Woman's enterprise., 1922-03-10
OBJECTS OF SOUTHERN
CONSERVATION LEAGUE
EXPLAINED At MEET

Mrs R. G. Pleasant and Mrs. Celeste
Claiborne Carruth, addressed a large
meeting of prominent women at the
City Hall on Thursday, March End
explaining the Southern Conservation
League. Mrs. Pleasant said:
I'm view of the pending goth Amend
ment to the Federal Constitution
which Senator Curtis, floor leader of
the republican party, will urge upon
Congress at an early date, also in
view Of the legal rights blanket bill
which will be introduced at the Nav
session of the Louisiana Legislature,
as well as in every other State Legis-
lature at its next session, it should
be clearly understood by the citizenry
OF Louisiana that there are two or
ganlzations in this state already ac-
lively at work for and against these
measures. The Woman's Party is
sponsoring the movement. The South
ern Conservative League is determin-
edly opposing it.
"The National leaders of the Wo-
mans Party are Mrs. O. H. P. BEL
mont, of New York, and Miss Alice
Paul. The Louisiana heads are Mrs.
}. D. Wilkinson, of Shreveport, and
Miss Lavinia Egan, who are making
tour of the state in the interest of
these sex equality doctrines.
~ seriously doubt if some of the
ladies who have Joined the Woman's
Party know that they have identified
themselves with the militant wing of
the original suffrage party, such is
individually the case.
"Miss Pauls prison record probably
eclipses that of any other American
suffragette. She was an ardent CO.
worker with Mrs. Pankhurst in her
militaristic suffrage crusade in Eng
land and later led the militant host
in this country. The whole story Of
the 'militants,' which, upon the ratif-
cation Of the 10Th Amendment, re-
solved themselves into the Woman's
Party, has been given to the public
in a sensational volume entitled Jail
ed for Freedom" written by Doris
Stevens and dedicated to Alice Paul.
Mrs. Belmont's TRADE of abuse AGAINST
men and man-made laws seems par
ticularly illftting, coming as it does
from one who is waging her war
against men with millions that have
come to her through her marriage to
two multi-millionaires, the first hus-
band being one Of the, Vanderbilts.
Certainly the law has not operated
against Mrs. Belmont in any manner
that we have been able to discover.
"While it is true that the Woman's
Party has but a small following in
Louisiana and the other Southern
States, it behooves the conservative
women Of this and all other states
in the Union not to sit alphabetically
by and permit small but clamorous
number Of women to deceive the men,
bers of legislatures and of Congress
into thinking that all Women are ad-
vocating this sex equality doctrine
which, in truth, is being advocated
mainly by feminists who appear to
r esent the fact that nature created
them females, by rich and idle women
seeking a new fad, and by Bolshe-
viks, pure and simple, who, if posi-
BILE, would upset all established laws
and customs. In addition to these,
there are undoubtably some fine wom-
en- who Joined the Woman's Party,
but l believe that they did SO with an
entirely erroneous conception of the
real mission and purpose of this or
ganization. They did not give the
question proper consideration. In en-