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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-17
Interviewed by Italian War Correspond
ent, Mrs. Harper Explains the Scope
Of Work Undertaken by the Interna-
tional Council Of Women.
By IDA Hustled HARPER.
Hotel Quirinale, Rome.

When our ship cast anchor in the beautiful
Bay of Naples we stepped into midsummer and
were glad to journey at once to Rome even
though only five hours to the north. AT this
season it reminds one of California, for while
the rays of the sun send one to the shady side
OF the street, the moment it drops below the
, horizon wrap and even furs are welcome. All
time the ears of the visitor to Rome have been
assailed by the bray of the donkey, louder, long
er, more frequent here than anywhere else it
seems, as the little beast of heavy burdens pro-
tests against his hard fate; and now with this
is blended, in dreadful discord, the hoarse honk
of the ever-present automobile as it aggressive
ly dehes the historic quiet of the Eternal City.
But these sounds the clatter of horses hoofs on
the stony pavement and the homogeneous clang
OF the street car gong are nuf1ed as We enter
the handsome, spacious Hotel Quirinale, on the
. Via Nazionale, which is to be the headquarters
of the International Council of Women for the
next three weeks. 1t is built Italian fashion
around lovely garden, with palms 100 years
old, and masses of vines, shrubs and graceful
trees where the birds sing undisturbed all day
and give concert at the first peep of dawn
Interview by war Correspondents"
1t is too early yet for more than perspective
of what promises to be an eventful occasion,
toward which the newspapers are looking with
lively anticipation, and pens are in readiness to
deal with it in rdicule criticism approval &C
cording to, its developments. On the day after
my arrival one of the leading newspapers asked
permission to send its war correspondent to
interview me and | answered that it would be
very appropriate. He was alert, polite young
fellow in his early thirties, who smoked cigaret-
ties through the interview without any intention
of disreSpect. AT its close he much disap-
pointed that | had no photograph and asked if
he might bring one of the most noted car
toonists here, to make caricature. said YES"
as that was what the photograph would have
been. 1t exceeded my worst expectations. The
artist presented me with the signed original and
should | ever have any grandchildren and should
they prove to be incorrigible it can be used to
brighten them into good behavior. 1t is mark
of distinction. they say, to be caricatured by
this artist, but have "queered' the other Amer
lean delegates in advance and will the Italian
public be prepared to see all of them look like
thisa By the way, the first edition of the morn
ing papers in Rome come out at noon, the second
at 4 D. m. and the last at 6. But is that any
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cradle of California by Socialism. and
now in its purest and most childish inno-
cence Is being led into Philadelphia Chris
tan homes by a prince OF feminists,
Behind the skirts of suffragism, Nor
monism goes to the polls, Socialism
marches red and rampant on the streets,
and feminism stalks and swaggers into
our homes.
And thus We are told, shall Christian
women be .'emancipated' and advanced
by the aid of those who would lead
and applaud this progress all the way
back TO the Hottentots!
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women WAGING
WAR OF ROSES"
Bloodless Battles in Capital
Between Sufragists
and Ants.
HOW 1T ALL HAPPENED
Red and White Colors. Distinguishing
Factions, Recalls England's
Famous Civil War.
BY EARLE r. DORSEY.

One of the facts that failed to creep
into the press reports of the recent suf-
frage demonstration in Washington was
that anti-suffragists. working under the
direction 1of the District Association OPP
posed to Woman Suffrage. sold $40
worth Of red roses, the official emblem
of the anti" element. demanding the
vote from Congress.
Second "war of the Roses
In other words. II was one OF the
bioodless engagements of the second
war OF the roses'' which is being waged
in the Capital at this time. The SUI
fragists have been forced to adopt a
white rose as the distinguishing mark
OF their political faith. while thousands
of red roses have been circulated through
Washington to be worn by those who
are old-fashioned enough to uphold the
supremacy Of the mere man..
