The Washington herald., 1915-10-03
ANTS DISPUTE
LIQUOR charge
Miss Hall Says Sufragists Are
Using Any Means to Ac-
quire Ballot.
MEN DEPLORE METHODS
Claim Made that Politics Will Revert
to Spite Work by Giving Women
Right to Vote.
By FLORENCE r.. HALL,

By FLORENCE r.. HALL,
Chairman Public Interests Committee. Pennsyir,nia
Association OPPOSED to Woman Suffrage.
Every man in the East should watch
the woman suffrage campaign very close
iy. Why? Because II is beginning to
present a vivid picture. a foretas:e, Of
what would happen to our women under
feminism.
Never before In the history Of this
State have We seen women arranged
against women, using all the coarser as
well As the most subtle political tricks
IN order to accomplish their ends OF
course. as anti-suffragists. We naturally
Diane 1t on the advocates Of votes-for-
women, for two reasons: First, because
there would be no anti-campaign II there
were no suffragists. and, second, because
our arguments are made against theories
ana promises that do not make good,
while nearly all of theirs are hurled
against persons and their motives.
Free of Liquor Taint.
If the reader is inclined to believe that
the antis themselves are sometimes mar
row, or inclined to be personal, II Is all
the more reason why women should be
Kept out of political controversies which
lead to such things
The so-called Liquor interest," bugaboo
was held up to PENNSYLVANIA voters for
all it was worth. until the president of
the National Retail Liquor Dealers was
forced to issue statement in which he
declared that no anti-suffrage association
had ever asked for or received funds
from any liquor interest, city. State or
national, to be used against suffrage
and, furthermore. that the report that
the liquor dealers had passed a resolu-
tion against suffrage was utterly untrue.
However. the sufrragists have been chaI-
ienged to swear that they have not re-
ceived funds from any liquor people or
their female relatives-and they have
never taken 1t up. We might have
named one of their leaders who sacrificed
her American citizenship to marry the
president of a big foreign brewery. and
saloonkeepers wife who keeps her hus-
oands place filled with suffrage signs.
wfo was a leader in one of their parades.
but II has nothing to do with the votes
for-women question. except in SO far a.
1t shows that in this respect the suf-
fragfsts are in the position of a black
pot bringing accusations against a china
bowl.
With Votes II Would BE Worse.
Many men who deplore the suffrage
and anti-suffrage fight between women
believe somehow that with woman suf-
frase there might be less bitterness.
These optimists should have been pres
ent at the last mayoralty election in Chi
cago, where. at Cohan's Grand Opera
House. just before the election. the can
didates for the highest offices were merci-
lessiy hooted down by their opponents,
and could express their views only
through the canned speeches released
10 the newspapers. Read any Chicago
paper of April 3 T. 5, and s about these
affairs; ask any Chicago man who was
present when traffic was tied I'D fer Ave
hours the Saturday before election, while
men. women and children of the various
factions contested for possession of the
streets. As one writer in the Chicago
Tribune put it: "One was tempted to
lift DIP the shattered remains of the idol
OF male chivalry' to. see if any one could
recognize it,
No contest in twenty years vas So bit
terly fought as that election where the
womens votes might have been spared
entirely without making any practical
dinerence In the result. except to the tax
payers Who had to pay 500. 900 more
for the additional expense.
with woman suffrage Chicago shows
that political contests, instead of get
ting milder and more tolerant. giII 70
back to the days when every fellow who
cid not believe al you did was a scslly-
"sS anu rascal. to be harpoonei in
Speech ana pint to the limit of your
ability and vocabulary.
They are telling Us thev wnut WOMAN
to become the "e': aIs'' of mon II pv.,I
b. b sorry day for America wn,n women
are missed and Jrered as Marion Drake
was In Chicago. or elected fror, polling
places as was k:te Addams, near l1ie-
terS s dance hall. In the same CITY.