The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-08-06
CROWD LISTENS
TO women TALK
Three Suarasists Hold Curb
side Revival at Wash
ington Circle.
REAL VOTER ION STUMP"
Miss Mabel Vernon, Miss Doris
Stevens, and Mrs. Jessie Hardy
Stubs Address Crowd.

Two women and q voter-who II q
woman, too-held an equal suffrage curb
side revival at Washington Circle last
night. and made, 1t seemed. 800 converts
to their cause. Miss Mabel Vernon. from
Delaware; Miss Doris Stevens, from Ohio.
and Mrs Jessie Hardy Stubs. the voter.
from Illinois, were the speakers whose
persuasion brought all the men among
the audience into the suffrage camp.
At this meeting. also. was answered the
question:: who is Mr.. Hefiin?'
II have heard the name''-the question
fell to Miss Vernon. just as the meeting
was breaking upland I think he Is the
gentleman who is making himself notori-
GUS by attacking the women of the coun-
try. I think that he compared us to the
wives OF Solomon"
Speakers Are Introduced.
II. L. Tucker introduced the speakers.
who mounted. one after another. upon
the seats of their motor. Miss Vernon
began by telling her audience that she
had been told that there were even some
people in this city who have heard moth
ing Of equal suffrage.
Some people think that women want
to vote because they want to hold all
the positions that men now ILL.," Miss
Vernon continued. This Is absurd. The
case Is rather that women have found
out that the government concerns them
as vitality as 1t does the men. in cases
of labor laws, Of laws affecting children
and the home-more vitality. Women
must have the ballot to do full duty to
their children"
Then she described conditions under
which thousands Of children in the
United States are employed in mills.
factories. and mines, saying that these
conditions are so bad as TO be respon-
sible for the murder and manning Of
hundreds of the little workers annu-
ally. Women have made full use of
their right OF petition to secure good
chIld-labor laws without success, she
said.
The gsng-ridden Senate OF Penn
sylvania." she continued. rejected
good child labor laws when the rich
manufacturers Of that State who enI-
ploy children raised the cry that such
laws would lose them money. This
was done despite the petition Of thou
sands of women. II the women had lad
the ballot. they would have passed
these Jaws"
Miss Stevens, the next speaker. pre-
faced her talk by telling her hearers
that the Legislature of her state tohio)
y
save hogs last session than to save
children. 1t was good, she said. TO
save hogs. but better to save children.
Demands Lack Votes.
"Women's demands are slighted,"
she explained. because we lack the
Votes TO back them Up By gaining the
ballot. we lose the care Of chivalry.
The chivalry Wa need is that kind
which gives the working girl Justice.
Mrs. Stubs closed the meeting with q
review of what American suffragists
have accomplished and witty comment
upon the difficulties that have been e.
countered in promoting the interests OF
the cause.
"a farmer in New York State told
me-" she said, that he believed that
men had the better claim to the privi-
lege Of the ballot. because God created
man first and woman as an after
thought"
The speaker then explained that there
we're two stories of the creation, ami,
according to one Of the stories. man anc
women were created together.
Il do not think that women will cure
all the ills of the delirium tremens CT
present politics, but / do believe that
they will reduce the size OF the snakes"
In answer to the question, who IL op-
posing suffrage?" she said:
THE people who are opposing suf-
fraRe are those who find no signidcanc.
In democratic institutions and the forces
of the underworld