NAWSA   SUBJECT FILE   Anti-Suffrage Literature

WOMEN SUFFRAGE
SPEECH
HON. J. THOMAS HEFLIN
OF ALABAMA
IN THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
MAY 13, 1914

WASHINGTON 1914
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EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. J. THOMAS HEFLIN.

Mr. HEFLIN. Mr. Speaker, upon the request of Mrs. George
B. Puller, of Washington, I wish to print in the RECORD the
following article on woman suffrage, by Miss Mary B. Smith:

WOMAN SUFFRAGE
(By Miss Mary B. Smith.)

I desire to present some facts as to the pernicious effects of
woman suffrage in States where it now exists. There have
been many theories upon this subject presented by the suffragists.
It is my purpose to present facts and figures showing
that woman suffrage, where it has been tried, not only does not
better conditions but tends to have actually the reverse effect
from a practical standpoint. I will first present some figures
which prove conclusively that women do not vote as generally
as men, where the franchise has been given them. Senator
THOMAS, of Colorado, has said that he concedes that woman
suffrage has not, and maintains that it will not, change conditions.
I agree with the distinguished Senator up to a certain
point, but I believe that I can show positively that woman
suffrage will, in many instances, change conditions for the
worse.

In the six suffrage States of California, Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah, Idaho, and Washington - Oregon, Arizona, and Kansas
did not have woman suffrage till voted on at election November
5, 1912 - the Abstract of United States Census of 1910, pages
110 and 118, shows there were, in April, 1910, 3,170,152 men
and women over 21 years of age, exclusive of Japanese and
Chinese. The total vote actually cast for President November
5, 1912, in the six woman-suffrage States was 1,521,590, so 47.9
per cent of the men and women - exclusive of Japanese and
Chinese - over 21 years of age in April, 1910, actually voted.

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In the six adjoining and neighboring States of Kansas, Nebraska,
Oregon, Nevada, South Dakota, and Missouri, where
men alone vote, the total number of men 21 years of age and
over, exclusive of Japanese and Chinese, was, in April, 1910
Abstract of Census, page 110 - 2,295,119; total vote in the six
male-suffrage States for President November 5, 1912, 1,587,984;
69.1 per cent of the men over 21 years of age - exclusive of
Japanese and Chinese - actually voted, or about 45 per cent
more of the possible voters in the male-suffrage States voted
than did the possible voters in the six adjoining woman-suffrage
States. If 69.1 per cent of the men voted in the woman-suffrage
States - as men in the adjoining male-suffrage States did vote -
then an analysis of the figures show that only 19.1 per cent of
the women over 21 years of age in the suffrage States actually
voted. If more than 19.1 per cent of women did vote in the six
woman-suffrage States, then less than 69.1 per cent of the men
voted; so it is impossible to escape one or the other conclusion,
that the women either do not vote as generally as the men when
given the ballot, or, if they do, their voting does cause less
interest to be taken in politics by men, and in either even the
suffrage cause is harmful to a republic.

Our Western States being new States in which a great deal
of land has been opened for settlement and made ready for
irrigation, naturally has increased and is still increasing rapidly
in population; so, in fact, there were a great many more men
and women over 21 years of age November 5, 1911 - one year
prior to last presidential election - than the 1910 census shows.
If the six women-suffrage States and the six male-suffrage
States above mentioned have increased in the same proportion
from April, 1910, to November, 1911, one and one-half years, as
they increased for 1900 to 1910 - and no one can doubt it - then
the six woman-suffrage States had, on November 1, 1911,
3,572,510 possible men and women voters, exclusive of Japanese
and Chinese, for last presidential election, in which event only
42.5 per cent of the men and women over 21 years of age cared
to vote.

In the six male-suffrage States previously named the total
number of men over 21 years of age, exclusive of Japanese and

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Chinese - estimated - November 1, 1911, was 2,397,878, in which
event 66.2 per cent of the men over 21 years of age actually
voted, or 55.7 per cent more possible voters voted than in the
six woman-suffrage States.

According to advice from Secretary of State Jordan's office
at Sacramento, Cal., where the names and addresses of all
registered voters are sent, in order that sample ballots can be
mailed them according to law, 804,633 men and 180,000 women
registered in California to vote at election November 5, 1912.
(See Los Angeles Times, October 27, 1912.)

This shows that about 93 per cent of the men in California
over 21 registered and only about 27 per cent of the women.
The total vote for President November 5, 1912, all candidates in
California, was 673,527; total registration, 984,633. Sixty-eight
and four-tenths per cent of men and women who registered
voted. If 68.4 per cent of the registered women actually voted -
which is not likely, as women did not register as generally as
men it is not to be supposed that they voted as generally - then
only 18.3 per cent of the women over 21 years of age in April,
1910, voted November 5, 1912, in the State of California.

In San Francisco in the latter part of 1912, at a local-option
election, out of 120,859 women over 21 years of age in the city,
40,665 and 89,023 men registered; yet only 15,087 votes,
all told, were cast for local option, and it is estimated that
approximately 1 woman in 8 who was interested enough to
register took the trouble to go to the polls.

At a city election in San Francisco November 11, 1913, 49,833
women registered and 19,678 voted, about one-quarter of the
votes being cast by women. In 3 precincts no women voted; in
49 out of 673 precincts there was an average of less than 10
votes per precinct by women. (Analysis of vote by Registrar of
Elections Zemansky. See Los Angeles Times, November 20, 
1913.) Census of 1910 shows there were 120,859 women over 21
years of age in San Francisco, so only 16.2 per cent voted in
election of November 11, 1913.

At an election November 24, 1913, in Los Angeles, Cal., involving
radical changes in the city charter, only 31,000 voters,
men and women, out of 222,817 cast their ballots. This, too,

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after a citizens' committee of 1,000 advocated in all the newspapers
the adoption of certain propositions and the defeat of 
others; 9 out of 10 of the reform measures were defeated. The
Los Angeles Times of March 26, 1913, says:

The vote of the women was disappointing. In some precincts it was
a negligible quantity, while in others it was only about one-third of the
total; yet suffragists carried on an active campaign, attended and spoke
at all-day meetings, and even worked at their headquarters on Easter
Sunday.

