Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-19
MANY HEAR
PROMINENT
SUFFRAC|ST
LARGE AUDIENCE ATTENDS
LECTURE BY DIR. ANNA
SHAW
IS REMARKABLE SPEAKER
Took up Various Phases of Suf-
frage Question, Mixing Wit
and Humor with Keen
Analysis.

A large and very enthusiastic audi.
ence greeted DR.. Anna Howard Shaw
last night, when she spoke at the
Armory. DR.. Shaw spoke at consid-
cradle length, but it is a tribute to
her ability as a speaker that her audi
enc showed no disposition to be-
come impatient at any time during
her address. The speaker was intro
duced by Governor Hanna.
The speaker took up every concei"-
able phase of the suffrage question
which it was possible to cover in a
limited time. The ease of her adj
dress was a noticeable feature, and
her are wit contributed much to the
effectiveness of the speech.
DR.. Shaw discussed the suffrage
movement from it's early inception,
and outlined its growth in the Unit
ed States, and in other countries.
With some sarcasm she denied that
the United States Is a republic, when
one-half the population is not repre-
scented in the voting element.
She dealt with some of the argu-
ments which are raised in opposition
to suffrage, one of them being that
the women would not 49, the vote if
they had it, as is evidenced by the
small percentage of women in North
Dakota who vote at school elections.
The speaker said it is not surprising
that few women vote in the school
elections, as in most cases there is
no real contest involved, and the wO-
men feel that they are being put or
with a small fraction of what is their
right in the matter of voting. She IL
Illustrated by inquiring how many men
would vote if they were given a small
ballot with a few names upon 1t, on
which they were allowed to vote, while
they saw the women voting on a bal
lot several feet long. She stated,
also, that no effort was ma lie to inter
est the women, and to induce them to-
vote, and amusingly %recounted the
measures which are resorted to, to Sc
cure audiences and attention for men
candidates for the higher offices.
DR.. Shaw met the accusation which
has been thrown at her by the anti
suffragists, that she had expressed
herself in favor of eliminating the
marriage ceremony. She said that
she had never made any such state
ment. On the contrary, in discuss
ing the question Of the marriage cere-
mony she had once said that she ia
vored the elimination of some of the
meaningless features which tradition
and custom have entrenched therein,
one of these being the word, "obey."
Another thing to which she objected
was the ceremony of "giving the
bride away" DR.. Shaw said that, far
from wishing to see the marriage
ceremony eliminated, she wished to
see it made a ceremony fraught with
the deepest meaning, but simple and
dignifed, as is befitting the consum-
NATION of SO serious an obligation.
In discussing the organized oppo-
sition to the suffrage movement, DR..
Shaw said that, while she did not be-
lieve that all anti-suffragists were al
lied with the forces vice, all n
forces of vice are on the side OF anti
suffrage. She said she felt sure some
of the women who are conscientious
" opposing suffrage would blush with
shame if they realized the cohorts OF
vice which are assisting them in
their fight. She called attention to
several specific instances tending to
show that the saloon interests are
unoualifedly opposed to suffrage, n
are fighting 1t tooth and nail, and she
held that fact to be very significant
of the good which suffrage a accom-
plish when gained.
In discussing the charge which mas
been made against her that h had
blacklisted a number of prominent
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