Omaha daily bee., 1914-06-21
Father Williams Lays Down Propo.
sitiohs at Anti-suffrage Meet.
WOULD LET MILITANTS sTARvE
suffragist Organizer from Kansas
Tries QuestionInR Father Will
Iiams and IL Given Prompt
Replies in Return.


snti-suffrage women at their meeting,
Friday afternoon in the City National
Eank building.
From public platform in New York
City, a suffragst recently advocated a
single standard of morality, not however
TO further the purity OF both sexes, but
TO permit an opportunity for license on
the part of the woman. Women are like
priests. When a priest falls. he falls
lower than layman. and when a woman
falls, she falls lower than a man-nevcr
to recover. You couldn't recover n
woman OF the streets no matter had hard
you tried and II you couldn't do II by
personal contact, the ballot can't do IT,
Women like Mrs. o. II. p Belmont are
sheer hypocrites. They are ready to do
anything under heaven to gain their
ends, and l do. believe they are capable
of dickering with Satan TO obtain what
they wish. The suffrage revolution in
England has even taken the form Of a
revolt against the church.
Women are not naturally better than
men. Men have made you of a higher
standard by sheltering and restraining
you all your lives.
sorrow for Suffrage Course.
II would give my head my heart, my
ands, and / would say both my feet
for the cause of suffrage today, II L
thought 1t would uplift womanhood, but
II she is to enter the corrupt mire Of
politics, she cannot help but be defiled
and 1 say. God help politics and women
If she is going TO do that. No woman
was ever elevated by the ballot. II takes
a higher law than that to do it. Neither
cid the ballot ever elevate a man, but
the labor unions, they have accomplished
something. They have elevated the
laboring men.
Salvation lies. not in the ballot. but in
Christian motherhood. One mother who
has trained her sons and daughters
properly has done more good than a
million women's votes, for women suf-
frage is revolution and closely allied with
the red flag of anarchy,
Shall l then stay home and rear
children and wash dishes and cook?' she
asks. Yes, for that is the life that counts.
To be content to be the soul Of the world
while we men are the body And let me
assure you that even without the ballot,
there is no law for your protection that
the legislature at Lincoln won't pass for
you, provided it is fair and reasonable"
CrIticises the Antis, Too,
But 1t WASH L only the suffragists with
v hom the reverend gentleman was
"reeved," for he continued only this time.
he addressed his philippe against the
fashionable members of the local anti
suffrage society, who are for the most
part included in omaha's 400"
"You anti-suffrage women must not
forget either that you are not doing your
duty when you spend your afternoons at
bridge whist and permit your children to
come home from school to a deserted
home. 1 don't say this because oppose
bridge whist, for 1 play it myself but
the fact remains that children are neg
lected for this fashionable pastime.
Neither are you doing your duty as
Christian women. II you patronize stores
that do not pay their employees living
wage. or when you buy anything that is
made In the sweat shop Your bargain
is gotten at the expense Of the en-
ploye."
CatechiHed by q Suff.
Mrs NJ. B. Munson OF Pittsburg, Kan,
who has been working locally as sut-
frage organizer. was present and when
Father Williams had finished she asked
him who it was that had advocated a
single standard OF morality that should
permit a license on the part Of women,
as he had stated.
II can't remember" he replied. but
the name was given me by Miss Minnie
bronson, national anti-suffrage secretary,
when she was here"
do you believe that Or. Anna Howard
Shaw, Julia Ward Howe, Jane Adams
ard other famous suffragists are in ac-
Ccrd with that program?" she continued.
"Assuredly not but why do they :ot
repudiate these statements and ostra-
ciZe the women, who make them from
their ranks2" he cross questioned. "At
and rate. do you women in suffrage
states always vote as a body?"
"On moral issues. always, was the re-
ply.
The anti-suffrage society had as its
guest, a member of the executive COM
mittee of the Massachusetts, anti-suf-
fragists. Mrs. Lyman, who is a sister Of
Mrs. n. p. Dodge
Il am a college graduate and stil cn
anti-suffragist which refutes the state
ment that no woman with trained mind
could oppose suffrage" she said.
German women Antia.
MIS. lntOuOIG was NihphdNlS III
her denuncation of the suffragists and
equally emphatic in her praise OF the
antis as good mothers and wives
II could make an automobile trip 10
Chicago with my family, II / chose" "
she said, "but my husband is unable 10
go and l decided to stay home and take
care of him"
Mrs ]. f. C. Ruhmor told OF having
secured 800 signers to indorse the anti
suffrage movement, in one day. Almost
all the German women are anu-suffra-
g,sts," she asserted.
Miss Janet Monroe Wallace OF the
Omaha High school faculty spoke on the
domestic service problem. She charac-
terized it as one which only women can
solve. and one IN which they had signaliy
failed. She spoke also of the failure Ct
the local branch of the Consumers league
of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae,
not because of lack OF cooperation OF
the merchants, but because Of the in
tluence of the women.
Jury Service Not ReIished.
Mrs. J. NJ. CTumpacker. representative
OF the national society in Nebraska, who
was also one of the speakers. wanted
to know how many women in the room
wanted to serve on the jury and IL
locked up in a horrid jury box for about