At an election, June 3, 1913, in Los Angeles for mayor, Rose
was elected by 8,037 majority over Shenk. Los Angeles had
"good government" officials for several years before women had
the ballot. Rose on an "open-town" platform and Shenk
on "good government." Every newspaper and practically every
minister in the city was for Shenk and asked the voters to elect
Shenk and have a clean city in the interest of the young men
and women of Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Times of June 5, 1913, gives the total vote as
84,055; nearly 100,000 under registration. The Times further
says that, in spite of the excellent organization of Mrs. John S.
Myers and her corps of assistants, the women did not turn out
in any large numbers, and of those who did a considerable percentage
appeared to favor the election of Rose. As there were
222,877 men and women over 21 years of age in Los Angeles
(census of 1910), only 38.2 per cent of the men and women of voting
age voted. The Los Angeles Express, June 4, 1913, had an editorial
on the disgrace of electing Rose. At an election in Chicago,
April 7, 1914, with the strenuous efforts of the suffragists
to get out the female vote, only 158,686 women voted. Chicago
had in 1910, 626,629 women over 21 years of age (letter from
Director of Census February 28, 1914). About 25 per cent of
the women of Chicago over 21 years of age voted. More than
double that number of men did vote at the same election. Complaint
has been made that it is not just to tax women when
they have no vote. Only one-tenth of the taxes are paid by
women, so if women had the ballot the women who pay taxes
would not be as fairly and justly treated as they now are, for
then nine-tenths of the women who vote the tax would pay no
taxes, while now nine-tenths of the taxes paid are paid by the

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men who vote the taxation. No injustice is possible when the
taxes are laid by the voters who pay nine-tenths of the amount.

So many of our people are being misled on the liquor question
by the suffragists that it is well to submit some facts on that
subject. In no State in which women have voted on the question
has State-wide prohibition ever been adopted. Nine States
where men alone vote have State-wide prohibition. November
5, 1912, Colorado voted on State-wide prohibition; 75,877 votes
were cast for the measure and 116,774 against. (See p. 159,
Abstract of Votes, compiled from official returns by James B.
Pearce, secretary of state, Denver, Colo.) If 58 per cent of the
women over 21 years of age in Colorado had voted for prohibition,
the measure would have become a law by 6,012 majority
without a single male vote being cast for prohibition, there
being 213,425 women over 21 years of age in Colorado. (P. 118,
Abstract of Census, 1910.)

Wyoming legalized gambling for about 40 years after women
had the ballot, and had neither State-wide prohibition nor local-
option laws.

About six years prior to the adoption of woman suffrage in
California Los Angeles voted on local option, and the measure
was defeated nearly 2 to 1. About a month after women had
the ballot in Los Angeles the question was again voted on and
the saloons won by nearly 3 to 1.

December, 1912, Los Angeles voted on the question of abolishing
free lunches in saloons, but the measure was defeated and
lunches are still free in Los Angeles saloons. Missouri and
Connecticut have State-wide laws prohibiting free lunches in
saloons. Pasadena, Cal., for many years - in fact, practically
for its entire history - had been a dry city, but soon after
women were given the franchise the sale of liquor was legalized.
Pasadena had in 1910, 2,688 more women over 21 years of age
than men - about 29 per cent.

December 2, 1913, Santa Monica, Cal., voted wet, ballots
nearly 3 to 1 for liquor, to be sold on Sundays and nights.
The Los Angeles Times of December 3 says the triumph of
"demon rum" and the sparkling cabaret is attributed to the
women, who voted 2 to 1 against a Sunday drought. Total vote

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for the saloons and Sunday liquor 2,173 against 814. Letter
under date of December 13, 1913, from Director of United States
Census shows that in 1910 Santa Monica had 2,462 males and
2,748 females over 21 years of age - 286 more women than men,
yet we have the sale of liquor legalized in cafes all night and
on Sundays in a city of homes of less than 8,000 (7,847)
people, and I doubt that a parallel can be found in any State
where the franchise is limited to men.

Redondo, Cal., voted on local option October 14, 1913. The
saloons won. Los Angeles Times of October 15 says that both
sides claim the result was due to women's votes.

Anaheim, Cal. (population 2,628), voted on local option
November 6, 1913. The saloons won. (See Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 7, 1913.)

San Bernardino, Cal., voted for the saloon January 30, 1914.
(See Los Angeles Times, Jan. 31, 1914.)

At an election in California April 13, 1914, out of 13 cities
and towns voting o the liquor question, 9 voted "wet" and
4 small towns "dry." Hanford, population 4,829, and Merced,
population 3,102, both of which had been dry, returned to the
wet column. See Los Angeles Times, April 14, 1914. Only
1 small county - Lake County - in California is dry, and 10
counties out of 62 in Colorado are dry.

In Colorado Springs, Colo., where the sale of liquor was prohibited
for many years, women voted on the question about
two years ago, and liquor selling was legalized. Colorado
Springs had 819 more women than men over 21 years of age in
1910. (Letter of Director of Census, Feb. 28, 1914.)

On pages 202 and 203, Annual Report of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, you will find that in the 6 States that had
woman suffrage January 1, 1912 - California, Colorado, Wyoming,
Idaho, Utah, and Washington - there were 26,295 liquor
dealers paying special license to the Government for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1913. From page 24, Abstract of United
States Census, 1910, you will find the 6 suffrage States above
mentioned had a population of 5,163,473, 1 liquor dealer for
every 196 people of the 6 States. For the remaining 42 States
and District of Columbia there were 226,247 liquor dealers

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paying license for the same period. The 42 States and District
of Columbia had a population 86,808,793, or 1 liquor dealer
for every 383 people, or about one-half the number of dealers
per capita than the woman suffrage States require, and then
we are told by the suffragists that they are not favorable to
the liquor interests. Kansas, Oregon, and Arizona only adopted
woman suffrage November 5, 1912. Kansas has been a prohibition
State for more than 25 years.

At local-option elections in Illinois April 7, 1914, about eleven
hundred saloons out of 3,000, where elections were held, were
abolished, 12 dry countries were added to the 30 already dry,
making 42 dry counties out of the 100 counties in Illinois.

Kentucky, where men alone vote, has 99 dry counties out of
120 in the State, and Missouri has 65 no-license counties out of
114 in that State.

Iowa has 77 dry counties out of 99 counties in the State; and
in Minnesota, at election April 7, 1914, two-thirds of the counties
where local-option elections were held voted dry, and towns
that had licensed saloons for 60 years voted dry by men's votes.

