Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-05
Diet Of WORMS
DEAD ISSUE FOR
SUFFRACETTES
Terrifying Revelations Made
by Anne Martin in Ad-
dress Before Small Au-
dience in Boise Sunday.
Places Votes for Women Be-
fore Americanism and Ad-
mits President Labeled by
Picketers as Kaiser"
Wilson.
BY Mrs. j. G. GREEN.

BY Mrs. ]. g. GREEN.
The famous "Diet of Worms" of
European history was as nothing in
point of Importance and terrifying
revelations as compared to the de-
delectable menu served small aud
fence at local hall Sunday afternoon
by Anne Martin of Nevada, exponent
of the newly formed "woman's Ma
tional Party" which has strong
flavor of the recently eased Con
gressonal Union
In fact, the subject Of worms, which
formed the principal part of Miss Mar
tins address, seemed to suggest a
dead issue.
1t was the unpatriotic attitude OF
the speaker and of several of her aud
fence which set a few thinking people
the task of trying to define Miss Mar
tins. status in the present crisis of
the nation.
IF the government wants me to
knit" she said with laugh, "let 1t
grant woman suffrage"
SUFFRAGE BEFORE AMERIcANisM
President Wilson is as nothing in the
way of Miss Martins desires.
"All that is needed now" she said,
'is a little push to get the president
to recommend to congress that the
suffrage amendment be passed." and
with a little wave of her hands dis
missed the chief executive of the ma
ton.
Shall tell you why Mrs. Pankhurst
dropped her fight for suffrage and
went to work to help her government"
asked Miss Martin with an air of
tremendous finality.
Because. first of all Mrs. Pankhurst
Is British woman before all else.
And an American woman stood be-
fore an American audience and ex-
pected them to agree with her that
before Americansm comes suffrage!
Before loving service for our soldier
boys in foreign lands, before Anne
Martin will knit for one of these who
may fall in the trenches today, the
government of America must give the
pickets at Washington, suffrage.
LABELED PRESIDENT KAISER"
The Congressional Union women-I
mean the "Woman's Party women
learn quickly from their experience.
There were no diamonds on Miss Mar
tin. Her dress was a demure Quaker
gray, and of a proper length. The
flaboyant overdress of the Hughes
Million Dollar Special of other days
was not in evidence.
Miss Martin evinced no sign of hys-
terra save once (perhaps she thought
of worm when Mrs. Cynthia Mann,
that noble. pioneer patriot who has de-
voted years of her life to teaching
patriotism to school children, asked If
it were true that banner bearing the
inscription, Kaiser Wilson," has been
displayed by the piclSeters.
Miss Martin denied, then evaded the
question. Mrs. Mann calmly persisted
in her demand for an answer and Miss
Martin, recovering her balance in some
degree finally admitted it to be true
She endeavored to explain why 1T
really was quite immaterlaw and
''meant nothing" and was audibly aid
cd in her effort by somewhat noisy
individual who had made little
speech in his own behalf, saying, wait
. until Wilson hears of the election of
Hillquit in New York. A pleasantly
which was well received by few about
him who seemed to think as he did.
Among Miss Martins most brilliant
flashes was the statement that moth
ing would weaken the Central powers
as would the passage of the suffrage
amendment now
wonder II Miss Martin ever saw
two of her school boys fight a real
boys battle on the campus of the Ne
vada university?
WORMS, WORMS EVERYWHERE.
But to return to our worms" From
Miss MartiIf's description, they built
their homes in the corn bread, they
went swimming in the soup, they
Toasted on the cheese and slept be-
tween the sheets in the Jail where the
picketers were incarcerated. These
conditions might exist in many places
and when the proper authorities knew
positively Of their existence. they would
be abolished. But when a fearful war
crisis Is threatening the country, the
leaders have little time to leave the
saving of the. nation to arrange the
menu for a little band of silly women
who persist in choosing a diet of
worms.
AS usual with the women of Miss
Martins militant organization, the