The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-10
FOR SUFFRAGE GET 78O SIGNATURES Dr. ShaW's Argument for Woman Suf-
 frage No Militant SuffTagiStS in This Country, But Some WarIike
 Antis, She Says


 l thoughtful and widely representative audience, attended the votes-for-wo- men mass meeting, at Lyric Theatre, yesterday afternoon, and applauded warmly as pr. Anna Howard Shaw, with eloquence and logic, demolished | most of the stock arguments against woman suffrage, and paid her respects to the militant conduct of the anti sunragists, recently displayed. in Washington.
 There was standing room only in the rooTny theatre. Every seat up and down stairs was taken, and many stood.
 The suffrage petitions, asking the General Assembly to submit the ques- ton of votes for women to the male electors in 1915, were signed by 780 persons.
 Applications for membership in the 1 association devoted to suffrage were generously signed.
 The meeting was entirely in the hands of women. The ushers were devotees of the cause. They were de- l signated by a band of white satin rib ribbon was, printed, Votes for Wo- men,
 The only man who had any official part in the meeting was City. Attor- ney John s. Pullman, the partner of States Attorney Stiles Judson, who
 
 briefly for the cause of woman suf- 1 frage, declaring it's success "inevita- bIe." He also submitted the ques- l tions which various O. those present desired Mrs Shaw to answer. pr. Shaw spoke for an hour and a i half. A solid, substantial woman is she, with massive head, keen logic and a voice of unusual and attractive quality.
 Her handling of the question was from the logical approach, and her appeal to the emotional side of her proposition was limited. l She attempted to show that this $ 1 a government by the people, that wo- men are people, and that until wo- | men vote there cannot be government by the people, but only government by half the people.
 She considered certain discussion upon democracy by Woodrow Wilson, the tenets of which she approved. Bat, i Dr. Wilson, she said, in writing his articles, had not only forgotten to consider women part of the peo- pie, but was utterly unconscious of the 1 fact that he had forgotten anything. 'It is bad enough to be forgotten, :" said Dr.. Shaw, "but it is much worse to feel that those who have forgotten 1 you do not know they have forgotten anything.
 pr. Shaw said that there can be no l true democracy in the nation as long as half the people are left out of the government.
 | She received appreciative applause from her audience, in considering the objection that women must hold of l flee if they vote. She told of one of hciaI who has 5000 applications for jobs, but no vacancy. She thought that, under these circumstances, men l being willing to sacrifice themselves and take the jobs, that no women would be drafted unless she wanted I to be.
 In dealing with the objection that l if women vote they ought to go to war, Dr. Shaw said: Women do go to war now. More than 4O,000 went to the civil war. They were nurses. they were saving, while the men were destroying
 After the applause extracted by this trenchant utterance had subsided, she remarked that those who were particu- Iarly interested in advancing the war argument were those too old, or too young or too feeble to go toNwar. She referred to the circumstance that Cor poraI Tanner, who went tC war and lost both legs there, and who has been National commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, was presiding at the protest mass meeting, in pro- gress at Washington yesterday, to ob- ject to the brutal treatment accorded suffra gists, during their parade. "The men who have been to war;, she said, usually do not object to votes for wo- men upon the ground that women do not go to war
 discussion of the manner in which women use the ballot in Denver.
 She obIiterated the claim that the women of the underworld would par ticipate largely in the ballot, both by the Denver statistics, and upon evil fhaF wi close their real names, nor their ante cedents, nor who their parents are, to the extent necessary So be created voters.
 pr. Shaw expressed the hope that such women might be induced to use the ballot; they need it," she said, more than any other class of the community to protect them from the aggressions of public officers
 Dr. Shaw also expressed the belief that women attached to the police force of cities would be able to do useful work in cleaning up the red light districts, and in protecting the innocent and unwary who are now Iured into the red light life.
 Some interest was displayed in the status of women in China. Dr. Shaw said that she had been informed that seven women sat in the last Cantonese assembly, but that women had not at that time generally voted throughout the whole of China That they were to so vote, she had been informed. The audience was interested in the news that Hungary has recently granted the ballot to women.
 Among the questions that came up to the stage for answer was one which read, Do you support the conduct of militant suffra gists %
 t'There are none in this country" came the sharp reply. we have some militant anti-suffragists in Washington and we are trying to re- strain them.''
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