Eight out of twelve counties in Michigan that voted on the
liquor question April 6, 1914, voted dry, including Lansing, the
capital of the State, by men's votes; while Springfield, the capital
of Illinois, where there are 205 more women than men over
21 years of age, voted to retain the saloons.

California, where women have voted for more than two and
one-half years, legalizes prize fighting and is one of the few
States that has no pure-milk law.

About one-half of the people in the United States outside of
the woman-suffrage States live in dry territory. Eugene W.
Chafin, former candidate on the Prohibition ticket for President,
said at Long Beach, Cal., February 15, 1914, that "the support
expected by Prohibitionists in California from women had not
yet developed." (See Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16, 1914.)

During the suffrage campaign in Ohio, Miss Margaret Foley,
in addressing a meeting of union labor men, said: "Don't be
afraid, boys; we're not going to take your beer away from
you."

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In Cleveland many of the suffragists insisted that it was only
their enemies who said of them that they would vote against
the saloons. In the recent campaign in Chicago - February,
1914 - Miss Marion H. Drake, who was nominated for alderman
in the first ward, was quoted in the newspapers as standing "for
free lunch and saloons."

Last year the police board of Denver, Colo., passed a regulation
prohibiting all unescorted women from entering after 8
p.m. cafes and restaurants where liquor was sold. Instantly
a storm of protest arose, not by the refined, respectable women,
not by the women of the streets, but by the political women.
These political women complained that their "rights were being
interfered with"; that they might be compelled to be on the
streets after 8 p.m., and that it would be an outrage to prohibit
them the use of restaurants after that hour. "Ladies," said
the chief of police, addressing a committee of these women who
visited him, "I can prove to you from the records here in my
office that the women of Denver drink more whisky than men.
Shall I open my books and show you?" They did not ask for
proof. They withdrew their protest, and that regulation is in
effect to-day.

Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict, a prominent woman suffragist
of Wisconsin, made before the Manufacturers and Dealers'
Club of Milwaukee, in addressing the assembled brewers, the
statement: "Why all this hue and cry about woman suffrage
injuring the brewing industry? Isn't it a little foolish?" Mrs.
O. H. P. Belmont, in an address, said she welcomed the support
of the brewers and praised Mrs. Benedict for her work among
the representatives of that interest.

The president of the Equal Suffrage Association of Washington,
Mrs. Smith, when visiting in Denver, declared that the
women of the State of Washington won the vote chiefly through
one influence of the breweries of the State, specially mentioning
the Rainier Brewery at Seattle. Mrs. Smith said that the failure
of the prohibition election in Denver convinced the liquor interests
that they had nothing to fear from the Women's vote. Los
Angeles women voted heavily against prohibition, and Mrs.

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Shelley Tolhurst, a suffrage leader of Los Angeles, made a
public speech in which she declared that the saloonkeepers need
not fear the women's vote, while in San Francisco another
suffrage leader declared that the suffragists would drink to
their victory in California wine. Mrs. Minnie Reynolds, for the
National Suffrage Association, recently challenged anyone to
find a word concerning prohibition among the pamphlets issued
by the association.

Hugh Fox, secretary of the United Brewers' Association, in a
letter printed in the report of the hearing in December last before
the Committee on Rules of the House on the resolution
establishing a committee on woman suffrage, said:

The United Brewers' Association * * * states that the anti-
suffragists have never received nor asked for contributions from them,
although -

He adds:

we have had appeals from the other side.

May Wright Sewall said, October 20 last, in Milwaukee:

Votes for women will no more prohibit drink than they will prohibit
food.

The San Francisco Bulletin of July 31 last says:

The equal-suffrage constitutional amendment has now been a part of
the law of California for more than half a year. The women have voted
at many saloon-closing and saloon-regulating elections, and in no instance
have they, as a class, stood solidly against the liquor traffic.

Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage
Association and one of the leaders in the lobby at Springfield
which brought about the enactment of the suffrage bill,
said:

It is a great pleasure to remember that some of the firmest supporters
of the suffrage measure in the forty-eighth general assembly were some
of the so-called "wets."

The suffragists tell us on all occasions that if women had the
ballot much better laws for the education and welfare of the
child and youth of our country will be enacted. Let me cite a
few instances to disprove such a theory:

At Berkeley, Cal., April 12, 1913, for the issuance of bonds
for playgrounds, only about 1,500 of the 8,000 women of the city
voted. The mayor, who has been a zealous worker for woman

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suffrage, reprimands the women for their negligence of this particular
issue, which of all others should interest them. In a
newspaper article he asks "Where were the mothers?" Berkeley
has 1,301 more women than men over 21 years of age. (Letter,
Feb. 28, 1914, Director of United States Census.)

At Pasadena, Cal., where there are 2,688 more women than
men of voting age, the playgrounds that were the pride of Pasadena,
and were established before women had the ballot, were
discontinued last July on account of the failure of voters to
vote money for the purchase of the grounds. (See Los Angeles
Times, July 27, 1913.) No other playgrounds have been purchased
or been provided for the children.

At an election November 12, 1913, Pasadena, Cal., failed to
vote bonds to repair leaky roofs and make sanitary repairs on
schoolhouses, to complete new schoolhouses under construction,
and to make it possible to provide schools for the entire school
year. The superintendent of schools said the school year would
have to be cut a month or two, and some schools will have to
close when rains begin. (See Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13, 1913.)

It happened to rain November 12 in Pasadena, and some
thought the bonds might have carried had the vote been taken
on a fair day when the ladies could more conveniently get to
the polls; so it was decided to have another election to vote
for bonds in a less amount than was voted on November 12.
So on January 16, 1914 - a fair day - another election was held
and the bonds again defeated. So the voters of Pasadena have
decided at two elections that the repair of leaky roofs and sanitary
improvements, and so forth, of schoolhouses, as well as
playgrounds for the children, are to be indefinitely postponed.
A letter dated January 12, 1914, from the Director of the United
States Census, states there were, in 1910, 9,262 males and
11,950 females over 21 years of age. The total vote for an
against the bonds was 4,832. Only 22.7 per cent of the voters
of Pasadena - population, 30,291 - was interested enough to go
to the polls at election of January 16.

