The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-03
BOX OF CANDY AND S1
 BOUGHT WOMAN'S VOTE.
Mrs. Gilbert Jones Has Q Picture of 1t, She Tells an Audience in De. bato-Mrs. Harper Scores
 Antis.
(New York Sun,

" on the gilt chairs in the grand bal room of the Waldorf Astoria for thre, hours yesterday afternoon while fou, suffragists and four antis explained alternately to them why they needed the vote and why they didn't. Tn. debate was held under the auspice. Of the National League for the Civic Education of Women and Mrs. Gilbert Jones. leader of the organization, wht was paired with Mrs. Ida Husted liar. per. politely gave her opponents the f1rst chance at the audience.
 Mrs. Harper announced that shs would begin by demolishing the an. ti-argument that the majority of wo. men didn't want to vote.
 How can that be?' demanded the official historian of the cause, "wher never once in the past two years have twenty-four hours elapsed without 6 suffrage meeting taking place in this city and when all this winter st leas, two day have been held? When dc the antis meet, and where? I know of only one big public meeting in months and months held under the auspices of an anti-organixation, and that was the one held in the Engin- eers' building week or two ago, Mrs Arthur Dodge on this occasion made ation that the antis were even poor CT than the suffragists. wonder why. if they have the vast majority of women on their side
 ''Now there Is no particular reason why the antis shouldn't make public demonstrations. They surely arc not too timid and shrinking. If any one has such a .delusion about them let him go and see the daily parade of half-dressed women on Fifth avenue. Neither are they 50 utterly possessed by their slogan that woman's place is the home as they would have you be- lieve. They have announced that they intend to follow the suffragists step by step wherever they go. and. know that they have sent their rep- resentatives into Kansas, Ohio, Wis cons1n and other states where cam paigns are pending. Now if these wo- men don't want to vote they have a perfect right as individuals to refrain from doing so. but they have no right to organize to keep me from voting"
 Mrs. Jones explained at some length that women shouldn't expect to vote in this country because one of the basic ideas of our government was one man, one gun, one ballot.
 Equal sunrage IS perfect farce. she said. Wherever women are vot- ing now their ballots are protected by men. There is absolutely no respon- sibility back of the woman's vote. but there is plenty of corruption. If you don't believe 1t Just come to my ohlce and I'll show you the proofs. You printed accounts of what goes on in some of these suffrage states, but when you see a photograph of . woman ac- cepting a dollar and a pound box ol candy for a vote you know she's done It."
 Mrs. Jones went on to ten those whom she wished to convert that un- less women became wives and moth CTS they were really of no use to the state. Bachelors. she said. were val uable assets, while spinsters were ut- terly negligible units.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman, who wal trained by Mrs. Pankhurst and who has been arrested nine times on the charge of assaulting London police men, attempted & defense Of the Eng fish militants, but she was talked down by a Miss Tolma Lewis, who said tha, the suffragettes wanted extra privil- eges even when they were being pun ished for disorderly conduct.
 Suppose a lot of men behaved 1f1kt schoolboys when they were sent t< prison," she demanded, "and refused to eat their food, do you think tho authorities would take the trouble te forcibly feed them?"
 The audience was disposed to take this question as an attempt at humor but when the speaker intimated tha she really didn't think the suffra- gettes were worth the trouble of for |'cible feeding she was vigorously hiss ed.
 murmured, referring to the missing "I have so often wanted to hiss al suffrage meetings, but I didn't thinl it was ladylike.'
 There was no more hissing during her speech. but she aroused severa exclamations of protest when she ac cused Christabel Pankhurst of run ming away after the recent raid or London shop windows, and leaving z few poor workingwomen to bear thu brunt of it all. Christabel had fled te New York, according to Miss Lewis and obtained protection from American men as we'll as American dollars from her sister Sylvia, who was making 2 lecture tour of the country
 All this made Mrs. Harper very in. dignant and when she got possession of the rostrum the second time sht said that none of 1t was true and ever if it were the American suffragist: shouldn't be held responsible for what Englisihwomen had done. She saii also that there was no doubt that tho suffragettes across the water had beer horribly tricked by the politicians.
 Mrs. Jones replied that she though it would add to the charms of tn. suffragettes if they would resort to g few of the old time classic feminine tricks and eschew brick throwing. Mrs. John Jerome Rooney made al eloquent plea for "the four walls where woman reigns supreme. 'swhy should we wish to plunge oul hands in the mire?" she implored II quivering tones. And as she spok' she stretched forth appealingly tw' slender arms and hands encased il perfectly new white kid gloves, thir ty button length.
 ''Why?'' echoed several voices. Mrs. Rooney explained that if wom en did their duty within the four waIl there wouldn't be much need for eith CT prisons or hospitals.
 Mrs. Pearce Bailey said that whll, woman was perhaps the supreme die tator in the home she was merely al ornament in social life and a slave II industry.
 Mrs. Priscilla Hackstaff was sched uled for speech on the effects O. suffrage in the six states where wom twelve monutes allotted to her i, Asiatic countries where there Is sonn' Mrs. Clarence Wiles and Mrs. Jonei THE HOUR OF SORROW. MT. Taft: .'It gives me great pain t, disclose the fact that MT. Roosevelt ] is political neurotic.''
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