The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-27
MADAM LACKEYBACK AGAIN.
But Has She Really and Truly Given
Us Her Name and Address?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: l
had no intention OF seriously consider
ing the many letters published in THE
SUN In reply to my communication
against woman suffrage of August 20,
which has been called THE Chant of
Hate" until l read the one from Mrs.
Edith NJ. Arnold. Her letter no inter-
ested me that l am moved to reconsider
my determination not to reply to the
attacks made upon me. Owing to the
fact that Mrs. Arnold insultingly de-
scribes the Almighty as a suffragist, I
must say that she owes to the world
the telling of the secret as to how the
suffragists enlisted the Almighty Father
In their cause.
Such a story with proof behind It
ing that has come down to us since the
genesis of the world. II Mrs. Arnold
will write this story for THE Syn she
would go down in history and be for
ever immortalized.
I cannot understand, perhaps Mrs.
Arnold can, why s~uffragists find II
necessary to couple their cause with
that of the prohibitionists. II votes
for women means votes for prohibition
the ~suffragists themselves are uncon-
s%ciously knitting TO death the cause for
which they are fighting. To this we
"antis" have no objection. I take It that
the question of woman suffrage. so far
as I have been able TO learn from lis
tening to its propagandists and from
reading suffrage literature and the
newspapers, is dissolving itself into the
question OF prohibition. While there
Is no apparent relation between suf-
frage and prohibition in my mind.
nevertheless many men ave come to
view suffrage as a side street TO prohf-
bition.
How the millions OF men who know
how to use liquor and who find pleasure
in Its use can be asked TO vote for a
question that threatens TO rob them OF
this pleasure and comfort Is too deep
for my solving. ] leave II to Mrs. Ar
mold. The injection of the liquor ques-
ton into the campaign for votes for
women is to be deplored. but the suffra-
gists are to blame. There are SO many
emale free lances writing "pieces to
the newspapers about what women will
do to the liquor business when they get
the vote. so many would be female
~sociologlsts splattering broadcast their
puerile opinions about the coming re-
suits OF universal suffrage. so many un-
muzzled female ''~philosophers' running
loose in the land. that 7 do not wonder
at a remark made by a gentleman the
other night In speaking Of suffrage when
he called 1t the Twentieth Century
Plague"
Mrs. Arnold In her letter says II
have read much on both sides OF this
question and | firmly believe that the
Almighty is the substantial hacker OF
equal franchise"
Now I shall herewith PROFOUND three
questions, TO which | trust Mrs. Arnold
will make reply.
First. Can you. Mrs. Arnold. prove
TO me beyond every doubt that the Al
mighty is the substantial hacker OF
equal franchise?
Secondly. II more women will line
up with Go than Booze why did the
women OF California vote against pro-
hibltion last November and against II
In Denve last April?
Thirdly. Are the men OF New Jersey.
New York. Pennsylvania and Massachu-
setts who will vote on the question this
fall to believe that woman suffrage and
prohibition are u and in~separable?
Mrs. ISABELLA n. LAcKEy.
South ORANGE, y. J.. August IS.