The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-04
THE CAVE MANS BLUDGE0N.
4 Woman Pays Her Respects 10
Nr. ROssitcr johnson.

To u EDITOR or THE SCN-Sir: Mr..
Rossiter Johnson in his letter in THE
SrN OF June 81 attacks with the cave
mans bludeeon the thirty learned
young adde's who doomed cap and gown
and sat in a court room TO sneec at 4
group OF men who were receiving their
naturalization papers"
After explaining at great length that
those same young ladies' should be
quite satisfied to go without govern
mental power. he tells them that they
must cheerfully entrust the protection
OF their property. their liberty. their
ives to men who alone uphold "the
stability of any Government"
The ignorant. the vicious. the weak.
the selfish and g%rasping. no matter Of
what race or color. may achieve this. So
long as they wear trousers. For woman
there is only one way of adding ma
teriaily to the stability OF the repub-
lie according to Mr.. Rossiter John
son.. for he end on the eloquent note
Of advising those learned on ladies'
to marry. bear sons and bring them up
TO be good. loyal citizens"
When a gentleman assumes this pa
t~ernally omniscient tone OF condescend-
ing advice 1t would be az well first to
make sure Of his facts. THE thirty
learned young ladies'" who went ITO
sheer" according to Mr.. Rossiter John
son, had been out Of college for from
ten to thirty years. so that most Of
them were neither so young nor so
learned as the sweet girl graduates
whom the gentleman evidently saw In
his minds eye meekly listening to his
lecture.
There were doctors. lawyers. writer's.
social workers. organizers, housewives
and mothers in the group. and there
WAS nnf nnn nf shhcn urn11 AIttnntA1
serious. mature American women who
went to sneer' at newly naturalized
citizens. AS the president of the Col
lege League for Equal Suffrage. Mrs.
Charles l.. Tiffany distinctly explained {:
w enter a silent protest against the
denial of the rights of full citizenship
to native and foreign born women and
a silent plea that. just as the foreign
born man is welcomed into full citizen
ship. so should all women he. College
women were selected for this demon
s~:ration because they represent women
from every rank. social and economic,
and We stand for democracy"
Mr.. Rossiter Johnson also offers this
happy simile Those Young ladies'
,alas, that We can't admit the soft i'm
parchment Nigh as properly put
on their scholastic raiment. gather IN
the rotunda Of a bank in which they
~ NV huiliF wv SllVFl at Tie IbtT
people who are there depositing their
little savings" He thus summarizes
the cause OF our protest neatly. for
II a government is "A bank Is II indeed
true that We women have no funds in
it, Have We not put as much of our
work. our ideals. our lives. into our
country's fund as men? And may We
claim no interest? II our country ac-
cepts our money. our toll. our brains.
ntr "a r1n. ,,a,. ,pa ,a hoo. =, l. -
Its stability" and be counted as good.
loyal citizens unless we marry AMI
bear sons" as Mr.. Rooster johnson
suggests In his godlike wisdom II is
not given to all women to bear sons.
even though they might thus. and thus
only. win the opportunity of adding 10
the stability of the republic"
Even IL. for the sake of argument.
We should grant that the voter, as the
wielder OF power, secures governmental
stability. is any one still so old fash
Toned as to think that physical power
Is chiefly to he desired? Even in those
dark and bloody DAYS Of war intelli.
gence. science, organization count for
as much al least as mere numbers and
strength otherwise Germany would
long since have fallen before over.
whelming millions of brawny peasant
from Russia. There is no question in
TsA WV A'-'lfNs u'l III lllfllN. loI III
France. no; in England. that the women
are doing AT least as much as the men
In UNFOLDING the stability of their Coy.
ernments. II remains for an American
man to tell women now that as writers
and orators they may influence voters
that as mothers they may bring up thei,
sons as good, loyal citizens but thai
they have no power to add to "the
stability Of the Government
A.. -, "IA,,l, ,,t,l, "a, 80
frage. must its Ewes bear all the blame
for the ou,rages and violence In tina
unhappy State" Are not Colorado's
troubles rather due to the fact that liz
norart and cIvically inexperienced men
largely of foreign birth, too new to citi,
Zenship TO know how 10 Use the vote
as a Weapon. are being exploited h,
American men OF superior intelligenc,
and ruthless seliishness' Such fact.
may he discouraging TO young ladies
who marry and bear sons. but plainl,
not to Mr.. RossIter Johnson.
MAZDA G. DARNroS.
one OF the thirty not so young ladies'.
NEW YORK. June 81.