Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-22
Anti-Suffragist Says Ii We Do Our
Work Faithfully and COnscientiOusly
There VIII Be No Time To Attend
To Mans Duties.

There VIII Be No Time To Attend
To Mans Duties.
Mr.. Editor:-Please pardon me for
again consuming some OF your valu-
able time and space, but l am anxious
to have a question pertaining to suf-
frage answered.
/ am much puzzled over the state
ment, THE women of the underworld
are already in politics." which was
made by Mrs. Robert Moss in a recent
article. Does Mrs. Moss refer to the
women who are already voting? Ii
so. she should have said Some of the
women of the underworld are already
in politics" L am waiting anXiously
her explanation.
Mrs. Moss said she failed to find the
word Feminists in some dictionaries,
but quoted the meaning she found in
the Universal Dictionary
If Mrs Moss will kindly pardon me
l Will suggest that we go TO dictfon-
aries for the definition of words, but
if we want information on issues, on
organizations, on societies, we must
consult recent copies of encyclopedias,
must read magazines on current top
les, and the histories pertaining to
said issues.
l decline to discuss Feminism, on
which subject a number of books have
been written, but if Mrs. Moss has
anything to recommend it / will be
glad to know what she has to say.
However, / will say the doctrines as
preached by Frances Wright have
found lodgment in the lives of these
women living in America.
Mrs. Moss had but an imperfect
vision when she saw in my article
any suggestion that woman is inferior
to man. | hold she is his equal, but
that each has a distinct work as each
has distinct part to perform in Gods
! great plan.
Would we expect or even wish
Caruso to grind hand organ?
Do we think of Cornelia as other
than 1.-The Mother of the Grachi? To
me her words, Let me not be known
as the daughter of Scipio, but rather
as the Mother of the Grachi," portray
the true spirit of motherhood.
Could we as American mothers re-
peat her utterance. "These are my
jewels as she proudly displayed her
two sons, there would be no need to
mingle in the political arena.
1t takes much courage to be the
Mother of men," and much patience,
care and self-sacrifice to raise them.
To us, as women, is given the task
of raising and educating them, as the
children are left almost exclusively
in the hands of their mothers till sent
to school; then they, in almost every
instance, are sent to female teachers
till ready for the high schools, and
in many instances they go through the
high schools without a male teacher.
What is the matter with all this
female teaching if our boys do not
make true, noble politicians?
If we do our work faithfully and
conscientiously. there will be no time
left for us to attend to mans duties.
Mrs. Moss deemed it quite joke
that / should appeal to the legisla
tors to uphold the dignity of our
womanhood.
Has Mrs. Moss forgotten the charge
to the knights in the time of Chivalry?
Do we not teach our own little boys
to uphold the ideals of womanhood?
May we not make the same appeal
to our men
True manhood appeals to me, and
feel that "Our boys over there" were
sent not only "To make the world safe
for democracy" but also to ayenge the
insults to womanhood.
If we have more patience with men
in their work, more sympathy with
them in their temptations; if we
were all just the true strong selves we
would have them be, we would get
just the good legislation we desire
without being forced into politics
l like the word "Femicide," used by
Mrs. Moss, but it was misapplied, as it
rightly belongs to the suffragetts.
We as Ants are ardently striving
to retain all the feminine qualities and
Semper ferina would suit us better.
Very sincerely,
MRS. THOS. L. GLADDEN..
Md,
February 20, 1918.
State House GOssip-The General As