Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-09
WOMEN SPEAKERS AT
CITY CLUB LUNCHEON
Charlotte Rowe Delivers Telling Ar
gumcnt Against Votes for
Her Own Sex.
DINERS HEAR ABOUT TULSA
Nothcr OF Talented Dancer Declares
Gar Is lmbccile Like
Kaiser.


argument against woman suffrage,
and Mrs. Y. u. McMurray of Kansas
CITY spoke Interestingly Of conditions
i1 Russia as she learned them
through a two-yoar residence in that
country,
George Black, organizer and first
president Of the club, introduced j.
& Whitehurst. member Of the board
o. agriculture, and Of the district
draft appeal board for the west side
of the state He ia a candidate for
president OF the board OF agricul-
ture. lie euloglzed the farmers OF
Oklahoma for their patriotism,
Epoke Of the breaking down Of the
&arricr between the city and the
cpuntry and urged the building OF
gtod roads.
Traffic Expert Also Guest.
F.. y. Adams manager Of the
Tulst Traffic association intro
+ duced J. II. Johnston OF oklahoma
e Cly. one of Oklahoma's leading rate
experts, who Is to accompany Mr.
Adams and others to Chicago next
Tuesday in an effort TO secure re-
adjustment OF railroad freight rates
fil oklahoma. Mr. Johnston is 4
candidate for corporation commits
sloner.
u Mrs McMurray explained that she
Y knew the members We're shocked
when she was introduced as the
mother OF Mile, Rhea, a dancer ap-
poarinE n a local theater She is n
lady OF culture and refinement and
while not a pubic speaker she gave
one Of the most intellectual and en-
tightening talks the City club has
ever had the pleasure to listen to.
II am just mother" she said,
who believes IN giving her children
"a the proper guidance in the things
they like best to do. That is why
II took my daughter to Russia to
study dabcing. 1t is true that we
are just dancing people, but never
theless we are human"
Mrs McMurray's father was an
oklahoma Sooner
She said the Russian people were
generous In their nature, but lacked
tho quality Of leadership and initia-
tive, During the time she resided at
TetroErad all of the teachers in the
Russian schools were Germans and
the German language was almost uni
vnrsally spoken. II was impossible
for peasant children to get an edu-
cation on account OF the cost Rus
sian is "A land OF great hidden wealth
which never will be properly dew
eloped until Americans get on the
; Job. She thinks that Nicholas VIII
get back In power through the in
fluence of the kaiser, who is his
brother-in-law
Gar Imbccile Like Kaiser.
The czar." she said ''is an inn
hecilc, the same as the kaiser. His
mother, however. Is an Intelligent
woman, who really ran the affairs Of
the country when he was on the
throne. The mass Of the people still
believe in the cZar as they believe
tIy the deity, il is just the Socialists.
tho agitatops, who have Oyerthrown
the government.
Miss Rowe registered an empha-
tic hit with the City club members
rs she has with the members Of
other clubs before whom she has
spoken i'm Tulsa recently and many
OF them rushed to her to congra-
tulnte her at the conclusion of her
remarks. Some of them had abso-
mtely been converted by her argu-
mcnt.
She spoke Of the favorite argu-
ment of the suffragists that TO give
them the ballot will mean that a
woman can walk by her husbands
side to the polls and strengthen and
sustain him,
"If | we're carried" she said land
on election day my husband should
ask me to walk by his side to
strengthen and sustain him, I would
say to him: 'Gwendolyn. here's the
key to the flat. I'm going home to
father I would advise the man
suffraElst who thinks he needs his
wife TO strengthen and sustain him,
IN shovel coal into the furnace. play
golf or run around the block In or
der 70 gain epough strength and
manly qualities to do his own vot-
ing"
The suffragists OF England, as
we'll a s the leaders OF the movement
IN America, she said. points to the
fact that after the war the women
will be in the majority in England.
They Cloat over the dead bodies Of
their men who have fallen upon the
field OF honor and point with pride
10 the day when they will rule the
country"
Answering the suffrage argument
Of taxation without representation
Miss Rowe pointed 10 the fact that
John u. Rockefeller owns property
I'm nearly every state but he only
has one vote on election day, Forty
per cent of the men are taxpayers
while only 10 per cent Of the wo-
men are taxpayers
The Socialists do not believe she
continued, In the private owner
ship of property They realize that
he inspiration for the accumula-
ton of private property is the
family Socialist and suffragists
alike aim at the destruction of the
family az social unit. They call
it human institution, we call it
sacred institution"
The ballot, she asserted, was
bought and aid for by the blood OF
our fathers, and the men OF today,
IN considering the question OF sur
iragc, should keep in mind the OBJ
lisation they owe to future genera
tons.
This question of equal rights,
aNe said, sis nothing new, The wo-
men Of Athens and of Rope" had
the ballot, and in each case it was
the certain signal for the decline
or those nations. il is an age-old
truth that cannot be successfully
denied that woman cannot do
mans work and a woman's work
also.