The labor standard., 1919-03-01
FINAL REPLIES
 OF SUFFRAGISTS
 TO PESKY ANTIS
Clear Statement of Facts Rela- tive to Personal and Other Attacks on Woman Suffrage AssOcia and It's Leaders

Attacks on Woman Suffrage
 Association and Its Leaders
 In view of the repeated attempts on the part of the opponents of suffrage
 to discredit. by personal attack, a
 movement which they cannot defeat
 by the weight of argument, the Con- necticut Woman Suffrage Association asks you to print the following state
 ment by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Associations:
 ''To begin with, let me say that nothing would give suffragists more pleasing satisfaction than an investi- gation into the sources of their sup port and the items of their expendi- lures. Our books are audited semi annually by certified accountant and always have been open for examina- tion. Our financial record for fifty years is as clear as the fresh driven snow. Not a dollar has come from any source which we would not be willing to announce from the house tops.
 'Misstatement No. One: I speak for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. This body has nothing whatever to do with the Wo- mans Party, it's finances nor it's tao tics. I have never said at any time or place that the National Board spends a million dollars a year. have said, and I repeat, that the Ma tional, State and Local Boards. spend about million dollars year and add that every one of these hundreds of Boards would be glad to make an accounting of their receipts and expen- ditures to whenever it may interest.
 sMisstatement No. Two: The presi- dent of the National American Woman Suffrage Association has no sympathy or patience whatsoever with the I. w.. w., and the women who say she is at the head of move ment to organize woman's I. w. w. make charge absolutely without foundation and must misrepresent her with full knowledge and wilful intent.
 ssMisstatement No. Three: Rosika Schwimmer did not come to this coun- try with or without peace resolutions by appointment of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. She came of her own volition and at her own expense. She was not an officer of the Alliance when she came, and was not president of the Hungarian 9Suf- frage Association. I think she was never president of that body.
 ssMisstatement Number Four: It has never been charged by anyone but anti-suffra gists that Frau Schwimmer was an agent of the German Govern ment at the time of her activities on behalf of the adoptiof of woman salf-= frage' in this country.
 ssMisstatement Number Five: Frau Schwimmer had nothing whatever to do with the organization of the Ger man American Suffrage Committee. That committee was organized in 1915 and lasted for few weeks. It was organized for the purpose of putting suffrage propaganda before German voters who soon would have the op- portunity to vote on suffrage amend ment. Its officers were highly edu- cated, distinguished, loyal and patri- otic German-A l have never heard that any member of that com mittee was disloyal by word or deed. All Won Dernberg had to do with it was to make speech at public meeting, and this many months before anyone suspected his objective in this country. There were also. French, Scandinavian, Russian, and numerous other similar committees, organized for similar purposes.
 sMisstatement Number Six: No one has ever said that knowledge of his family, his church and his lodge, kept on card index, is used to influence a legislators attitude on the Federal Suffrage Amendment. The record of men is kept naturallya system fol lowed by every sensible organization looking to legislation.
 "Misstatement Number Seven: By lifting out of it's context half sen tence and thrusting. it in with other meaning quite contrary to the real one is given in two or three whereas's. That treatment is not the work of foolish minds. It is trickery of paid employees who are making nti-suffragists appear in a role they little suspect. However they may be to refrain from | voting there are some respectable wo- men among them who would not lend their names if they had the sightest1 of the insidious, scrambled, deliberately misleading matter to which their names are signed.
 3Misstatement Number Eight: The resolution asking investigation into the connection between the National and International Suffrage Associa- tions and Socialists of Europe, etc, attempts to put the idea of real in the public mind. Any person with modicum of public in- formation knows that the Information alists Socialists years ago command ed their women not to join or take part in the bourgeois suffrage move mef1t and in conseuuence the suffrage