We are told that the men of the country can not be trusted
to make laws for the women and children; yet an average of

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four-fifths of the earnings of the men, over and above the necessities
of the family, is spent on the women and children.

The suffragists continually tell us that if women had the
ballot wars and internal strife would be a thing of the past, yet
Colorado, which has had woman suffrage for a generation, is in
the throes of civil war and has been for many months. The
State has become so weakened in its fabric that it can not
keep order and protect life and property within its borders, but
has been compelled through the State authorities to call upon
the President of the United States to send Government troops
to administer affairs and bring order out of chaos. This is
another proof of the failure of woman suffrage in the model
suffrage State of Colorado, and refutes beyond any possibility
of controversy the suffragists' claims.

Much has been said by suffragists about the recall of a mayor
in Seattle - who has since been renominated and elected - and
the abolishing of the Barbary Coast at San Francisco. Mayor
Harper was recalled at Los Angeles about four years before
women voted, on account of not enforcing the law against vice,
and more than 50 cities in the country have abolished segregated
vice districts in the past two years. Los Angeles abolished
their segregated vice district about six years before
women had the ballot, but it took Denver nearly 20 years after
women voted to do away with its segregated vice district.

Helen M. Forster, in Los Angeles Times, November 7, 1913,
under head of "Woman Lectures Women," commends Senator
WORKS for daring to call attention to the neglect of citizenship
by women voters, which, she says, are facts backed up by data
and registration lists.

Denver Post, October 17, 1913, report of Mrs. Stewart Walling
and Dr. Elizabeth Cassidy: Colorado reformatory rotten.
Nothing but fifth and graft found at Buena Vista. Merely a
preparatory school for the penitentiary. The reformatory, submerged
in politics, is a monument to graft, ignorance, stupidity,
extravagance, and mismanagement. Building so infested with
vermin that only fire could purify it.

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The Daily News, of Denver, of October 13, 1913, says the
Rev. A. E. Shattuck, of Grand Junction, has stirred up the
animals in fine shape, by a public denunciation of conditions
which he alleges exists in Grand Junction, Colo.

Here are a few of the opinions he expresses:

Lawlessness is pronounced among us.
Illicit liquor selling is notorious.
Gambling joints are in full swing.
Boys and girls roam our streets late at night in unrestrained violation
of the curfew ordinance. (The mothers are possibly away from
home attending to political affairs.)
Officials who hate unjust gain we need.

I believe that you will all agree with me that the main object
of voting is to register the will of the majority, that it may be
crystalized into the law of the land, and that any propaganda
that tends to and does, in some instances, defeat the will of the
majority is inimical to our form of government.

I think, from the instances cited, I have shown beyond question
that women when given the ballot do not, and from their
physical organization can never, vote as generally as men, however
much she may desire to do so, on account of her duty of
motherhood. When a man votes in a male-suffrage State,
his vote counts one, but in a woman-suffrage State, unless his
wife votes, his vote only counts one-half. If a single man, if
the women of his class do not vote as generally as men of his
class and opinions, his vote is of less effect than if women were
not enfranchised. The fact that the different classes of women
do not vote in so large a proportion as men of the different
classes in the suffrage States tend to, and in many instances
does, defeat the will of the majority, and no cause can be just
or right that defeats the will of the majority. Woman's failure
to vote as generally as men, where they have been given the
ballot, in many cases causes laws to be enacted that are the
will of the minority; and that is one of the great injustices of 
woman suffrage, for the laws made by minorities are injurious
to our free institutions.

As an illustration, in San Francisco County, Cal., where the
sentiment was not favorable to woman suffrage, only 35.5 per
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President November 5, 1912, while in Los Angeles County, Cal.,
which had, in 1910, 346,158 men and women over 21 years
of age, which gave a large majority for woman suffrage, 48.5 
per cent of the men and women of voting age voted for President
in November, 1912. The vote for Wilson in San Francisco
County, which had in 1910, 297,269 men and women over 21
years of age, was 48,965; Roosevelt, 38,610; Debs, 15,354. Had
48.5 per cent of the men and women in San Francisco County
voted, as did in Los Angeles County, there would have been
cast 144,175 votes for the presidential candidates instead of
105,646, the actual number cast; and if 144,175 votes had been
cast in the same proportion as the 105,646 votes were cast, Wilson
would have received 18,288 more votes than he did and
Roosevelt 14,478 more. And instead of Roosevelt carrying California
by 174 votes Wilson would have had the State by 3,636
plurality.

Forty-three per cent of the men and women over 21 years of
age, exclusive of Japanese and Chinese, voted in California
November 5, 1912. In our big cities, where the liquor interests
are large, in elections on the liquor question the saloons, breweries,
hotels, and cafes that sell liquors, property owners who rent
property to such interests, all allied trades and business, as
well as gamblers, and so forth, see that their women go to the
polls on election day nearly as a unit, besides inducing their
women friends to vote, it being to their interests financially to
vote, while women who have no monetary interest in the election
fail to vote as generally as men of their class and opinions do
vote. So the will of the majority in such an election may often
be defeated, and the liquor interests win, while if men alone
voted the saloons might be abolished. As an instance, in Los
Angeles, as before mentioned, when men alone voted on local
option, the saloons won by nearly 2 to 1, while with women
voting the saloons won by nearly 3 to 1. The same applies
to any political machine that seeks to gain ascendency for graft,
organized socialism, and so forth, that really want to gain an
advantage and defeat the will of the majority.

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But if women could ever vote as generally as men, there
would be little or no change in our laws, for even if a wife once
in a while voted in opposition to her husband and canceled his
vote - in which event the family would have no voice in the laws
at all - the final result of the whole vote would rarely be
changed, and we would have the absurd spectacle of having two
people doing what one alone could accomplish as well and save
all the effort expended in the study of politics by women and
the enormous expense of doubling the election cost.

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Selma, Alabama, Chapter No. 53

The United Daughters of the Confederacy Holds Called
Meeting to Condemn the Slander of Robert E. Lee
and Family in the History of Woman Suffrage,
by Susan B. Anthony and Others.
Strong Resolution Passed.

By James Callaway.

THE U.D.C. RESOLUTIONS.

