Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-10
By REV. CHARLES F. AKED, DID.

I Is twice as large as the thought
full vote, and it is made up part.
ly OF the honest, but UNCON-
WIN c E D, UNAMERICANIzED
IMMIGRANT and partly OF the
! blackguardly elements of the
community.
| Is there anything In Dr. Shaws
| policy which will convince and
convert these unthoughtfuI Der.
sons? A little there may be, bit
very little, and so little that on.
should be very reluctant to incur
the risks involved in the policy
for the purpose of securing that
trihing gain.
Is there anything IN DR.. Shaws
| policy which will change the con.
victions Of educated and thought
| full American citizens who have
discussed the question with
| themselves and with their friends
and have decided to vote mo-
Clearly not; the spectacular
presentation in the courts and
from the prison of the formula
Taxation without representation
| is tyranny" will not succeed
! where quiet argument has failed
The Real Difficulty.
| The immigrant Is the real diff
ffculty. Five years are not
enough. He can not become an
American in so short a time. II
he has come kfrom country
where for uncounted centuries
woman has been a beast of bur
den, where he has harnessed her
In cart, yoked her to pillow
| compelled her to bear his chill
| dren, and of his sovereign grace
permitted her to cook his meals
he can not become an American,
accepting the American view of
woman and learning the Ameri-
can attitude toward women in
five years.
The noblest of American WON
en-, women who have contributed
to the greatness of America. and
highly cultivated women, physi-
clans, lawyers, professors in the
colleges, teachers in the schools,
all the hosts Of charming, grace
fui American girls, the beauty
and the glory of our cities-all
these must stand before the new
citizen" begging for the vote!
Meanwhile, other such pros
pective citizens are being poured
upon our shores, a million a year.
or thereabouts; and they, too.
have to be Americanized and
convinced!
An Endless Task.
1t is an endless and a heart
breaking task. But it has to be
done. 1t Is being done. The good
work goes on. Suffrage Is com
Ing. 1t is coming for every State
In the Union. Men who are no
longer young may live to see it,
And it will be a CHASTITY disap-
pointment, hideous wrong, if a
mistaken policy, inaugurated By
so wise and brave a leader as DR.,
Shaw. should make the work still
more difficult and put back the
day OF final victory.
| For tho
suggested does not lie in this par
ticular act. There is no great
harm done if DR.. Shaw and few
more refuse to fill in the SEIZED
ule and go to Jail. If it were to
stop there 1t would be a nine
days wonderland that is all. In
the nature of the case, the re
sistance to law will go from one
thing to another, from the small
err to the greater, from bad to
worse
They Are Human.
Militancy in England began
with nothing but the interruption
OF a speaker at a public meeting
with the question What about
votes for women" 1t has al
ready reached the stage Of in
cendiarism. dynamite outrage, al
tempted murder Blood has been
shed; lives have been lost; there
have been martyrs to the cause.
And worse is yet to come No
body foresaw 1T; nobody dreamed
of 1t; nobody would have be
lieved it was remotely within the
bounds OF possibility for quiet
gentle, abiding English WON
| en-.
But there it IT, And however
sound and sane the leaders OF the
suffrage cause in America NAV
be, they are human. They are
just as human as their sisters IN
England. The floodgates once
thrown open, no mortal can ten
what the streams of lawlessne~
may destroy. And suffragists III
this country will do well 10 re
fuse to join in a policy. no mater
how innocent looking the begin
ming Of it, which. before 1t y
many years old. NAV be seize
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