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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
SHOULD WOMEN RESIST
THE INCOME TAX?
DR.. Shaw Advises 1t, but Many Representative Sui
fragists Who Object to Taxation Without
Representation Think Resistance Unwise

vorcc. In making a husband ana "lie
who are living together entitled to tne
exemption OF only 5000 on the aggregate
net income OF both. and giving husband
and wife who arc separated and hNlhg
permanently apart the fun minimum eA-
emption. each Of them of 5000. the gov
eminent makes IL improbable for marrleo
persons OF property 20 live together.
But supposing taxed couples are IN
worldly enough 20 be willing 10 Pd'
Uncle Sam tho rate on 5000 Tor inc
privilege Of keeping the marriage te'
Mrs. Gait isn't at all afraid that inc
wife's status will be affected by the ieudai
paragraph stating that:
The husband, as the head ana losd'
representative Of the household ana gen
eral custodian OF its income. should name
and render the return Of the aggregate
income of himself and wife, and Tor 'he
purpose Of levylng the income TAX 1t -
assumed that he can ascertain the to'd'
amount Of said income
I'm these DAYS" observed the presi-
dent of the international Suffrage AN
ance "the best head. he it the husband
or the vifc's. is the head OF the mouse
II q wife doesn't wish to reveal inc
an,oun, of her income she needn't II Is
st,n,d of the government TO suppose that
Nv. excrting Interior influence it can make
q woman tell what she doesn't want TO
tell"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
A New Type Of
Man, Says Anti

tn the Editor OF The Tribune Woman
Forum:
Permit me TO say TO Voter that VIII
ing such articles" as my letters, to when
he refers as bitter. should not be part Of
the duties of women, but that from our
point of view-if he will grant US one
they form but unit, in the work forced
upon US of opposing still further burdens
and responsibilities than those placed
upon US by God and nature.
Far be il from me TO undertake TO de-
termine the duties Of a man. but one
would like to mention which in modern
life. until later years. most men nave
fought for jealousy, viz: the protecting
of their womenkind from all thar was
coarse, rough and brutal, from contact
wherever possible even with the indus
trial world
Rut now q new type OF man-like Voter
has actually sprung into being when
shows itself willing, If not eager TO al
low mother, wife and sister TO mix In the
mire and toll of political life.
They know, as the women who are
lighting for equal suffrage cannot know
what it means, and if they will look oe-
yond the suffrage fallacy of merely
l dropping ballot in box once year.
| TO all that act should represent, If pa
triotically and conscientiously done, they
NAV realize why so large percentage OF
women are lighting against equal SUI
frage
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
WAGE FARMERS ANTl.LEAGUE.

To the EDITOR of The Tribune Woman's
Forum:
That woman possesses less mental and
physical endurance than man has never
been so clearly demonstrated as during
the last decade The moment the female
sex entered the Industries and became
mans economic competitor. it was OBJ
viousiy outclassed. The labor laws,
which are blanket laws for both sexes.
we're found inadequate TO protect the
wage-earning woman. SO that. In all sec
lions OF our country. special sex legisla-
ton has been and Is being devised.
Woman ENJOYS now every protection pos
sessed 10y man. plus countless special
laws by which he. on the contrary. Is not
protected Far from wishing to do away
with these laws and place the sexes on
an equality. the Wage Farmers Anti
Suffrage League wishes still greater pro-
lection for women in every walk OF life.
II IS obviously impossible for the sake
of the race that woman accept fair held
and no favor. II is for the purpose OF
arousing and ccalescing public opinion on
this point that the Wage Earners' Anti
Suffrage League has been organized.
Believing that public opinion is back OF
all legislation. our league has been organ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
ELSIE DE WOLFE.

