The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
FREE LOVE TO FOLLOW
Delegates to World Suffrage Congress
Are Described az Mannish Look
ing and Talking
Creatures.
by Karl n. Won Wiegand, Berlin cor
respondent Of the limited Press

DGnLIN, July IL. Germany Is sur |
rounded by enemies without. 1t can
not afford the luxury of womans suf-
frage. The moment that woman's suf- :
frage gets the upper hand, 1t is good i
bye Germany as a great world power
Apparently fearing that the German
women will get what is characterized
as crazy American notions" into
their heads, the German Union to
Combat the Emancipation Of Women
has been organized to back fire"
along womans suffrage lines and the
above statement made by DR.. Eber-
hard of Berlin at recent meeting is
a sample of the warnings that are be-
ing issued. The organization insists
that the woman's political movement
must be nipped in the bud.
Masculine Germany is alarmed over
the remote possibilities of seeing its
traditional authority slip away. For
ever seeing enemies without, 1t is be-
ginning to see enemies, within en-
emies in petticoats. 1t is no longer
merely the enemy at the door, but
also the enemy within the door-at
the hearthside."
With success after success Of the
women in the United States obtaining
political equality with men, the grant
ing of woman's suffrage by Norway as
examples; inspired by the womens'
fight in England and spurfed on by
the enthusiasm of the Worlds Wom-
ANS Suffrage congress In Budapest,
the German women are getting FESTIVE.
The movement to break the bonds OF
"Kirche, Kueche und Kinder
Church, Kitchen and Children), the
boundary set by the kaiser for WON
ans activities, has been given a great
impetus.
Writers in the conservative re-
dictionary press see great dangers to
Germany in woman's suffrage. Not
the least are, sinking morality and
the loss Of Germany's status as a
world power. If the iron fist should
be softened by the stroke of woman's
political hand.
At recent meeting in Bresleau of
the "anti-woman's suffrage organiza-
ton, DR.. Eberhard, one of the leaders,
declared that the sociological refo ms
in Australia had no relation or con-
Injection with woman's suffrage there;
that the United States had extra
ordinary unfavorable experiences"
with women in politics: that in Colo
trado the women voted one time the
republican ticket and another time
the democratic, according to which
paid the most, and that in FINLAND,
womans suffrage had destroyed fam
lily life.
Professor Woltersdoff, writing in
one of the Berlin papers, declares that
a portion of the womans suffrage
movement stands for free love-" AS
a warning. there is frequent reference
in the reactionary press, in fact also
in the so-called liberal, of the dire
things that will happen to the German
women if they should attempt to i'm
litate the wild women of England"
There will be no sentiment in our
courts. We will know how to deal
with hunger strikes" is the way it is
put. They seem to forget that iron
measures did not check socialism in
Germany.
The alarm seems somewhat prema-
ture. There appears to be no I'M
mediate danger of masculine Germany
losing the title Of Herr which means
lord" and master" The woman's
suffrage movement as such is still
confined to the better and educated
classes. 1t has not touched the
masses. The socialists are endeavor-
ing to spread it but have neither
sympathy nor cooperate with the non
socialistic suffrage organizations. The
latter number about 10000 members
Die Post" of the so-called cannon
and armorplate press" referring to
the entertainment in Berlin OF the
foreign delegates to Budapest, has
this to say: "If the women (Ameri-
can, English, Danish, Swedish and
Finnish) who publicly exhibited them
selves here, are fair selection of the
intelligence in the woman's suffrage
movement, the German anti-suffrage
nuion, will have no very difficult work
before it in Germany" The paper
says that with few exceptions they
were masculine types in women's
clothing, !" and that this extended even
to their manners and voices"
The kaiser has struck Chauffeur
from the vocabulary of the royal
garage. In place Of Showers '-le
has twelve-he now has wagon driv-
|ers," or to be literal, wagon guiders. >
The two men, one or the other of
whom, always guides his car, have
been given the title OF chief wagon