Blackwell Family Alice Stone Blackwell Subject File Meetings: Guidon ClubCOBWEB FIBREDec 5 Guidon Club Mrs Wm Forse Scott Wants 2 hours grt majority of women each successful campaign has been carried by an appeal to rise against the law Los Angeles X Mrs. Pankhurst was allowed to enter in defiance of law attack on Pree for not frulting XX glaring evidence of defiance of law = demand for committee yesterday Mrs. Catt sd X tear up constitution of US SBA sd same “then do [call] it unconstitutionally “ do it regardless of existing law paternalism injects elements of weakness have you authority in the matter, and is constitutionalamendment advisable x Right of noncombatants to assume function of gov't appointing can and tend to prejudge the amendment & fictitious seal of approval will confine ourselves to be except so far as irrelevant matter injected by the other side compels us to do [so] otherwise. Mrs. Rossiter Johnson Guidon Club has members in 17 States & scattered clubs elsewhere. People in suf States have had their rights denied & abridged by forcing of amendment upon them - republican gov't ceases when those whomake decrees are not identical w those who support them. e.g. Colo have been threatening if they don't get share of spoils of office - talk of forming woman's party wd be taking a step toward placing in Constitution element of weakness that wd tend to its annulment wd play into 2 foreir that desire republics overthrow, Socialism & Mormonism. Letter introduced us in US & forever is responsible forevery bit of us here or abroad. Suf & socialism are now 1 & same - grounded in hatred of home religion & married life. in Australia & NZ coalition clearly to be seen. not one measure in woman's interest is there asked or given - denied as evolution of true democracy. history tracked just opposite. Russia had usDouma's effort toward communal gov't abolished W S. France & Switz have no W S. Chamber of deputies has just defeated effort to give commercial women a vote. - [Every] Idaho owed suf to Mormonism & populism. - [Cal] Oregon proposed 26 highly socialist measuresmen hold on to power [don't] have to hold on to it. Gov't is not a persuasive but a coercive ass'n. [?] we are to exercise it as much in accordance w their wishes as hours It is not customary to appt a co-administrator unless [he is] 1st is incompetent - I speak as man to man - you know it has been dearest wish of our heart to do what is best for women - not only women we love but all women - don't know but we have gone too far in ouridolatry - have taken God or temple & put woman in shrine. every & all see grt procession of women start on Fifth Ave & Soloman in all his glory not arrayed like one of these - & that is the end of American effort, when men get on top in business [?] join that gorgeous procession - influence? [whitt???]? Few men but go across to avenue of commerce & you find more still toiling in offices. More can we do tomuch (Committee men where there is one s uch there are hundreds who can't) woman produces order harmony happiness that has been her contributions Conditions in Colorado much like elsewhere - delightful commonwealth. I didn't think Colo men as respectful - seemed to have contempt for women when talk among se appeals to success just the same. Suppose we choosecoadministrator & she says so & so - majority of men & minority of women might say to fighting force "You must do so" Wd gov't be stable? x fighting men [are] ballot shows where power of citizens his affections have nothing to do w it - it's muscle & dollars. We have reached such a state of perfection thatpeople live & die thinking it's an [ ethical culture society sometimes have 3 parties - with W S you never wd know (committeeman asked if he wd [lei??] suf to fighting men) I have always been accustomed to receive the dispensations of divine Providence w submission I am in hands of Committee Just skip Property domestic relations As to [?] I prefer the known to the unknownHave a shrewd suspicion that people for Colo wd want some of their people on this cover - We don't want a packed cover, in name of heaven! In dif of view that might result fr men & [?]] - [?] have thought of discipline & women of taking care of stragglers fr column in divine pity - might be more shout for cha don't know herHave a shrewd suspicion that people for for Colond want some of their people on this cover - We don't want a hacked com, in name of heaven! In dif of of view that might result for men + women - men have thought of discipline + women of taking care of stragglers for column in divine pity - might be more spent for charity Don't know how much this fewer sum amounts to but can't