The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-25

''' outrage StA'cS. Wyoming j.
seventh. laahO. wnIcn Is dominated l.
'he mormon Cnurcn, Is ntntn, ana ll,n
10 nineteenth. There has been Il gron.
recruaescence VI pos gauiy IN ut,u nm
uer woman sunrdgc
nc women vo,.r5 of Utah have con
,4s'SHIiE scat pciEguliilstS TO Cungr, ~
't heiiuHco ot the iL.v 4 sIu..,,r
IN 'Ieiev .hAt poiygany sCn ruly as
Al can Is SHOWN ~ INC iuct 80,
"hth tnu STATE pIusciIteu a sf,y,r s,.r-
~, 80 70 tue u@ttIesmIp uIan every piece
IA" On II rae Dust Brigham Young
60. "ty testimony lnae b.,snain tou,,
"i9 III. ioIc!hOs. citi.cn 81 Ctun VA,
lhr ACT OF lnc oi1CiaIs men ana Yen
meh' OF the ata,=. Inc government
"ns hhuch eihpatraascu wncn ,nv uls-
''sciy was inIuc, Dut as tn. l.It mad
I ,,S Dcen accepted, there was notu.
ing 70 be none.
Amy age iuu Please
Il. ilny Dc no,.d wio regard to Cali.
iorhid That Inc uTsl result OF tho
,n.e Oh women OF Los Angeles was
.hht Inc city l.guiized by Il got. III
.9uf 10 ole tno Unrestricted sale ii
.nl"oI, not only on wees days. aut
Tn LEGISLATURE of California veg.
.onSineialtiy provided tnaI voters need
, No., sNG. thglr ages om the roStstra-
.ioh books. The " o;nan'a journal saws
mat ,hia was done Ia obiigu the men
ana not the women.
:, Many suifingIsls like Mrs. Charlotte
t rerhi"s S.sison Gilman, write and
7PSak IN favor OF caster divorce.
there Is another cluss OF evidence
fuot"d ~ MISS ClarHe. and indeed
ny all suniaEists, which cannot o.
admitted as evidence u; all. This ia
testimony CONCERNING The working Of
auiFaSe ia foreign ana monarcniCAt
countries. the oasis Of our vottit;
system l. so totally unlike that OF ans.
80, country tnat 40 just comoari-
son can Dc made. Il IL q striking ana
Nithi Tact tnat woman suIIIag. WIN
rs huge helpless and irrosponsiDie
eIectoFute Is more unworkauIc thIng
III popular representative uovprn-
Mcht Hhe ours than In any otn"r torn,
OF government In the worIu rnerc are
Two reasons FOR this. First, in an the
governments wnicn Miss Clarke names
where woman suitragc mas Deen aaoJt.
ca property votes. In sweden one mar
may cast loo votes IL ne mas enough
pioperty In an these countries III.
Tact tnat property votes esI;,b,i,o..
some relation between votes ana tak..4
but In tine Unitcd states there is "a
essential relation wuAtcvcr between
'otes and taArs No property Qualtn-
cutlOn IL required in any Federal ,.,..c-
tion. ana the property quauaeallons in
tHe state elections are so low as IL
nc n"in!nt!. anu are mercy hurVivals
81 tne oder anu und.fnocratIc Euro
pcHh system OF voting IN some states
lnt property publication Is as iow as
S--"V. IL may pe mentioned that IN,
adoption uf woman suffrage tn.l
ioun!lng the eiectoTate very ucar.y
douh!es the expenses Of elections ana
considerable increases taxation.
Irresponsible Vote II Menace.
no second reason why woman suf-
rag works less well In inc United
states than in the countries Clt.d by
MISS CLARKE Is that In All those cuun-
trl"s the execution OF Laws docs not
itSl with the electorate with us
hul upon large standing armies. The
instan; u country adopts representa-
tive form Of government with :; re-
"nons!oic electorate. large irrcspou-
Sibie vote becomes menace IL is Il
slpnincant fact That suffrage has made
less hcadway in France and Switzer-
land than in any monarchical country.
me newly created republic Of Portu-
gal mas granted suffrage To women.
bnt that country Is sim III o chuot!c
state. and nothing can be predicted
concerning IL.
Suffrage nnd Socialism.
But the real reason why woman sur
rage has been -doptcu In any and
every foreign country is that It has
been done by the Socialist party, which
Is very strong in every country in
Europe. wnlcu controls australasia, and
tho world Scandinavian countries are
practically ruled by the Socialist par
~, and the amazing increase OF So
cialtsts In England accounts for the
strength of the suffrage movement
there. Socialism, like suffrage, is far
less inconsistent with paternal form
u government than with republic
like the United States, to which So
cin!ism IS violently antHgouistic. The
Socialists are ngntiuE the battle Jf
suffrage in the United States, and the
alliance between the National Woman
Suffrag. Association and the Socialist
party is acknowledged and complete
The Womans journal, the official or
gan OF the suftraEist party, e-c!arcd
in recent ISSUE, that tine Socialist
party is the party OF the future"
Explicit directions have been published
in the Woman's Journal for tn. con-
duet of the joint campaign. Thc treas
urer OF the National Woman suffrage
Association, Miss Jessie Ashley, Is an
enthusiastic Socialist. ana some time
aEo carried the red ilag in a suf-
frtrc parade. Her sympathics in the
Mcnamara case became so pronounced
that some sunraSiSts were alarmed. and
il was thought welt tnnt Miss Ashley
should discontinue her weekly Heal
quarters Letter in ;hc Womar's jour
last letter that she had received no
request 10 discontinue her letters from
the editor, poor dear" 10 quote Miss
Ashley. or from the National Woman
Suffrage Association, and alluded to
the McNamar;s as those famous he
roes" II Virginia should adopt sui
fraGc IL would be forced 10 adopt
cialism also. as the suffrage States
have practically done.
Not ''Miiifant."
While the American suffragists have
never followed and II is hoped never
Will follow, The savage and brutal
methods OF the English militant SUI
fraGists, there has been departure
from the marked decorum Of the early
suifragists.
This could hardly be otherwise. when
Mrs. EIneIine Iankhurst, militant
English sutfragtst aud prof@ssionai
lan breaker, has recently made
trtumphal tour 81 thg United states.
and has been received ny the sumn'
gists everywhere With honors. The
Wumen's journal in pcccmher issued
immediately after the Califotnia "ic'-
ton. made the extraordinary state
ment that Mrs rankhurs was attacked
in California BY 9 number Of anti-sni :.
fragists who had lost money on the
election, aud was half killed" There
is no mention of any appeal 10 the
police or of tho case hein. reported
although the ussaiiants mus, haze
teeu perfectly well known from the
facts alleged concerning theIO By tho
Womans journal II may be said that
if votes for women lead 60 women
betting on elections. indni&u@ i'll street
lights and half killing eaeh other VITA
out the slightest interference from
, la or any = what