The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-09-13

WARUTTERANCES
Look at Colorado; No Peace
There" Is Reply Of Anti
Sufragist.
CAUSE FOR COCK FIGHT"
Mrs. Austin NJ. PurVes Says Socialist
Workmen Dropped Views When
Fighting Began.
By Mrs. AUSTIN NJ. PURVEs,

Eylyania Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
No cause that would justify the hold
ing of a first-ciass cock fight has been
assigned by the makers Of this war for
the deluge Of blood that now pours trcm
the veins of millions of men
This is not the remark of some I'M
known member of the sporting frater-
nifty, but part OF the argument for
votes for women" advanced by Miss
Anna A Maley. a SOCialist-suffragist
who ran on the Socialist ticket for gov
ernor of Washington, and who spoke in
Philadelphia last week, under auspices
OF the Equal Franchise Society.
OF course. the writer does not know
the gravity Of the reasons that must
be assigned for a 'hrst-ClaSs COCK
fight" not having had sufficient interest
to attend these games in suffrage States
like California and Colorado. and being
denied the legal opportunity in slave"
States like New York and Pennsylvania.
However. it does seem that the full
text of the British and German white
papers, plus the comments Of practically
every noted statesman, student, editor,
and prominent writer here and abroad.
would account for the holding of even a
''frst-class cock fight" if the suffrag
mind could be switched OFF the single
track OF the franchise question long
enough to examine these documents.
But Miss Maley, of course, was merely
using this statesmanlike comparison to
demonstrate how little men know about
running governments, and to conclusiyely
prove to few women that il would have
been impossible" for the European ma
tions to have waged war. IF women had
been consulted before hostilities began.
Look Mt Colorado"
Of course it would. Who can doubt it.
when Colorado where women have been
consulted" at every election since 1898
has the unique distinction of being the
only State in the Union whose territory
had to be placed under martial law by
Federal authority twice in ten years 10
stop anarchy? The people Of the whole
United States have been paying Federal
soldiers for four months to protect life
and property in ''votes-fOr-women' Colo
RADIO. while a supine, feminine elected
and womanish administration cannot even
preserve law and order, much less meet
the problems of local self-government.
And the women are not only Consult
ed in Colorado. but they have been con-
suited for twcnty-One years-lOng enough
to train their own voters from the cradle
to the voting booth. Yet Colorado has
the State record in internal war. the
highest per capita tax in the Union. and
l63 per cent Of its women must keep on
working after the age Of fOrty-fve, which
is more than the average for the whole
United States. Whereas Pennsylvania. the
only State in the Union out of debt, with
more labor problems" than any other
Commonwealth, gives its citizens an eff
cient and inexpensive government,
and its women more freedom and leisure
in the sunset of life.
recent report of Pennsylvania cities
showed that even the commission form
Of government" is less expensive where
there is no eXtravagant feminine element
in the electorate. II costs Denver an ad-
ditional 100000 a year to have commits
sion government. but the mayors of
Chester, Reading WilIiamsport. Easton.
Harrisburg and Allentown, Pa, as well
as Atlantic City and Trenton. n. J.. all
recently testified either to no material
increase. even in some cases TO reduc-
ton in municipal expense that had been
made Nv trying out commission govern
ment here.
business man in his recent testimony
before the industrial commission at San
Francisco asked: What is the matter
with California How is it that State
with the ability to support a population
Of 100000 has only 3G1n en-" He pointed
out how capital had been frightened away
from the State by freak lEgislati and
the constant fear Of increased taXations
nd limitations imposed by q fad-mad
electorate.
Getting Alarmed and DisErstcJ.
A recent letter from a resident of Los
Angeles declared that the increase in tax
alton due to woman suffrage in California
was becoming a vital issue. One petition
for The repeal of vote for women" al
! eady has been circulated in the Sun
flower state" less than four years after
is trial
The letter also asserted that the So
ciaIists, and the women who consider it
their duty to offset Socialist votes are
the only ones that ar, willing to bother
with the ballot. Most women vote just
as their husbands or maia relatives adj |
wise. and The men are all starting to com
pi7In about the increased expense #
doubling the electorate without accom- |
phshing anything hu. the multiplication !
o. figures and the fITtErranCe OF social |
sn,.'.
The only tangible effect of woman suf- |
rrage on State or municipal government |
is to act as an asset to the Socialist par |
~ "One million Socialists vote and work !
for woman suffrage" they proudly pro-
claim, because as stated in the New /
York Call. a Socialist paper, Socialism !
IS impossible without woman suffrage"
Now. what is socialism? Is 1t a mere |
-ommunistic dream Of Ctopias. or Iiv- |
ing. moving program of revolution? J
Miss Anna A. Maley is primarily a So !
-ialist. Votes for women" means moth |
ng to her but one step nearer the Co |
operative Commonwealth.
Socialism Repudiated by Labor.
Socialism is severely repudiated by the |
class it affects to defend. The wage
Garner for sixty-fve years has rejected |
the MARKHAM theory. Samuel Gompers
told the industrial commission in New
York that socialism had done more to de-
-eat the true interests of labor than any
other modern movement
Socialism had done nothing for labor,
just as suffrage has done nothing for
women. These twin agitations-both
we're formulated and organized in 1875
that affectionately cling together and try
10 convince each other that their revolu-
lion means progress because they nick
name it reform" are forever bargain
ng with unrest. with anarchy and with
envy, to no purpose but the weakening
II the constructive forces of civiliza-
lion.
The peace" argument is such a pal
pable sophistry, that in the face of
/ world war that they could not pre-