The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
WOMAN'S MOVEMENT SET
BACK 100 YEARS BY WAR
ms the View of Olive Schre;n.-
v Who Thinks With Women Vot;no
Wars Will Re No Moro 'o'i's

ms war has Sc back civilization
anu the woman movement one bu,d-
Ieo years, said Olive Schreiner &c
we sat talking together late one af,er-
1ooll IN her drawing room at tbe
Aensihston Palace Mansion in Lon
49, uon, ieW days after the adjourn |
llieht OF the International Woman,s
congress at The Hague. Her unusn.1.
~ prliliant eyes seemed literally m
iiIe as she spoke, and her face. ALWAYS
oheiiSihS IN expression, grew for the
moment set and tense
Couiu tnlS be true | wondered when
IN London l had seen and heard Of
women performing tasks never before
| Undertaken by them; when day after
y; 10y .ney were entering new fields
hitherto forbidden.
Must Repair Ravages or War.
| Inc raVageS of war must he re
pared, said Olive Schreiner who as
ooutn African ano a daughter of a
missionary of South Africa. was
Drought into close contact with the
| ravages Of war in that country. 1T
Is women she insisted. who must
| repair the damage by an increa sed
chlld-bearing and rearing. This does
not mean the progress of the woman
movement. Neither does the present
entrance for women into all kinds OF
| industries. That means sweating low
pay, long hours, and further struggle
TOT the emancipation of woman from
industrial Slavery'''
Olive Schrei14erS mind is so wonder
fully alert and her fluent picturesque
expressions come tumbling out SO fast
that the closest attention is necessary
TO follow her. / finally Interrupted to
ask whether she thought the present
war would hasten woman suffrage in
England and in Europe, and l told
her that at the international Congress
, | FRAU Ida Heymann, of Germany had
said that war meant longer period
) of waiting for those who are striving
for the ballot Olive Schreiner agreed
saying that woman suffrage was the
result Of culture and the higher type
7 OF civilization, things temporarily de
stroyed by war. With their loss wen
the immediate hope Of womans en-
| reimbursement
1 Harder To Obtain Suffrage.
' Miss Schreiner pointed out that on
| of the results of the war would be t,
decrease the number of men, and s.
, to bring about condition where mel
: were definitely outnumhered by wo
men. This initiated against womal
obtaining the vote. She reminde
-. | me that it was in South Africa and i
I Americas Western States, where wo
men were in the minority, that tn
v vote was most easily won. In tn
:. Eastern States the fight was NOR
difficult and prolonged.
suffrage is the root end Of peace,
" explained Mrs. Schreiner. War wi
; not pass away until women share i
J. the control of government" She de
II | clared that she had been a paCifs
g ever since she was years old, ths
l. she believed absolutely in nonresisl
ance, and that in her mind peace an
woman suffage were inspirable.
}. Admires Jane Adams.
"She told me that on the previOl
ID evening she had for the first time me-
Jane Adams, whom she had SO Ion
admired: that she belonged to tn
l. womans peace party in England, z
t. did Jane Adams in America.
Of LET those who do not believe
suffrage keep out cf this peace party
r continued Mrs. Schreiner, "but it
n the only one I will join, because W.
Sc man suffrage is one Of its fundament
LII principles. There are other parti'
On open to those who do not believe
a suffrage but l always oppose any con
promise on these lines. Suffrage
as the strength Of the peace movement
IT. Horrors of War Time.
or AS our CONVEX sation drifted into
d. discussion Of the horrors of war, al
TIC the sufferings of the women and chi
n dren. / told Mrs. Schreiner of Il
e- streaming tears of the London new
d paper reporter who had told n
en- about the little victims of the Lus
e tania he had seen at Queenstow
VI of the bitterness and grief of Rt
gian soldier, as he pictured to me Z
,e birth of his baby in cave in BE
,t- GUM.
Even in London itself l had Sc
~ terror written on the faces of t
M nf wives and children of the Germ
nit snopheepeiS "no 80 n,;1bt
' o. these German women and childr
a ~ that made Sylvia Pankhurst defy t
Nv mob in Old Fort, on the East Side
London. had seen her one mig
~ standing in front Of German me
IL shop in Gold Fort road with the m
80 swirling around her and shoutln
B. S .Ilynch her. Lynch her." But s