OF course. it's all a matter Of his
tory that the houses of York and Lam
caster plunged England into a bloody
and poetic-sounding civil war that last
ed for years, wherein the House of York
imposed upon its followers the duty Of
wearing the white rose Of York to dis
tinguish them from the, wearers of the
red rose of Lancaster. In the good old
days, a knight of the white rose would
meet a knight Of the red rose and
straightway there would be a tilt that
unusually eventuated in the sudden
demise of one knight and often the de-
mise Of both. e..
Washington, however, while all excit-
ed over the .twentieth-century war Of
the roses that now Is being waged In
ttr I.& a.
tics SO thoroughly elemental and so
thoroughly lacking In the finer ethics Of
combat.
TIE war Of the roses"-or at least it's
latter-day ?aralled-began in Washington
several weeks ago The District As
ISOLATION Opposed to Woman's Suffrage
was the agresscr In the mater and de-
clared war or Its F street nelghbor, the
Congressional Union. where Miss Lucy
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PEACE At Mines
DUE TO women
Clara Bewick Colby Says
They Forced Ammons
to Act.
REFUSE TO TAKE DEFEAT
Have Sent Committee to Strike Re-
gions and Promise to Bring
Further Reforms.
REFUSE TO TAKE DEFEAT

What women. who have been invest
ed with the sovereign power of the bal
lot. can 90 for their State in time of
need has just been magnificently dem
onstrated in Colorado. The Woman's
Journal OF May tells the dramatic
story, as il has been cleaned from the
Denver dailies and special correspond
ence from Senator Helen Ring Robin
son. The main points in the story
are:
Women got tired of nothing being
done by the State authorities to stop
the atrocities that were being COM
mitted in the strike region. and de-
terminei to put a stop to them. They
realized that in the existing bitterness
of feeling the only power that could
meet the situation was the Federal
government. call was sent out in
the name of the Women's Peace As
ISOLATION. 1t read:
Women of Colorado: For the sake
OF your slain sisters and their wounded
children. for the sake of your sisters.
whose humble homes have been ruth
lessly destroyed. for the sake Of the
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velop character and altruism never pos
sible in free love- union where either
party may run of with another partner
for a petty reason. Also, as a matter
of comparative statistics, immortality
among the unmarried Is less common
| where there Is no divorce and where
Christian ideals are strongest.
What then shall We think OF this other
aspect of socialism and feminism, which
! tells in effect that We must abolish pri-
vate property and Christian marriage.
give up our homes and families, and
| live like savages-because II would be
cheaper for the new state to herd
civilized beings together like dumb cat
tie than to let them retain the very In
stincts and moral ideals that raised them
from barbarism?
Communistic colonies have always fall
ed. and some of the most famous living
socialists are most famous through the
notoriety they gained by disregardng
their marriage vows. Yet these fanatics.
enemies of civilization, and destroyers of
the hottest ties OF humanity and true
religion are received in open arms by
prominent suffra gists.
Conservative suffragists began by re-
pudiating socialism and feminism. saying
It was the fringe OF lunacy which ac-
companies every new movement
Logical. clear sighted suffraglsts. as
well as anti-suffragists. saw from the
start where this movement must event
uaIly end, and recent events have given
evidence that the whole issue is now
permeated with these pernicious doc
trines Conservative suffragists are now
forced to make light of socialism, which
they cannot renounce. They say, any
how. you know, socialism is like uni
tarianisn, a sliding scale. It Is for all
tastes-from pious orthodoxy to rank
radicalisn." Even this position must now
be abandoned.
suHrasists weicome socfaifsts-
Quite recently in conservative Philadel-
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CLAIMS SUFFRAGE
MEANS SAVAGERY
Anti Leader Issues Warning
Against Overthrow Of
Civilization.
CONDEMNS NEW REFORMS
Mrs. Guilford Declares Sufragists
CONDEMNS NEW REFORMS
Mrs. Guilford Declares Sufragists
Are Cooperating with Socialism
and Feminist Movement
BY MRS. SIMEON H. GUILFORD,

BY nHS. SIM ON h. Gt ILFOHD,
Member Executive Board Pennsylvania Association
opposed to Woman Suffrage.
