The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-10
ANTS make BIG
GAINS in EAST
Writer Asserts State Bodies
Are Growing at Rate Of
1000 a Month.
SUFFRAGE IS ARRAIGNED
Votes" Adherents Said to Be Allied
with Feminists and Socialists for Ex-
ploitation of Infamous Doctrines.

ploitation of Infamous Doctrines.
The State convention of the Pennsyl-
vania Association Opposed to Woman
Suffrage. held in Harrisburg, April 80, Is
the second demonstration by women to
the voters of Pennsylvania that the ma
jority of the women of this State, and OF
the country at large, do not want the
burden of the ballot thrust upon them
The first thing shown by the conven-
ton was the remarkable growth OF Or
eanized opposition to woman suffrage
during the last year. The entire Or
yanization had Il 900 members year
ago, while gains are now being maoe
at the rate of LOO month in many
States. and in a few, as many as ZOO
names are added each month. 1t Is
expected that the national association
will soon number 100000
In Massachusetts, Connecticut, virgin
Ia and New York. substantial gains nave
been made, not only in point OF the num-
Der of members enrolled, but In 1orrn-
ing favorable public opinion by organiza-
tion through its educational work IN
New Jersey, Ii is planned TO open sixty
new branches of that States association
in the near future. During the summer,
the association will be represented at
every county fair held throughout New
Jersey.
Anti. Hold Maryland.
In MARYLAND the opposition to woman
suffrage gained the victory in the legls-
Iature. and temporarily there is no need
NJ further organization work there Tnree
equal suffrage bills presented 10 tne
MARYLAND legislature were defeated, and
the issue is duashed for several years.
before the last election suffragists threat
ened all Democratic candidates with de-
feat at the polls because Democratic
legislature failed to pass the Suffrage
hills Two-thirds of the members elected
we're Democrats, and astute observers OF
Maryland politics assert that they won
because they were backed by pubic
opinion.
In the District of Columbia the anti
suffragists are strongly organized. but
the fact that one-third of the population
is colored and one-third employed by the
government makes further gains difncult'
The District association, by reason OF Its
favorable situation at the center OF ma
tionaI affairs is called upon by many Or
ganizations and educational institutions
throughout the country Tor Information
on the suffrage question.
In New York the active opposition OF
the feminists with all the revolving so
cialistic doctrines they preach, Is driving
many persons daily to the anti-sunrage
Headquarters to get literature that IN
diligently expresses the reasons under
living the natural feelings Of resentment
with which both men and women look
upon feminism. The alliance between
suffrage and feminism has been abund-
antly proved. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, an acknowledged leader of fem
inism. has been awarded the highest
marks of suffrage favor. the seven stars,
which they use in their official literature
to commend books and pamphlets
thought to be most representative of the
cause" Some of this feminist's most
exploited slogans are that the home is
no more. holy than the postoffice; that
when a child is well, a nurse is as good
as the mother, and when the child Is
sick, the nurse is better. Also, she
claims, the increase of divorces and del
icatessens are milestones in human
progress.
sTnfamous Doctrines."
The .'denatured domesticity" advocated
by feminists, would have US all live
in communal homes. where activities
would be pursued in common kitchens,
dining-rooms and halls, and where the
babies, if necessary, could be Kept in tire
basement. 1t is to be presumed that
communal husbands and wives would
follow as a matter of course, and even
this is tnoushI DE leHlihisIs " NC NC
sirable.
lie there any wonder why decent men
and women throughout the country are
infiamed with Indignation against po-
litical agitation that is backed by and
backing such infamous doctrines as
these? Feminism is nothing but the CO.
operative theory gone wild; an outcome
of the mental bias produced in partly
developed minds by the teachings of So
cialism-
The suffragists cannot escape respon-
sibiIity for either feminism or Socialism
so long as they are willing to carry ana
coddle these monstrous children of an
archy and envy on both shoulders.
man in Cincinnati recently pointed to
the waving Stars and Stripes and said:
well. it won't be long before we viii
pull that rag OF Rockefeller and Nor
gan down by the votes of women and
raise the red flag in its place"
If Socialists believe that the suffragists
are going to kelp them attain the CO.
operative commonwealth, their faith Is
founded on positive knowledge or else
the suffragists are dipping and fooling
them. If the latter, and some Of the
timid suffragists do claim this, they are
practicing as a means to an end du-
pIicity and political trickery that con-
clusively proves their unfitness to take
any part In a government founded on
ideals of honor and democracy.
An advertisement was shown at the
convention, showing that suffragists are
not above taking advantage CT the re-
ceding prominence of indecent literature,
to exploit a sex problem story that was
condemned by Anthony Comstock. of the
New York Society fol- the Prevention of
Vice. This book, by Mrs. Pankhurst, is
advertised by suffrage organizations, not
as instructive or elevating, hut merely
as having been suppressed by Mr.. Com
stock.
New Thorn to Suffrage.
In New York, the formation of the
wage-Earners Anti-Suffrage League of
1000 members, has become a thorn in
the suffrage side. So popular has the
opposition become with wage-earning
women, that some of the officers of the
association now have most of their time
taken up by answering calls from labor
organizations to address them on this
subject
Many of the arguments for suffrage
we're reviewed and answered by speak
srs at the convention. First, the time
honored taxation without representa-
ton, theory was examined. 1t was
pointed out that the ballot has nothing
% do with property holding; that minors
who own property are not permitted to
vote, while men who barely own their
own souls are considered efficient voters.
Furthermore, in this country, only ten
Der cent of the women hold property. Con-
rary to the general belief that all these
women are sad and lonely widows
whose property Is being unJustly taxed
% pave boulevards for the gay and idle
Itch, it appears that more than half their