Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-21
MRS. PANKHURST TO LINCOLN
English S9ffragette Closes Engage
ment and Bids Adieu to Omaha.
TELLS WOMEN WHAT TO DO
Those OF Gentler Sex No Less
WomanIy 10 They Are PER-
mitted 60 Exercise hight az,
Es OF Suffrage. u

Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst told the
women at the social science department
OF the Woman's club yesterday that they
themselves, in going out OF their homes
andt banding themselves into clubs. had
taken the step looking, to suffrage which
had been refused by the men Of England
The Engllshman FEARS that a ,eonse-
quence OF woman suffrage Wall be that
the women will form clubs and neglect
their homes" she said and went on to ex-
plain that club life as American women
knowsit has not yet come into existence
In England. She declared that the Amer
ican,woman has demonstrated that she
can take an intelligent interest IN club
life and at the same time carry on her
home duties and interest IN a satisfactory
manner, hence the English mans argu-
menr against suffrage cannot hold in
America.
You American women in forming clubs
have already done the dreafled dsod. The
first mistake was made by men when
they allowed women TO learn the alpha
bet. Otherwise women miL..t have been
kept domestic animals.
Some women say that they prefer to
use their influence withG their husbands
and sons in their homes. rather than TO
express their opinions at the polls. Strip
your minds OF that Illusion. You can in
fluence man just as far as he is willing
TO be influenced and no farther"
Women wiz BE womanIy.
In refutation OF the argument that IL
women vote they will be less womanly
Mrs Pankhurst said that while women
admire and respect men, the woman who
would allow herself to become mannish
would be very poor sort indeed. The
tins has long passed when girls wish
that they had been born boys.
1T is because women have such high
standard for their own sex that they v ish
political power. They want 4 that they
may make the world better"
II am surprised that In a city like
Omaha. where there are women engaged
In serious pursuits, there is not one
woman on the school board" said Mrs
Pankhurst. and she told the women that
in England the women not only voted
for the school board but serve on It and
take part In the administration Of the
laws for the education Of their children.
Mrs Pankharst said that the argument
which throughout her tours In America
she found appeals 10 the women more
than the arguments OF right and justice
Is the argument OF duty.
Commitments Americans.
In closing Mrs. Pankhurst complimented
the American women by saying:
TN England II Is the comon belief that
family ties are so loose that they are
no sooner made than broken; that women
join clubs because they are tired of fam
lily life. The more / see OF American
women the more l admire and respect
them and the mora i. am certain that
when they dertake hold snch wave
win sweep over this continent that moth
Ing can possibly stop It."
The audience rose and waved their
handkerchlefs at the close OF Mrs Pank-
bursts address. The British suffragette
left with the delegates from the Omaha
Woman Suffrage society for Lincoln.
where she will speak Tuesday evening at
the opening OF the convention Of the State
Suffrage society.
Rev. Mary Gerard Andrews Of Mime
apolis, formerly an active club woman
and temperance worker in Omaha, gave
an earnest recital OF what the Vice
Commission In Minneapolis Found" and
said that the com mission had decided
unanimously that an endeavor TO suppress
the social evil was better than to segre-
gate 1t and that It had met with success
In following this method.