believe many of them. Don't see indelicacy in asking for share. Might result in male population being decimated ends the dam Club Heflen of Alamos has tried to much Scott amte cheering archeologist may soon be ransaekn; arelen for serafo of US Constitution Heflin- It has been my pleasure to attend the hearings fr the beginning. I felt at conclusion like I had attended an old fashioned love feast - don't know when I have enjoyed any speeches so much - believe they represent 92% of Am women - Am not opposing women Gbc am fighting for them - are evils but WS = not the remedy. In NO had yellow fever epidemic & tried all sorts ofdisinfecting If you want us to do anything arouse us to responsibility & don't tempt us to shift it- Are good women fr my State who believe in it & think they are right women creating sex antagonism. Marie Corelli says woman has by nature powers to [persuade] enthrall & subjugate Every good woman controls somebody's vote now, give her one & she'll have 2 - amopposed to anyone having 2 votes. Don't spend time seeking vote but go after voter. when girl by misfortune has to go into industry Miss Ida Tarbell shows [noby?] dont affect wages, one of most brilliant women. One suffragette in NY sd we have achieved everything [we] they want sans ballot. They absolutely control us "I rule Athens & my wife rulesme" Am utterly opposed to creation of this cover. reps fr suf states wd clamor for representation (So man suggested to work at this cover - "Not while I have so many good looking ladies in front of me) Have read over 500 letters fr women since my 1st speech against sf Cal women called [?] man all sorts of mean names to his teeth - has hadbad effect. women who are lifelong friends don't speak - feeling in community is bad. In Senate Cour of 9 has 7 suf members. Thomas of Colo is chairman. He sd "once our superiors now our equals" What are you trying to do - create acom & stock it w these clever gentlemen fr sufbitter opponents have had this legislation passed by men. Women of Mass both pro & anti have given us grt assistance but during last 2 yrs several legislators XX who have stood in behalf of every good proposition have been opposed at primaries & elections simply they opposed WS Those who have opposed child labor WS have invariably voted for WS. You may be an advocate of everyMass, Pa & NY in 1909 had more than 600,000 women wage-eaerners & 4 suf States 3,499 The statements are in many cases misleading or entirely false. The interpretations of the facts is wholly so Michigan Census 1911 native 38,674,693 foreign men & women 13,343,583 Ten [E?ycle] married women's property noncombatants defiance of law Colorado men not as respectful gov't white way as conspicuous in Denver as elsewhere fighting men don't want packed [cour?]No yellow fever Heflin says many women in Cal & elsewhere have written him against suf pandemonium Lincoln never sd it Nearly 4/5 of house are anti females form bill States when wdn't dare lower an eyelid against it of their States? State alone shd say who shd vote & let this cour do nothing to cause friction between State & Fed gov't. Let her state move on resplendent in glow of conscious State strength as she performs her missionAst to the says man is by nature polit animal someone says germ of pols is in man as oak in acorn Our fathers founded this govt on family as unit w father as responsible head May depart fr this old ship of State who has borne as safely so far - Mate has polygamy ought tohas suf, every state shd have it. Woman is as intel as man, & as engineer, but no one wants her to reuse engine or fell trees. Shd use her splendid intellect on man & influence govt through him. have 8 boys & 1 hirl & have 4 bros single yet & I want to send [c??] to 0to marry anti's 7 daughters, have her look over them You can't legislate morals into people - suppose you vote that jaybird shall sing as sweetly as the mocking bird wd he do it - you must reform these conditionsNo more have home sweet home, no lullabies to baby, husband will hold one [?] and wife another & pandemonium will result house divided against se. they don't like to hear much about the Bible, that old-fashioned book. we shall long for touch of vanished hand - like atheist who sd "I didn'tknow what I was giving up" some feel it, like brilliant young Annie Bock Lincoln never said it Cal man sd socialists & sufs put it through some 10 states have it. if issue is debated, not another State wd go for it. believe campaign in Cal & Colo wd recall it & majority of women in both States wd vote to recall itA lady wrote me "Nobody can tolerate mannish woman & everybody abhors effeminate man" -"My old woman has been