Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-26
Woman Suffrage
Ea CCOntinurdj
Suffrnpc Lenders

Suffrage Leaders.
Ihe Rev Anna Shaw, present head
OF the National Woman Suffrage as
sociation, as quoted in the North
American. puts forwArd hor best
foot In discussion with the criminal
IDIOT bogey: THE franchise is now
given 10 All except criminals,
lunntlca, aliens, children and WON
On There are obvious reasons for
making all these but the last
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. hold
Ing the PROUD position Of president
~ the international woman suffrage
alliance, the 'opmost plnnac4e of
suffraRottc cminoncc. rests the case
for suNrage on the remedial legisla-
tlon enacted In the equality suffrage
states. "CalifOruia, Colorado. Idaho,
Utah, Oregon ana Washington have
passed mothers pension laws; they
hhvO splendid child labor laws. far
In advance Of the legislation in most
states now governed by men"--she @
tells New York American
liut,"-the most remarkable thing
about THIS remedial legislation" -
next 10 the marvel that either side
10 the contention should make IL a
vital lssue--.ig the ease with which II
lips the scales for the woman-suf-
fraRe or the man suffrage states -
according to whcthor we have n suf-
fragist or an AntI-suffragist in the
witness box
Jane Addams' particular contrlbu-
tIon to tho suffrage propaganda a
the idcn that woman'a partlclpation
In external government will abolish
war for all time, and substitute a
NOR" rational pacific method Of
settling international differences As
It happens this. OF all the suffrn-
Elst claims, makes the strongest per-
Sonnl appeal ~ me, hut Miss Adams
and her uffragc.paciflst associates
must hav" erred in their historical
search AS woman. as revealed on
pages Of history, In seen tanning tho
flames ~ war In all times and coun-
uieE--avcn when she was not the
Immediate cause OF Il.
But this war claim only serves 10
Illustrate the suffrage vagary run
ming all through it's reform" pro-
Rram--that the woman ballot can be
relied upon to behave differently
from the woman herself
Even taking advantage Of the en-
gincer corps of women and other
women who arc 80 nobly enacting
their duties side by side with sol
dlers who are giving their all to save
our country, Tho suffrage would
like TO claim credit for these volun-
teers--'If only they had the ballot"
As has been contendcd. women
can do what men do and still more
yet do they require the ballot To do
this. Again, No! One truth will he
recognized again and that Ia: many
an anti-suffraEist has been doing dill
igent Red Cross work and other lines
for three years quietly working for
these boys-and their Stars and
Stripes-not for votes! Nothing ap-
parently was heard OF their sacri-
fIces, but whoop! all OF sudden n
few suffrage women get together
and proclaim In noises deafeninR:
we are winning the war" How can
thev do all this without the ballot?
Mrs. Pankhurst Is another strik-
ing example OF mffragette preach
ment In time Of peace, and suffra-
gette conduct in time Of war!
A favorite suffrage boast Ia that
their ranks include n larger percent
age Of brainy. thinking women than
can be found among their opponents.
How far this is supported by fact
can readily be ascertained by refer
ence to the records OF suffrage lead
ers-at home and abroad--from
which we learn how little In the way
OF intellectual achievement is listed
to their credit; that such prominence
as most of them enjoy is due to
their activities In the suffrage move-
ment pure and simple, few of them
having any other claim TO distlnc-
tion.
~ A. a1An. koxd -. kt.a 1ha
foremost women's names In literary
and artistic achievement either hold
ing tho woman-ballot a very negll-
gihle quantity, or n positive hind
rance TO womanly development
These hold that the very objects
sought by the sutfragists can he bet
ter attainSAHfI>-Fo without the
ballot than with H.; and very no
table and practical demonstration OF
this Is the efforts OF Mrs. Humphrey
Ward. the ablest woman In English
letters today.
There are doubtless brighter in.
tellects in the suffrage movement
in America than It's national head
Rev Anna Howard Shaw-but her
answe to this objection Of the antis,
made in the United States senate,
may be taken as fairly representative
OF the suffragist's standard OF cleo
toral fitness.
"While we will add some Hitter
atcs, you know you can afford three
million illiterates out OF $4,000 900
voters" Twenty-one million intel
ligent" women voters, whose only
certificate for intelligent ballotinE
was that they could read and write!
Had DR.. Shaw ever been baptized In
the fires OF matrimony-witho
which no woman can have proper
understanding Of either seX-she
might have clearer line on a fem
inine trait more crippling to the eff
ficacy OF woman suffrage even than
ignorance. and that is the tendency
OF wives to deHr to their husbands
in matters outside tho home.
CTo be Continued)