Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-12-05
HHTI- -SUFFRlG.STS
Give THEIR IDEAS
TELL CONGRl~> WHY WOMEN
SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN
TlIE BALLOT.
one lone MAN APPEARED
says II the Women Force Militant
Tactics, They WIN Gct ~ Wen
as Give, Blows.

WASHINGTON, Dcd Women
opposed to equal suffrage had their
Innings today before the house com.
mitiee on rules to protest against tho
resolution championed by the women
sunragists and which would create
suffrage standing committee i'm tho
house of representatives.
scores Of women from various
parts Of the country marshalIed by
Mrs. Arthur Dodge of New York. ap-
pealcd to the committee not to grant
the sufragist plea,
Tomorrow the sunragists will have
an opportunity To answer the attack.
Mrs. Catherine Waugh Mccullough.
Of Chicago, having been chosen. TO
sum up the case.
Though the anti suffrage women
occupied much Of the day their ar
gumrnt was closed hy man. Ev-
crctt T. Wheeler. Of New York. rep-
rcscnting the Man Suffrage associa.
llon Holding aloft a picture Of Dr
Anna Howard shaw president Of tho
National American Association for
Woman Suffrage, Mr. Wheeler said:
tlcnchCd Fists Mean Fight
when ! saw this person Yesterday
shake her clcnchcd list and declare
we demand our rights ! said to my
self, 'Clenchod fists mean fight The
manhood of this nation has been
trained to respect and revere woman
Kind, and ! claim that for American
manhood today but il we are chal-
Ienged to fight this movement. there
VIII be blows to give as well as
blows to take"
Mr. Wheeler paid a tribute to Miss
Jane Addams. who addressed the
committee yesterday on behalf OF
equal suffrage. and declared that q
was an III day for the nation when
Jane Addams divided her attention
to philanthropy for suffrage
Mrs. i. ID. Oliphant. secretary of
the New Jersey association opposed
to woman suffrage. said her organi-
zation was less than two years old.
with membership OF more than
thousand women, ninety per cent OF
the mwage earners. She said she
had campaigned among the grang-
ers Of her state whom she found.
both emn and women, to be unalter-
ably opposed to woman suffrage.
Means the Red Flag.
They recognize" she declared.
that woman suffrage means the
doubling Of the foreign vote and is
a forcrunner Of socialism which aims
to place the red flag over the red,
white and blue"
Speaking OF suffrage meeting
held I'm New Jersey Mrs. Oliphant
said that the suffragettes stormed
the anti-suffrage headquarters and
called MS liars, pikers and parasites.
words which do not indicate sobriety
OF thought or womanly achievement"
Miss Alich Buch, OF Trenton, n.
J., declared the working girls of her
acquaintance did not want the bal
rot and that they did not believe
the suffragist argument that II wom-
en- had the ballot. women's wages
would be increased
Let Men Marry Girls.
1T would be better she said,
for the men to get increased salaries
that they might marry and take the
girls out OF the factories
Miss Ella Brehant of the District
Of Columbia, declared that the lack
OF the ballot was not responsible for
low wages Of women. but rather the
lack OF skin. Women improved
their wages by education, she said.
and not by the exercise OF the fran
rhise.
Miss Emmeline Pitt, OF Pittsburgh.
secretary OF the Iron Trades council.
declared that mot 25 per cent Of the
American working women are inter-
ssted in the ballot
"Trpe." she said. the American
Federation OF Labor. with which
am affiliated. has endorsed woman
suffrage. but 1t has no woman on the
executive board, and / declare that
4 the American Federation OF Labor
would take a referendum vote OF the
rades unionists Of the country IL
would find so per cent OF them op-
)osen to- the ballot for women"
The liquor question was discussed
md Instances OF victories cited where
women have the right to vote
Miss Ella Dorsey. Of the District
Il Columbia, said that men who con-
rolled government ever had been
md ever would be influenced by good
women. Since Eve spoke 20 Adam
o the Garden OF Eden," she added.
no woman ever lacked opportunity
% make herself heard II women
rave workable ideas. men Of our
ountry viii make them into laws"
sun, Elect Officers.
WASH NETnN nae. 'Th,