Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-14
"SUFFS" ADDRESS
LONG STATEMENT
TO ANTI BODY
Mrs. Lillian r. Feickert. Presi-
dent of New Jersey Body. Asks
Pertinent Questions.

The anti-suffrage organization is
requested to sit up and take notice
of the statement recently issued by
Mrs, Lillian F. Feickert. president
of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage
Association. The statement Is q re-
ply to one made by the "antis' con-
corning the suffrage cause of New
Jersey. Mrs. Feickert says in part:
I'VE deprecate the practise of Mrs.
G. D. Goodwin, Miss Mary McKenn.
Miss R. A. Lawrence and others Of
attributing all sorts of inflammatory
statements to a leading suffragist, a
prominent suffrage worker etc. at
least one name is attached to each
statement mentioned below. although
they have all been repeated many
times by many anti-suffrage speak
ers in many parts of the State
Speaking before the Legislature last
winter and also at meetings in Tren-
ton, Elizabeth. Plainfield and other
places. Mrs. o. d. Oliphant stated
that, in a list of publications issued
by the National Suffrage Association
an article entitled 'sBondwomen." by
Dora Marsden, is especially recon-
mended for reading by being given
three stars of praise. this being the
highest number of stars of praise
given to any publication. She went
on to say that ~Bondwomen" advo-
Gated economic independence for
wives and mothers, as well as for
other women, making the deduction
that suffragists favor children being
raised in Institutions, while their
mothers follow business or profess
sional careers.
Published by College League.
"As matter of fact, the list Of
publications referred 10 is not pub
lished by the National Association,
but by the College Equal Suffrage
League (Which is plainly stated on
its cover). and was compiled at the
request of the president of the league,
who is also president of Bryn Mawr
College. Mis-. Carey Thomas II is
not list of8tecommended suffrage
literature. but a photography includ-
ing all books, plays. pamphlets and
magazine articles contained in the
Congressional Library of the United
States in Washington which refer in
any way to the advancement Of
women, and contains practically ev-
erything on both sides of the woman
question. from Plato's Republic $50
B. c.. to the present day"
Mrs. Oliphant also quoted extern
sively from w. l.. George, blandly
Ignoring the fact that both he and
Miss Marsden are anti-suffragists.
They are anarchists, and are as much
opposed TO votes for men as TO votes
for women. Miss Emma Goldman is
another distinguished anti-suffragist
in the same class, and it would be
fairer to hold the anti-suffragists re-
sponsible for their utterances than It
is to connect the suffragists with
them, for all three of them have both
written and spoken against woman.
suffrage
In her report at the annual meet
ing of the Anti-S Suffrage Association
in Trenton, May II. Mrs. Lowthrop.
State chairman of literature, said as
quoted in the papers:
Now comes the demand for the
ballot, for the right to sit on the
juries, for the right to do military
duty, for the right to hasten the day
Of Socialism II they can, the right
if they see At, to overthrow the sys-
tenn of marriage and abolish the
home as it now stands, and the family
as unit in the community. That
in 1914. is the demand of growing
faction of the suffrage party. That
Is what the much-used word femin-
ism means. There is no getting
away from the fact woman suffrage
and Socialism are indissolHbly linked,
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