Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-10
A Reply to Mrs. Elizabeth Yockey.

\ Reply To Mrs. Elizabeth YOckey.
Dear Madam: have been author
ized through my position as press
correspondent of the Ashland Equal
Suffrage Club 10 make a reply to
your article in the Record.
am instructed first, however. to
plainly state 10 you or to any other
possible opponent of our principles
that the club will ignore all letters
hereafter in which personalities are
used as arguments against the Equal
Suffrage Club of Ashland. You will
doubtless see the point when We re-
mark that no longer any up-to-date
politician uses weapons To defeat his
opponents principles that have been
dipped in the inky dye that belittles
his home, his relatives or his rela-
tions to them in any way.
Taft and Roosevelt. Champ Clark
and La Toilette are all bitterly in
earnest to win the presidential chair,
but in their campaigns not one says
a word against the others social rela-
tions. Taft's wife may don her coat
wrong side out, or place her children
on stools of repentance, but Roose-
welt is too much of a gentleman in
a wordy fight to breathe other than
respect for the members of big
Bits family. Champ Clark looks
out for his own "hOun' dog" right
carefully, but La Follette's wife may
campaign every state for suffrage
three times over, and his southern
chiyalry will not allow him to attack
what is not an issue before the great
American people.
So. We women, who expect to vote
later on with the men of Oregon,
hereby clearly state calumny, belit-
tling our opponents to gain our ends,
trying to divert attention from the
real issues OF the day, are not
weapons We expect to WELD in the
future. Americas greatest citizen
said, Charity to all, malice toward
none"
Having stated this, we have no
doubtful bouquets to throw. We will
remark in reply to the anecdotes that
dot your letter where you tell of the
woman who was weeping on your
shoulder, we would not imagine she
would be delighted to have her fam
lily troubles aired on your shoulder,
and she not a suffragette either; nor
the baby with cold hands which you
warmed quite three months before
the club was born, seems really ir-
relevant to the question. | may re-
mark that 500 women, both antis and
the opposite, are asking. Does she
mean me?" AS for the other side,
itNrf I i
their cousins and aunts are asking
not about that boy, who again is not
the question, but whether some cold
breeze from the north, where normal
killers and other antis hold full sway,
has waited this way. We will be
very generous. We are glad you had
the pleasure of acquiring an instruc-
tive book from your grandmOther's
library. We are glad you are, as
you say, a successful business wom-
an. We have no doubt, as you say.
you would have been a successful
mother, if it had been so willed And
that reminds us, we have one suf-
frage woman and temperance work
er who, having no children, makes il
her business to give her surplus time
to make conditions better for the
children of others, when vice, grow
ing bolder each year, turks at the
door to catch his prey. There is an
other splendid woman, member of
both organizations, that has Graded
in her otherwise childless home
little orphan boy, and the world is
the better for her kindness. Another
woman, suffragist in principle, white
haired, frail, her price above rubies.
cares for two lovely children, hers
by adoption, Ashland is better, is it
not, for these three women? Hav-
ing cleared away the addenda to the
logical addenda of your gracefully
written composition, we find these
three brief arguments:
First: Men must remember their
families and faults are true reflec-
tions of their mothers"
Reply: We leave that for men to
answer.
Second: while you are fighting
for imaginary rights you are losing
the right over your child"
Reply: Does not apply to 7.00O,-
600 bachelor girls nor an equal num-
Der of childless women.
Third: Dear sisters, you cannot
have outside influences and run a
home in a true sense"
Reply: Debatable. Would like to
counsel further with the 900 wom-
en- of Ashland before decision is
made
Respectfully submitted.
PRESS COR. EQUAL
SUFFRAGE CLUB.