IN 10 date tho only woman with an
income OF taxing size who has protested
IS Miss Elsie de Wolfe. and her reason
isn't that taxation without representation
is tyranny. bat that she considers hey
tax TOO bis and doesn't want 90 pay IL.
Mrs Carrie chapman Gait says thai
the trasicdl thing about this income TAN
business is that so small proportion oi
the people Of tho United States have la'se
enough incomes to be liable TO IT,
Think Of il o." she said "Out Of thirty
eight million of men and women there are
only half million who have incomes OF
over $500 a year.
Unlike Mrs. Harriet Johnston Wood and
other suffragis,s who ardently espouse
Dr. Shaws suggestion about opposing
taxation. Mrs Gait does not feel that
The move would do much definite Good.
Beyond its educational value she OBJ
served. 81 cannot see that it would have
much effect. unless. indeed. that re
sistance was definitely organized and
widespread
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch thinks she
hasn't time TO begin a struggle with the
tax officials.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
Mrs. MacDougall
Answered by Votel

To the Editor or The Tribune wcnaas
Forum:
Alice Foote MacDougall has set forth 4,
great length six reasons why woner
should not be allowed TO vote. Now.
she will kindly enlighten Us as TO wherein
any one Of these reasons has any bzrng
on the case We will be converted even
though We have seen women vot. ard
ought to know
!. The ballot is a poor little Thing
What reason is tHs for withholding #
from half of the people? Our ancestors
paid dearly for it.
. How many women to-day could ~,
the District Attorneys Office How
many men could? Are only those quaE.
fed to run the District Attorneys otcs
allowed to vote? What has this to %
with it?
g. THAT woman is mans equal seems
rash and ridiculous" Are you inferior 70
all men? Are not some women superioi
to some men? We will admit that womar
is not mans equal in crime. Nearly al
criminals are men, but some men ale no
equal" to other men. and yet they vote
Now. what has equality 10 DO with IN
case?
T. Women in society or business m
unable to control their emotions so
Does It require much control Of emo
tons 10 vote for honest men?
5. When driven 10 corner this
(women) will use questionable methods
The fact that nearly all criminals are mel
would seem TO indicate that men hav
used questionable methods even whel
not driven into a corner. Vet they vote
Now. what has this TO do with the case
g. 1T seems a pitiful thing TO think q
the fuss some women are making abcH
the ballot" II seems a pity they have q
even ask for IL in a government which
pretends TO derive its just powers from
the consent of (alD the governed.
New York GEORGE MARSHALL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
Stay Home Always
and Await Him

To The Editor Of The Tribune womsns
Forum.
The womanly womans highest ideal 10
TO love, become wife. housekeeper and
mother, not to one spoiled child, but |"
several children. The manly mans hign'
est ideal is similarly to love, become
husband and father and support fair
sized family.
AS it is now, there is enough 70 oe
taken into consideration when tTo per-
sons are selecting each other for ~ no
partner without the political view. snoulo
they agree when married, they VIII ci'en
differ in opinion when thrust into the ~
litical whirlpool The suffraeists are NO.
satisfied with the way the men rule; con-
sequently. it must be expected that NO
wife will vote fifty times out Of hunaf,'
against her husband. They may be Twas
for the same Office and both be beaten "
she may win. While they have nee"
fighting each other tooth and nan 'ne"
home has been ruined, their resou'S'
gone and, what is worse, their love a'-
respect for each other has vanished ,O''
Yet the man shall support his tains''
Where do the gain, justice and equSi''
come in?
should think IL would have been 10,
! more TO the advantage Of justice az
equality 10 the children. parents ana Cos.
munity il wife. mother and houseAeep''
had stayed home. -.
Ask any Of our prominent men W.
have fought their way up In pontN,
they would have considered II just 'D
their wives had fought against me-.
am sure they will say NO ~.
would not even have liked Helen 70 NO "a
fought for them. and their votes W.
count naught, as their opponents
have wives. Ask those mems wives
have reared flock OF children "a ~,
have had the time TO lead the same
as their husbands-it they thi3A =,
would have been fair II they had i"os
against their husband ard suppof's, !,
il they think il would have done "a e
husbands more good II they hAu
their home and stumped for them "A
stead OF taking care Of their home
children. and received them theH 80
bands with a kind greeting when
came home am sure they WIN
No" 10 all of these questions. 80
nothing gained in that respect o
for women but evils I'm
Jersey city. GEORGE w
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
YEARS TO ACCOMPLISH.

