The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-05
ELBOWS TO GIVE AS WELL AS RE, CElVE," SAYS SPEAKER TO
 MRS. OR. ANN HOWARD
RNTl- SUFFRAGETTES C8NVENE
Says That to Give Women Votes Would Put Ballot in Hands of Too Many Foreign Women and Produce Trend Toward Anarchy.

Washington, Dee. 4-Women op- posed to equal suffrage had their inning today before the house con-
 mirtee on rules. to protest against the resolution championed by the women snifragists, and which would create suffrage standing committee in the house of representatives
 Scores of women from various parts of the country marshalled by Mrs. Arthur Dodge of New York. ap- pealed to the committee not to grant the suffragists' plea
 Tomorrow the suffragists will he given an opportunity to answer the attack, Mrs. Catherine Waugh Me Colloch of Chicago, having been chosen to sum up the case. Though the anti-suffrage women oc- cupied much of the day, their argu- ment was closed by a man. Everett r Wheeler, of New York. represent ing the Man Suffrage Association
 Holding aloft picture of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the Ma tional American Association for Wo-
 man Suffrage, MT. Wheeler said:
 When l saw this person yester. day shake her clenched fists and de. clare we demand our rights" said
 to myself, 'clenched fists mean fight The manhood and I claim that for American manhood today, but if we
 are challenged to fight this movement
 there will be blows to give as well
 as blows to take"
 Mir. Wheeler paid a tribute to Miss
 Jane Addams, who addressed the committee yesterday on behalf of equal suffrage. and declared that it
 was an ill day for the nation when Jane Addams divided her attention to philanthropy for suffrage.
 Mrs. P D. Oliphant, secretary of the New Jersey Association, opposed l to woman suffrage, said her organi- Zation was less than two years old with a membership of more than ! thousand women, 90 per cent of them i wage earners. She said she had been campaigning among the grangers Of
 her state, whom she found, both men and women, to be unalterably oppos ed to woman suffrage.
 They recognize" she declared,
 that women suffrage means the
 doubling of the foreign vote, and is a forerunner of socialism, which aims
 to place the red flag over the red
 white and blue"
 Speaking of a suffrage meeting
 held in New Jersey, Mrs. OHphant | said that the suffragists stormed the anti-suffrage headquarters and "cali.
 ed us liars, hikers and parasites,
 words which do not indicate sobriety
 of thought or womanly achieve ments."
 Miss Alice Buch, of Trenton, N. l., a factory worker, declared that
 working girls of her acquaintance did not want the ballot and that they did
 not believe the suffragist argument that if women had the ballot women S
 wages would be increased "It would be better she said, for the men to get increased salaries that
 they might take our girls out of the | factories.
 1 Miss Ella Brehant. of the District | of Columbia. declared that the lack
 of the ballot was not responsible for l low wages of women, but rather
 their lack of skill. Women improved
 their wages by education, she said,
 and not by the exercise of the fran chise.
 That the efficiency of the electo.
 rate would be decreased rather than
 increased by equal suffrage was as serted by Mrs. Lucy j. Price of Cleve-
 land Ohio, who contended women of
 the non-intelligent class would vote l just as their husbands are voted now | by their leaders. She argued that
 the states would settle the suffrage question for themselves.
 l Miss Emmeline Pitt, of Pittsburg,
 secretary of the Iron Trades Coun-
 oil, declared that mot 25 per cent of lthe American working women are n- terested in the ballot
 "True." she said, 'the American Federation of Labor with which I am affiliated has endorsed woman s sui frage, but 1t has no woman on it's ex' ecutive board and l declare that fl the American Federation would take a referendum vote to the trade