New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-28
'MR. CLEWS'S DISCLAIMER
He's No Suffragette, He Says,
but Quite the Reverse.
WOMAN "QUEEN OF HOME"
Doesn't Want Wife Returning at
Midnight with Black
Eve.

Eye.
Henry Clews, the banker, has not become
q suffragette. The impression TO that effect
which has got abroad since his speech at the
commencement exercises OF the Wadleigh
High School on Wednesday is due TO mis-
taken understanding of that speech on the
part Of the wadegh girls and the report
ers Mr. Clews told a Tribune representa-
tive all about It at his Office in the Mills
Building in Broad street yesterday.
1T was this way" he said, II began
sentence with I believe that all women
should become suffragettes, and as soon as
I had uttered those words there was APP
plause"
Pretty strong APPLAUSE" limited the re-
porter.
Pretty strong" admitted Mr.. Clews
"But I held up my hand until II stopped,
and I said: Permit me TO finish my SEN
tence ] believe that all women should be-
come suffragettes--of course, in the cause
OF universal peace Then / Invited them
and their sisters and their cousins and their
aunts TO Join the American Peace and Ar
lbitration League OF which I am president
BY being suffragettes in this way, l ex-
pIained. they would gain potent influence
and their work would be in keeping with
the taste and dignity Of the highest lady
in the land. and would result In far greater
benefit to humanity than would the entry
OF women into the field OF politics, where
they would risk becoming soiled by the
mitch which defles. A woman, told the
Young ladies. should he queen Of the home
Miqht Get Black Eye.
Urged TO explain how the possession OF
tho franchise would deflle women, Mr. Clews
drew p picture Of what might happen in his
home II his wife went into politics.
suppose" he said. my wife became
suffraCette and attended a political meet
ing and made statements from the plat
| form a scrubwoman gets up In the audi
cnce and says: THAT is lie' MY WIFE
retorts. the scr1lbwoman pushes her way
70 tho platform and hits my wife and gives
her a black eve" Mr. Clews's right hand
sho; out over his desk in illustration.
How would like my wife coming home
ut midnight with a black eyeH' he asked.
That is what well have when women so
into politics.
In former times a good many mon stayed
at their clubs too late, drinking ana caro-
PLAYING. II women voted they would be OUT
drinking and card playing. and the men
would stay at home"
Asked II nc didn't think II vas certain
type OF wealthy women ~ society who took
etimuIants rather than tho suffraEettes,
Mr.. Clews shook his head emphatcally. He
was sure Il was the Fuffragettes.
Then YOU haven't been converted N sur
frarc as the Wadlcigh girls fanciod you
had?"
I'm against women voting as ALWAYS
was" said Mr. Clews. i've spoken against
It at Mrs Gilbert Joncs's meetings. Women
would do no good by voting
Wasn't II said 10 be the women who kept
Judge Ben Lindsey on tho bench I'm Den
ver?"
Il don't wish 10 20 into that" said the
banker. Women could do no good. and the
polls is no place for them. Man has mis-
work I'm the world and woman has hers, and
woman's work Is not politics. All this
equal rights business makes women IN
won1anly. or course. I'm not for woman
suffrage NV daughter. Mrs Herbert Par
sons. is a suffragist'--
Does n make her unwomanly7" asked
the reporter.
Us Different With Her
Mr. Clevs said 81 did not Put che a
woman % sense he explained She STAYS
:, home ana writes books She doesn't 20
out n primaries and political meetings.
ike those other women that want the vote
Those women are all wrong Women should
be queens of the home
What about the FIVE or six millions ~
women in the United States who have n
; leave the home n earn their living
II they did their duty" said Mr. Clews.
they would be married and have husbands
! and sons 10 influence. No" In answer 10 q
murmured question, ~ IS not true that
, men can't support families nowadays.
! There ls work in this country for every
man
ThH banker probably didn't know what a
suffrage nest he was getting into when he
went 10 Wadleigh High School Most OF
the teachers there are strong for the cause,
including Miss Henrietta Rodman. who fire.
, quently speaks at suffrage meetings; Miss
Alice Davis. who was leader Of the assem-
bly, district UP there for the Woman suf-
frage party; Miss Lima Gano. Miss Martha
3. Churchill and Miss Sally II. Delano. The
. pupils have a large suffrage club, which
meets at the headquarters Of the State
Association for Woman Suffrage. Miss
, Davis is president Of this. When the suf-
> frage worker Miss Elizabeth Freeman,
I spoke at the school last April she had an
= audience OF eight hundred girls. On May
some Of the pupils acted How the Vote
: Was Won" end so popular did the play
prove that 1t is to be repeated next october.
Sixty of the girls marched in the suffrage
parade May T. though they didn't march
under the Wadleigh banner, but under a