Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-02

HOUSE PlcKETs.
TO the Editor Of THE EVENING
JOURNAL
sir.-I was utterly surprised TO
read the veiv mild statement made
by the President Of the National
Woman Suffrage Association. who Is
also a member OF the Council Of Ma
tIonal Defense. Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait. in regard to the action Of the
suffrage sentinels at the White
House.
Evidently Mrs. Gait Is not wholly
out of sympathy with the sentiments
Expressed on their banner displayed
before the Russian mission, for as
quoted la the New York Times OF
Juue p, 1917 she says in her state
ment "As to the text on the ban
ners, Mr.. Root, as quoted, has said
that we have universal and equal
suffrage In this country and that Of
course is not true. Mrs. Gait is also
quoted as saying: Millions of
women IN the United States feel
humiliation over the fact that our
allies Russia Great Britain and
Canada have either liberated their
women or promiTd 20 liberate them
from the political disabilities under
which women have rested the world
around We feel that our men In
Congress should not wait another
minute to Submit the Federal Amend
ment for Woman Suffrage Neverthe-
less we are not In any way In sym
PATTY with the method that has been
used by the White House plckets to
announce our humiliation to our
visitors from over the sea- We con-
slider q umwise. ,unpatriotic, and most
improbable to the cause OF SUI.
frage"
wish to state that the millions OF
women not represented by the suf-
fraglsts. arel not Inundated" by not
having the vote and are content and
satisfied TO be, represented in govern
ment by the men OF America, who,
so far from trying 20 "humiliate"
them have been indulgent too long
The Humiliation" comes IN the fact
that any American women are willing
to cast such a stigma OF disloyalty
upon their sex. as has been done by
the suhragists
II Mrs. Gait feels no strongly
about speaking uniavorably Of her
country before foreigners why, when
IN Carada, did she lay herself open
to the same criticism? ] quote from |
the Toronto Daily News OF May ~.
1917:
Mrs. Gait lectured under the |
guise Of a patriotic address, entitled /
'Women's Votes and National Dc |
fense Mrs Gait never reached Ma |
IA tina d. NstN
Votes for Women subject which is I
settled for good and ~ in Ontario. |
Tho United states was attacked |
'ather than defended by the lecturer |
She was distinctly unpatriOtic
The position OF the women of Yucca /
tan was compared with that OF the |
women OF the United States TO the I
disadvantage OF the lattcr--an insult I
20 the Intelligence OF her audience, /,
and n defamation OF her country An |
other patriotic utterance to put forth |
IN a foreign country was You never |
can just tell when you are going to
have an honest election In the United
States and this from a woman. who,
we hear has been honored by ap-
pointment on the National Defense
Committed Surely even the most /
ordinary ideas of decency would be |
sufficient toy suggest that her diatribe
be confined to the borders Of her
)wn country.
] do not see how. under such con
ditlons tho suffragists can dlsclalm
the acts of the sentinels
especially with their representa-
i've Miss Jeanette Rankin running
true TO form when she refuses to
49,. 90 LEI ]
Yours very truly.
CLARA VEZIN.\
--Il.nI..lL I'M InIr