The Washington herald., 1914-05-03
FEDERATION IS
WOMAN'S POWER"
Anti-sufragist Pleads for
Unity in Organization Of
Feminine Clubs.
SHE SEES DANGER SIGNS
Injection of Suffrage Question Into
Discussion Means Disruption of
Influence for Good.
BY MRs. HORACE BROCK,

P--siden, Pennsyl-auia Association op7ossd 10
w1nar SI1Fsge
Almost as fashionable as the suffragist
movement itself in some quarters has
grown the disposition OF its exponents.
speakers. and writers TO belittle and
ridicule the work of leaders in the world
Of thought who blaze the trails OF real
progress without the help or applause
Of the suffragist-socialist-fem agfta-
ten This ridicule, though by no means
absent from their conduct at home-as
witnessed by suffragists kissing a Presi-
Dent Of the United States who addressed
them as their guest-and the riba!d JeSts,
frenzied accusations. and vindictive
threats with which they have greeted a
succeeding Presidents manliness, lends
itself best to denunciations at long range
that are not so easily countered, ana are
therefore safer.
The suffragists themselves. or at Last
the better element, became ashamed Of
kissing President Taft and il is but fair
to suppose that public opinion will shortly
compel them to stop questioning Presi-
dent Wilson manhood and courage. Not
so the unfortunate foreigner who excites
their ire.
Attacks on KipIirE.
Some time ago it was the fashion for
the new woman, no matter what her
education. the drag the name Of Rudyard
Hipling in the mire on account OF his
having published. in and with the CO.
operation of the most influential women's
paper in the United States. a poem study
of sex distinction that did not fit the
feminist dogma of male and female
parallelism.
More recently it has become a habit
with raving pen-pushers throughout the
land who never governed so much as a
household or a hamlet, to tell US how
simple minded" and medieval were
the notions on the question of suffrage
of that mastery woman who sat at the
helm of the British empire for s!xty-
three years and mothered or grandnDth-
cred half the rulers Of Europe.
How then. can Mrs. Humphry Ward
expect to establish her parliamentary
council of nonpartisans to take up a
definite work of needed reform without
having unmasked the whole battery ef
feminist vituperation? This mere novel
ist," who does not want to vote, is re-
garded by the suffragists as blind to her
grand opportunities"-to pillage and burn
and incite disorder to "emancipate" her
sex-and advertise herself.
An EngIishman's Plan.
On the contrary, she is calmly organic
ing what she calls "an advisory commit
tee, composed of members of Parliament
and social workers, with ten women to
represent as far as possible in equal pro-
portions. both political parties, and both
sides of the suffrage question, with the
sole aim and object of considering and
pressing forward needed legislation on
behalf of women and children"
That is just like a real woman-quietly
and orderly trying to help solve govern
ment and economic problems with the
same grace and dignity with which she
manages her home. Suffragettes will
contend that her plan is horribly an
Gent and that the only possible way
in which she can now benefit humanity
is by going out and knocking down a
policeman, burning a railway bridge, or
throwing a bomb at the premier.
Our yellow journals, which issue au-
thoritative edicts to their hypnotized
readers on everything from the compo-
sition of their souls to the number Of
their children, have proclaimed that the
grandest and bravest thing a woman
can do in England is to hurl her body
under the racing hoofs of the Kings
thoroughbreds- Why. then. waste time.
suffragists will ask, organizing councils
with the sole aim and object of getting
needed legislation on behalf of women