The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-06
TAKES TIE ANTS TO TASK, PAYS
"coMgLIIMaEN:TSn 20 WAsD
Says That Liquor Interests Are oppos-
ing Cause-Serera1 Questions
Asked Speaker.

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For an hour and thirty minutes Mrs.
Beatrice Eorhes-Robertson Hale. me
famous English suffrage lecturer: SPOKE
to an OVERLOOKING crowd last niSnt iu
the Elks' auditorium There We're iuliS
500 present, about cne-siXth OF whom
were MEN, She lectUred under the aus
pieces of the Ohio County Equal Suffrage
league.
Mrs. Hale took Up and inteuigentlE
discussed every essential Phase " .Iits
suffrage question ana al .he ~ 51,.S-
- the meeting answered. u number 15 3ue %
tioiis from her auditors. MRS. flate -
one OF the most finished English speak
ing lecturers tGdaE L hd h tse Sn
Of the large number OF hearers to inc
last. There were few. If any, 10 leave
the house during her address.
Presented by Mr. Laugh1tn-
The Honorable George A. Laughlin in
troduced Mrs. Hale 70 the audience IN
one OF those happy little speeches which
at once placed her in touch win her
hearers MIR. Laughlin said that Mrs;
Hale was u mother as Well as. u Soou
housckceper. but that she found time
to make a few speeches on this timely
subject. Mrs. Hale after rev preuin-
mary remarks. thanking Dir; Lausnill
for not lauding her 10 the SKY III pre-
senting her. launched into her subject
and for over an hcur paid he 'comp'l-
ments'.to the anti-suftrage organization
and told of the great good that hau neSn
wrought in the states ana couu LII, o9
where woman had been given tne oaIio'
Replies to Mrs. ohphant.
She devoted q portion OF her time 70
making answers 10 some o. we So 80.
ments made by Mrs o. D. Oliphant' tne
national anti-suf1eraGc, speaker VINO
will speak in this city this month MIS-.
Hale said that she never had and never
intended to abuse the ants. she oe-
clared that in talking TO her listeners
she intended to appeal to them from
1he common sense and logical reason
that the vote should be given women.
She said that many Of those opposing
woman suffrage are her personal lrlsn1s.
Most of those opposing us are or me
wealthy class who are satisfied with tho
comfortable positions they occuFy'
They have never had to earn their nv
ing and do not desire change IN any
degree In other words. they nave
never been no against II; Iney are tite
brakes upon the wheels Of progress.
They are the ultra conserTatiTes. Inc
antts have no cause" said the charming
speaker. they never win victory
When the suffraglsts gain victory me!
gain It for all time. but when they Lose
'one fight it only retards. When We are
defeated in = state the ants gain no
satisfaction, for they know that within
the next few years II will be the same
fight over again until we finally get the
ballot" In this connection Mrs. Hale
said that when the ants lose out they
become peeved and one OF their leaders
said 10 her that when the suffragistS
win out that they will be among the
majority of women who will vote.
Wao Arc Against Suffrage.
Mrs. Hale then at some length TOOK
up the phases OF answering Self-pro-
pounded questions OF who are against
the votes for women and why. She de-
clAred that there were three classes
FIRST, the liquor dealers association.
She said that she could not openly
charge the ants with working in con-
tyNf
could she directly accuse the ants OF
accepting financial aid from the liquor
interests. but that they had during the
past several years spent millions or DOL
lars in opposing woman suffrage all over
the country where suffrage had been adj
vocatcd, including the state OF Penn
sylvania. Recently the Pennsylvania
Liquor Dealers association fought the
gave a citation. saying that the Cincin-
natl, Ohio, ants recently did not have
sufficient funds to distribute their lit
erature and that il was distributed by
the liquor interests; She further de-
clared that in Michigan. as well as in
other states. that placards had been
placed in saloons reading to vote mo"
on the suffrage amendment. She told
CT the Wisconsin Liquor dealers journal
cartooning suHragi SITS. which nescrlp-
ton prompted laughter. Il do not say
there is an alliance between the ants
and the liquor dealers" said the speak
er, but the liquor interests are lighting
he suffrage cause just like the ants.
ward Aeeler' Against Cause.
She told of the other class OF niru who
were opposing suffrage. namely. thu
ward heller" who had for. years con.
trollei and delivered Il certain bunch Of
voters from his office in the rear of a
saloon. THE reason he Is opposed to
women voting Is that he fears that he
cannot deliver this vote and he will
have to spend many years in rounding
them up. In other words. declared the
speaker. ''hc will have to do his work
all over again. When we say that we
are going TO put woman in the offices.
the old machine ward healer Will be
unable to deliver the vote of the women
and the outcome will be that better men
and good women viii be put into office
] don't believe that women are superior
to men. nor do believe that men are
superior to women. but each are super
Tor to the other in certain ways and pur-
SUITS said Mrs. Hale. u don't believe