Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-14
BANKER AROUSES
ANGER OF WOMEN
WHO WANT VOTE
flames Francis Sullivan's
Hostile Letter Brings
Leaders About His
Ears
ALL DISCUSS HISTORY

-. Francis Sullivan, president OF
se".ss~iret street National Bank and
me nresldent Of the Midvale Steel
We has stirred veritable hornets
W. WV, n the ranks Of local suffraglsts.
,,r,. their eyes flashing with indigna-
49,. many Philadelphia suffragists read
ss.,erday IVA. a statement Mr. Sullivan sent
!. ~ Pennsylvania Association opposed
" ,r,ounan Suffrage expressing his views
ne enfranchisement of women.
49, Sullivan must be a woman-hater,"
s-ssIsts declare. Special exception was
r.s to a statement In reference to
s.ss,s .a.',. Wv and his famous favorites, Du
n-.,, and Madame de Pompadour, and
-. che women called a yelled compari-
we - those women with the suffragists
Of today. -, ,,--
a. Z" '.ridlculous," lacking in intelligence
"a information" and "a frank express
ssar ~ a general contempt of women"
~ sea no reason why we should even
..ns,der the opinion of any intelligent
oan who dares to compromise the issue
va compare the profligate women of the
ss,s century, such as DuBarry and Ma
80. AZ Pomparour to DIR. Anna Howard
shaw and Jane Adams. 1t is too laugh
shie 10 give any serious answer"
such was the statement of, Mrs Harry
fnxtenburE, OF the pOdIu VI uiININoiS VI
~ Equal Franchise Society.
DAUGHTER A SUFFRAGIST.
spfragists jubilantly pointed to the fact
,hst Mr., Sullivan's daughter, Miss Fran
rss Livingston Sullivan, is an out-and-out
suffragist.
The sullivan letter, which fell like a
t2-centimeter shell with little shrapnel
sressing In the suffrage camp, read, in
AA1
T"Are we ready to throw away the ac-
cumulated wisdom and experience that
have come down to us from all the ages?
The histories of the Babylonians Greeks,
Romans, Hebrews, 1eutons, Slavs.
Franks and Anglo-SaXons do not en-
courage belief in womans rule. .,
"Louis XIV was ruled by women and
many Frenchmen believe that his misrue
did more than all other causes to pre-
clpitate and aggravate the great French
Revolution.
aFrederick the Great and all the
notable Hohenzolierns considered the in
terference of women in governmental af-
fairs the sign and forerunner OF de-
cadence Bismarck detested and abhorred
with all the force of his strong nature
the exercise of any political power by
women He thought the French in 1870
too womanish to make a strong fight
against virile Prussia.
LET us imagine a generation from now
the great European military power and
Japan combined in an attack on the
United States.
"The hostile forces would be met at
the border by Jane Adams and Doctor
Shaw with the request that the matter
IN dispute be debated, that the United
States felt too confident in the righteous
ness OF it's cause to fire a gun. and that
rather than shed blood this country
.,iaId Thfa
policy would be pleasing to the suffra-
Estte women. who sing: I Didn't Raise
Ny Boy to be a Soldier
LEADERS ANSWER SULLIVAN.
Expressions of indignation were made in
reply by several suffrage leaders. Mrs.
Frank Miles Day, vice president of the
Equal Franchise Society, said:
How can a man compare the profiigatt
women who ruled the Louis XIV court
largely by their sex influence with the in
telligent, honorable women of our own
time who are striving for the ballot tC
better conditions among their less for
tunate sisters of the industrial world.
Were there more gentleness and hu'
man kindness influencing the govern
ments of the world at the present tint
there might have been less bloodshed
ruin and heart-break."
Miss Mary H. Ingham said: "Tht
argument of Mr.. Sullivan against woman
suffrage is a frank expression of his con
tempt for women. The historical basil
OF bis contempt strikes us as somewha
wobbly for he speaks of the history o.
az the races of the world from the Baby
lonians down to the Anglo -Saxons a.
showing the bad effect of 'women's rule.
we would like to ask in which of th
nations mentioned, have the women ha'
efance to share in their own govern
mentg Surely Mr. Sullivan does no
wish TO suggest that Louis XIV and hi
court we're the expression of the will o.
the French nation?
And does Mr.. Sullivan accept the mis-
RUE OF Louis XIV as a sufficient reason
mat American men should be disfran
chsed?
Would Mr.. Sullivan prevent all th'
fniladelphia voters who do not agre'
with him about peace from voting TO
Mayor Of Philadelphia"
Missh Caroline Katzenstein, executive
secretary of the Equal Franchise So
ciety, said:
Mr. Sullivan begins his statement witt
ne query, Are we ready to throw ava.
ne accumulated wisdom and experienc
tnat have come down to us from tn
ssesT The one great task of suffragists
may reply, is to gather this wisdom
osether and to make IL most powerful b.
loint expression of opinion from mel
and women at the ballot box. 1t is jus
peeause woman has made such tremen
oous strides forward since colleges an
toiessons were opened to her that W
NINA II monstrous waste not TO lie
~ help man in solving public ques