Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-28
SAYS SUFFRAGE IS
ALTOGETHER WRONG
Mrs. Wild Comments on Wilson'S
Reply TO Memorial Of French
Women.
ALL WOMEN Do WAR WORK
President Criticized for Not Giving
Consideration TO Majority Who
Do Not Want Vote.

Fundamentally wrong" is the
comment Of Mrs NJ, b, wild on Pres
ldent Wilson's reply to the mem
orial sent him by the French Union
of Woman Suffraglsts, presented by
Mrs. Gait, in which he expressed the
hope that the senate would adopt
the pending suffrage amendment,
Mrs. wild, continuing, said:
THE French women are not ask
ing for the vote any more than the
American women or the English
women did. The word woman does
not mean 'suffragists,' and the two
words are continually misapIropriat-
ed and confused The women Of the
world are splendidly doing their duty
to help win the war, while the suf-
fraglsts are working for little else
than the vote.
Miss Eva Fenton, examiner Of
munitions, who was recently here
from England, told me that she con-
sidcred the acknowledgment of wom-
en- in England grave evil and that
the majority of the women there
did not want to vote, The antl-suf-
fragists in England enrolled four
times rs many war workers as the
suffragists in a petition which was
presented.
Laws Made for Women.
However, | have always thought
that the position OF the women In
England could not be used as an
argument for America. The men in
making and enacting laws for the
protection and benefit OF the women
in our country have never failed to
give the advantage and justice to
her. Should universal suffrage OBJ
tain the dangers by increasing the
radical, Socialist and race vote
would be more than grave. States
rights on which the constitution was
founded and which has been fought
for, is rapidly being relegated to
the scrap heap. The supreme court
of the United States on June 8
handed down one OF the most far
reaching judicial decisions In Amer
lean history. when the child labor
law OF 1915 was declared invalid
and unconstitutional because the
power Of the states to regulate their
purely internal affairs by such laws
as seem wise to the local authorities
Is inherent and has never been sur
rendered.
why. therefore. are state legis-
latures and reterendums TO be dis
regarded and applied to woman suf-
frage. Woman suffrage was defeat
ed in twenty state legislatures last
year, and by the vote of Is states
in the past five years.
Suffragists Have Wilson's Far.
1T seems that the heads of the
suffrage organizations have the ear
of the president at all times where
as the representatives OF the women
of the country who are not asking
the franchise and are doing real war
work are refused n hearing by Pres
| ident Wilson. This was the case re-
| Gently. II our cause were as con-
| stantly kept in the limelight as the
suffrage cause perhaps the president
would realize that other than
| suffrage females exist and have
some right to be considered.
| wonder what would happen II all
| the women who are not Interested
| In suffrage should stop doing war
work because they are not recog-
| nized | fear the ranks would be so
! depleted and the work so crippled
| that nothing would be done and the
wOrkrooms have to close. Why
should the minority be given the
preference over the great majority?"