Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-12-13
SHALL WOMEN VOTE?
Some Women Say No, Socialism Ever
Has Said Yes, A Great Mix Up In
Prospect Real Men Can Smile.
fCommunicated.)

Communicated
To The Editor Minnie Scott !
Beayin, an ardent woman suffragist Of |
Annapolis, says Of me in The Ameri-
can Of November 80: tHe seems to |
think the tar party in Kansas is suffi
Gent reason why the men should turn
a deaf ear to the women at our COM
ing legislature. !"
would answer that that is not a
sufficient reason. | have many.
My chief reason is that, judging from
my own experience, the time Of real
men is too valuable to be consumed
with women in politics. Ny principle
of liberty for man, woman and child
has never allowed me to oppose any
thing that the women wanted; but
when their wants interfere with the
liberty of others, and when they are
too imbecile to stand forth in their de-
Tense as becomes the gravity of the
question at issue, then, say, they bet
ter content themselves with their old
fashioned duties in the line of femi-
ninity.
| have had experience with the
leading women, all the way from
Lady Cook, of England, to those on
our Atlantic coast, to those in our
Middle West, and to those of our Pa
cific coast, and | have found-in my
own experience, recollect-that they
are wholly incapable of standing up
to man who treats them perfectly
politely, though squarely. Take, for
instance, my experience with a Ken
lucky lady of high standing. She had
a long and forcible article in that
most aggressive paper, the Springfield
Republican. In a spare moment !
tossed a few careless lines to one of
her local papers regarding it. / was
rewarded by long private letter, in
which l was completely sat down
upon.
This Kentuckian challenged me in
every particular. found it was time
to wake up. and l did, not failing,
however in thorough courtesy. /
wrote my reply to the lady, and was
kind enough to submit it to her before
sending it to the press. That was the
last | ever saw of 1t. The lady found
out she had made a mistake, and she
wrote me pitiable appeal to destroy
her first letter to me and leave her I'M
noticed in the press. So l did the lat
ter.
Similar to this has been my exper-
fence with club women, college wo-
men, women suffragists and leading
women contributors to papers and
magazines. My conclusion is that for
men wh) mean business in public mat
ters, the woman is not in it. For baby
kisses and tongue-tied speakers, like
Fred Talbot, they may do well
enough, but / guess not for men like
Senator Rayner and myself. So far
as | see, the woman suffragists, like
the college women and the club wo-
men, are thorough State Socialists,
and insomuch as | am seeking to
align all classes, either for Socialism
or for Individualism, think it
about time for all the above orders
of women to join the Socialists,
who have long ago pleaded the
suffrage cause more eloquently than
they have themselves.
Socialism formerly was always as
ISOLATED with the saloon or some dark
cellar hole; but now it revels in the
palace of the millionaire and in the
gentle gatherings of the Quakers alike.
The women and the comrades"
should at once make common battle
against the enemy. More especially
should this bond of fellowship be es-
tablished, because of a formidble
antisuffragist association that expects
to sweep the country and that has
begun lively warfare from head
quarters. 20 West Twenty-ninth
street, New York city, with Mrs. Rob
ert Garrett as treasurer.
But before these dear sisters under
take the work of exterminating each
other, l want to ask them whats
the use?" With the exception, per
haps, of the suffrage question itself,
they have everything else in common.
They want pretty much the same
Socialistic things. The president of
the anti-suffrage association is Mrs
Arthur Murray Dodge, 563 Park ave-
nue., N. Y. She is registered no less
than four times in the New York
Charities Directory. This puts her
down as a sociological Socialist, for
contemporary with the directory is the
weekly called The Survey. This Sur
vey the Socialists of the country call
a great spreader of Socialism. As
Socialists, Mrs. Dodge and her army
will hardly be consistent in fighting
suffrage. FRANCIS B. LIYESEY.
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