II is often asked by the more con-
sentative and less experienced suf-
fragists, why so many writer's who op-
pose votes for women" persist in link
ing the whole movement with socialism
and feminism, despite the fact that per
Sc. the question of woman suffrage has
nothing 10 do. seemingly. with either OF
these aCitations.
Likewise, persons who listen for the
first time to the hsckneyed statements
Of some parlor socialist that the only evil
in the world is the Oppression of labor
by capital accept the theory of a
remedy through the cooperative COM
monwealth," without realizing that, be
meath the pleasing exterior of brother
hood" and equality for all men, social
ism hides a menace to our entire civilI-
cation.
II the woman suffrage issue meant no
more than dropping slip of paper into
a ballot box" as Miss Jane Adams de-
fined it; socialism no more than the
brotherhood OF man. is useful co-opera-
tor: feminism no more than the educa-
tional, physical and moral advancement
of woman: who could be found any
where to oppose these movements?
Means Return to sava9ery.
But the fact is that all these propa-
ganda are not only linked together. as
has been repeatedly proved and con-
fessed by the acknowledged leaders Of all
three factions: but each OF these So
called reforms in addition to these
apparently harmless or beneficial changes
in political, economic, or social life; ad-
vocates, breaches or involves the COM
plete overthrow Of our present civil;za-
ton, and our deliberate return to saw
agery.
To see that this is SO, one needs but
examine the attitude Of various social
lists and femInists on the single issue
of homogeneous marriage.
Many scientists have thought that
originally. both promiscuity and COM
munism were practiced by every nation
and tribe Of the human race. Meier
man, Lubbock, Morgan and Giraud-Teu-
don treated this theory las demon
strated truth" tSee History of Human
Marriage, p. 5l)
Without regard to the truth of this
view, 1t is known that polygamy existed
among many ancient peoples, notably the
Britons, primitive Arabs, aborigines of
America, Hottentots, and the Inhabitants
of the Canary Islands, India, Ceylon,
sMalabar. and New Zealand. Some writer's
e. g., McLerman Studies in Ancient His
tory, p. I'D have asserted that the Levi
rate. the custom of the ancient Jews and
other races, Of compelling the brother Of
a deceased husband to marry his widow,
was relic of original polyandry.
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earnest men who are being wounded
and killed every hour because they
tried to better their conditions of life,
we summon you TO a meeting at the
capitol at 10 o'clock Saturday morn-
ing.
Women Stand Firm.
I'm the name Of the womanhood Of
Colorado we will demand that another
hideous holocaust be prevented by tha
intervention of Federal troops: We will
demand the establishment of law, and
We will take steps to initiate the re-
peal of the infamous decision by which
Mother Jones was Imprisoned shame
lassly. Your help is needed
One thousand women responded. some
with babies in their arms. They sent
a committee to summon the governor to
meet them in the assembly chamber.
He was very busy, but they might tell
him their wishes. The reply was firm,
that they would wait his pleasure, but
he must accompany them to meet the
women. The observation-disclosures tried
TO intervene and get the women to leave
the office. They were respectful but de-
termned. How splendidly rings the de-
mand of their spokeswoman. Senator
Robinson:
Gov. Ammons. the women of Denver
summon you. The women OF Denver.
do you understand
Here spoke the power OF the ballot.
and the governor understood. and did
as the women babe him. They told
him what they wanted. and sent a COM
mittee to see that he carried out their
hchnst. Very reluctantly the governor
yielded point by point. First to tele-
graph the President tn see II Federal
aid would be sent II needed. and then
to ask that IL be sent at once. There
was the committee in his office and
the thousand women waiting. and they
never let UP on 1t until they had seem
the appeal and knew that IL was sent off.
Then they sang, women-like. Praise
God from Whom All Blessings Flow"
They Refuse Defeat.
