The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

Its Supreme Court judges are owned like
once boys. Its lawyers, its business men,
/ all are owned"
I Her vote has never brought prohibition
( in a single State. vet ten States have
driven out the liquor trafic by the votes
OF men only. While woman suffrage has
helped cities like Denver to keep wide
open" every day in the week. IL has
actually forced cities having Q majority
electorate Of women. like Pacadena and
Santa Monica. Cal. not only to go wet.
hut TO sell liquor nights and SUNDAYS,
Wyoming has had woman suffrage for
forty-fO years without one county going
dry"
Yant More Than Votes.
But experiences like these do not deter
the woman radical from asking nation
vide sanction Of her cause" In fact.
she asks not only that her past vote
record he ignored. but tells us plainly
the the vote is a small fraction OF
the feministiC demand Here are some
Of the others:
Mrs. Gussie d Ogden. suffragist leader
and member OF the Cincinnati, Ohio.
Woman Suffrage Association. an official
unit Of the national organization. writes
a foTewOrd to Let's CiviliZe the Mar
riage Laws" by Richard ID. Eathrens.
calling II a new and regenerating gos-
pei that promises 81 much OF
good to society and the race The
gospel" page g. has this:
When a boy and a girl. under natural
conditions. avow their love for each
other they Immediately become qualified
by that fact to Perpetuate the race. and
without the necessity Of a public de-
claratiOn, the recital NJ prescribed
formulas. or other meaningless ceremony.
they are then married. This CON
fessinn Of reciprocal love alone con-
stitutes the real marriage; all else is
foreign. n-essential-pretty, but empty
fnrmuaIity." Mrs. Ogden declares:
81 am giving this book the benefit Of
my unqualified endorsement because IN
my Judgment il means more for the
emancipation of women and the upbuild-
ing Of the race than all the books
hitherto written, and want TO help
carry its saving philosophy to every
home in America"
And Miss Gertrude AthertOn tells us in
the Yale Review: Women more thar
once throughout the centuries have taken
the bit between their teeth and enjoyed.
individually or as group, something
like license; but never collectively, at
least in the middle class Today
she Is as ready to make her own code of
morals as to keep her body housed and
fed" OF the Young women who move to
Western towns in search of lowered
pressure and higher wages"-in suffrage
States Of course-she saws: They live
practically the same lives as the unat-
tached men generally in company of the
attached, and are the despair Of the
good women OF the Y. w. c. A. They are
enjoying life precisely as men enjoy 1t, !
and with no call for the subterfuges
forced upon girls at home. Many Of
an.- =
or. knowing the weaknesses and ingenu- I
BUSINESS OF these easy spenders.' count |!
upon 'rOping in a husband when they /
are good and ready"
After They ,.ct Vote. |
Again, hear Miss Atherton: These .
girls. unknown a quarter of century .
ago Cwhen girls in new communities were .
either angels or uutcastsI. are but symp-
OF the spirit that IL growing .
among their Sex. II Is the same spirit |
hat fosters plays. novels musical come
dies, and newspapers that would have
been taboo fifteen years ago" This Is
suggested AS an explanation Of why Rev.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. President Of the
National Woman Suffrage Association. and
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait, Mrs Harriet u
BIatch. and other prominent suf- .'
fragists allow their names to be used as
Of moving pictures and
plays that the police and experienced
like William Pinkerton
have recently declared to be criminally
suggestive il
But this is by no means all. Miss
Atherton is logical, as are all but the
amateur feminists. Already" she says,
the growing indifference OF American
girls of the middle class and the new
-ich women Of young communities TO the
I'D, rigid code Of American morals may
preSage revolution. This is due pri-
nAEily to two causes-ths foreign Influx l
Ind the Widespread. almost sudden seo-