THE U.D.C. is the greatest organization of women in the
world. Besides its philanthropic mission in aiding the old
soldiers "who fought and lived," erecting monuments to
perpetuate the valor and courage of those who died, and
providing scholarships for girls who desire an education, and
doing thousands of things of en eleemosynary character, one of
the chief objects of the organization is to preserve Southern history
and to keep the "record straight."

The Daughters of the Confederacy feel the iniquity of the
slander perpetrated upon General Lee and his daughter, Annie
Carter, and are calling upon the authors of that fabrication to
correct the falsehood. - Macon Telegraph.

RESOLUTIONS OF U.D.C. CONDEMNING SLANDER OF
ROBERT E. LEE.

At a called meeting of Chapter No. 53 of the United Daughters
of The Confederacy, at Selma, Alabama, May 17, 1918, the
following resolutions were adopted:

WHEREAS: It has been brought to the notice of this Chapter
that in Volume 11, page 23, of The History of Woman Suffrage,
by Susan B. Anthony and others, a most unwarranted, false, and
malicious attack is made upon the character of Robert E. Lee,
the sacredness and sanctity of his home invaded, and his family
maligned as here literally quoted:

THE HISTORY.

Vol. 11, page 23: "Many women showed their love of country
by sacrifices still greater than enlistment in the army. Among
these, especially notable for her surroundings and family, was
Annie Carter Lee, daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, commander-in-chief 
of the rebel army. Her father and three brothers fought
against the Union which she loved, and to whom she adhered. A
young girl scarcely beyond her teens when the war broke out,
she remained firm in her devotion to the National cause, though
for this adherence she was banished by her father as an outcast
from that elegant home once graced by her presence. She did
not live to see the triumph of the cause she loved so well, dying
the third year of the war, aged twenty-three, at Johns Springs,
N.C., homeless, because of her love for the Union, with no relatives
near her, dependent for care and consolation in her last
hours upon the kindly services of an old colored woman. In her
veins ran the blood of "Light-horse Harry," and that of her great
aunt, Hannah Lee Corbin, who at the time of the Revolution protested
against the denial of representation to taxpaying women,
and whose name does much to REDEEM that of Lee from the
INFAMY of late so justly adhering to it."

The falsity of the statement is shown by the following letter
of Mary Custis Lee, daughter of Gen. R. E. Lee:

THE LETTER.

The Jefferson, Richmond, Va., April 20, 1918.

"My Dear Sir: Let me thank you for the quotations from
Dr. H. E. Shepherd's 'Life of Lee.' The 'Cady Stanton' and
Susan B. Anthony fabrication are such I can scarcely believe
they would have promulgated such wholesale falsehoods. As a

"During our war large families were often separated, and
necessarily so. I was myself separated from mine. Just recovering
from typhoid fever so prevalent in Richmond at that time,
my mother sent me down to King George county, to relatives
living in a remote section, as she thought, and where I could
have quiet and pure air for better recovery, and where it was
not anticipated the 'Yankees' would ever come. But one morning
we awoke to find ourselves in their lines, surrounded - the
Fredericksburg campaign having begun. I was there virtually a
prisoner the whole winter, and there heard by a stray letter of
my sister's death. This explains why I was not with Annie
when she died." 

(Signed) MARY CUSTIS LEE.

Now, Whereas, In this same History of Woman Suffrage in 
Volume 4, published as recently as 1900, and pronounced good by
its authors, the said Susan B. Anthony, and Mrs. Ida Husted
Harper, (the latter still living) we find on page VIII, of the
said Volume 4, and signed by Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, these
words:

"The money which Miss Anthony now had, enabled her to
carry out her long cherished project, to put the History free of
charge in the public libraries. It was thus placed in twelve hundred
libraries in the United States and Europe. Mrs. Stanton
and Mrs. Gage, who had contributed their services without price,
felt that it should be sold, instead of given away and in order
to have a perfectly free hand, she purchased their rights.

In addition to libraries, she has given it to hundreds of
schools, and to countless individuals, writers and speakers, whom
she thought it would enable to do better work for the franchise."

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the U. D. C. Chapter
53, do hereby brand as absolutely untrue and without foundation
the said statements in The History of Woman Suffrage, concerning
Robert E. Lee, and his family, hitherto so honored of all
men, all historians whose writings are based upon facts
and truth, and we demand that the same be diligently corrected
and condemned.

We urge all Chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy,
Confederate Veterans, and Sons of Veterans, to take similar
action; and

WHEREAS, as above stated, this unwarranted libel upon the
justly revered name of Robert E. Lee, has been placed in "twelve
hundred libraries in the United States and Europe, and hundreds
of schools, and given to countless individuals," be it further
resolved that The United Daughters of The Confederacy pledge
themselves henceforth, to deny and prove false this intentional
insult to a People, and to one of God's noblest characters, Robert
E. Lee.

Be it further resolved, that action be taken to protect our
children and others, uninformed, to the end, that this unmitigated
falsehood may not pollute the pages of future history.

We take this occasion to extend to the beloved daughter of
Robert E. Lee, our heartfelt and sincere thanks, that in spite of
the shock and sorrow that knowledge of this gratuitous insult
has brought to her, and her horror of the consequent publicity,
she has, like the true, brave daughter of a father without reproach,
come forward, as was but just and due to the name
she bears and the millions who still revere the memory of her

aunt, Hannah Lee Corbin, who at the time of the Revolution protested
against the denial of representation to taxpaying women,
and whose name does much to REDEEM that of Lee from the
INFAMY of late so justly adhering to it."

The falsity of the statement is shown by the following letter
of Mary Curtis Lee, daughter of Gen. R. E. Lee:

THE LETTER.

The Jefferson, Richmond, Va., April 20, 1918.

"My Dear Sir: Let me thank you for the quotations from
Dr. H. E. Shepherd's 'Life of Lee.' The 'Cady Stanton' and
Susan B. Anthony fabrication are such I can scarcely believe
they would have promulgated such wholesale falsehoods. As a
matter of fact, while my father, like many of the old army officers,
was not a secessionist, and hoped to the last that civil war
might be averted, we young people were much more violent in
our feelings and expressions, and you may be sure that there was
no dissentient voice among us.

"My father went down to Richmond the day Virginia seceded,
and my mother was given at first only twenty-four hours in
which to pack up and dispose of her large household affairs and
the children. Packing up was going on all night, nobody attempting
to sleep, and the next afternoon we young people were all
sent up to Ravensnorth, an old family place some fifteen miles
back in Fairfax county, and where a great aunt of ours was
living, while my mother received permission to remain for a few
days longer.

