Omaha daily bee., 1914-06-19
He Shows Audience "the Other
Side" of Voting Problem as it
Will Affect Them.
TAKES MOST DEFINITE STAND
Women Will Be Disillusionized
When Get to the Polls.
ADDRESS VIEWED WITH ALARM
workers Try to Pass Resolution 60
Determine PoIiticI Beliefs of
Future Speakers to OrEui-
Etfon

Like a thunderbolt out Of clear sky
came the realization 20 members Of the
Equal Franchise society Thursday after
noon, that they had invited dire amt"
20 address them! A fashionable assem-
blage Of women attended the suffrage
meeting at the home of Mrs. John A.
McShane, ostensibly for the purpose Of
listening TO a talk by Ed p. Smith, on
she Interstate Commerce Commission, %
and to this they listened for few min
utes.
The first faint rumblings OF the com
ing storm were scented when Mr. smith
said. Il suppose universal suffrage is
coming, just old age is coming, nut
I don't anticipate either with any degree
of pleasure. l don't believe that The
millennium will arrive with the granting
Of universal suffrage, neither do | be-
heve that we will all go to the bow
vows IL II is granted. l predict that
when suffrage is granted. you women
will be greatly disillusonized and will
not keep up your interest enough to
vote, any more than the men do"
The storm assumed alarming proper
| tlons, when the dauntless speaker ex-
claimed II predict that the very cleo
tions which you ought to attend will ne
sadly neglected, unless nature il altered
very greatly in the interim until the vote
is granted you. The presidential cleo
tions is the least important to Omaha, yet
more votes are cast at that time than
In any other election. The school cleo
finn iu nf he
how many OF you, l ask, have gone 10
the polls in the last five years? Raise
your hands,
The Speakers Challenge.
A half dozen hands were timidly
raised out Of an audience of over thirty.
You must have a number Of cripples
here, Mrs McShane," said the speaker.
scornfully. as he turned to the hostess.
Would you have me put out of my
mind the memory OF my mother who
found enough TO occupy her within the
sacred precincts of the home and replace
/ II with a picture OF q woman scanning
the morning newspaper to see who was
elected to office? The mother who
guards the health and morals Of her
daughter does more to wipe out white
slavery than one in every public ros-
trum in the country and the mother who
meets her son at the door with a kiss on
his return home from an evening out,
does more to advocate temperance than
| all the laws placed on the statutes The
memory of this kind OF mother will sus-
stain the coming generation much more
( than the memory of mother who car
ried banner in certain vigorous cam
paign."
! The drop OF a pin would have reverbe-
rated like the charge of a cannon, such
was the stiffness in the room.
! Puts Question SqureIy.
| And II you go to the polls and stand
in line with AAtonio Scarpelh and woris
Warshawsky in front OF you and Mary
Mcclure and Christina schnitzel behind
you, OF what avail will that be? II is
the promotion of tho good of the race
that is the living question of the day not
so much the election OF a certain candi-
date to office. II you can do both, then
wish you Godspeed."
I II guess ] have said a number OF
things that you won't endorse. but II
you are going to enter politics you will
have 10 hear both Sides" was his part
ing shot.
But he was not allowed to escape IL
this fashion. Like the patter of rain h,
was deluged with questions and exclama
ltions. And the moisture was there. too
around the ees of Mrs. T. NJ. Orr anC
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