The Washington herald., 1914-02-24
Take. senator CIapp to Task.

To the Editor: The newspapers quots
Senator Moses E. CIapp, of Minnesota, in
| addressing a suffrage meeting at the
Cairo, Thursday night, as saying: I
saw displayed outside the anti-sufrags
headquarters the invitation for all those
| opposed TO suffrage to come in and sign.
| II the women there knew whom they
were inviting into their presence they
would not be so hospitable- They ara
inviting the liquor dealers. the sweatshop
men, the white slavers. and the corrupt
political boss"
Although threadbare. this is one OF
the Senator'S pet asseyeratiOns which al
ways rewards him with that applause
which his Bull Moose heart so ardent
ly longs for. II Is a broad statement, OF
course. and Senator Clapp never thinks
of going into details. He can't. II he
will take the trouble to stop in at head
quarters he may convince himself that
the ants have on their enrolment book
the best-known and most useful men and
women OF this city. and not one of those
whom he would like to palm OF on the
ants. This is impossible for the simple
reason that the liquor interests are in
extricably bound up with the suffragists,
as explained by me in a published state
ment. in which l give facts and figures
complied from census reports and state-
ments made by suffrage leaders acknowl-
edging cooperation with the liquor in
terests.
When read the Senator's statement I
wondered IL he ever immortalized him.
self on the statute books of his home
state or the Senate OF the United States
in offering laws eliminating the liquor
traffic, the sweatshop. the white SLAYER.
or the corrupt political boss. OF course
NOT: there are reasons. The Senator evi-
IDENTIFY forgot to tell his audience that
the suffrage States, Utah and Idaho. are
under the control of pOlygamous Nor
mons He forgot to tell his audience that
the Socialists are the most loyal allies
Of the uffragists.
The Senator should have informed hi,
audience that It was the woman's vote
that killed the children's Fairgrounds in
Los Angeles and defeated prohibition or
local option in many cities in California.
OF course, the Senator knows that Mrs.
Avery, a welI-known suffragist, in an
address said. There are just enough
anti-sufrragists to make a petticoat for
the liquor traffic." meaning naturally
that the suffrasists would supply all the
other necessary garments.
The Senator should have informed hi.
audience that Senator Works said in a
speech in Los Angeles, November 3 last.
that "Woman's suffrage in California Is
n failure. They have failed to respond
to their duties as Americans should. The
women Of California, taken in the mass.
have made a failure Of suffrage
The Senator should have told his audi
ence that the only States prohibiting
night work for women are Massachu-
setts. Nebraska and Indiana, all male
suffrage States. Yet. Colorado prohibits
neither Sunday nor night work. The re-
ports Of the National Child Labor Com
mittee show that the States which are
most progressive In enacting and enforc-
ing child labor legislation are not wom-
an suffrage States, but New York and
Massachusetts The Senator knows well
that where women vote II has had pre-
cious little. IL any. effect over public or
private employment. as wage is directly
under the control OF the laws OF demand
and supply. and he also knows. or should
know that the menace OF socialism was
one of the reasons why woman suffrage
was so overwhelmingly defeated in Ohio!
MRS. WILLIAM COGSWELL.