AS TO THE FABRICATION.

"The scandal is a fabrication, manufactured out of the whole
cloth, without even the shadow of foundation, and one cannot
imagine how it ever originated. My father's character was so
pure and lofty, as well as winning, and his devotion to his children
so well known, so demonstrative even, that he had no personal
ones. So far as Annie Carter is concerned - poor gentle
Annie - she adored her father, and he adored her, partly because
she was named after his mother, whose memory he worshipped,
and always attributed anything that was worthy in himself to
her teachings, and training and influence; and partly because as
a small child Annie had stuck the scissors into one of her eyes
and ruined the sight, but not the appearance of it. Hence my
father always had a special feeling of tenderness for her, so
much so that he specially provided for her in his will. How
ignorant were these slanders of my father's character!

"My mother was a great sufferer from rheumatism and hearing
of the healing virtues of 'John Springs,' now called 'White
Sulphur,' managed somehow to get down there with my two
sisters, though traveling was very difficult at that time, and
while there dear, gentle Annie died. My mother nursed her in
sickness, day and night, and Annie died in her arms, and mother
was broken-hearted over this first death of one of her seven
children, and I am the last of the seven now living. Mother
went with Annie and Agnes to North Carolina, and Annie, never
strong, developed typhoid fever.

"I had been left with some near relatives in Virginia and
Mildred, the youngest, was a little school girl in Winchester,
until driven away by the tide of war, when she was sent down
to 'St. Marys,' in Raleigh. My dear father could not leave his
post, and was so overcome with grief over the death of Annie,
the first death in his family.

resolved that The United Daughters of The Confederacy pledge
themselves henceforth, to deny and prove false this intentional
insult to a People, and to one of God's noblest characters, Robert
E. Lee.

Be it further resolved, that action be taken to protect our
children and others, uninformed, to the end, that this unmitigated
falsehood may not pollute the pages of future history.

We take this occasion to extend to the beloved daughter of
Robert E. Lee, our heartfelt and sincere thanks, that in spite of
the shock and sorrow that knowledge of this gratuitous insult
has brought to her, and her horror of the consequent publicity,
she has, like the true, brave daughter of a father without reproach,
come forward, as was but just and due to the name
she bears, and the millions who still revere the memory of her
noble father, as one peerless among men and denied and disproved
this malicious, shameful falsehood.

We extend to her, renewed assurance of our love and loyalty,
being thankful that it is our privilege and honor to uphold with
her help, and incontrovertible testimony the spotless name of
Robert E. Lee.

MRS. R. E. LEE'S LETTER.

The Confederate Veteran, always as acute as Miss Mildred
Rutherford in keeping the record straight, reproduces on its
editorial page the letter of Miss Mary Curtis Lee settling for all
time the slander against General Lee and his daughter, Annie
Carter, which was published especially under the supervision of
Susan B. Anthony, whom, Mrs. Ida Husted Harper says was
"exceedingly careful in scrutinizing all the material that went
into the Official History."

Following the letter of Miss Mary Custis Lee, the editor of
the Confederate Veteran makes these comments:

"It was General Lee's intention after the war to have his
daughter's remains taken to Virginia, but after visiting the place
and seeing how the grave was cared for he was content to leave
his dear one to that tender care forever. Over her grave was
erected the first monument ever placed by women to the memory
of a woman, only women of Warren county being asked to contribute.

"At its dedication in the summer of 1866 Col. James Barron
Hope was the orator and delivered an elegaic ode, published in
full in Dr. Henry E. Shepherd's 'Life of Lee.' In writing Colonel
Barron some time afterward, Mrs. Robert E. Lee thanked him
for a sketch of the monument and said:

" 'I have often longed to visit it, and it is an inexpressible
comfort to me to daily view this image of a spot so dear. I have
loved to think of her dying so quietly in that lovely place, where
the foot of our invaders never trod; to know, too, that she was
spared the misery of seeing the downfall of the cause she so
much loved. She only met the doom Heaven often awards to its
favorites, and I am content.' "

Lord Wolseley, who visited the Confederate army, thus wrote
of its commander: "I have met many of the great men of my
time, but Lee alone impressed me with the feeling that I was in
the presence of a man who was cast in a grander mould and
made of different and finer metal than all other men. He is
stamped upon my memory as being apart and superior to all
others in every way - a man with whom none I ever knew and
very few of whom I ever read are worthy to be classed."

"Mars' Henry" Watterson, the Noblest Roman of them all
"Speaks in Meetin' "

THE BLOT O' THE 'SCUTCHEON

His Famous Editorial, Condemning the Woman's Bible, Feminism and
Woman Suffrage.

I.

The combine of, shall we not say cowardice and
cupidity, which characterizes the average American
newspaper in the matter of Woman Suffrage is the
most discouraging, discreditable and dishonoring
feature of contemporary journalism.

The publishers are afraid of diminished circulation,
the Editors of feminine nagging. Between
them the leading dailies of the larger cities and
towns - notably those along the Atlantic seaboard -
ignore the issue for the most part and bar its discussion.
In both the dread of consequences is a
misconception alike of public and manly duty as of
commercial forecast and business interest; because
in the long run readers could be multiplied and service
rendered and consideration achieved by the adequate
treatment of a question, important indeed to
men and the state, but of transcendent moment to
Women themselves. Yet, vital as it is, the press is
silent.

In Maine during the recent campaign where the
Woman Suffrage amendment was beaten two to one
the newspapers shunned debate as far as they could.
In New York, where a campaign is on, they durst
not lift a pen in opposition. Excepting the New
York Times, we fail to discover a single leading
journal which seems willing or able to call its soul
its own. It is the same in Philadelphia, in Baltimore
and in Boston.

Down the Southern Coast - at Richmond, Charleston,
Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans - the braves
appear to be paralyzed, though State lines and social
conditions are seriously and immediately menaced.
They that were erst so glib decanting about "Southern
Rights" stand all agape and have never a word
to say, whilst a clumsy Trojan Horse, open on both
sides so that the Greeks are visible to the naked eye,
is trundled along into the very Holy of Holies by
people who were but just now proclaiming death and
destruction to all things Southern. Even as news
they will not print the truth.

