Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-05
This Correspondent Wants TO Sci Right
Wrong Thinking Anti-Suffragist.

cCGAin Ao~fiNA eau ~ SC E0NI E4liA0t~
tion of protest against the inevitable
but we suppose it is necessary some
time to free ones mind 1t is true
there can be no more certain indica-
tion IF the status OF the suffrage
movement today than is found IN the
attitude of its opponents and in the
futile arguments they bring in effort
t. break down the wall over which the
handwriting has passed.
First. the writer of article referees
TO, says that suffragists argue tina
women should be given the vote be
cause all saloon men and brewers are
opposed to it, and from such statemnt
she draws the deductions that these
CITIZENS making living in a. ne
farious manner and trafflcing in no
man SOULS" still have the highest
ideals and great vision of fair and
beautiful womanhood in its proper
sphere well, IL is TO laugh!
Then she states that il Ants should
blush TO have such men advocate their
cause, suffragists should blush to have
Socialists and Feminists espouse the
cause OF suffrage. as the, policy of
sll Socialists is to disrupt every
thing" and the policy of Feminist
too unspeakable TOR women to handle.
A knowledge of the aims of Socialist
must lead any fair mind to discrimi.
nate between Socialists AMI Anarch-
lists. We refer a student like the
writer. TO the history of the Socialist
movement. AS to the Feminist it is
TOO vague, too uncertain, too little
formulated, too little understood, to
produce any effect on great movements
when women can employ their best
energies on domestic, civic, social and
political life and speak with the voice
of authority through the ballot, they
will have no time for the vagaries of
the human mind. Again the writer
mskes the remarkable statement that
by honest roll-caIl the large majority
of suffragists are foreigners. 1 do
not know to what Toll-call she had &C.
oess, certainly not that of the old and
reat National American Woman's
outrage Association, that has brought
the plea for Feds' al Amendment to
the u. S. Congress for fifty years. |
wish it might be the privilege of the
writer To sit in the splendid conVen-
tions of this Association and see the
rank and file of the women who COM
pose it, well poised, well cultured,
ably equipped and terribly in earnest,
she would have great awakening
OF course, we have SOME FINE FOR
EIGNERS too, as we find our Ants
broad enough to shelter them ard our
love great and deep enough to hear.
The writer sage that we want suf-
frsge because the women of England
have received it Woodrow Wilson,
whom she honors in spite Of the fact
that he is suffragist, is high authori-
ty for analysis of the women's de sire
for the vote, he calls it the express
sions of highest aspiration and born in
the deepest convictions Of the human
soul. Now that we have the "raison
d'etre" of the Suffrsgist we find in
the writer's own language that of the
Ants, viz: woman has not risen to
full realization of the worlds concep-
tion of her own dignity and worth"
In answer to the statement made in
regard to Norway and Suffrage, !
again quote the highest authority.
The worthy President of our Suffrage
Association of America, and slso
President of the international Suffrage
Alliance, says, cat every Congress of
the Alliance delegates from the sturdy
democratic country of Norway come
bearing news of some fresh victory
at last they come with the news that
its task is completed. Two hundred
and fifty thousand women have been
added to the number already enfran-
chised. Suffrage for both sexes has
been established. More than that,
apostles of womans freedom come
bearing the further good tidings of
most helpful forward legislation, ac-
complished as direct result of woman's
vote. Two heroic leaders, to whose
devoted and intelligent guidance much
of success is due, have come to our
Congress as official delegates of the
Norwegian government. All nail to
brave and victorious Norway"
The writer says we must draw the
line between Americans and foreign
ers, very sharply, and then deplores
the fact that we are not Americans
bat race of mongrels +" Well. it
has been SAID consistency is virtue
of SMALL minds
As to the fine men given by finest
mothers to the American world we
have to say if those great mothers had
never had visions of better world of
meen and women than then existd,
such men could never have adorned
our hist DRY. and as those dreams come
true in the light of suffrage it is as
true as that the sun shines in the hes-
vens, we shall yet have better men
than THESE, and we shall hear less
of the BAD woman's vote and of the
BAD mans vote. Men and women |
must stand on the same high plane of |
virtuous living God has decreed il, |
and the exigencIes of the race demand |
it. Does the writer know that the |
first suffragist Of the world was
Ahighil Adams. wife and mother OF |
great men. She opened suffrage in |
the first Congress Of the States. Mas
sachusetts and Maryland claim the |
honor OF having the earliest suffra
gists, for Margaret Brent openly pre-
claimed her right to vote in Assembly, |
and there have always been Maryland |
women of keen vision of right The |
present Governor of the State was
asked if bis mother was living if she |
would not declare for suffrage? He |