New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-21
All Men Are SuGragists at Heart,
but They Do Not Know IL Yet,
Says q Suffrage Star ~
n"s the Larger Balance of Truth Miss
Mildred Taylor. Youngest and Most
Popular Of Street Speakers,
Finds ON the Side of
Votes for Women.

: big issue. And sometimes there are 90
many small viewpoints that we can
hardly plough our way through 70 the
main road. And then. too, you know
YOU can't formulate text for suffrage.
oh. wish we could. But that's i'm
possible. There are so many reasons
for suffrage, so many kinds OF people
who ought TO have IL, SO many needs
for it.
Then II was that Mis-. Taylor sent OF
q little frecracker, something like this:
Anyway, most men are sufragists,
really, down deep in their hearts. you
know"
any denr!"
ayes, they are she insisted, with
her convincing smile. "Unless they're
anti-women they're not snti-suffrage.
Only they just don't know it yet. But
when you do show them that suffrage
doesn't mean anarchy, that it isn't
going to spoil women. but help them,
why, it's Just like pushing the button,
completing the circuit and flooding on
the light, tho response is so instan-
taneouS."
"But what about the non -suffragist
woman How do you account for her?
And what can you do about herr She.
not the anti, is tho cause for alarm,
isn't She"
There are all kinds Of non-suffra-
gists," she answered. There Is the
girl who has gone to college and has
her educational freedom, but has never
worked and has her financial freedom.
She may easily not see the need Of suf-
frage for herself. There is the girl who
is working for money, who always has
more or less. but who left school so
early that we might say she has not
had her educational freedom. It is
hard for her to see what it is she lacks.
One needs both kinds of freedom, you
see. Then there is the woman Of fine
character, who has done her duty, as
she says, in raising five sons, etc, but
who feels that her duty is thereby
ended. And there is the woman who
sees that others want the vote; who
sees that 1t might benefit others, but
who is just too selfish to help other
women to better condition.
People are divided naturally these
days by occupations, il seems TO me.
And the suffragist likewise finds her
self suifragist by what she is doing in
the world. The housemothers want
suffrage because of pure milk and clean
streets and sanitary surroundings, and
Fairgrounds, etc; the working woman
because she needs better working con-
ditions, and so on.
"And, by the way, the antis made
very good point the other day about the
legislation that has been enacted on
behalf of the working woman even
without the vote. But it's better suf-
frage point than an anti point, for if
we look a little further we see that it
has very often been just the legislation
that the working woman didn't want;
il cut down her hours when she wanted
more and could have worked more with
out hurting her. It's a very few leisure
women who have been able to go up to
the Legislature and get bills through
leisure women who couldn't view the
industrial world very searchingly. II
the industrial woman could vote for
herself she'd be in better hands"
And then, just because she is so
young and little and pretty, l asked