chosen as one of the jurors and by gosh I have to go home & look after baby" Mrs McMillan wife of Gov of Tenn sd I'd rather have voter >vote - Mich woman sd I'd ratherbe faithful wife & mother. you rules are contributing more to good govt are inspiration & soul. Yr yesterday's performance will ring like trumpet call. men yesterday stood around & listened & sd they were going to fight it. Nearly 4/5 of house are opposed & 7 men out of10 are. They are a little handicapped they think it is going to break loose in their States & they are keeping a little quiet. let the seals fall fr your eyes & get right. Every man who has accomplished anything of value is Church govt & State govtderive their glory fr family govt. Sun & moon are separate but both needful, ditto man & woman ["when she w] "I see some of my suffragette friends smiling, I hope they have not lost their appreciation of the poetic. I had that I wdn't happen so soon. God made man dif fr woman & Ideplore effort of some women to do men's work men stronger [physically he=bold aggressive growing power women = refinery power in accordance with the plans of the Almighty. In the Smithsonian Institute is section of tree in hollow - = next of female hornbeakoutside sits male w [plum?]. female is imprisoned in tree & male forces her to sit on rest. if times shd ever come when religion is driven fr country its last retreat will be fireside Man has right to have one parent from whom to inherit quieter & finer traits. I don't ever expect to see universal WSin US. I believe it is at high tide & will now recede. I believe God is with you. I don't want anything to happen that will cause any of our women to lose any of that gentle, modest timidity so dear to man. don't believe women want to sayto their fathers and sons "Stand back, you are incompetent & a failure & let us try" We'll keep you here & have our breast to the opposition when the final conflict comes in House of Reps (committee methodaway & still Heflin [talked?] & shouted w perspiration running down his face) Rebuttal PU Mrs [UsC?] ASB James Lees Laidlaw has 5000 active members in NY & 30,000 in country Rose Winslow Mrs. Ella S. Stewart Mrs. Patty Ruffner Jacobs We Southern women are very tired of being considered dif fr other women. Arenot lilies, roses, angels or even moons. We all want this com - If 4/5 are opposed, why is Alabama Congressman afraid to have com appten! Remarks of the Ala Congressman are irrelevant H T Upton 215000 women 249000 men name declared either directly in our way or indirectly in yours Mrs. L. Crozier Frender "Southern women can think as well as those of East & West" People of Tenn want fullest investigation of this subject. - Annie Riley Hale debated at Exposition largest audience is abt for HelnKelley - 4000 Only 21 women in Knoxville & 6 were sufs in Chattanooga 15 people & 9 were sufs - did not organize Currency of 1st interest Mrs Kent of Cal, wife of Congressman Kent When cal women were asking ballot, were [work] inspired by wish to be better mothers & housekeepers - were large no of dependent children & felt we cdn't do our duty sans taking care of chil Miss Helen Todd - [?] conversion to suf came thru 6 yrs as factory inspector in Ills 3 kinds voted no, very richwho look[ed] upon women as ornaments, too fine & too beautiful, illiterate (men were digging a ditch. I canotta read & I cannotta write but next yr I learn & I vote no" I asked why & he sd " '.' God hadn't given women any sense" Grasshopper ate in Kan & we came out here & mother worked like slave & pulled us through now mortgage is pd off & we are all right Mrs. Felix Baldrich Ala never spoke in life - proud my men can't beinfluenced against convictions Mrs. John Rogers Jr of NY There is that snake's head showing always of disbelief in democracy. Mrs. Webster of Tenn (Mrs. Oscar Hundley of Ala Mr. Mondell of Wy) As another Southern woman any children 5 yrs of age working 12 hours a day on Gulf Coast, women are cranksI challenged Heflin to debate but he wd not give us in Ala the opportunity of hearing him on this question immportantly Letter fr Miss Constance Lead 42 States no limit to right work of women SC Mass Ind Neb & only in a few industries in Cal supreme Mrs. Julie Loveland Shepherd fr Tenn have voted 17 yrs & enjoy my citizenship When my old aristocratic Southern mother came out of NC sd no she never wd vote but whenBryan was up she went out & voted. Must take Bible to Heflin. women stand together. put thro minimum wage 9 hrs When I say "I hold in my hand 80,000 votes of Utah women who want this we get it every time Mrs. Salse D. Medram of ND - I speak for large no of La women who want it, know we want it & know