Truly noise, assertion, impudence go a long ways,
for it is safe to estimate that not one intelligent
woman anywhere has considered the Suffrage matter
in all its bearings and reached the definite conclusion
that in spite of all she wants to vote, whilst
at the South no intelligent woman can thoughtfully
consider it without reaching the conclusion that accomplishing
nothing for women, it can only bring
evil upon the electorate. Under the existing enlargement
of the franchise we have fallen low enough,
Heaven knows; but, doubling this by the addition of
millions of good women and bad women, black women
and white women, cannot fail to sink us and our
institutions still lower. What appreciable good could
be attained it is impossible to conceive.

The professional politician - seeking lines of least
resistance - the popular preacher, not daring to offend
an active, albeit a minority section of his congregation -
can always and easily be bullied by the
shrieking sisterhood. Meanwhile, the soul of Susan
Anthony, like that of Old John Brown, goes
marching on. It goes marching on toward the Feminist
goal of blatant Infidelity, rejecting the Religion
of Christ and Him Crucified and repudiating the
man-made Bible of Moses and the Prophets in favor
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Woman's Bible,"
which teaches the religious heresies of Voltaire,
Paine and Ingersoll, along with the Free Love theories
of Mary Wollstonecraft, Victoria Woodhull and
Ellen Key.

II.

Feminism is essentially - it is almost exclusively -
a Woman's Question. The ballot is the least part
of it. If there were nothing else involved, and,
by some miracle Universal Suffrage could be brought

creation would become little better than the brute
creation.

Nor is any considerable body of our women excited
on the subject of the ballot. If they were, and
demanded it, they would speedily get it. The feminine
instinct, so much more acute than that of the
male, conceives the queenship of woman in the life
of man - fully establishing and unassailable - and
draws warily back from a political scheme proposing
to swap a certainty for an experiment. It were
at best of doubtful advantage. But, what of this experiment
if it be merely the prelude to a vast, revolutionizing
movement aimed to abolish sex distinctions
altogether and to put woman and man on the
same low plane of equalized brutality; no more love
and marriage; no more reciprocal tenderness and
interdependence; the lights of the home, extinguished;
the poetry of girlhood; the chastity and
chivalry of manhood - the religion and romance of
the old order - gone out of life, and in their stead,
the Code of the new order as advocated by the Wollstonecrafts
and Woodhulls of history set forth by
Mrs. Cady Stanton in her "Woman's Bible" and accepted
and promulgated by the leaders of the proposal
to obliterate geographic divisions and abolish
Home Rule by a Constitutional Amendment Federalizing
Woman Suffrage and, at one fell swoop, ending
our time-honored system of National and State 
Powers with their admirable and necessary checks
and balances.

It means revolution - far-reaching revolution -
the saying being no less true than trite that revolutions
never go backward.

III.

To be sure all this is flatly disputed by the perfervid
advocates of Woman's Suffrage who merely
scratch the surface of he discussion and either see
not, or refuse to see, the depths below. But, as the
least investigation will attest, it admits of no denial.
The proof is abundant, as the Courier-Journal has
shown over and over again.

We need not go back to what might be sneeringly
dismissed as ancient history to summon the common
law wife of William Godwin to the stand. We need
not even go to Europe to call Ellen Key and the
Pankhurst crowd. We have right here at home an
organized body of highly educated and intellectual
women who, planting themselves upon Mrs. Cady
Stanton's "Woman's Bible," preach its gospel with
resonant earnestness at all hours of the day and
night wherever a hall may be hired or a soap box be
improvised.

This "Woman's Bible" was compiled, as we learn
from its title page, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
copyrighted by her in 1895. On the revisionary committee
appear the names of Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt, Mrs. Robert Ingersoll, Mrs. Helen H. Gardner,
Lucinda B. Chandler, and other women of their
faith and order. The contributors, or commentators,
are Ellen B. Dietrick, Louisa Southworth, Lucinda
B. Chandler, Matilda Gage, Frances E. Burr,
Rev. Phoebe A. Hanford and Clara B. Neyman. The
object of the book is to overthrow the "old family"
Bible as we have it and supplant it with a new Bible
inspired by these women. As a reason for a new
Bible Mrs. Stanton says:

THE DIFFICULTY IN WOMAN'S CASE IS THAT THE
WHOLE FOUNDATION OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
RESTS ON THE TEMPTATION AND MAN'S FALL, HENCE
THE NECESSITY OF A REDEEMER AND A PLAN OF SALVATION.
AS THE CHIEF CAUSE OF THIS DIRE CALAMITY,
WOMAN'S DEGRADATION AND SUBORDINATION
WERE MADE A NECESSITY. * * *  IF WE ACCEPT
THE THEORY THAT THE STORY OF THE FALL IS A
MYTH, WE CAN EXONERATE THE SNAKE, EMANCIPATE
THE WOMAN AND RECONSTRUCT A MORE RA-

"It made a convert of Miss Rebecca West, who
says 'that woman's self-sacrifice for the home is a
sin.' It made a convert of Inez Milholland Boissevain,
who wrote: 'This pressure toward a constantly
growing freedom on the part of woman
means in the long run the institutions most certain
to be changed are the home and marriage itself. It
made a convert of Jane Ashley, former secretary of
the National Suffrage Association, who says: 'In
the choice of love woman is as free as man. She
must be in position to act freely where her strongest
impulses are concerned. No one should give
account of himself or herself, and no third party has
the right of intervention.'

"Metto L. Sterne, a convert, says: 'The present
marriage ceremony will be abolished, together with
other useless ceremonies. The State should care for
the children.'

"Dr. Anna Shaw, a convert, says: "I would pension
all mothers and have them provided for by the
State. I believe motherhood should be independent
of any man.'

"On page 12, Introduction to Volume I, Cady
Stanton, the author, says: 'Bible historians claim
special inspiration for the Old and New Testament
with it miracles opposed to all known laws. * * *
I do not believe that any man ever saw God, or ever
talked with God or that He told the historians what
they say He did, and so long as women accept the
position they assign her emancipation is impossible.'
She declares the story of Moses about Mt. Sinai is
all a myth.

