New-York tribune., 1917-08-30

| believe.
| ish sentiment and visionary sentlmen-
| tality than men. -,
| Against the splendid sacrifice, the
! viriIe patriotism of the countless Amer
/ lean women laDoring in the myriad ser
vices anciliary to the fighting forces OF
/ the nation, or sending gladly 10 the
/ front their husbands. sons and brothers
for the honor Of the nation and the
future of democracy, ! REMIND myseii
We must put the cowardly, the senu-
/ mental. the disloyal conduct OF most
ri mon. in and out of Congress, who
have sought 10 weaken, TO discourage
/ and to embarrass our country at the
greatest crisis of her life. Neither sex
/ has a monopoly Of courage, OF wisdom
/ or Of weakness"
| at was my privilege to vote two
wears ago for the amendment extend
[ ing the suffrage to the women. shall
vote for it again this year. ! wish you
complete success. | predict your VIC
tory By a substantial majority Of the
votes of the electors of the state
Whitman on kaiserism
Governor Whitman warned of acded
responsibility with the franchise.
. "In the triumph that is to be yours
I said he. twill come increased respon-
sibility-and no greater responsibility,
no duty higher or more ennobling than
to kearten the hosts of your country
Mr.. Whitman's subject was Kaiser
ism the Last Stronghold Of Anti
| Suffragism" In the course OF his ad-
dress he said:
What does one hear of the German
women of to-day? Nothing. What
/ German woman has lifted her voice
against the murder Of innocent chill
4 dren in the sinking Of the Lusitania?
! "Is this any wonder when, under the
/ doctrines Of Treitschke, both German
men and German women were regarded
as having no rights above the state?
"Is this any wonder when German
/ youth was fed on the ideas of Hartman
! and Schopenhauer? that woman was
| simply a being with an abundance of
hair and little brains?
/ as it any wonder when the latest
/ of German philosophers, the preacher
| Of the 0ver-Man, the great Nietzsche,
proclaimed: When thou goest TO wom-
/ an remember thy whip?
] "Is il any wonder that under this
/ philosophy, with these teachings and
! these ideas, there was produced the
worst type of man, the primitive, the
/ relentless, believing that woman's sole
! duty was the production Of cannon
| fodder?
/ "But this ! prophesy-that from all
/ these suffering women of Germany.
who, strangely unprotesting, are yet
/ bleeding at the heart as they see their
I loved ones drawn into the slaughter,
/ there shall still come a protest-a pro-
/ test TO what effect we do not know
/ but protest that will mean something
/ 10 the world, as the protest Of suffer
/ ing woman has always meant some
thing to the world.
Mrs. Whtehouse on War
Mrs. Norman der. Whitehouse, chair
man of the New York State Suffrage
/ Party, told how the women have made
/ their work for suffrage secondary 10
/ the work Of the country in war.
when the war came We offered our
services to our country" said she.
1--WE knew that il meant we must sacri-
| fee the immediate interest Of our
cause. We are patriotic women. We
recognize that the demand for woman
suffrage is based on love of country
and a desire to serve.
Suffrage speakers were taught to
speak for the Liberty Loan and the
suffrage party sold $4,OOO,OOO worth Of
the bonds.
I'VE have put government work frst
and suffrage work second. But in spite
/ Of all our sacrifice of time and effort
we have enrolled as sufragists over
/ 500. 900 women over twenty-one years
/ Of age in this state. This is larger
enrolled membership than either the
I Republican or Democratic parties OF
! New York State can boast"
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, rice-chalr-
man of the State Woman Suffrage party
and chairman Of food conservation, told
Of the work the sufraglsts have done
H. outstanding food.
Here again" said Mrs. Laidlaw, the
Woman Suffrage party is in the lead
While there was trouble in Washington
about getting an Appropriation for
printing, we got out the first 1000 food
pledges. The number of housewives
doing this great patriotic work varies
from $1,000 70 hundreds of thousands
ir various counties. In a recent letter
the speakers bureau OF Mr.. Hoover
Conservation Committee said: Mr.
Hoover appreciates that there could be
10 better agency for food conservation
. work than the women who represent
4 ,bc Ne,, Nork State Suffrage party' "