The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-10-10

f1OHOTdTy fTeSluent OF the National
American Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton. now touring West Virginia in the
present contest. involving a public
question. and We have perfect right
to analyze her views on such Ques-
tons as marriage. home. state and
church which she is attempting to
have our people adopt for their gov.
eminent.
! need no further justification of my
language than to refer to U. S. Sena-
torial Document No. 40S, dated April
II, 1916, Gath Congress, LIST Session,
page 22.3, and used as a Public Docu.
ment, that radical Socialists and Fem.
inists like Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
lnez Millholland Bossevein, Winifred
Harper Cooley, and Max Eastman,
ARE engaged as speakers on Suffrage
platforms, and their most radical
feministic and socialistic utterances
are published, advertised and sent
broad cast by the National Woman
Suffrage Association as arguments for
votes for women" and that such doc.
trines as they advocate are "a revolt
against nature and christian morals.
In other words freelove." lpage 23.)
Mrs. Hale is quoted as saying, (page
24) that Woman Suffrage is an es.
sential branch of faminism."
"Feminism." she says in her book
on the subject. lis gradually supply
ing to women the things they most
need" And among these things she
mentions is easy divorce and economic
independence. Easy divorce, as fem.
inists explain it. is divorce at will. 1t
would permit Il wife to cast off her
husband and take another without
consulting the courts. Economic in
dependence Is the theory thai wives
must engage in gainful OCCUPATIONS
outside the home In order to be indie.
pendent. For wife to be supported by
her husband, is, according to fsmin-
ism, to be parasite. Feminjsrl.
therefore. would compel wives to com.
pete with husbands in business cn;,
industry. Il would ,uake marriage a
farce and the tcme, as we know &,
a thing OF the past" (page 23.)
There Is no differences" says Rab.
hi Joseph Silverman, between woman
suffrage, socialism, and the present
feminist movement. The one means
the other. and no matter which cause
WINS hrst disaster to matrimony and
the home will follow" If, as Mrs.
Hale says, woman suffrage is an es.
sential branch of the tree of famin.
ISM" then woman suffrage must be
destroyed In order that the tree of i'm.
moral feminism may not grow" (page
24)
Dora Marsden IN "Bondswoman." a
pamphlet attacking marriage and
characterizing wifehood as species
OF slavery, says:
The free woman's concern Is to see
to 1t that she shall be in position to
bear children, II she wants them.
without soliciting maintenance from
any man. whoever he may be-"
"Bondswomcn" was printed and cir.
culated as a campaign document by
the National Woman Suffrage Associ.
alton" (page 25.)
Mrs. Mary Ware bennett, formerly
an officer Of the National Woman SUI.
frage association, and now on hte
Board OF Directors Of the Birth Con.
troll League" race suicide erganiza.
ton recently organized in New York
City. says that ut Is unwholesume for
any woman to be supported by man."
(page 25.)
According to this theory the hus.
band must cease to be the provider and
the wife cease to he the homemaker:
otherwise their relation is unwhole.
some.
In the Forum for April, 1915, Lottfe
NJ; Montgomery says. among other
things:
I'm the future woman will make the
sex laws which govern herself and
they will not be uniform or written
into the statutes as they are now.
Every woman will be law into her.
self. To substantiate nv statements
] refer to the leading spokeswomen OF
the feminist movement. i. g., Mrs.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ellen. Kew.
Emma Goldman. Mrs. C. G. Hartley
and the Bernard Shaw and Ibsen."
Reading from the foregoing Sena.
torial Document, at the bottom Of
page %, we find:
$50 close is the partnership be-
tween woman suffrage, feminism. and
socialism that in order to dissolve II.
this Is what the suffrage associations
would have to do: Drop all their So.
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