no repetition Of the scenes
that attended Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst
attempt 10 speak I'm rhe same place on NO.
vember p The only time the boys got In
"A good yell was when Mrs. Harriet Stan
ton Blatch, who headed the party OF women
that drove 70 the Sub-Treasury steps Just
as the Trinity chimes rang p o'clock, in
formed tho crowd that Inspector Callahan
of the lst District had told her that every
policeman when he went on the force was
called before his superiors and told just
what the suffragists We're working for. and
that they had a perfect right 70 work for
it on street corners; 50 that the police We're
really well qualified 10 speak about suffrage
on street corners themselves That made
the policemen feel bashful. and when the
crowd drowned the end Of it with roar
they didn't object.
DR. Anna Howard Shaw started on with
story OF lad IN an Illinois reformatory
who, after listening to talk she gave
there. told her ne wished she would come
back. because she was the best snow
they'd ever had"
You wouldn't listen 10 me last week,
she said, go I thought I'd come back and
let YOU hear what the show had to say.
We've come down here because men have
a habit Of not going 10 the places m halls
and 80 forth where women speak; they
think they've nothing 10 say worth listen
ing 20. but we think we've something ~
say that you ought 10 hear whether YOU
want 20 or not.
"'rhe power of the government Is m the
hands Of Won men, and We y" sot 10 con
vince vOu and get YOU 10 give us tdlr play
Men say that women Ought 10 stay IN tne
home. forgetting that economic condl one is
have changed 50 that many "0nen omen are ahe
driven out Of the home. You men the
messenger boys loved being called You on
men. II made them zulirK all over you
men would be helpless n you dion nav
tho right 20 combine I'm labor organizations
and The right 20 vote Be talr' give u
tho weapons you have 49,
Dr. shaw told the boys that when they
booted down the women last week they
were taking advantage of the weaker
rarty. And the man who fought smal
hoy she said. would be considered
dreadful coward
Mrs William Colt made speech. 100,
Miss Eliza beth Ellsworth Cook and hall
"a dozen other young women distributed
literature which the crowd took as a hape
does milk u was wonderful what q iran
quilzing effect the rem bis uniformed Of
fcars mad They didn't have 10 DO any
thing except lust frOwn when q messenger
hoy got li gt the giggles. As Tor tue
fortv plain clothes men, they needn't nave
been there al all ~
After about thirty minutes OF speah hlnE
the motor car. with its purple green ana
white flags drov" away amid respectful
silence But rash man, who was moveu
10 take advantage Of the gatherlng nN
making a speech from the base Of George
Washiugtou's statue, got all which under
other circumstances. might have been com
iug 10 the suffragists. When last seen ne
was dashin. wildly down Broad street, with
the mob iu full cry after him.