Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-07-07
What Women Want.
Woman Patriot.

: The suffrage Is by means "the only
acknowledgements women ask. Mil
lions of them prefer and urgently ask
for the preservation OF their freedom
from political burdens-.but these
women, representing beyond the
shadow of a doubt the sentiment OF
the majority OF their sex, and rep
resented by their husbands. fathers,
sons and brothers who have defeated
woman suffrage at the pools Is times
In five years, by majority far great
er than even the president received.
are ignored by the president.
To give the women politicians what
they want, all women are to be forced
into politics; and that this may be
done in spite OF the win of the
women or the votes of the men of
this country, the senate Is asked 10
disfranchise every voter in tho
| United States on this question, 80
that some four thousand men In SO
legislatures may be able to impose
upon the nation in time war a new
ponucal experiment, costing over
. S25,0O0,OO0 year, in violation OF
the fundamental principles of demor-
racy-majority rule and local self
government
Why is not the ideal force OF opin-
lon'--the present constitutional right
or each state to decide this question.
for Itself by popular vote--to be used
| on woman suffrage. To ask the
question is to answer It: a federal
force bill has proved to be the only
way to take this question out of the
hands OF the states and the people,
and put It in the hands OF Mrs. Car
r1e Chapman Gait, unofficial woman
manager OF the woman suffrage
committee OF the United States, and
unofficial woman messenger from
the president
Mrs. Gait is evidently in possession
Of remarkable privileges In he re-
cent letter to the president, for in
stance, she declares that the senate
OF the United States Is standing with
our enemy countries in this matter"
sen INSERTS that Germany and
Hungary are the only parliaments
which have pronounced against
woman suffrage since the beginning
or the war. In this, she is wrong.
as usual, but Mrs. Gait has no pas
sion for accuracy. The parliament
Of Sweden recently reversed its
earlier approval ofe "votes for
women" but Mrs. Gait is now trying
to include the United States with
enemy countries"
And she did this, Just exactly five
days after she made an address in
Boston. where she said:
Even in the Prussia parliament
there has been n discussion of the
question OF giving women the vote
The only hesitation on this subject
is in the United States"
Nv 60
rie Capman Gait, the senate did not
stand with IAN enemy parliament in
this matter. But on June Z, also
/ according to Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, the senate did stand. and has
stood, with the enemy parliament
as she says, Surely the United States
senate can no longer, stand with our
enemy countries in this matter" Ac-
cording TO Mrs Gait herself, the SEN
ate took this stand sometime between
May rs and June 7--or MAS. Gait
has again contradicted herself as
usual.
! Who Is this privileged woman poll
tclan who can say what she pleases
about the president OF the United
States or the United States senate?
She Is an ex-school teacher who,
, Cor thirty years, has devoted herself
| to agitation for nSuffrage First
With her followers. who had not won
n victory in nearly twenty years, she
persuaded Mrs. q. II. =. Belmont a
few years ago to bring the national
| suffrage association from Warren,
| Ohio. and establish It in palatiai
headquarters IN New York city Ana
when her cause was beaten TO a
| standstill by the people at the polls.
she persuaded an old woman on the
edge of the grave to leave in her
hands nearly s1.000.000 to carry OH
the agitation. After the Leslie for
tune was secured Mrs. o. II. L. Bel
mont was quietly dropped from tho
National Suffrage association. and
Mrs Gait, in whose hands the Leslie
fortune was left. superseded Anna
Howard Shaw as president of the
suffrage association DR.. Shaw was
practically "shelved" with a pension
OF $1,000 year, while Mrs Gait be-
came the real woman manager" OF
the Leslie fortune, and of the suf-
frage agitation In this country which
It subsidies
During these years that Mrs Gait
has been winning her way to the
control OF a fortune and the posi-
ton of woman manager" more
than twenty million other American
women have gone down into the val
ley of the shadow. on an average Of
three times each, to perpetuate the
race and TO place men as their rep
resentatives on the firing line and at
the ballot box