New Britain herald., 1915-07-29
Women Are Sacrificing Too Much in Forcing Issue of Suffrage, Says Charlotte Rudyard Methods Employed Costing Too Much-Beeves It Is Too Soon for Weaker Sex of Country to
 Have the Vote.
jBy Sarah Addington in New York
 Tribune.)

 things-all her friends storm and tear their hair at her ''disloyalty and then hope for her conversion. But she tells her reasons so convincingly and she is so earnestly looking to the ultimate good of women rather than at any immediate advantage that for one am thinking that the hoped for 'conversion'' is a long way or And if fsall women were like Charlotte Rudyard T. should not care whether we got suffrage or not. Which Is to say that Charlotte Rudyard in ad- dition to her thinking ability, has so much real warm charm and tingling personality that 1t seems as though she would always get what she wanted, anyway--which notion she would repudiate with great scorn, and everybody else would say was entirely irrelevant,
 Anyway, went to her for some good straight talk about what we term the Woman Question.
 suffragists on the Wrong Track.
 1T was perfectly willing to be 8 suf- fragist when came our of college" she smiled in her quick sympathetic fashion, land the suffragists drove me away. I was doing newspaper work, and. being young and rather shy, my assignments were carefully censored. So was given nice women's clubs, mostly suffrage clubs. And they talked such nonsense that I was dis- gusted. It isn't suffrage object to; it's the suffragists. Or putting it more gently. it's not the cause. isbut the methods.
 nfh Women are sacrihcing too much in forcing the issue. I honestly think that though we gain the vote by these brass band means the real woman's s issue will be hurt. Take this interest ing suffrage poster, for example, You ask us to dance with you, walk with you, talk with you. Why not ask us to ote with your Now, for sheer feminine persuasion that IS charming. It probably was irony on the part of the suffrag gists. but 1t is totally ridiculous piece of reasoning.
 Perhaps" she smiled again gall lantly, ''this agitation is merely the brass band. and that the rank and file will follow along in splendid style. Of course, I pay sincere tribute to the advertising and organizing ability the women have shown in theIr campaign; they have been wonderful.
 Unpreparedness.
 "But you see my distress lies in my deep conviction that 1t is all too soon. We aren't ready I believe in educa- tion and not agitation. Oh. yes, I know that men aren't entirely ade- quate to be governing, but they have experience and I'd trust their in- | adequacy. don't have the faith in woman's competence. you see. I be- lieve in the competence of the compe- tent woman, yes. And I think that all women will gradually learn to do mare things we'll But just now, no. The Woman Suffrage party has asked for a woman on the naval board of inven- ton and development, but that to me l is entirely the wrong attitude to take. l We mustn't ask for representation just because we're women. We must have some very definite contribution to 1 make And frankly, it seems to me l that our offering is at present rather l rrieagre.''
 l .You really do want freedom for women, don't you?" asked. l A New Sort of Freedom.
 Indeed. yes Freedom to do or not I do what we please. In the old days l men said: You are woman; there l fore you must embroider.' Now l women say: You are a woman; there l fore you must not do anything SC l silly as to embroider.' But want the l freedom to choose whether shall em- I broider or not. think it's rather futile to talk about woman in general l anyway. There are always two classes l of women, one woman and all the
 rest; women differ not only from men I but from each other. So that some o1 1 Us like to embroider and some of us
 enjoy horseback riding, and some oi
 us want to vote and some of Us don't
 "I really think the women want the
 vote for their homes sake, don't you
 They want their homes and other I peoples homes improved. And thes
 have something of mans attitude
 there, too. Men, you know, adore their homes; marry for them, worl
 staying away from them. Now womer I would like the same freedo om.'
 She stopped and buried her face 1T
 her hands a moment Then sht looked up.
 After All, Just Women.
 IT haven't been exactly honest witr
 you.' she confessed. 1T must tell vol
 the rest. It's just this: perhaps yo, a haye felt the same way. But after all 1 you know, we're women, aren't we I Through no fault of ours, bur--inevi
 tubiy women. George Meredith sait
 1t in Diana: How infinitely mar
 seems to prefer man to woman. Nov don't believe In the so-caiI6d con,
 Gict between men and women; that'l
 false antithesis. But do recognizs