The Washington times., 1913-09-01
CONGRESSMAN HEFL IN IS -~
IGNORANT, SAYS MRS. STUBS
Suffrage Worker Scores Him
for Labor Day Speech Made
in Lynchburg, Va.

Brother Heflin doesn't mean any
harm. He's just ignorant
That was the comment of Mrs. Jes.
sic Hardy Stubbs, of the Congressional
committee Of the, National Suffragt
, Association, after reading the speech
, of the Alabama Congressman, deliver
ed at Lynchburg, Va, today. in which
he said that the women of New Jer.
sey had relinqlished the ballot.
Ignorance in some people may be
excused, but not in a member Of Con-
gress, and / think every Congressman
and Senator ought to be made TO take
a. course in constitutional history be-
fore being permitted to speak In pub
lie
Now, IL Mr.. Fefiin knew what he
was talking about he would know thai
. right after the Constitution OF the
United States was adopted in 1ISs, thai
New Jerseys State constitution was
drawn up and submitted to the people
In ten days. 1t was hastily done and
the trainers forgot to use the word
'ntafsE. That was more than 100 years
ago, when the women had never asked
for the ballot in that State and theJ
made little use of it when they got
II by accident About the year lsZs
the State had another constitutional
convention and the men put the male
qualification In the voting clause.
World Has Moved.
TT has been almost a century since
that convention, and somebody ought
to inform Mr.. Hefiin that the world has
moved on. I really don't believe he
wilfully intends to misrepresent things
In his Labor Day speech at Lypch-
burg, the Alabama Congressman char
acterized the woman suffrage move
ment as the greatest peril now threat
ening the English-speaking people, ana
said that with its triumph the mar
monious relations between the sexes
would disappear, sex antagonism would
spring up, and the American home
would be doomed. 2,
''To be the mother of a voter 10
greater than to be the voter" he said.
ITO train a voter is more important
than to vote.
what thoughtful. man or woman
would have the American man or
woman exchange the robes Of gentle
ness and modesty and refinement for
the garments of boldness and ofhcfous
parade. II will be sad day for the
American home when our women pay
more attention to ballots than - babies.
A plea for votes Is an indictment which
good fathers should resent because II is
a reputation Of him as a fit person 10
represent his household In Government
affairs New Jersey had woman sur
frage, and by the common consent oS
both men and women abandoned II.
Rests With Women.
Upon the home-loving. man-trusting,
consecrated Christian women of the
United States rests the safety Of our
institutions and the perpetuity Of the
republic"
As a final shot to the arraignment Of
the suffragists by the member OF Con-
gress, Mrs Stubbs said today:
with 100000 women in this country
earning their own living II comes with
poor grace for Mr.. Hefin to make
Labor Day speech about women's 'ex-
changing the robes Of gentleness and
modesty and refinement for those Of
boldness and officious parade
LAS one of that 5000 0oo0 ] want to
say that we could stop in a polling place
on our way to work and drop a slip of
paper in a box without laying aside any
robes to speak Of.