It was a twelve-hour job before they
could go home and know that the State
would be safe.
But this was not all. The women forced
Gov. Ammons to appoint Alma Lafferty
on the peace commission. But when the
commission met Mrs. Lafferty was not
notified. So the women went again and
besieged the governor for eight hours,
until they made him see that this conn
mission recognized Mrs. Lafferty as one
of its members. Then Justice Musser
met the women. and oh. yes, he was very
glad to have Mrs. Lafferty on the CONF
mission. but il was not going to Trini.
dad. and was not going to do anything.
Checked. but not checkmated, the women
said they would send their own commit.
tee to Trinidad to investigate the condi.
tions. They chose Mrs Alma Lafferty,
Mrs. Lee Champion. and Mrs. Evaneeline
Hearty; raised the money for expenses
and made the governor give them the
necessary official authority. Now We will
netting doing. Chief Justice Mus
ser tried to discourage them, saying they
could do nothing down there.
"Oh, yes we cam replied Mrs. Raffer.
ty. but il we can't We can have another
meeting at the capitol"
CLARA BEwICK COLBY.
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Pope Puts Ban on Meeting.

The experiment of this great convocation of
women in Rome may well be watched with deep
interest. 1t is vast undertaking for the women
of any country TO prepare for and manage one
of these quinquennials, but doubly so for those
of Rome, where it is for obvious reasons an
unwelcome innovation. and where there is a
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necessary to postpone the next for year and
it took place in London in 1899, where its
delegates were received by royalty and the nobil-
ity and its two weeks of meetings marked an
epoch in the progress of women, especially in
Great Britain
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more incongruous than issuing the evening pa
pers at IL a. M, American style!
The interviewer took copious notes but moth
ing was more evident than that the entire
woman movement" was Greek to him-worse
in fat, for having reported the Balkan war he
probably knows something of Greek. | am sure
he never would have believed my statements
about the extent of the enfranchsenent of
women in the United States if had not had
suffrage map" with me. That they were elig-
ible to all Offices was really too much for him,
and when gave the number of women in law,
medicine, and then in the ministry the countess,
who was interpreting, said quickly: at would
be fatal for him to publish just now that you
have women clergy! But do try and explain
to him the difference between the council and
the congress-" she said, for the papers are hope
lessly mixed up So they are wherever these
quinquennials are held, and an explanation is
necessary for an intelligent understanding of
this series of letters.
Which She Proceeds to Explain.
The international council is the largest or
ganization of women in the world. How many
it represents cannot be definitely known, as it
has no individual members, but is made up of
national councils, one in each country, and these
are composed not of individuals but of or
CARNATIONS. Computing these in a general way
it is estimated that the international council is
representative of 100000 or 5000, 900 women.
Any kind of an association of women is eligible
to membership and there is scarcely line of
activity along which women are working that
is not represented in the national council of
some country and possibly of all countries. This
may be illustrated by the United States to whose
national council belong such varied organiza-
tons as the National Womans Relief Corps,
National Council Of Jewish Women, Universal
Peace Union, Florence Crittenton Mission, Ma
tional Woman's Relief Society (Mormon),
Ladies of the Maccabees of the World, National
Child's Welfare League, National Federation of
Colored Women, National Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION, and Worlds Purity Federation.
The international council meets once in five
years as clearing ouse where those who are
interested in these great causes may come to-
gether and relate the progress during this per-
iod exchange ideas as to methods of work and
gather inspiration for the future. As half
dozen meetings are necessarily in session at the
same time one must choose the one which seems
of most consequence to her, and the choice is
usually difficult, for this is serious and con-
scentious body of women. Invitations to hold
this quinquennial are extended by the national
council of various countries and the place is de-
cided BY the official board of seven members.
