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

| 10 '"iee dS large as the thought
ful vote, and 1t is made up part.
ly of the honest, but UNCON-
| WIN CED, UNAMERICANIzED
| IMMIGRANT and partly of the
blackguardly elements of tina
community.
Is there anything in DR.. shav,x
policy which will convince and
convert these unthoughtful per-
sons? A little there may be. bpt
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
trif1ing gain.
Is there anything in DR.. shaw's
policy which will change the con-
vfctions Of educated and thought.
full American citizens who havs
discussed the question with
themselves and with their friends
and have decided to vote mo-"
| \Clearly not; the Spectacular
PoSoHtdtioH III the courts ana
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
ficulty. Five years are not
! enough. He can not become an
American in so short a time. II
he has come from a country
where for uncounted centuries a
woman has been a beast Of bur-
den, where he has harnessed her
In a cart yoked her to a plow,
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 wom-
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
ful American girls, the beauty
and the glory of our cities-all
| thoco Cd,
citizen begging for the vote!
Meanwhile, other such pros
pective citizens are being poured
upon our shores, a million year,
or Whereabouts; and they, too,
have to be America nized 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 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 the danger of the course
suggested does not lie In this par
ticular act. There is no great
harm done IL DR.. Shaw and a few
more refuse to fill in the sched-
ule and go to jail. If 1t were to
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
er to the greater. from bad to
| worse
They Are Human.
Miltancy in England began
with nothing but the interruption
of speaker at a public meeting
with the question. What about
votes for women" II has al
ready reached the stage Of In
| cendiarism, dynamite outrage. at
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 It; nobody dreamed
of It; nobody would have be
| lieved 1t was remotely within the
bounds of possibility for quiet
gentle, law-abiding English won1-
en-.
But there II IT, And however
sound and sane the leaders OF the
suffrage cause in America may
be, they are human. They are
Just as human as their sisters IN
England The floodgates once
thrown open, no mortal can u"
what the streams of lawlessnes'
may destroy. And suffragists IN
this country will do well to re-
fuse to join in a policy, no mater
how innocent looking the begin
ming of it, which, before II :
many years old. NAV be sel2eu
upon by wild, ungovernable anu