Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-11-02

In last Tuesdays issue of the Grand
Forks Herald, the North Dakota Asso-
citation Opposed to Woman Suffrage
published three columns of advertls-
ing purporting to be the arguneh.
Of prominent men and women against
women being enfranchised.
Among opinions quoted was a para
graph from Judge Lindsay taken from
| his story The Beast Inc the Jungle.
Some Grand Forks women acqualnt-
ed with Judge Lindsay for some years
and knowing him to be a most ardent
advocate of woman suffrage. wired
and asked him in regard to this para
graph quoted by the Anti-Suffrage as
ISOLATION.
This letter was received in reply:
Denver. Col. Jan. Gath, 1914.
To the Hartford Daily Times.
Hartford. Conn.
Gentlemen:
4 My attention has been called to
what I consider some very unjust mis-
representations Of my attitude on
the evils and %corrupting influence OF
special privilege in government. That
book was called the Beast and the
Jungle" In it l undertook to show
that was no influence. however sacred,
that was free from this pernicious
faint of special privilege In govern
ment. l showed that 1t did not hest
tate to use the churches and the uni
versities any more than it did to use
the dives and the brOthels, II l
proved 1t.
7 also stated frankly that it had its
influence among women OF promin-
ence just as 1t had among men nf
prominence, as we'll as among men
and women in other walks of life.
You might as we'll say that | was
opposed to the churches and univer-
stiles, as to say l condemn women
suffrage. I simply frankly admit the
fact that the corrupting influence OF
special privilege is to be found among
women as well as men, churches and
universities.
1t is not at all to the credit of the
Anti-Suffragists that they garble. mis-
quote and misuse statements Of the
champion Of the Just cause Of woman
suffrage in this outrageous and un
scrupulous manner They are alst
guilty Of gross Misrepresentation ii
quoting garbled sentences from tha'
chapter Of my book in which the cor
rupting influence Of special privilege
was admitted to reach all classes o
our citizens.
If any Of my critics will take tn
trouble to read the story of tn
Beast and the Jungle" as publishe,
by Doubleday, Page and company
they will readily discover the misrep
resentation.
In that book, on page PA, l said
II am we'll aware that what l am go
ing to write will be quoted out of al
it's context by the agents of the SYS
TEN and used by its newspapers t
prove that ] am an enemy of the re
ligion in which I have been raised
and a traitor to the churches tina
have again and again saved me fror
political destruction. l can foresee
from my experience in the past, tina
when l attack the BEAST where
hides behind the church I shall b
accused Of attacking the church
and SO accused by the very agents {
the BEAST I am attacking"
I might have said the same thin
about the enemies Of equal suffrag,
who are likewise in my Judgment, tn
enemies of justice. On page 229
the book will be found an account {
the work of the women to save m
politically in the fight against tn
~corrupting influence Of special priv
edge.
On page 3os is found the paragrap
quoted in the Hartford Times of jar
uary 4. But whoever SEN the artic,