Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-07-18
Bryan Stirs Antis, Ire.

William j. Bryan has run afoul the Ma
tlonal Association Opposed to Woman's
suffrage and has found that he is face to
face with a buzzsaw. the fury of which
will probably take his breath when he
reads the challenge" issued by the anti
suffrage women in Washington on Monday.
1t seems that in an uneuarded moment
Mr. Bryan, who is now appearing before
the legislatures of Southern States URGING
that the Susan B. Anthony amendment be
ratified, declared that this amendment was
a sure guarantee of continued and last
ing peace" and that 1.-THE forces of evil are
lined up against the ballot for women"
This has enraged the Anti-Suffrage Asso-
citation run by Mrs. James W. Wadsworth,
wife of the Senator from New York Mrs.
Grover Cleveland Preston, wife of Presi-
dent of the United States, and hundreds
of other women who resent being branded
as forces of evil"
Here is the fashion in which these women
reply to the Commoner:
Your belief in woman suffrage as a first
aid to pacihsm is well founded. The re-
cent pro-German action of the so-called
Woman's International Congress at Zurich,
composed of 80 German women, 20 Ameri-
can suffragists. including Jane Adams,
Jeanette Rankin, Florence Kelley, Lillian
Valid, Emily Balch and other notorious
agitators who tried so hard to keep us
out of war with Germany in April, 1917,
was greet consolation to Germany, and
held up the signing of the peace treaty for
several weeks by encouraging the Germans
to regard the terms as oppressive and
'inhuman.'
yet not one of these pacifists who won
the applause of Germany by protesting
against the peace terms in 1919, said
word in behalf of Belgium in 1914. In
1915, long after the sinking of the Lusi-
tania, every one of them was an active
member Of the Woman's Peace Party. Or
ganized by Frau Rosika Schwimmer, a
German agent, to keep us out of the war
When German aggression threatened the
world with conquest. these tender ladies
did nothing but personally request the
Kaiser to please stop the war and implore
the American Congress not to start it.
when you say, however. that the forces
of evil are lined up against the ballot for
women we challenge not only the state
ment itself, but your sincerity in making
it. You know that some of the noblest
and most respected women in America
are conducting the campaign against
woman suffrage. You would not dare to
get up before any audience in America
and declare that Mrs. Grover Cleveland
Preston (vice-president of this associa-
tom who, while in the White House. did
more for temperance in public life than
any woman has done since. is associated
with either the liquor interests or any
other evil forces We ask you and chal-
lenge you to tell the Alabama Legislature
and all other Southern Legislatures just
why you are so eager to fasten anew the
problem Of reconstruction days upon the
South. just why you want to put back the
clock go years and restore all the race
hatred, carpet bag rule and negro domi-
nation that existed in the South from
1866 to 1880.
"You know and we know that the Ma
tional Association Opposed to Woman
Suffrage has never used a cent of liquor
money in any of its campaigns. You
ought to know that Susan B. Anthony her
self appealed to the United Brewers Asso-
citation to aid the very amendment you
are now advocating. and also that the
daughter Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton act
ually sacrificed her American citizenship
to marry foreign brewer.
ut took you Sc years of your life to
learn that the doctrine preached by Susan
B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
20 years before you were born was good"
You went through three unsuccessful
Presidential campaigns without once dis
covering that the 70-year-old agitation for
votes for women was opposed by evil in
terests.
How comes it that a great scholar. a
former Democrat. did not discover these
evils until he reached the age of So, did
not see the good of Aunt Susan amend
ment until just before the coming presi-
dental election. and he is going about the
country trying to convince Southern leg
islatures that it would be to their own
advantage to betray their constituents
and double the negro vote.
"You cannot point to single law passed
with women voting that is not matched
by better law passed under male suffrage.
You cannot point to single compensating
advantage for the waste Of $25,000,000
of the peoples money every year on dOu-
BILE suffrage. You cannot prove in a single
State that women are better represented
by votes than by men; that office-seekine
female politicians can represent the true
interests Of women better than the fathers
of their children.
1--WE challenge you to prove any of these
points, and we ask you, as an honorable
man. either to prove your evil interests
charge or publicly to withdraw it."
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