The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-15
sUFFRAGETTEs HAVE
ANOTHER PLEA
What Mrs. Pankhurst Intends to Talk
About When She Comes
Here.
by e. L. Kerr, London corresponds
emf Tinted Press

by e. L. Kerr, London correspond
ent United Press.l
LONDON. Sept. Hygiene with
the abolition o. white slavery and the
social evil generally is now the war
cry OF suffragettes, who claim that
only by women ballot can these rights
be radicated and the race made
healthy. Mrs. Emelyn Pankhurst,
the militant leader, intends to devote
her American tour next month to dis
cussion of this phase Of the cause.
She will tell the women of the United
States Of white slavery and sex dis
ease as the suffragettes say they exist
in England and tell them that the
same conditions prevail in their own
country She will tell them that only
Iby the votes of Women can such
things be regulated.
Every issue of Suffragette contains
articles by Christabel Pankhurst,
frankly discussing sex problems and
their relations TO the cause" She
handles the subject without gloves.
The anti-suffragist believes that
women are of value only because of
their sex functions, which functions
he also believes are to be used at the
orders and in the service of men, ;"
Miss Pankhurst said. ITO state the
same thing in other words the anti
subject Of sex created entirely for sex
use. incidentally he expects women
to act as unpaid domestic servants
Or If he is rich, to promote his in
dividual interest in society Or poll
tics. AS he does not hesitate to tell
her the anti-suffragist is of the opin-
ion that apart from her sex activity,
4 the world would get along quite we'll
without her. He does not realize
that the same thing might at least be
| truly said of women. The cause of
sexual disease is the subsection Of
women. Therefore we must destroy
one to rid the other one. In the light
of facts Premier Asquith ordered
Votes for women to be an overwhelm-
ing public danger. We repeat that
where these terrible diseases are con
cerned, prevention is better than
cure. 1t is not only better than the
cure, but is the only cure, for whether
these diseases are eureable even in
the narrowest sense of the term ii
, is very doubtful, and even when cured
they can be contracted again. Every
body admits that one attack of il
does not give immunity from further
attacks. AS one authority says: The
reason why SO few cases Of re-infec
ton are seen Is because SO few cases
; are really cured No individual car
, hope to avoid these diseases excep,
! by abstaining from immoral sexua
intercourse and similarly a nation
, cannot remain unaffected so long as
prostitution exists. Therefore pros
2 titution must so. At this, such ser
: ious protest is raised. Human nature
v is very wide term and it covers g
q multitude of sins and vice, which are
: not, on that account, any more to BIZ
. tolerated. An enormous percentage
a of the operations upon women are
4 necessitated by disease which in man,
cases SO affects the organs of ma
. ternity as to necessitate their com
i plete removal. Race suicide again
!. There are awful truths that the
: woman's instinct is to keep them hid
den until she realizes that only b,
e making the truths known can this ap
a paling state of affairs be brought t.
r an end. Here we have the woman
o question in perhaps it's most urgen
J. and acute form. Have the anti-suf
r fragist women any idea of what the
v wrongs of women really are? We
n beg them to realize that so long a:
Y the subsection of women endures ant
q is confirmed by law and custom 81
long will the race be injured am
degraded and women the victims
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