New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27
HEAVY ARTILLERY OF
THE cause" THUNDERS
Senate Committee Orally Bonn.
barded for Second Time
Within Week.
NO QUARTER BY DR.. SHAW
Skirts of Ants" Screen Mer
Operating Dens of Vice,
She Says-Mrs. La
Toilette Argues.

Washington. April 26 - Suffragists
again stormed the Capitol yesterday for
the second time in a week 10 argue before
the Senate committee for the adoption Of
an equal suffrage constitutional amend
ment.
Some OF the heaviest artillery If the
! cause" was numbered for action. among
those present being Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw. president Of the National American
Woman's Suffrage Association: Miss Helen
Varick Boswell president ~ the Won.
ans National Republican Association:
Mrs. Harvey W Wiley, wife Of the pure
food advocate. and Mrs. William Kent,
wife of the Representative from Cali.
| fornia.
Senators Shafroth. of Colorado and
| Brady of Idaho. and the wives Of two
| members of the upper house Of Congress
also were on hand I'm behalf Of the cause"
The women were Mrs Robert ". la Fol
| lette. and Mrs Sutherland. Of Utah. Rep
resentatiye Bryan. of Washington, was
also among the votes" pleadors.
Mrs La Toilette argued that women
were as vitality interested in tariff legis-
| idllOfl ~ TIE NELL dUb dcN'iA'N AiihN 'fNA-
| important piece OF legislation before Con.
gress in the last twenty-five years had
affected women equally with men.
IF the tariff in any way affects the
price We pay for what We eat and wear II
the trusts and combinations have anything
to do with the high cost Of living. women
should understand about it, said Mrs la
I Of
staples. like beef. sugar. oil. cotton and
woollens. are fixed by monopoly II the
tariff affects the cost OF the children's food
and clothes. the only radical way to right
the wrong is through national Legislation.
Women do the buying. Ninety per
cent Of $40, 900. 000. 900 paid out annually
in the United States for food, clothing
shelter is spent by women
Mrs. Ia Toilette said she was not one
Of those who believed that equal suffrage
would bring about any immediate radical
changes The real issue in the suffrage
struggle was whether IT was I'm the inter-
est Of the home and Of society, which
she maintained. i was.
Miss Boswell argued that federal law
would be the quickest and surcst way 10
obtain equal suffrage. and Mrs. William
Kent said that woman suffrage had
worked out for welfare in California
Or. shaw was the last Of the women 10
speak.
we are not afraid Of the body Of ladies'
who are going up and down the land OPP
posing suffrage" she said. They are
Just enough in number so that by holding
out their skirts they can make screen for
the men operating dens Of vice and IN
iduity and prostitution 10 hide behind. In
every state where women now vote SUI
frage was opposed by the forces Of evil
for they know that We purpose to make
| this country place Of safety, where
parents can sec their daughters 80 n
school in the morning and feel that they
will return, and where a man need not
fear 10 send his little girl on an GRAND
through city streets.
I'VE will come again and again am
again. our children will come and our
Grandchildren will come until this Is a
democracy in fact"
Clifford Pnchot made brief speech
"Of course We ali know that equal SUI
| frage is coming the only question IS IN
what form" he said