New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08
HAPPY SUFFRAG|STS
LIVE ANSWER TO ANTS
Wife, Radiant, Handsome, Re-
flutes SneerS About Trial
Marriages.
NOT 'DlSGRUNTLED,' EITHER
Professor Jenks-Mere Man
Smiles at Merry War of Words
That Ends Forum Dis
cussion on Cause"

That Ends Forum Dis
cussion on Cause"
Those suffragists certainly have an eye
n stage enects-or maybe IL was lust
pure dumb luck.
Whatever IL was. IL proved lucky for
the votes for-women side at the discus
sion I'm the Judson Memorial Building
vesterday--it proved mighty lucky that
they had good-looking and happily mar
ried women for their speakers. 1t en-
abled them to present living picture an
swers 10 the cream of the anti-suffrage
arguments.
Thus when Mrs. Otto Kilauni declared
"Sunraglsts believe I'm trial marriages and
similar innovations" there was Mrs.
James Lees Laidlaw TO jump up and CRY
out.
II don't believe i0 trial marriages. and
I don't know sunragist who does"
And with that pink rose in her hair
and every one knowing her husband be-
leves In everything that she does. OILY
more 20. the retort had much more
weight than had Mrs. Ladlaw been an
elderly spinster.
Similarly. when Miss Charlotte Roe said
that a large number of suffragists were
"dlsCruntled and embittered women, VINO
fancied the ballot could I'll the place Of
their lost hearts happiness" there was
the youthful Mrs. Frances Maule Biork-
man to jump up and say IN convincing
tones.
So lfecvt 1nH a nd
embittered women. | married because |
wanted the happiness of marriage. and l
have IL. and ] am ont in the world work.
inc fov suffrage because l want 20 be Of
use"
Merry War Of Words.
Ii was a merry war of words. and Pro-
fessor jeremiah w jerks. who kept time
on the speakers looked as if he was hav-
ing the time of his life This was the
summing up in the woman suffrage dis
cussiou which has occupied three after
Moons Of the New York University Forum.
Or Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs. y. j..
George. for suffrage and anti-suffrage re-
spectively. We're the speakers at the first
and second meetings.
Professor jerks made the opening speech
Yesterday. The glst of his remarks was.
II the women want the vote let them
have il. He said he believed in majority
rule. and each state ought 10 find out IL
a majority Of its women wanted the
franchise. and give II 10 them II they
did He didn't doubt. ne said. that women
had the necessary personal independence
10 vote-at least he was sure that most
married men believed they had. But al
together too much weight, he said, was
attached 10 the question OF woman sur
nage: he didn't think woman's vote
would make much difference in the laws.
Miss Roe was the first anti speaker
following Miss Wlnona Martin, who was
for suffrage. Miss Roe asserted that
woman suffrage was destroying the ideal
Of civilized society.
.'Eut we 'antis.'" she declared, stand
unswerving i'm the defence OF that ideal
which is that women shall remain I'M
mune from the burden and contamlna-
ton of politics.
Anti pities Working Women.
- feel il most for the working women
ttose moor women. exploited by the suf-
fragists. who would now thrust on them
the burden of voting III addition to all
else they, have to bear.
oh. these suffragists. who would bar
Ter the eternal verities for political dis
tinction Think Of the energy they are
spending and the money they are throw
ing away in the fight for the vote
Think" Miss Roe exclaimed, how
much pure milk for babies that money
would buy, What will it profit woman
n she gains a whole Senate or police
mans lob and loses her hearts happi-
ness? oh. mon should awake to the dan
eer OF this sinister influence. which 10
tending 70 emasculate manhood The i'm
pulse Of men is to shield womanhood.
let us not barter that precious possession
FOR the vote
Miss Roe evidently had much more TO
say but the inexorable Professor jerks
called time" and introduced Mrs. Anna
Weeks. who won the male part OF her
audience al once by declaring that women
wanted 10 take no political distinction
from the men. that the suffragists ad-
mired and trusted the men, ana loved
them dearly-that is. each individual suf-
fragist loved her own men folks
Then came Miss Alice Chittenden, who
declared that IL was absurd for women TO
demand a voice In the government on the
ground that democracy meant the vote
of all the people because democracy
didn't mean voting: democracy was a
spirit that pervaded all things. Mrs.
Bjork nan followed, with her refutation
OF the dsgruntled women theory, when
Miss Roe had flung into the arena. Mrs.
Biolkman said more things also
mot Real Ants"
You aren't the real antia,' she IN
formed Miss Chittenden, Mrs. Kiliauni
and Miss Roe. who sat in the front seat
below her 1--WE aren't afraid of you.
No. the real ants are the forces OF or
ranzed vice. who are spending money 10
defeat us Oh. doesn't IL mean something
70 YOU" she demanded of her three OPP
ponents, that organized vice Is pouring
out It's money to defeat u.s."
Then Mrs Bjorkman spent five minutes
asserting that women did not desire po-
lltical distinction-they just wanted the
vote
Miss Roes remarks on tn n head, she
said, show, I'm afraid, that she has
been considering the masculine ideal in
politics"
Mrs Laidlaw. who followed Mrs. Kill