Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-20

SUFFR RACE
LEAOER R
MRS. o. D. OLIPHANT, OF
NEW JERSEY, SPOKE
LAST NIGHT.
COMBA1S DR.. anna SHAW
Maintains That Feminist move
ment as Promulgated by
Suffragists is Pernic-
ious Doctrine.

Mrs. o. D. Oliphant, speaking un-
der the auspices of the National AS
sociation OPPOSED to Suffrage, ad-
dressed good audience at Patterson
hall last night. Mrs. Olphant spoke
at considerable length, and she held
her audience we'll. She is woman
of strong personality, and showed
a thorough commandFof her subject.
Mrs. Oliphant spoke at considerable
length, and, as her address follows
so closely on that OF 6Dr Anna How
ard Shaw, sheO took up good deal Of
time in meeting the arguments put
forth by the noted suffrage speaker.
No Injustice.
There is NO injustice in man-made
rule, said Mrs. Oliphant. There is
nothing which women could attain
if they had the ballot which. they do
not now enjoy. Laws for the benefit
Of w men are being placed on the
statute books faster than laws for
the benefit OF men, and they are
being placed there by the men.
The women who advocate suffrage
do not consider that the business OF
being a woman is business greater
and finer than any benefit which she
can gain through the ballot. They
fail to consider that nature has spe-
cialized the functions of men and Of
women, and that women i'm their
present sphere have as great an in
tiuence in shaping progress as they
could well have.
Feminist Movement.
The modern feminist movement is
one closely bound up with suffrage,
said the speaker. 1t is the cry Of the
suffragists, and it Is aimed at the
homes Oh the land. lS seeks the e.fo-
nOmic independence of women, and
would bring about a condition OF al
fairs where women are absolutely in
dependent of. men for financial sup
port, earning their own money in the
marts of trade, on even terms With
the men in wages and conditions OF
labor. The speaker quoted the state
ment of one NOTED suffragist, that lit
is unWholesome for any woman to be
supported by any man." She also
quoted Mrs. Charlotte Gilman as
saying that "home is check on hll-
manity.' .a
Success or Failure.
She took up at considerable length
DR.. ShaW's arguments that suffrage'
must be success or states in close
proximity to Wyoming, which was
the first to adopt it, would not have
followed suit as they did.
Mrs Oiphant maintains that this
Is no argument at all And she went
on to outline the reasons why the
vari' us suffrage states in the west
fell in with the movement. When
Wyoming gave it's women suffrage,
said the speaker, there was only one
woman to about so men, and the
men gave the women the vote
when they asked for it because they
felt that it wouldn't make any differ
ence one way or another( SO they
might as we'll have it. 1t was the pop
ulist movement which carried suffrage
into Colorado, said Mrs. Oliphant.
And the Mormons succeeded in in
PRODUCING it in Utah and Idaho. In
Washington the socialists and the
Mormons, leagued together, carried
the state for suffrage.
Mrs. Oliphant then challenged DR..
Shaw's assertion that Mrs. Oliphant
had corporation connections in New
Jersey. She stated that her husband
is a military instructor in the Bor-
dentown Military institute, and is abb
solutely independent of any corpora
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