The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-02-17
MRS.PANKHURST
CAN'T SUCCEED,
SAYS DR.. COLT
Believes Third Suffrage Party
in England viii BE Able
TO Get Ballot
HAS PRAISE FOR
AMERICAN WOMEN
ago
Lecturer Finds Them Educated
Far Above Women of the
European Countries

ur. stanton Colt OF London. Eng.
who spoke. Tuesday afternoon. before
the Equal Suffrage league OF Wayne
county. ia the Twentieth Century club
building. ana who VIII deliver an ad-
dress in the first Unitarian Church.
Tuesday evening. on The ethics OF
marriage. VAS interviewed IN tie
University club. Tuesday morning
The interview soon became a debate.
participated in Or. Colt. Or. Eugene
k. Shipper. pastor OF the First Uni
tartan church. aud the reporter
Or Colt said that the methods or
Mrs Pankhurst and her followers
have ben AS unsuccessful as those OF
the quieIists IL the suffrage party Ia
securing suffrage for women in Eng
land. For that reason he has assisted
IN the organization OF a third party
which hopes 10 secure the ballot for
women without violence, but to adopt
stronger tactics than mere wishing
and hoping.
There is nothing Ia England. or IL
al Europe, 10 correspond 10 the Amer
lean college bred woman" Ae said.
here, LOCO women attend the unlyer
sites, for one in England. The result
IS that America has a very large mum
Der OF cultured women tfo- tAi444tfr-- II
orderly fashion. whose knowledge IS
and whose influence
81 extensively felt.
Il laughed at my friend. Prof.
Zueblin. when learned that the
audience for one OF his lee
lures il New York on conservation
WAS composed OF 500 women / asked
him why he wasted his time lecturing
on political subject to people who
had no political power He replied
that was mistaken-that these NO
men would tell their husbands what
ne had said. and ii they themselves
had been convinced. they would con
vince their husbands 10 vote as they
told them.
Il do not consider that women are
superior TO men, intellectually or NOR
ally. / do not believe that any far
reaching change Will come when wo-
men are granted the ballot But | do
believe that such change will come
In the course OF time
Don't you think that women are
inclined to be more conservative than
men in the use OF the ballot?" asked
the reporter.
Or. Shipper said that on the con-
trary. women have been the radical
leaders In the big Industrial upris-
qings vi the country. Or. Colt agreed
with him that women are not 10 be
considered conservative, Ii was about
this time that the debate began. Just
how Socialism came to be mentioned.
is uncertain; but DR.. Colt proclaimed
himself i Socialist. and a radical one,
at that-but he deplored the idea OF
violence
Il was surprised To Aud how much
more bitter class hatred is In this
country than IN England" he said.
What do you expect he was ask
ed. when you consider conditions in
Lawrence, during the strike there
when you consider conditions In Calu-
met. today. and the fact that a do
nothing governor opposes federal In
yestigation-do you think that these
conditions ought not TO give rise TO
class hatred? Party Socialism has
failed. the |. w. w. rs growing strong
er every day because the Socialists
have been unable 10 do anything.
You mean as political party--but
educationally2 suggested Or. Ship
pen.
Internationally, yes they have made
people think, the reporter assented.
Il bitterly resent being considered
an outsider said Dr. Colt i hold
that have a right TO take hand IN
this matter. even though | do not be-
long To what is called the laboring
class. We all belong TO humanity
Lincoln was a great benefactor OF the
slaves, though he was not or their
class. Harr.ett Beecher stowe, by
writing Uncle Toms Cabin VIII
liam Lloyd Garrison and others. help
ed the slaves TO freedom, though they
themselves were not slaves.
The debate wandered into nothing
ness, as debates do.
In his evening address, DR.. Colt
will consider the question OF mar
rage and divorce. He viii talk or
the effect on the community of a law
requiring the publication OF marriage
banns. some time in advance OF the
marriage, for one thing.
Though be has done most or MS
work in England. DR.. Colt was born
in Columbus, o.. and went TO Am
herst and Columbia before complet-
ing his university education in Ber-
lin. For some time he was head
worker In the New York university
settlement For several years he has
lived ia London, whore he has taken
part in many sociological and ethical
movements. lie has published sew
eral books.
MANTSTIOUE, Mich, Feb IL
IL. IL. 4.