The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-05-27
THE ABUSIVE TACTICS OF SUFFRARETTES.
NJ HENEVER the adherents of measur
w resort to abuse thew do If because the

making this error now, and 1t will not only
weaken their following, but it will retard the
efforts OF those who really want to better the
conditions of women and children, make
fairer division of benefits. and open the eyes
OF the entire world to the many discrimina-
tons, not only against the women and chill
dren, but against the poor and the ignorant
these last of whom we will continue to have in
growing numbers, until the overwhelming
tide of immigration is checked.
70 this office. came a circular lately. blue
pCnciled, around the following paragraphs:
Whereas, group of women Of leisure who
by accident of birth have led sheltered and
protected lives and know nothing of the
dangers and hardships confronting the work
ing women, and who never through expert
cnCe have had to face the misery that low
wages and long hours produce, are carrying
On an active propaganda, to defeat the efforts
G working women to obtt in this essential in
Etrument Of their industrial freedom;
Resolved, That the National Women's
Trade Union League Of America in conven-
tCn assembled representing the organized
working women of America hereby sClem1.y
protest against the active opposition of these
women Of leisure, who persist in selfshly OBJ
structing the efforts o. the organized work.
ing women to obtain full citizenship, thereby
making the struggle for the protection of the
working peoples homes UNNECESSARILY more
difficult.
The circular is issued by "The National
American Woman Suffrage Association" and
the names signed to the circular are: Emma
Stephagen, Agnes Nestor. Mary Drier, Rose
Schneiderman.
The first paragraph states that the group
Of women of leisure who, by accident or birth,
are so sheltered and pamDered that they OPP
pose anything likely to interfere with that
state, and are banded to carry on the cam
pai2n which will deprive the signers of the
circular Of the right to vote.
A glance at the names attached to the cir
cular. makes one believe that the soners will
not have to 90 back many generations to trace
the members of their family who owed allegi-
ance to other than a Republic. It will not
be difficult. to the mind Of one who has lived
IN New York PHILADELPHIA, Chicago. St.
Louis or who has visited any Of the places,
and studied the conditions, to call to mind at
once the type Of the women represented by
the signatures
So-called 'Socialists' and harming by the
loud-mOuthed, unreasoning and unreasonable
talk, this brand of citizen is. without wanting
to be so considered anarchistic in every pos
sble way.
Accustomed to manners and customs differ
Ing III every way from the institutions OF Tree
America, they have come. grateful at first,
at the chance to live as only free Americans
can live. With the change, comes the in
evitable desire for more, and more, and then
more. Dissatisfaction ensues, not at what
they have. but at what they want. and the re-
suit is a brand of men and women out of
whom we can no more make American citi-
zens of the type Of the earlier immigrant, than
we could make angels out of ourselves
At present, the cry ''votes for women" fills
a long-felt want. Before that, it was 'eight
hours work. with ten hours pay" and most