The first of these great meetings, after the or
ganiaztion in Washington, D. c., in 1888, was
held in Chicago in 1898, and was the largest and
most brilliant of all the many congresses held
during the Columbian Exposition except, pos
sibly, the Parliament of Religions. 1t became
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necessary to postpone the next for year and
it took place in London in 1892 where its
delegates were received by royalty and the nobil-
ity and its two weeks of meetings marked an
epoch in the progress of women, especially in
Great Britain.
Quinauennial in Berlin.
In 1904 came the quinquennial in Berlin, the
greatest and most significant garnering of
women that has ever taken place. The inter-
national officers and presidents of all national
councils were cordially received by the Empress,
and, while the nobility held aloof, the municipal
ity burgomester and board of magistrates, gave
magnificent official banquet and reception in
the town hall, and many splendid homes were
opened. Toronto entertained the council in 1909,
necessarily not on so grand a scale, but delight
fully, and noteworthy feature was an ex-
cursion, at the close, to the Pacific Coast, with
reduced rates and many courtesies from the
Canadian Pacific Railroad. Between the quin-
quennlalS two executive sessions are held lasting
week, and accompanied by public meetings,
social entertainments, etc. That of last year took
place at The Hague, with representative of
Queen Emma present at the opening reception.
AT the one of 1911, in Stockholm, and special
meetings on the way in Copenhagen and Chris
tiana, the council was honored with the personal
recognition of the Kings of Denmark and Swe-
den.
While the object of these council meetings
is to receive the reports of its standing commit
tees and consider various matters of business,
and only patrons, committee members and dele
gates are admitted, it always has been customary
for the national council that acts as hostess to
arrange congress to which speakers from all
over the world are invited to present papers
covering a wide range of subjects, and to this
the public is invited For while it was the
plan to have the council and congress run along
together, so that the hundreds who came SIM
ply as visitors could be entertained, but the re-
suits were disastrous. The visitors couldn't dis
tinguish between the two; the public came to
the wrong meetings and went away raging, and
representatives of the press who had been ad-
vertising the council without stint found them
selves barred from the sessions and proceeded to
ignore it. Finally the plan was adopted of hav-
ing only the council proceedings for the first
week or ten days, with several public meetings
at night, and then turning over the entire charge
to the local managers of the congress. This
will be the modus operandi in Rome, but already
the reporters are beginning to tear their hair
and say things.
Pope Puts Ban on Meeting.
The experiment of this great convocation of
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DA Hustled HARPER ON WORK OF WOMEN

powerful opposition that does not exist else
where. Thus far the press has been very skept-
ical, but respectful because of the high position
of the women who are standing as sponsors
Had it been an international suffrage meeting
it would have BEEN an impossibility and the tact
that one of the councils standing committees is
on suffrage and the rights of citizenship has
been carefully kept in the background. Never
theless, it appears that the Pope has put an
absolute ban on the meeting, although every
possible effort was made to prevent this action.
There is no keener diplomat in Europe than the
Countess of Aberdeen, president of the Inter
national Council of Women. AS her husband,
the Earl of Aberdeen, is lord lieutenant of
Ireland, their relations would naturally be very
friendly with Cardinal Logue and it is said that
strong pressure has come from Dublin to
Rome to secure the approval of this meeting
from the church. | do not vouch for this
story except that l had it from high authority:
1t will be remembered that when Cardinal
Lopue visited the United States a year or two
ago he conservatively declared himself in favor
of woman suffrage.
Leading Catholic women here tell me that
the Pope and the highest dignitaries of the
church in Rome are unaterably opposed to every
phase of what is known as the woman move
ment" Nevertheless the Italian council is al
most wholly composed of Catholic women and
they have practically the entire charge of the
arrangements for these three weeks of meetings.
They are what is known as the Royalist Catho-
lies, but the other division, the Vatican Catho-
lies, are taking no part, not even to the extent
of opening their houses for receptions to the
distinguished guests. Because of the opposition
of the Pope there will be no formal recognition
by the King and Queen, as it is generally under
stood that hope now exists of an alliance of
some kind between Vatican and throne the
only means of meeting successfully the onward
sweep of Socialism.