New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-25
TWANG ON THE HARP
IN WAR ON SUFFRAGE
Ants to Meet Shouting for
"CauSe" with Music in Head.
quarters Just Opened.
CAMP IN BATH STREET
I'VE Have Entered the Enemy's
Country" Says Mrs. Rossiter
Johnson, land Aren't Going
to Smash Their Windows"

Thrty-fourth street is now arranged to
suit the most exacting taste. Anti-suf-
fragists. who have been compelled for
six months to pass the Woman Suffrage
party headquarters. where there is al
WAYS an energetic person leaning over the
fence selling Woman Voters" or lemon
ade or talking about parades. may now
street, under the rose and black banners
of the Guidon Club.
The "antis" have come out into the
open, and are ready for the fight
The new headquarters, at No. 45 East
saith street, opened yesterday, are, as Mrs
Rossiter Johnson herself told the report
ers. for the express purpose OF "waging
an offensive warfare against the suffra-
gists"
we aren't going to smash their win
dows or even to sell papers under their
windows" she said. We shall fight with
constitutional weapons only. We have
decided that no great victory was ever
won by assuming the defensive. We have
entered the enemy's country"
Mrs. William Force Scott outlined the
policy Of the Guidon Club.
We shall meet yelling with music" she
said, and paradng with high class en-
tertainments. We mean to make this a
place where may be found the fine and
beautiful the things that the suffragists
are crowding out Of life.
I'VE shall have exquisite music on the
harp and stringed instruments. We shall
have delicate French comedies and speak
ers of lofty ideas.
Life is not all politics. you know. There
are more important things to do than TO
clean streets and collect garbage. II does
a woman more good to hear a nice harp
concert than to listen to a discussion OF
white slavery. You can't cure diphtheria
by talking about the symptoms. II women
would pay more attention to the fine and
noble things of life, the evil things would
cease TO exist"
Mrs. Johnson doesn't put any trust in
that they have no intention of adopting
Mrs. Pankhursts methods for their cam
paign.
THE movement is stronger than they
are. II will sweep them on" she said.
"If they do not get what they want, they
will be using Mrs. Pankhurst's methods
in a short time.
See what happened TO Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait. You know this movement
began when a group OF women In trou-
sers. with shortcut hair. marched down
Broadway demanding equal rights with
men. ! met Mrs. Gait soon after.
None OF tho real leaders OF the suf-
frage movement want TO wear trousers
she said. Well, that was years ago. Mrs.
Gait recently came back from a trip
around the world, and what did she tell
the women of America? You ought TO
adopt the Chinese womens trousers she
said. They are the most comfortable and
economical garment
There she was, you see. advocating
swept along by the force OF movement
bigger than herself. Trousers. militancy.
socialism and free love-they are all the
same thing. They are the forces that
have destroyed every republican govern
ment in history, and are now threatening
the stability OF this government. We anti
suffragists are fighting suffrage because
we know II Is part OF this terrible
movement"