New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-22
NATURALIZATION MOVE,
ENDANGERS SUFFRAGE
Senate Clause Affecting Foreign Born Women
Suggests Insincerity, Says Ida Hustled
Harper-Federal Revision Needed.

no matter how long they had resided in
this country, supposng they were bona
fide citizens for all purposes, must remain
disfranchised until they have taken out
naturalization papers. This is a tedious
and expensive process, costing at the
very least s.. and often requiring num-
Der Of trips and long waits at the Bureau
OF Naturalization. Under these circum-
stances how can il be expected that the
foreien-born mer of the state will vote
for such an amendment 10 the constitu-
ton? If the Senate j. acting in good
faith; if ii really desires to give the suf-
fragsts fair chance before the electors,
IL will strike out this clause and pass
the same resolution which received so
large a majority i'm the Assembly. Now
that SO many states are enfranchising
women Congress surely must very soon
see the necessity for repeating the law
which makes a citizen of the wife through
the naturalization OF the husband
The Ants and the Men.
The debate at the Metropolitan Temple
on Monday evening illustrated the new
tactics of the anti-suffragists in trying
TO make man believe that they are his
best friends and the suftragists his worst
enemies: that they are striving 10 keep
him on his lofty pedestal--to say moth
ing of boosting him still higher-while
the suffragsts are trying 20 drag him
down 10 their level Their fundamen-
tai appeal Is the belittlement Of men.
Woman suffrage will break man $
pride and send him forth cowcd,' one OF
them is quoted as SAYING at this meet
ing Poor. cowcd and broken men of CALI
forna and Washington and all those
other Western states so "belittled' even
nv having woman suffrage i'm the neigh
borhood that those of state after state
keen right on giving il TO their own WON
en-
1t is thoroughly In keeping with the
benighted condition Of tho anti-suffra-
gists 10 think they can fool the men
with such stuff. There is not man of
character i'm those states winch have en-
frauchiscd women who does not bear
testimony that II has broadcncd and en-
ricbcd the lives Of men as much as
those OF women and has resulted in a
az had never before been known. In the
states where the contest Is stu going on
thcre are thousands of beautiful exam
plcs of husbands ana wives working IN II
together i'm the most sympathetic com
pauionship We have them by IN" scores
right here in New York city. This latest
exhibit of the ANTS" demonstrates ane"
that they have reached the end of every
thing which b. any stretch OF magma
lion could nc called argument
DR. Talcott Williams. head OF the School
Of Journalism. I'M = recent address TO us
students. to show the progress made by
ucvspapcrs. told how. twenty five years
aco when he was managing editor or
"Thc Philadelphia Press he refused 10
publish any OF tho disclosures on the
social evil made by William T. Stead. /
was wrong" he said. and now the re-
form is everywhere being pushed which
might have been started twenty-five years
ago Ycy. and III. Williams is just as
wrong and non-progrcssivc IN opposing
Woman suffrage. which action. long be
fore q quarter of century has passed.
he will rcgre; and admit was wrong Just
a. no now does that which helped 10 re-
,ard another great reform