Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-20
ANTS BARE PERIL TO
NATION FROM SUFFRAGE
People Get Great Light on Vital
Issue Put Up to
Delaware.

Judge GRAY. white haired ana stopped
In the service OF the Nation, arose again
as 'fPillar of Fire last night TO warn
Delaware and the country OF It's danger
of the grave peril that hes IN the ratItca-
ton of the Suffrage amendment the 10
and asked the people 70 consider with
him the menace 70 our constitution Oh
such a step. Possibly no meeting ever held
in Delaware was so highly impressed with
the importance of the question that was
up for discussion, and probably no other
public gathering brought together so
many people who came for information
and went away converted by the lrrefuta-
BILE logic of the platform utterances-
People who expressed themselves after
the meeting said Il came TO hear the
Antis side, and they have fully con
vineed me of the Justice and Saneness OF
their cause we're numerous and 1t Is not
straining the point to say that every one
who heard the argument with an open
mind went away conyIncedthat behind
the term ANT" that TO many had meant
simple blind opposition, there was the
most vital issue that has been presented
to the American people no less vital than
the Treaty between the nations.
The du Barry room of the du Pont
was filled to the doors. and people came all
evening for admission and were unable
to Obtain even foothold Those who
found seats or standing room stuck till
the last speaker had finished her expose
of the legislative methods of the Suffragists
and had tried to retire. Then the audience
| arose with shouts that she proceed and
not until the final words had fallen from
her lips was there sound except now and
then the tense interest of the people gave
way to applause. One womanwith white
| hair and a determined mein who evident
~ came to heckle the speakers, began
with Mrs Henry Thompson who opened
| the meeting, by shouting "Why do YOU
/ oppose Suffrage" Mrs Thompson re-
! piled that the question would be answered
| after awhile, and true to the promise
! Miss katherine Rowe, Field Secretary,
made the reply so direct and so forclole
/ that the inquirer arose from her seat and
/ with face showing red made her exit
| from the room with step light and last
that the assemblage smiled good natured-
| w and the incident was closed.
| To those who had accepted the sui
frape ss n matter OF course the addresses
were indeed a revelation, Those who
| had acouiesced in the plea OF the sui
| fragists perhaps without understanding
what Law behind it all-thc violation Of
the provisions of the Constitution the
LIGHT was indeed an awakening to the
peril. as the speakers showed, especially
Judge Gray and William L; Marbury Of
Baltimore. former United States Dis
trict Attorney, who came from Baltimore
at the urge of the Maryland Ants to point
out the danger of the step now put up to
Delaware. Mr.. Marbury brought out
the point entirely overlooked by the man
in the street, that while Suffrage was ex-
tended to woman in England and many
other foreign countries. that under the
constitutions Of each OF those nations
the law could be amended or repeated at
once, that the franchise granted one day
! by British parliament could be withdrawn
the next, but in the United States under