Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-04
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she could have five minutes. After
she had read a paper for ten min
utes, first explaining that she did not
belong to either side, but held that
women were already entitled to vote
At the end of ten minutes Chairman
CLAYTON in his slow, deliberate man
ner said: Doctor, you have already
spoken at length and DR.. Mary
Interrupted to say, II hope | will be
allowed to go on. l do not want TO
stop"
doctor" said the chairman, I'VE
can't stop you. Go on" And on she
went to the bitter end.
Mr. Matthews said in part as fol-
lows
But you may say to me, what or
the political expediency of the ques-
ton? Granted that all you say Is
true, the active propaganda of which
you have spoken may menace our
political lives and allow others elect
ed by such subterfuge to supplant
us. The movement seems to be COM
ing. why sacrifice ourselves to a hope
less opposition? Fear not, gentle
men Forewarned is forearmed. The
million Socialists who vote for suit
frage in the United States, and whose
every vote the National Suffrage AS
sociation's president says she well
comes will never in whole or in
unit part be cast for or against any
one of you. The constitution of the
Socialist party demands that they
vote for Socialists only and alone. AS
to the blank cartridge opposition OF
masculine women and feminine men,
be equally fearless. When your
brothers of the Congress from suf-
frage States regale you with this
bugaboo of political expediency, they
are but paying the penalty of mex
pediency. If the title to continued po-
litical existence in suffrage States is
the preachment OF woman suffrage
to the disregard of all else, if the
sanction of women's votes and mems
votes in woman suffrage States is
political expediency then, gentlemen,
it Is time that manly moral courage
assert itself, and, gentlemen, remem-
Der further that this semi militancy
of the suffrage movement must needs
run foul of the law of self defense,
and upon your return to your respec-
tive constituencies you will find that
for every blank cartridge fired against
you there will be ballot cast for
you. In other words we will defend
you when you are attacked.
VIII MOI 1One.
mo, gentlemen, ours is not a hope
less opposition. Suffrage will not
come. The tide is turning. We of the
East who preached the evils of the
movement, we who saw in it the dis
guise of the discredited European
philosophy of individualism and it's
litter of revolutionary theories, we
have torn the yellow Votes for
Women" covering from the agita-
tors and revealed the feministic So
cialistic person beneath. What has
been the result? Today the suffrage
movement is divided into two camps.
the intellectually honest who say that
enforced economic independence and
sexual independence is the goal of the
suffrage movement, and the faddst
surface Swimming class, of whom we
must truly say. there are none 50
blind as those who will not see" or
course when you quote the suffrage
views of the intellectually honest you
are met with the argument that this
is but the fringe of 1unacy'' that is
part of every movement. but let mo
assure you, gentlemen, that that
fringe has started to ravel. and ere
long the entire fabric will be but that
lunatic fringe. or
And it is precisely these consider
ations which make the problem of
woman suffrage peculiarly State
problems. especially at the doors of
our ports of entry. You are wrest-
ling in Washington today with the
Burnett immigration bill. Your
House, ! believe, has passed the bill,
and though personally l may differ
from you on 1t, imagine the chaos a.
multiplied foreign electorate would
create. The unrest of Europe tastes
American liberty and the privilege OF
the ballot expresses itself in individ-
ualist doctrines ere American institu-
tions or government is known or
taught to the new-made electors. l
hold no brief for the literacy test.
My Americanism is native born.
though of Anglo-Irish parentage. But
I do maintain that the Federal con-
gress should not by the adoption OF
the resolution of amendment before
1t take from the States in general and
particularly the States at the ports or
entry the right of local self-govern
ment, and thereby multiply for them
the already colossal problem of the
ignorant and foreign vote"