II took forty-hve years in New York and
ffty-1ve years in Massachusetts, 10 secure
this self-evidently just measure. In Cali
fornia. before women voted. the Legislat-
ure had defeated the equal guardianship
bill again and again. After women were
given the ballot the very next Legislature
passed Il. In Colorado. likewise, after the
granting OF equal suffrage, the very next
Legislature passed an equal guardianship
law Miss Lawrence says that in Colo
RADIO IL was not due to woman suffrage
She would find II hard to convince any
impartial Judge that equal suffrage had
nothing 10 do with tho comparative ease
and speed with which the women OBJ
tanned IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
ANTS THROW COLD WATER.

During all this time the suffragists
worked steadily 10 educate the public to
the need of juster arrangement, and
during all this time the anti-suffragists III
general threw cold water upon their ef-
forts. declaring that women had all the
rights they wanted and that the laws
were already more than just 20 women ~
In Massachusetts the AnuSuffrage As
ISOLATION circulated for six years, under
its Official imprint, a leaflet in opposition
To equal guardianship.
In 1893 the Buffalo Women's Educa-
tional and Industrial Union took the mat
ter up and secured another equal guard
ianship law II has been asserted that
they kept their attempt from the knowl-
edge OF the suffragists, but this state
ment is absurd on the face of II, for many
of the members of the union were sur
fragists and IL would have been 'mpos-
sible TO keep the matter from them even
II any one had wished TO do So Mrs.
George Howard Lewis, of Buffalo. tells
me that she and the other suffragists III
the union knew all about it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04

II doesn't appear that the Treasury
Department az Washington need worry
about that strike of the suffragisis
against paying the income tax. Numbers
or them have rallied. 10 is true 10 the
clarion call OF Dr Anna Howard shaw
who wants them 90 oppose passive re
sstancc" to this latest development OF
taxation without representation. bet even
as they protest they remark cheeriu'y
that the income tax doesn't hit them ne
cause their income isn't 5000 a year
There is Dr Shaw herself. for example.
Affect me- she remarked as she gave
out her letter on the iniQuity of taxing
tho incomes OF unenfranchised women
and how they oucht TO refuse 10 assist
the government I'm the imposition.
never had an income OF 5000 and never
expect TO have IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
Housekeeping
and Temperament

To the Editor OF The Tribune Woman $
Forum.
All this talk about how long it takes one
10 do the housekeeping IS I'll bosh Con-
slider. How can you regulate housekeep-
Ing 80 that the same task viii take the
same amount Of time when the Interrupt
tions each day are quite different; Some
times the children need DEFICIENT time
worn attentions. and sometimes people
come I'm. parcels arrive, phone rings ana
innumcra bic other Instructions distract
and cause "A loss Of time.
Therefore ! think that housekeeping j.
a matter Of temperament If one can
work under pressure and leiSurely ut the
same rate Of speed then one can Sradu-
ally stipulate the schedule IF working
hours. As for mel cannot
New York LESLIE ~ Et'0'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
a WOMAN MINE LAWYER.

Mrs Sarah II. Sorin, Of Arizona, ap-
peared recently in the Supreme Court OF
the United States as sole counsel for a
mining corporation. Only on a few oc-
casions have women addressed the court.
and then in nearly every instance only as
associate counsel. Mrs. Sorin was defend
ing the claim Of the United Globe Mines,
corporation of which she is general
counsel. to two mining claims In ella
County, Ariz. James II. Works also
claims the mines When the case was
brought TO the Supreme Court Mrs. Sorin
was associated with her father. William
Herring, as counsel Since then Mr. Her
ring has died, and Mrs. Sorin has fought
the case TO the end The decision in the
Supreme Court OF Arizona was in her
favor.-The Engineering and Mining Jour
nal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
"reminiscences OF
Mrs. Lillian D. Blake

Mrs. Lillian Devereux Blake, who died
last week. formed, in her life, link be-
tween the older generation OF suffragists,
the generation TO which Susan 3. An
thony and Lucy Stone Blackwell and
Elisabeth Cady Stanton belonged, and
the present group OF leaders, pr. Anna
Howard Shaw, Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Batch and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
DR.. Shaw was young woman, in her
early twenties. when Mrs. Blake's first
work was done for suffrage, In 1870. Mrs.
Blake was then thirty-six. but four years
married to her second husband Griniii
Blake. a New York merchant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
Alice S. Blackwell
on Guardianship

To the Editor OF The Tribune Womans
Forum:
Women will lose their privileges If they
vote, says Reina \. Lawrence. They
are i'm much more danger Of losing their
privileges when they cannot vote, and
the equal guardianship law of New YORK.
TO which Miss Lawrence refers, Illus
trates the point.
Under the old law the husband mad
the sole control OF the children. In 1861
Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony secured
a Joint guardianship law. Two years
later it was repealed and the old statute
was restored In all its pristine barbartty.
II gave the husband not only the sole
power over the children during his Ire
but also the right TO will them away from
their mother after his death. This con-
tinued to be the law in New York for
thirty-one years longer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
MOTHERHOOD.

