New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-13

posed. Mr.. SulZer must choose WHOM no
will serve.
Drop Politics and Work for Suffrage
Miss Alice Carpenter, leader OF the
Progressive women, says that II thelr
ticket had been, elected a Governor-elect
would have marched in the suffrage pa
rade, and that in Mr.. Strauss and Mr..
Roosevelt's speeches at Madison Square
Garden just before election they were not
afraid TO declare for woman suffrage.
The first part Of this statement is doubt
less correct; Mr. Straus was one OF the
few Progressive candidates who never
failed to advocate woman suffrage In MS
speeches; ex-senator Beverage was an
other Mr.. Roosevelt may not have been
afraid" to do this in his two speeches
at Madison Square Garden, but he con-
spicuously omitted to do so. If he men
toned il in one single state east or the
Mississippi River, except in st. johns
burg, Vt. and If Governor Johnson men
toned it at all during the entire cam
paign. the fact was not apparent In the
newspaper reports.
All this. however, Is past history, ana
their opinions now are of no particular
consequence. The Progressive women
made a splendid showing In the suffrage
parade. marching in large numbers WIN
banners flying; the Republican women
seemed to be represented by their CHAIR
man riding in a barouche; and the Dem
ocrat tic women had to be counted among
those absent" II is earnestly TO De
II - will IrOn their
work I'm party politics and join in the
effort to get for women what would be OF
q thousandfold more help to the parties
the right to vote for them.
Awful Results Of Suffrage.
That was an interesting article which
The Tribune published from Mrs. Martha
Observation-Disclosures to show how much
harder life would he for women when they
got the suffrage The "antis" are always
interesting. not to say amusing. Here Is
Mrs. Williams, for instance, making the
most horrifying prophecies Of time when
eoual suffrage viii make all men 'sissies'
and every woman a ncar-man In petit
coats" She doesn't know that women
have been voting over forty years In wy
cming and fifteen or twenty I'm three other
states or she would not put all her asser-
lions i'm the future tense. II equal sur
frarc will have this effect, then II has
done so. and the men in those four states
are "sissles" and the women are almost
men. II IS a good deal safer 10 make that
statement in New FORK than 1t would be
west Of the Mississippi River. Poor
"sissv" men I'm Washington and Califor-
MAJ
"gcn have the ballot and yet they have
70 work. and so will women" Yes, and
some Of them have 10 work now and sup
mort families. as Mrs. Williams knows
from personal experience.
"As competitors you are bound 10 lose,
hut as conrades-ah, my dears, you have
men and the world in your hands TO
mould as YOU will" Well. II a very con-
siderable proportion Of the men We see
and read about nowadays have been
moulded by women they'd better go TO
the kindergarten and take lessons In clay
modelling.
AS for the parade, she wonders III the
modern Ncros in pctticoats realized that
they were burning up not a capital but a
civilization" Dear! dear! Was II so bad
as that? Who would have thought few
Chinese lanterns could DO so much dam
age2
II there were only enough OF the "ants,
and II they would only keep on writing
and speaking 1t would be perfectly safe
for the suffragists TO retire from business