The Washington times., 1914-01-23
Idea That Lack Of Love Makes Sufragists Is Absurd
Capital Woman Says There Is
No Lack of Happily Mar
ried in Cause.
By EDITH LOBERT.

I'VE women prepare the child for the
| state; why not let us help to prepare the
state for the child?'
Thus Mrs. william Kent, wife of Con.
gressman Kent of California, refutes
the charge Of DR.. Bernard Hollander
London, that the suffrage movement Is
due wholly to unrest among disappoint-
/ ed married women and discontcnted
4 sDinsters.
i Mrs. Kent. as the mother of seven
/ children and the mistress of a beaut
fully appointed home. is particularly
| well qualified to hold a brief for woman
| suffrage.
''Dr. Hollander's statement that If
I love were universal in marriage we
should hear nothing of this cry for in
dependence should not go unchallen-
ged," she declared today at her home,
1925 F street.
particularly among the Californians,
shows that quite the contrary sltua-
| ton exists.
Representative suffragists are almost
| invariably home:nake=s, and they are
sGffragists primarily because Of their
interest in the welfare Of the coming
generation.
bCltNc LHdI ldllcT
could rightly be extended to apply to
the women bachelors as DR.. Hollander
terms them.
Every woman has the mothers point
of view, regardless Of whether she has
had a child or not.
Jane Adams Shining Light.
'T need only to point to the remark
able service to the children of Chicago
which has been rendered by Jane Ad-
dams to illustrate that point. In fact,
woman suffrage is just the means which
would make possible a wider service to
humanity on the part of these women
who, for various reasons, have never
married.
As for the disappointed married
women who are suffrage advocates,
Mrs. Kent declared, the doctor has been
misinformed.
His attitude toward the whole sub
ject is the cid one of what man wishes
woman to be rather than what woman
wishes herself to be-" she continued. He
fuses to concede her the simple human
right TO live up to her own ideal, and
naturally assumes man is the superior
sex in every particular.
He has failed to grasp the newer
ideal of woman-the ideal of indepence
that she herself wants; he has also
failed to grasp the significant fact that
suffragists are the true conservationists
Oh the nome anu all us interests, "neIH-
er they lie within or without its four
walls, and in our present complex
civilization there are many problems af-
fecting each of our homes that must be
settled outside Of its immediate prov
ince.
He says that 1t is a mere delusion
to say that women's social conditions
are dependent solely upon the laws.
He thinks that they are the out
come of habits and customs of which
lauS marplV the ratification
We are hoping to change some of the
habits and customs of this country in
so far as they extend to wOman's social
conditions. and the quickest and most
effective way to do that is by law. But
woman can have no voice in making /
the law until she has the ballot
"It all resolves itself into the simple |
matter of what man wants in a wo- |
man." she said. For centuries men
have considered that patience modesty.
card nal womanly virtues. They and |
many women. too. have wholly neglect |
ed the finer attributes of independence |
CT urage and self-reliance.
And to my mind it Is the later type
of woman that the enlightened man of |
the present day really admires and |
wishes for his wife.
No Small wedIock List.
Here are a few examples OF happy |
among suffrage leaders,
whose husbands are just as enthusiast
tic in the movement as they are:
Rr. and Mrs. A. G. Scranton Taylor,
Nor folk. Conn. Mrs. Taylor county
leader of Iitchfield county. Mr.. Taylor
is secretary and leader of the Mems
League of Connecticut
MIR. and Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw,
New York city. Mrs. Laidlaw is the
chairman Manhattan borough, Woman
Outrage Party: Mr.. Laidlaw is the 1
president National Mems League.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas n. Hepburn,
Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Hepburn presi-
lent Connecticut Woman Suffrage Asso-
,Iaricn. Mr.. Hepburn is her ardent ally.
DR.. and Mrs. Donald r. Hooker, Bal
imore. Md. Mrs. Hooker, president I
lust Government League of Maryland.
ard chairman of finance for the Con- !
;ressIonal Union for Woman Suffrage. [
Prof. and Mrs. Charles Beard, New ]
York city. Mrs. Beard on the eNecu-
i've committee, Congressional Union; (
'rof. Beard, professor Of politics Uni {