New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-05
By Ida Hustled Harper.

While the suffraGiSts arc holding their
| service of prayer next Sunday for guild
ance i'm the approaching campaign, they
! should pray most earnestly to be saved
| from the plumbers Of their friends. These
are quite as much To be feared as the tao
| tics Of the enemy. Every neurotc wom-
an with lot of half-bakcd ideas which
she wants to foist on the public tries to
| do SO nowadays in the name of suffrage,
and as il is hardly possible for the press
or individuals To Discriminate these are
often accepted as the genuine doctrine.
| This has been the misfortune Of the
movement since its beginning. half a
| century ago, hut now that success seems
near at hand it will be a calamity.
\ particularly cXaspcrating case in
! point has Just been exploited in the pull
pit and in the newspapers DR.. Stimson.
pastor of one of the largest churches In
| the city, who always has been pro-
| nOunced opponent Of enfranchising wom-
en-, read from the pulpit last Sunday
| evening part Of a magazine article by a
young woman who has been hailed far
and wide as suffrage leader" which
he characterized AZ vile and on the
strength of it he denounced the suhra-
cistS as enemies of the home in the
same manner as the Industrial Workers
of the World arc enemies Of property"
ana declared that free love and trial
marriage are among the weapons used
by these enemies" To prove his state
ments he read from tho article extracts
UNFOLDING Ellen Keys assaults on mOnog-
amy and the central thought in "Iiindle
Wakes" that "a woman has a right To
indulge fancy Of the moment and
saying: There is no use blinking the
fact that we cannot liberatc women with
out finding ourselves facing radical
changes in her relations with man as re-
CARDS the two vital matters of property
and sea-
At once IN" clergyman doduced from
this statement, to use his own language,
what f.uripidcs called. the shameless
ness of the dog" This inference il far
fetched. but what the sufragists protest
against most vigorously il the mixing
up Of the suffrage question and the sex
question by those who pretend To stand
as representatives OF this movement This
matter was IouElll ~ q uliiNN liHuN h'l'
i'm New York city over forty years ago.
when cotcriC of prominent persons
known as free lovers attempted TO
speak from the platform of the suifra-
giStS Not even to advocate suffrage were
they allowed this privilege. and they and
their doctrines were strongly repudiatcd.
They have been kept entirely Out Of this
movement ever since and arc out of II
now so far as it's bona fde leaders can
keep them out but il has become so large
that il is wholly impossible to control
every individual who chooses To declare
herself a part of IT,
Those however. who are consecraung
their lives TO the single purpose OF OBJ
tanning the franchise for women have a
right 20 protest and they do protest.
against any alliance with the sex PROB
lem and its endless phases. To do this
simply puts INTO the hands Of the enemy
the ammunition they are greatly lacking,
and il never has been done by those who
can in any sense of the word be regarded
as leaders IL the movement Ia any To-
cality. II has taken half century OF
sensible. wise and discreet work 10 WIN
for the woman suffrage movement the re-
spect and approval which IT now enjoys
and this result must not he destroyed by