The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-06-25
WILL AGAIN
STORM WASHINGTON SATURDAY
PARTY LEADERS NATIONAL CAPITAL


| Washington. June 25.-Saturday,
June 81, is to be the elimination of
the great May demonstration A:
that time the large amber of petit
tons from every part Of the country
will be presented to Congress. They
will be presented by DIR. Anna How
ard Shaw. president of the National
American Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton, Miss Jane Adams, the vice
president and Mrs. Desha Breckin-
ridge, OF Kentucky. These three
women representing the great suf-
| frage organization of the country,
Twill meet Vice President Marshall in
his Office and present the petitions
| which are to be sent to the Senators
and introduced in the Senate indi-
vidually by each Senator from the
state from whence they came. In
the House the committee will pre-
sent the petitions first to Speaker
Clark and then they will be sent to
the different members for presenta-
ton to the House. These petitions
will show the extent of the demon
stration of May better than any
anything else that has occurred.
The demonstrations were held in
every state and in most of the con-
gressional ditricts. The National
Congressional committee believes
that these petitions will show Con-
gress the widespread sentiment of
woman suffrage in such a way as to
insure a vote upon the suffrage
amendment at the present session of
Congress.
Opponents of woman suffrage
resort to almost anything to make
a point against suffrage, even to the
extent of false interviews. DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw, president of the ma
tional association, has denied en-
;phatically purported interview in
which she was quoted as saying that
the marriage institution was a fail
ure. DR.. Shaw's statement is as fol-
lows
"The purported interview te1e-
graphed from Philadelphia that l
stated that the marriage ceremony
had outlived it's usefulness and
should be relegated to oblivion, Is
absolutely without foundation.
Il had no such interview with any
reporter; nor did l express my views
on marriage to any reporter since
| my return from Europe until these
barbled statements appeared in pub
! lie.
"a long time since. when the
question of leaving the word obey
out of the marriage ceremony was
under discussion, did make the
statement that there were many fea-
lures of the present church marriage
ceremony which should be obliterat-
ed and mentioned the word obey
! which considered to be essentially
Immoral, because for any adult hui
man being to pledge for series of
years in advance to obey any other
human being without knowing what
| will he demanded of her, is essen
TALLY immoral.
81 also spoke of the part in which
| the woman is given away as being
antiquated and belonging to the time
when women were not recognized
as distinct human entity, but as
belonging to the male members of
the family.
These two points in the marriage
ceremony. ? think are out of place
at the present time and so stated.
But so far from stating that a mar
riage ceremony was out of place, my
whole ideal of marriage is so high,
that l feel these changes should be
made, because 1 think the marriage
ceremony too sacred a thing to have
incorporated in it anything which
is unworthy or does not belong to
the thought of our age.
/ did state that have no set cere-
mony for all couples whom 1 marry,
because feel that marriage is an in
dividual and personal affair, and
that each marriage is a personal at
fair and that each ceremonysshould
De adapted to those who take part in
it.
I'm fact, my ideal of marriage is
so much higher than the ideal which
the critics hold, that / think it is too
sacred subject, and the relation too
sacred a relation to be entered into
lightly or without due consideration.
And for that reason, / think that
many of the marriages today are
wholly unworthy because they are
based on financial or social or some
other standards rather than on the