New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-23
SUFFRAGE PUPILS EAGER
TO HECKLE ANTI" CRITIC
Mrs. Cats Charges Indignant
at Statement of Alice
Hill Chittenden.
REMARKS CALLED ABSURD
Leaders of Cause" Say They
Have Not Sufficient Power
to Control ALI the
Factors Mentioned.

The one hundred and fifty students at
nrs Carrie Chapman Cats School for
suhrace Workers are fguratively smack
,rr their lips Miss Alice Hill Chittenden,
resident OF the New York State AS
.ociation Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
has been asked by Mrs. Gait to come TO
tho school and give a forty-ffve minutes
,ak on "suffragists as Vice Exploiters:
The school was all rolled up yesterday
when II read In the morning papers
that statement from the Washington
"antis' headquarters 10 the effect that
the suffracists were watering the stock
~ the vice situation for their own vote
seeking purposes.
Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale,
who was showing the one hundred and
sfty how 10 produce votes for women
arguments from the diaphragm, had to
st down while an indignation meeting
was held Nothing but a promise TO get
Niss Chitterien there and 10 give the
students fifteen minutes in which 10 reni
her arguments limb from limb after she
had spoken satisfied them.
Mrs Gait said this latest shot from the
"sntis" showed that they were in the last
ditch
When our opponents descend to alb
surdities Ike that" she observed. ITS
clear they know they're beaten"
The ants credit us with more power
than we possess laughed Miss Elizabeth
Freeman. They set forth that women
are dressing indecently.' that the maga-
zines are full of salacious material and
that theatres are producing plays depict
inr houses into which no decent man or
woman would go'-and blame the suf-
fragists for all this. The theatres. the
MAGAZINES and the fashion designers all
under the thumb of the suffragists. used
by US 10 create a situation which shall
convince the country that woman's vote is
needed
We'll, we know suffragists are gaining.
but II needed the ants 10 tell US that
We controlled the theatres, the magazines
and the dressmakers."
Mrs. Mary Ware bennett. up at the
National Suffrage Association. said that
she was consumed with pity for the
ants for having to descend TO such
abuse.
The minds Of those women need an
airing" she said. They are fouI-not
with an active foulness, but sort OF
uncean stagnatiOn.
Il can't quite make out whether they
accuse US Of exaggerating vice or blame
US because il is being exposed. Well, II
they think we are bluffing about 1t. let
them read the report of the vice COM
mittee in Chicago or George kneeland's
report on conditions in New York. But
the know we aren't blufting. They are
self-rghteous ladies'. who don't mind
what others suffer 50 long as they keep
their own skirts clean"
Rather funny" said Miss Harriet May
Mills. president of the state, Ito have
the ants accusing US of stimulating
vice, when all the forces Of vice. the
liquor dealers. the gamblers, the white
savers. are leagued against US"
81 haven't read the ants latest At
tack carefully" Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Batch head Of the Women's Political
Union. said. but I gather that they
blame US because bad conditions that
exist are being exposed II is absurd TO
say that the suffragists are doing all that
There are anti-suffragists who believe as
We do about existing evils and the need
Of attacking them. only they differ about
the mode Of attack"
Miss Alice Paul, who is chairman OF
the Congressional Union and heads SUI
frage activities in Washington. declared
that she couldn't take seriously any anu
news sent out from there.
They talk about the news sent out
from the Washington headquarters, but
they have no headquarters there-only
two hired press agents. both Of them