The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-26
women should
BRINGUP voters
Need Not Cast Ballot Them
selves, Says Mrs. Angus
tus P. Gardner.
CARE OF HOME IS URGED
Mrs. Dodge Announces Anti-Sufrage
Associations Will Be Formed in
Many Southern States.

I'm Union There Is Strength" said Mrs
Augustus +. Gardner, president of the
District Association Opposed TO Woman
Suffrage yesterday, commenting on the
split which is drawing the suffrage fac
tons farther apart every day, thereby
weakening their cause.
II men today are too bad to be trusted
it must be, according to Mrs. Gardner.
because they were not brought up right.
1T Is our business as women to bring
up the voters before they vote, to teach
them honor and honesty and love OF
truth and justice. Then they can be
trusted. The family is the foundation of
the State and the family is a woman's
business, and the children OF the family
should be her first care. The suffragists
smile at this sort of argument. but
challenge them to prove that We arc
wrong in this. our contention"
should Keep Home Clean.
1T is woman's business to give chill
dren good sound bodies. Women do not
need to vote for pure, wholesome food;
rs per cent of all food contamination
takes place in the home. 1t Is also a
woman's business to keep her own
home clean and to see that the board
of health looks after her unclean
This doesn't need a vote
The suffragists. however, claim 1t does.
It is woman's business to give children
good minds and I am quite certain II
doesn't need a vote to do so.''
Claiming that women would not vote
even IL they had the right to do so, Mrs.
Gardner said that I'm thirty-six States
women already have a vote on school
questions and only per cent use it.
Men, have recognized that women can
help in school matters and they ought
to do so.
Mrs. Arthur NJ. Dodge president OF the
National Association Opposed to Woman
Suffrage, who, with Miss Minnie Bron-
son, a prominent anti-suffrage field work.
er, spent last week in South Carolina,
passed through Washington yesterday en-
route from Charleston to New York and
gave out the following statement:
"In response to an invitation from
S. c.. the National Associa-
ton Opposed to Woman Suffrage has be-
gun a campaign in South Carolina that
will be carried into every State of the
South. Prior to the present week vir-
Einia was the only Southern State repre-
sented in our association. but other
States in the South will be added rapidly
10 our list. Committees now are being
formed in Texas, Alabama. Georgia and
Kentucky. The work We have begun in
South Carolina will extend throughout
The South.
although II is a recognized fact that
Southern women are overwhelmingly op-
posed to the equal franchise, the suf-
fragists are carrying on an active cam
paign in a section of the country that
has shown less sympathy for their cause
than any other group of States In the
East. Middle West. or West. In view
,f the suffrage activity, which is mislead-
ng to people who are not familiar with
he actual conditions, the National AS
Welcome the organization of anti-suffrage
associations throughout the South. They
will give a medium Of expression for the
genuine sentiment Of community that
mas not been affected in the least by the
work Of the suffragists."