Care, guidance, love, protection men
tally, morally and physically for their
children. The constantly heard express
sion OF the suffragists used by Voter
that women can vote AM hear children
too" would seem TO imply that all the
duties of motherhood were performed
when the little one gave its first cry, in
stead OF but just begun.
Well that the suffragists have allied
with the socialists who SO loudly advocate
institutional training for children
Does not Voter recognize that there
are good. bad and Indifferent women and
wives, as we'll as men and husbands, and
that the bearing OF children no more
constitutes being a mother" than the
marriage ceremony insures thoughtful,
tender, unsehsh wives and husbands. or
the mechanical act OF signing the pledge
ever reformed man unless backed by
mental, moral and spiritual strength and
determination
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
"STRIklNGLY BEAUTIFUL"

81 remember her as strikingly beauti-
full" DR.. Shaw said the other day and
young and beautiful women weren't as
common in the movement then as they
are now She brought a note OF color
into the work. Aunt Susan and the older
suffragists were a little too wont to wear
grave and rather gloomy clothes when
speaking, but Mrs Blake always came
on the platform in something light and
pretty to the eye. And IN her manners
too, in her speeches. she carried the
charm of her social life into the suffrage
campaign of that day"
Mrs. Batch remembers the visits the
young suffrage recruit made her mother
at the house in New Jersey where the
Stantons lived then. Mrs. Blake took UP
the work begun by Mrs. Stanton. the
effort TO secure the recognition Of wom-
ems rights i'm law. But the first service
she performed for Mrs. Stanton was to
rescue her from an angry wasp.
1T was her first visit TO my mother
their first meeting" Mrs. Batch said
when she was recalling her memories Of
Mrs. Blake. 1T was summer, and mother
was wearing a very thin dress. AS she
rose TO meet Mrs. Blake she threw around
her shoulders thin shawl. There was a
wasp in the shawl. and it promptly stuns
mothers arm. My mother was like any
ordinary man about pain-she simply
couldn't stand it-and when Mrs Blake
entered the room she found her hostess
dancing and screaming and trying TO get
rid of that wasp. Mrs. Blake flew TO the
rescue found the wasp and killed IT,
Thus was their acquaintance begun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04

lied to arouse this opinion to the fact OF
woman's need for greater protection than
that accorded men. We see nothing but
menace TO the working woman and to the
workingman's home in the suffrage ana
feminist movements.
n you are a self-supporting woman en-
roll with us. There are no dues. We are
supported by voluntary contributions.
MARJORIE DORMAN,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
A REAL SALON.

Not the least of her contributions TO the
life OF the day. in the opinion OF those
who knew her in her prime. was the
establishing of salon. one Of the few
real salons New York mas had.
When | first came 10 New York. TWEEN
~ years ago.. Mrs Harriet Holt Dey,
president OF the Womans Press Club.
said the other day. II used TO 20 10 Mrs.
Blake's salon. and those hours are among
my pleasantest recollections. The friends
made under her roof still have, and
they were. and are. the sort OF friends
that are worth while"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
NOT BAD.

