New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-08
MRS. HARRIET S. BLATCH
GETS A CALL DOWN.
Indirect Influence No Way to
Win Vote from Men, Says
Cape Town Woman.
AMOUNTS TO "WHITE LIE"
South African Suffragist De.
clares There Are More Ants"
Among Women than Men
in Her Country.

Who would think that Mrs Harrio,
Stanton Batch would ever advocate lnd,.
rect influence ds the way To win the yots
from men? She did at the opening o,
the Brooklyn headquarters Of the Won.
ans Political Union. at No 2s3 Living.
ston street. last night. and Mrs. Morris
Alexander. Of Cape Town. South Africa
Oh, very nicely. indeed-called her down
Mrs Batch said that women were very
well. hut It was men the suffragists want.
ed TO convert.
BE after the men," she told the women
before her. "Waylay every man you can.
and by gentle methods, mind you-swee..
gentle. persuasive intiuence-win him
over TO your cause"
Il must differ with Mrs. Batch" said
Mrs. Alexander in the course OF her talk.
Il am sick. dead sick, of indirect infu.
ence. believe that for her own sake.
for her husbands sake. for her child's
sake. woman should be fearless and
direct. have canyassed for my nus.
band, and / know that queer things must
be done in politics sometimes. but | do
think we women should avoid the danger
Of the lie-the white lie, 10 which we are
too much given--and what does indirect
influence mean if not a lie?"
Mrs. Alexander began her talk with an
answer to Mrs. Something or-other
Dodge-I can't remember her first name"
she said. who has been writing the most
extraordinary things in the papers. She
said in one OF her articles that Olive
Schreiner. In her Woman and Labor
adopted as a labor saving device by
women. Olive Schreiner never said any
thing 50 ridiculous. Mrs. Dodge tore that
sentence out OF its context. and twisted
it around.
1T is my good fortune 10 know Olive
Schreiner we'll" Mrs Alexander went on,
and more absolutely selfless.
more entirely good woman / have
never seen. Quite uncOnsciously she Is
all the things the rest OF us are striving
to be- Though she has had more than
most people OF suffering. both physical
and mental, she is the serenest being |
know. She would hate most dreadfully
10 have me stand up before an audience
and speak Of her like this. but felt that
couldn't let Mrs Dodge's silly mis-
representation pass.
Mrs Alexander described the fight for
woman suffrage in South Africa. where,
she says. there are more ants among the
women than among The men.
once. at a meeting. our Attorney Gen.
eral was making a speech for woman
suffrage" she said He was an ardent
Suffragist. his wife was an anti She sat
in the front row. When her husband In
ished young man. who didn't know lie,
leaned over and said to her:
THAT was a me speech that chap
made; but. | say, YOU know. he must
have a rotten time a: home.
once. she said. an old negro Al club
where her husband stopped In Kimberly
was telling him the effect Of "a suffrage
speech she had made in that town.
An. sah,' the old fellow said a gem
man toll me. Dat was good speechlfyin
de lady did. but Ah'm glad she amt my
wife
so the men are not all sunrasists in
South Africa. and the vote is probably
further from us than 1t is from you. But
| feel. as Olive Schreiner feels that II
must come: it is inevitable. and when "
comes ii Will come as merely one iact
one part Of a great world movement fo''
ward" she added.
Miss Beatrice Brown is the Brooklyn
organizer for the Womans POLITICAL
Union. and will have charge Of the head
quarters.