The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-18
CALLS CLINGING TYPE
REAL SUFFRAGE BAR
Cause, Says Miss Glasgow, Suffers Because of Wo-
man Who Prefers to Be Known as Perfect Lady
Rather Than New Movement Leader

Privileges and penalties Of citizen
ship arc not only the inalienable rights
Of women. but their incscupable re-
Sponsibility. according to the view out
lined by Miss Ellen Glasgow In an adj
dress under the auspices OF tho Equal
Suffrage League OF Virginia. ut the Y.
NJ. G. a. Auditorium last night. The
greatest bar to woman suffrage, the
speaker argued, was not the greed OF
man. but the inertia OF the woman or
the clinSinS type. who prefers being
known az "a perfect lady to taking
part in IA movement which will make
the world cleaner and better place IN
which 10 rear her children. The audi
ence taxed the capacity OF the hall,
and was wholly In sympathy with the
suffrage movement.
Mrs. i. j. Valentine Introduced Miss
Glasgow. coupling her name with that
OF MISS Mary Johnston, in saying that
they had, through their novels OF Nir-
Einia history, done more than all others
to put Richmond on the map In Great
Britain and on the Continent. and that
these two were now leading the move
inent To put Virginia on the suffrage
map OF the United States The frs,
organization meeting OF sunragists In
Richmond. Mrs Valentine said had
been held at Miss GlasGow's home
Inrt of Great Social Revolutions
Miss Glasgow took the larger view
OF the suffrage movement not az q
passing fad OF few dissatisfied wo-
men. but as Il part Of the great social
evolution. which is sweeping on to "A
trucr democracy. 1t began. she said
with the overthrow of the inonarchical
militarism OF the Middle Ages created
Il manhood suffrage which barred only
the ignorant, the criminal and the
Iiiot, and is now causing the awaken
ing of the social consciousness 1t is
the most significant advencc, she said
since the rise OF tho Christian ideal
OF morality, and Is moving on to a
broader freedom than the race has vet
conceived People, she said fell into
two classes, those who believe in the
future and those whose faith is pledged
to the past. The movement which
seems To many so new. liz merely an
integral part Of Il great human move
lnent--a social revolution as old IA
the principal that might IL not right.
Miss Glasgow claimed that there were
suTragists and militants in Virginia
long before Mrs. Pankhurst. telling OF
Aunt Deb. colorcd nanny nj
her childhood home. When chidcd for
quarrcllng with her husband. Aunt
Deb" insisted that she had not been
quarrellng-it was Toby who ouar-
relied. and she had merely reasoned
with him.
Neither Class Nor Sex.
only after birth of the demo
cratic idea" said Miss Glasgow. when
man had grasped self government for
himself. did this woman question arise
lhe idea Of the subsection OF woman
belongs in the cobwcbs of the Middle
ages! banner floating from "a flag
stan does not make n republic Until
woman Is given voice in making the
laws she obcys. there can he no real
democracy, Tor that must be neither
class government nor n sex govern
ment. There is no real republic in
which one-half of the population is
distranchised. The real woman move
ment began in the Sixth Century, when
~ margin OF one vote, great coun-
eli OF the church solemnly decided that
woman had n soul.
I'VE gain our idea of the are OF
chivalry from the fancy OF novelists,
VINO have pictured gallant knights rec
cuing distressed damscis The true
picture Of the nge shows that those
same knights were more often dis