Hanging on the top OF one OF the '. -
at a church bazaar recently vas "a
which ran. "Luncheons. 10 ) p M .,rs
4 country farmer and his WIZ .,.,s
passing along. admiring the various IN,
and their contents. when ne esY'' mob
above sign. and was seen to s'op -,
and was heard TO remark 10 his VIZ" Ia.
wen jist hev DOR denners n'.,. ~
rie Twa 'oors steady eatinss ny
,,r wan an six.-English Home W.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
MRS. SLATCH SAYS:

Not" she said. that I don't consider
the whole system of taxation In TINS
country absurd. unjust and complicated
beyond ali understanding. Except Henry
George. who whatever one may think o.
his plan at least did try for logica
plan. We have never had man 10 crap
ple. as Gladstone grappled. with the tax
alton problem.
Look 1t this postcard. Mrs. Blatch
held out a card with hens tracks in ink
all over il. Its demand for my taxes.
No. not income tax: my income isn't big
enough 10 make me liable TO that It's
from the assessor at shoreham. Lone
Island. where / live. It's an ordinary
postcard without signature or hint OF
& lything official, and only after long
g. idy did ] make out that il tells me To
n I'D over sums on my house and per-
sonal property which amount to 81 - on
500 which is at the rate Of more tnan
ene-fourth of ones income.
."T pav this tax. and because | am a
woman I am taxed more heavily thah
nv brother. though his house at shore
ham is more valuable than mine. pay
n. and what do I get in return We
never. seen a constable in Shoreham. IA
Nc were set on by highwaymen there O
be no one TO aid or defend. The only
thing that's done 10 the roads Is
ploughing once a year that makes them
tinusable till we've trampled them down
again. But | go on paying the tax DC
cause need all my strength to work foi
suffrage I think that more important
than resistance TO taxation. But II would
ne n splendid thing if all women who
nave the strength and time would en-
ploy :he passive resistance DR.. Shs"
urges and against all forms Of taxation
To be taxed and get no return is intoler-
able when you haven't vote 10 use
against slothful officials.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
suFFRAoIsTs EDUCATED PUBLIC.

Copies Of the printed circular which the
union sent to every member OF the New
York Legislature are still extant. The
most telling thing in it vas list OF
cases OF actual hardship that had oc-
Cured under the old law. and every one
of those cases was taken from THE
Womans Journal" and credited TO II. AS
editor OF THE Womans Journal, | know
whereof / speak when say that it was
the suffraGists who had educated the
public dncluding the Buffalo Women
Educational and Industrial Union) to
realize the need OF amending the law. 1t
was likewise the suffragists who had
brought about such a change in public
opinion as kept the equal guardianship
law on the statute book after it was OBJ
tanned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
SHOWS uNFITNEss OF MEN?

Docs "Voter" ever stop 10 think that
in unfolding the women who are fghting
FOR the ballot he is corroborating all their
contentious of the general unftness OF
men. of their Indifference TO and neSh-
genoa of the welfare of women and emil
dren in each and every department OF
life? or their teaching that his Wlte' or
any other mans wife accepting her MAIN
tenance from her husband, constitutes her
his "bondwoman' (see the Bond
woman" by Dora Marsden, issued by
suffrage headquarters), that each wire
should be "self-supporting, or provided
for out of common fund" when un-
able TO work
"Voter" SAYS. I'VE ITO whom does the
plural apply?l do not recognize her or
their authority to define the duties or
all women and all men," but he and s
per cent of the women presume 10 decide
what shall constitute the duties and seek
to force them upon 90 per cent of the
women
Typical suffrage logic
Voter" says: "They will learn that
women can vote and bear children just
the same as before they were permitted
TO vote" According TO this, suffragists
are correct in one of their main conten-
tions that men see nothing in women be-
yond the bearing OF children, but | beg
10 refute that statement on behalf OF an
overwhelming majority of men.
This majority still sees in women some
thing to protect, to support, TO guard
from contact with all that is coarse and
brutal, or less pure and exalted than they
feel them to be. In return they look for
tenderness and companionship for them
selves and true homemakng.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
The WOmanS Forum

where the women have not yet asked Tot
/ it. Can Mrs. Lawrence name a single en-
franchised state whore they have asAe"
for II In vain for a long series Of years
"a they did in New York and Massachp-
sets or where they nave got 1t once ana
then lost it again. as they did In Ne"
York?
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
Dorchester. Mass.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04
WOMEN SHOULD DECIDE.

In conclusion. let me say that. justly.
this suffrage question Is, and should be,
left one for women 10 decide, but. 10
quote Mrs A. j. George. OF Massachu-
sets, on that point: III there is one thing
which alarms the advocates OF women
suffrage, il Is the suggestion that an OPP
portunity shall be given TO the women TO
register All opinion on this revolutionary
measure as Mr.. Gladstone termed