Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-28
ANTLSUFFS MADE
4 HIT LAST NIGHT
Miss Rowe Given Such An Ovation
As Is Rarely Witnessed In
The State House
SHE SCORES FEMlNISM
Pleads For Old-Fsshioned Home, And
The Old Fashioned Customs of
Our Mothers Day And Time

Declaring that to place the ballot
in the hands of women simply meant
the coming of wave of feminism
which will destroy the foundation
stone of American civilization. the
family" Miss Charlotte L. Rowe, of
New York. last night thrilled an au-
dience which filled the House of
Delegates Chamber for the second OF
the series of anti-suffrage meetings.
Miss Rowe's audience was frankly
friendly to her view of the votes for
woman proposition. Her appeal for
the old-fashioned home the old-fash-
Toned mother, and the wholesome Gus
toms of old-fashioned times brought
the Legislators and others in the audi
ence to their feet time after time with
enthusiastic cheers.
The applause, not confined to hand
clapping, but consisting of good deal
of unrestrained cheering, was one Of
the warmest outbursts heard in the
House Chamber this year
Miss Rowe and Judge Oscar Lesser
were the speakers presented by the
Maryland Association Opposed TO
Woman Suffrage to offer the final arg
ument before the Legislators against
the various bills granting the ballot
to women, which have been introduc-
ed. Mrs. NJ. A. Talbot presided at
the meeting, which brought to Anna
polls a large number of the antis
from Baltimore.
Miss Rowe began her address by an
attack on suffrage, not as giving the
ballot alone, but what she argued it is
bound to lead to "a wave of feminism
which will destroy the foundation
stone of American civilization, the
family"
"Feminism,'' she said, will smash
the family, will annihilate it. Our
suffrage friends often use the woro
parasite, and old-fashioned mother;
and they draw a parallel for the two.
Old-fashioned mother a parasite? Be
cause she knew no eight-hour law
for mothers? Because she was not
paid for her work as mother? No, she
was not paid, thank God, because no
price was great enough to pay her.
And our suffrage friends tell you the
and my mother, was a parasite"
THE woman's movement" continu-
ed Miss Rowe, knows no sanctities,
no sacred presence and holds nothing
revered but dollars and cents"
Referring to woman's work in coll
leges, she said: "They would do bet
ter to learn to cook and darn and sew
and all about that beautiful art of
homemaking, than to march at the
head of parades, up crowded avenues,
studying how to become policemen,
boilermakers and such "
Home she said "is a place of
four walls in which woman is con-
fined, the suffragists tell you. May
be that's what it is to them. But to
me, to millions of other women,
home is where the heart is, the fam
lily is; where we dream of God"
After reviewing the arguments for
suffrage in England and other coun-
tries Miss Rowe concluded her address
with an appeal to the men to give
particular consideration 20 the s.
000,0 900 women "who, every year, are
handicapped by babies nursing at
their breasts and who can't fight
against the ballot, and if they get it
can't make their pure influence felt"
After the prolonged applause which
marked the end of Miss Rowe's ad-
dress, Judge Lesser took up a review
of the "antics" and tricks of the
suffragists in bulldozing the Legisla-
ture into giving the small but noisy
minority the vote