The evening world., 1915-01-25

ceeded In removing the CRIME Of
which Miss Tarbell complimentary
have done away with the vicious
partisan vote. There are. for In
stance. the non partisan movements
In Denver. engineered by women,
that DESTROYED the eangs there: and
also the Seattle and San Francisco
revolts and recalls.
But Miss Tarbell would see women
doing less self-interested things
than protecting their own conditions
and the welfare Of their homes and
children. 1t Is hard to be patient
with such View when one thinks Of
the tenement workers, the scrubbers
in once buildings. the women in
steam laundries. in cranberry boEs,
ana the factory workers upon whom
doors are locked. What may seem
selfishness to Miss Tarbell is, in their
case. no more than the instinct Of
self preservation.
When intsiliasnt women l,ks
Mss TarbeIl can zee no psrtiou.
lar reason why women should
vote. an explanation can qensr.
ally be found In the ehara cters
or the interests Of such women.
Vain. selfish women who have
eeh.eved eueesse sometimes like
90 think they have done Il In
ep.te OF thetr sex and ell the difsi.
su!t,ss t implies; They do not
Tor other women. Then. too.
whsh successful woman's In.
tereste have meyer brought her
IN contact with her own sex a..
10 kelly TO know nothing Of th"lr
Neither Miss Tarbelrs interest nor
heV work has ever been among wom.
en-. The whole nation respects her
FOR her achievements. but her VOL
mas always been In connection with
men ana their money making prob.
lens: On this ground she is rirht
ohe Knows ana she IL Interested, She
full expression of the desire Of n,nn
Tor more life. Men are going tn get
II. ana they have q right to struggle
10 get II, and In that struggle thrv
should have tho help Of the best Of
OF the working woman she SAW.
she is not worth very much, Poor
thing. how can she be? She has had
no training. l believe people ought
they know the Job"
There Is no Understanding. M svn,
pathy here; no view OF the bitter
necessity that drives Thousands ~,
women and children into the dismal
drudgeries.
When Commissioner ls,,.,
said to her; "Do you remembsr
the time whom in the coke fields
Of Psnnsylvania women we're 30
bs seen firing the ovens prac.
tiealiy stripped TO the wsjst?"
aIl shs mad to say was, "Yes,
have seen them doing that" She
wasn't interested. Miss TarbsII 10
not intsrsstsd in women or their
problems. She knows nothing Of
the suffrage sisuation upon whion
she comments so freely.
She says: Most OF the men | know
believe In suffrage. II Is not the men
that are keeping suffrage away from
the women: II IL the women"
or course II Is the men to whom we
must turn for the passage OF our
Does Miss Tarbeli mean
that women are keeping II away by
their Indifference? There she ia
wrong. There has never in the
worlds history been 80 large a pro
portion OF any class asking to be en-
and courage.
Ii Miss Tarbell refers 10 the ac,,ve
opposition Of the little bands OF ladies
who have formed themselves into
anti-suffrage societies. then again she
Is wrong. The effective opposition to
women voting does not come from
these ladies', sincere and able as they
may be. The opposition against
which we must contend In that of
every evil interest-the liquor Inter-
ests. the vice interests. corrupt ma
chine politicians ana the employers
and exploiters OF woman and child
labor.
Let Us pay all honor 10 Miss Tar
bell when she talks or writes upon
her own ground OF men OF business,
but let us resent II when she at
tempts To speak az Q representative
Of we0en end THAR inteSsstss