Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-21
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE AIMS
GREAT HUMAN EVOLUTION
fraSist, While Other Contribu-
tors Take Up Issue.
TROOPS NEED PHYSICAL AID
"a Mother" Criticizes Showing Of
Recent Motion Picture - Would
Set North Example in Ratifying
Constitutional Amendments.

Set NoTtn Example III hatlEHS
Constitutional Amendments.
TO tho Editor of Tho Times Dispatch:
Sir,-Whilc II would seem TO be nm
necessary again 10 refute such frc-
ouently disprovcd charges against suf-
fragists as appear in the letter OF III.
N in your sunday edition. yet. since
you give space to that letter, | feel
called upon TO request space IN your
columns in which to comment upon it,
The effort OF II. y" TO disparaGe
tho great democratic movement for
woman suffrage by the charge that
advocates of woman suffrage are on:
posed 10 law and order. marriage and
WAYS failed, when his statements are
tested by logic and by fact.
Tor instance. he infers that woman
circumstance that Frances Wright, in
1925 the frs; woman in America to
lecture rub!iciy on suffrage, it Is al
Why. then, are. they not influenced by
the fact that Mistress Margaret Brent.
in I647. the first woman in America
believed in the indiSsolubility of mar
rage!
Again he implies some occult and
sinister connection between the princi-
pies of sufira@ists to-day. and the
statement, itself incorrect. that Ernes-
tine Rose was 'hanished from Austria
in 1896, and made president OF the
ton" The facts are that E.rnestine
Rose. The daughter OF a rabbi. was ban
isned from Poland, came to America.
VAS a sunraris;, and has tho dis,inc-
tion OF being the first woman in Amcri-
en- 10 advocate and 10 work for mar
ricd worel',@ property rights. She was
can Woman Suffrage Association. II Is.
Of course difficult 10 see why she was
introduced as exhibit II by II. NJ" AZ
her work for the enactment of laws 10
enable married women to own prop
crty shows that she very seriously re-
2arded the laws affecting marriage.
Your correspondent then accuses DR..
Anna Howard Shaw of saying, The
marriage ceremony should be cut out.
It chsn. hn to T prcaucs It's an data iSa
Of authentic evidence for this accusn-
tion against tina woman appointed by
he Dresden. Of the United states.
womnns committee of the Council OF
National Defense: - lead the women OF
America during this war.
He further quotes DR.. Shaw as say
ing, II have a different service for each
marriage. The principles consult me
beforehand, and the pledges. arc pre-.
the couples" Or. Shaw is an ordained
minister Of that God-fcaring body of
Christians-the Mcthodists She per-
forms the marriage ceremony in ac-
"ordancc with the tcnets OF her church.
which admits Of some variation in the
wording of its services. as do: for in
,
camrbcllites. and 4 number of other
denominations. The vow OF obedience
by the wife to the husband in the t;pis-
copal marriage ceremony is not neces-
sarily demanded by those denoInina-
lions; nor Is il embodied in the Roma n
Catholic marriage ceremony II is DR.,
Shaw'S practice to use the word obey
OF not, according TO the wishes OF the
contracting parties.
That sunragists stand for law and
religion is attcStcd by the fact that a
a a NJ nr-
ganization reveals the names of more
clergymen than members of any other
is a suffragist.. The lat. Cardinal Mo
ran WAS suirrnsist. Rabbi stephen
-. Wise is u suffragis;. ms are also
hundreds OF clcrgymcn of local nation
al ana international reputation.
That suffrage is not movement of
women opposed to men. but rather a
great human evolution. is shown by the
fact that thousands Of men ana womc n
are working together in the cause of
suffrage. Three notable examples Of
husbands and wives working side by
Treasury. William G. McAdoo. and Mrs.
McAdoo. Secretary Of war. Newton l..
Baker, and Mrs. Baker: Secretary OF
the Navy. Josephus Daniels. and Mrs.
Daniels.
AZ to tho 'Woman's Rihlc" mention
cd by ~. n" that curiosity of ltcra-
turc has never been seen by me nor
ny any other sun ragist with whom !
have ever communicated, nor have |
ever found IL III any suffrage library.
and | have been actively engaged In
suffrage work some eight or nine years.
1t is evident that the influence OF this
nntiGuatcd volume Is negligible, ]
may say nonoNiu.cnt' /.
Since reference haas .becn made TO the
Scriptures. however, l. should like to
call the attention Of III. N and Of
all other antisuffragists to that portion
ot the Dccaloguo which commences.
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy nciShbor."
But truce TO this warfare. The
day is not far distant when tho Ma
tional Association Opposed To Woma n
suffrage, following tho lead OF It's
Now York branch, Will bow TO mascu-
line Judgment, and dissolve It's orEaui.
zation, unless. perhaps. it should con-
ciudc 20 reform itself into an ASsocia-
ton for the instruction OF Women
Voters. ADELE CLARK
Richmond Va. January IS, 1913.
Thanks thr Editor and H.. y.
TO the Editor. nf The Times Dispatcn:
Sir,--Somo of your readers have
nuously, though not wisely, crit,-
c"cl YOU for your very pyop.r Ohjcc-
tons 20 certain extreme Legislation
aucut drink and suffrage. Permit one
Of them - thank you, III the name Of
many who see The dangers that you
would avert. for The stand you have
taken.
To the zealo,. all objection to his or
ne aSsumedlY inspired program. no