New-York tribune., 1917-09-09


Declaring that among paciiists tine
shrieking sisterhood by no means out
numbers the bleating brotherhood
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt stood
souinting at a belated golden suffrage
sun from his piazza at Sycamore hlIi
this afternoon and told four hundred
sufragists that, on the ground OF pa
triotic duty, not sex. women, as wen ~
men, should have the ballot.
The Lord knows despise a pacinst.
said the Colonel, "and II oelleNeo tn"'
women. as distinguished from men,
Y,omid takc the wrong view of the ele-
mentary question of the duty oil ma
tionaI obedience | should not be IN
favor of giving them the vote. but l
believe with all my might that II there
IL any difference between the two sexes
in that respect, the wives, mothers ana
daughters of America will stand Just
trihe ahead of their sons, husbands ana
fathers in sacrificing everything 10
great and lofty ideal
As early as ! o'clock this afternoon
the village of Oyster Bay WAS INVADED
by long lines of suffrage AUTOMOBILES
and hungry suffragists, although the
meeting was not scheduled until
o'clock Long before that time. how
ever. the sutfragists had gathered on
the hill in front of the ColoneIs mouse
the house from which flies red and
white banner with four blue stars, one
for each OF the sons the Colonel mas
in the war. At 4 o'clock the Colonel
sppeared for "A round of handshaklng,
and n few minutes later took the plat
form with Mrs Norman der. White
house and George Bacon, OF smith
town, Long Island, who INTRODUCED him'
Baby Out -Roosevelted Roosevelt
Colonel Roosevelt did not have the
centre OF the stage during the entire
thirty minutes of his address, however
for up in a second-story window ms
two-year-old prototype, Richard DERBY
IT., was showing his teeth and waving
his arms in true RooseveItlan torm'
"I'd hate to see the woman vote VINO
does not raise her boy to be soldier
the Colonel would shout, but l haVe
to see the boy vote who does not want
10 be soldier.
"Whoopee!" young Richard would
call as a blue-andwhite arm would
whisk him away and nurses voice
say SSH H..
should have the vote the same as
every man does" came the Colonels
dictum.
YAH" echo answered from the sec
ond story window, every time out
Roosevelting Roosevelt.
Among the men and women present
to-day were Marcus NJ. Marks, Sam
uel Untermyer, Captain Bertram Cru
ger, Henry NJ. Bull, William G. Will
cox. Commissioner John A. kingsbury'
Judge William II. Wadhams, George +.
Mcdonald. Senator George l.. Ihomp-
son, ex-senator Carl Burr, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Mr.. and Mrs.
Victor Morawetz, Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden
Reid, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Livermore,
Mrs. Raymond Brown, Mrs. Edward II.
Dreier and Mrs. John Humphrey Wat
kins.
Roosevelt's Address
Colonel Roosevelt said in part:
"This is the only meeting dealing
with any matter not directly connected
with the war at which have consented
70 speak. ! consented in this case be
cause wish TO see this war put
through TO a successful conclusion, at
no matter what cost | wish, there
fore, 70 see every man and every
woman in this country devote every
ounce Of his or her strength to that
end, and, when | wish that demand 20
be made upon every one, ! wish CORE
spending justice TO be done every one.
az do not put it on the ground Of sex.
put it on the ground Of duty. On the
whole. the citizen to whom | will pay
the greatest Difference, as doing the
most indispensable of all duties, is the
mother | will put her ahead OF every
other human being. To deny the moth
er the vote seems TO me something so
preposterous that our descendants VIII
fail to understand how we could call
ourselves self-governing and demo-
cratic.
"We have heard a good deal about
the conscientious objector. Nineteen
times out Of twenty the conscientious
obiector is simply afraid or else he IS
Levy, but in the twentieth case, where
the man is a conscientious objector, n
is where he won't do anything TO serve
the country. If his conscience bothers
him. would not do anything to lnter,,
fere with him, but would understand
that nv conscience forbids him to vote
in the country that my sons have hell ed
tc save I hate TO see the woman VINO
does not raise her boy TO be a soldler'
but | hate to see the boy get the vote
if he does not want 20 be a Soldler'
hold that in each case the right TO vote