why. 15000 ND women who voted for land measure made possible improved sanitation will vote taxes on seat any time for benefit of their municipality - want better schools, streets, sanitation &c construction legislation Utah Mrs HepburnTo Mrs [US?] These figures (p 28) you may find useful in answering the statement made by Miss Minnie Brouson yesterday - that no woman suffrage State has a law prohibiting night work for women. This shows what a magnificent display of such laws we have in the male suffrage States! Miss Brouson also implied that[male] suffrage had nothing to do with the passage of 8 hour laws for women. She did not enlarge upon Colo and Wash where the 8 hour laws passed after they had become suffrage States, but she pointed to Cal where the 8 hour law passed before the women were infranchised. Answer - suffrage was a pending issueCal went politically mad. Southern socialist counties went strongly for it Votes for women first heard in French Commune leads to tribal ownership Dr. Rossiter Johnson St Paul - all things lawful but not all expedient. consider whether thing desired is right & wd justify apptment of committee wd not keep any Statethat wants suf fr having it. supposed amendment submitted - quite possible 36 might vote for it & 12 against it. suppose these 12 vote no - then pop 74700000 exceeds by > 3,000,000 population of all the rest of Nevada's vote wd offset New York's. wd allow a minority to force it on majority. if only one objected it wd have a right to protest against its being crowded by 47 others. US Constitution was made by wisest men in land. wonderful dif between women of some States & othersIf submitted, probably in some States it will be made a football. State claims right to change its vote till the votes are all in Wd prevent any State fr repealing WS. Do you see any objec to Congress takeup a vote on this amendment instead of com Mrs. Scott says we merely want this question submitted committed to a com in favor of it in advance. Mr. Jolus C Ten Euyck My attitude & that of men in generaltoward "ladies' battle." Men are vitally concerned but remarkably reticent about expressing se. My sister Kat says my father made a mistake in appointing me trustee. that I am stupid & tyrannical & she shd at least have been co-trustee. Mary thinks it is all right. She loves me. I don't want Kate to be your co-trustee Can't see that it wd affect federal system of gov'tin Cal it is fair to state when the 8 hr bill passed. And the Cal Supreme Court decision sustaining the law as constitution was handed down immediately after the women were enfranchised & after the recall of judged was in effect. Constance. D. Leupp Pres Consumers' League of DCnight work forbidden 4 Slater Handbook of Law[?] repilaluy[?] women's hours of labor Mass in textile 2nd manufacturer Nib manufot [mucha]mechan or mercantile, hotel or restaurant SC in Stores Mass 6 Pill to 6 A M in Textile 10 Pill to 6 AM in other than textile--ditto Nib SC in stores after 10.Mrs. Hepburn Ida Harper Mrs. Boyer (yields to powerful masculine voice) Mrs. Harper asks if Porto Rican men are but in to elevate electorateMondell of Wyoming Had pleasure of listening to the exceedingly strong & forceful argt in favor of w s by grultien fr[?] Alabama Com to investigate election of members of House - & to investigate mileage -- to pass on questions ofprinitiry - I on disposal of waste paper j?t some people whose minds are so out of joint they don't2 Sedgwick [out] vs George power to enforce small school note no injustice labor laws in advance of suf states in all respects minimum wage. X Strongest minimum wage [cons?] in this country Maguire does not belong to the union club women X prohibit polygamy X better civic work Miss Letter of today women stand as unit importance of furnishing food Miss Helen Bosworth3 org not ballot raises wages Samuel Gomfers type or John Mitchell type growing hood [Curnisin?]the woman's 8 hr bill came up in Jan 1913 before 0 Legislature, & supporters of W 8 were out in force to support it, while the people that Miss Price represents morethere to oppose it. For 6 yrs org Cabor have begged legislature body in 0 for an 8 hr workday for women, & to the members of ?uf party they owe theirstrength + to opponents their defeatCong Hearing, anti 3 members present Mrs Dodge We protest against com. Not a popular demand that wd warrant com wh wd encourage suf propaganda. Will try to show in [Avdeciot?] X& hence no com sufs have come since 1874 We began, 31 years ago w 9 women now on our 4th X 16 States & nearly 90,000 women type of women who are naturally reluctant to organize Miss Chittenden question of suf docs X not come within