"Matilda Gage, a member along with Mrs. Chapman
Catt and Mrs. Robert Ingersoll, of the Revising
Committee, in Vol. II, says: 'That even the
most enlightened nations are not yet out of barbarism
is due to the teachings of the Bible. We are
investigating the Bible's influence under Judaism
and under Christianity and pronounce it evil.' 'We'
in the above refers to the 'Revising Committee' and
Commentators.

'In Vol. II, Josephine K. Henry, of Versailles,
Ky., of the Revising Committee, says: 'We claim
that woman's advancement is due to civilization, and
that the Bible has been a bar to her progress. * * *
How strange it is that the average Christian woman
holds the name of Paul above all others, oblivious to
the fact that he has brought deeper shame, subjection
and servitude and sorrow to woman than has
any other human being in history.' "

It will be a popular religion in Europe after the
war. There will be an immense excess of women,
a corresponding decrease of men, and, as after
the "Thirty Years' War" it was ordained that one
man might lawfully have many wives, and that no
child should be held illegitimate, no matter how
born, so after the war we may expect the spirit of
Feminism to prevail, and no questions asked. There
will be no escape. They are already proclaiming
that Christianity is a failure. But with the end of
the war there will be an added reason, the need of
more people.

We have a foretaste of what to expect even in
Staid Old England. In a recent sketch Sir Conan
Doyle tells us what he sees on the streets of London
every evening. He graphically describes the parade
of young women by the hundreds, walking the pavements,
arm in arm, laughing loudly and singing and
making remarks to the soldiers. "They do not belong
to the ranks of the unfortunate women - most
of them do not - but are engaged during the day
performing the ordinary task of messengers, porters,
stenographers, office keepers and such occupations
as fell before to young men," says Sir Conan,
justly alarmed by the spectacle of such wanton abandonment.

If such things be possible now, what must happen

fend and active, albeit a minority section of his congregation -
can always and easily be bullied by the
shrieking sisterhood. Meanwhile, the soul of Susan 
Anthony, like that of Old John Brown, goes
marching on. It goes marching on toward the Feminist
goal of blatant Infidelity, rejecting the Religion
of Christ and Him Crucified and repudiating the
man-made Bible of Moses and the Prophets in favor
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Woman's Bible,"
which teaches the religious heresies of Voltaire,
Paine and Ingersoll, along with the Free Love theories
of Mary Wollstonecraft, Victoria Woodhull and
Ellen Key.

II.

Feminism is essentially - it is almost exclusively -
a Woman's Question. The ballot is the least part
of it. If there were nothing else involved, and,
by some miracle, Universal Suffrage could be brought
about between night and morning, the result would
be negligible as a political force and very disappointing
to those excellent women who expect much from
it. 

In the centers of population - especially in hotly
contested elections - certain obvious evils and abuses
would be inevitable. The political managers would
rally every purchasable woman, every ignorant woman,
at the polls. Not a few good women, intelligent
women, carried away by party zeal and campaign
excitement, would be lured into unwomanly demonstration.
At the South the colored ladies would be
largely - often perhaps solely - in evidence. To
what end?

In the frontier States where Woman Suffrage,
adopted to invite population, has prevailed, and we
see no sign of elevated conditions, purified politics
or better government. The women voters divide
much as the men voters. There are no cities and
consequently no crowding, no mobs and no dives.

We need not ascribe the turbulency in California
and Colorado to Woman Suffrage. But the woman
voters have shown themselves powerless to abate,
or quell it, even if they have made any attempt.
Assuredly they have made no organized attempt.

Nor need we regard the unimportant figure that
the first woman Representative in Congress has cut
at Washington as evidence of feminine incapacity
for public affairs. As an example Miss Rankin is
not inspiring. But, if she were as dominating as
Elizabeth, or Victoria - if she had the genius of
Madame de Stael, or Vittoria Colonna - if she possessed
the wit, eloquence and charm of the wife of
Roland - her gifts would not lead to the betterment
of government and were more profitable employed
outside the bull-ring of politics for the betterment of
the human species. The Member from Montana,
being out of place, does not fit into the prevailing
order. It proves nothing the one way, or the other.

The capacity of Woman is not an issue at all.
When put to it she can fight, she can speak and she
can vote just as well as the men can. The question
turns not upon her aptitudes. It is, did God and
Nature design her to fight, to speak and to vote, or
did God and Nature invest her with higher and
nobler yet equally indispensable duties and functions?

Any fool can fight and vote and most fools do
speak. Woman, reflecting men put above such commonplaces.
They hold her not merely the Mother
of the World - clearly specified and qualified by God
and Nature for that great office - but, by reason of
this elevation, the Moral Light of the Universe, without
whose ministrations children could not be reared 
and except for whose modifying influence the male

Lucinda B. Chandler, and other women of their
faith and order. The contributors, or commentators,
are Ellen B. Dietrick, Louisa Southworth, Lucinda
B. Chandler, Matilda Gage, Frances E. Burr,
Rev. Phoebe A. Hanford and Clara B. Neyman. The
object of the book is to overthrow the "old family"
Bible as we have it and supplant it with a new Bible
inspired by these women. As a reason for a new
Bible Mrs. Stanton says:

THE DIFFICULTY IN WOMAN'S CASE IS THAT THE
WHOLE FOUNDATION OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
RESTS ON THE TEMPTATION AND MAN'S FALL, HENCE
THE NECESSITY OF A REDEEMER AND A PLAN OF SALVATION.
AS THE CHIEF CAUSE OF THIS DIRE CALAMITY,
WOMAN'S DEGRADATION AND SUBORDINATION
WERE MADE A NECESSITY. * * * IF WE ACCEPT
THE THEORY THAT THE STORY OF THE FALL IS A
MYTH, WE CAN EXONERATE THE SNAKE, EMANCIPATE
THE WOMAN, AND RECONSTRUCT A MORE RATIONAL
RELIGION, AND THUS ESCAPE ALL THE PERPLEXITIES
OF JEWISH MYTHOLOGY.

The plan of the work is to take a quotation where
woman is mentioned from Paul or Timothy or any
other of the Apostles, and proceed to show that the
woman is degraded and given no place in the New
Testament but that of an inferior, and the reasons
for its publication being, as Mrs. Stanton, says, that
"We need a religion based on Science and Nature.
We have made a fetish of the Bible long enough.
'As Christ is the head of the Church, so is man the
head of the woman.' This idea of woman's subordination
is reiterated times without number from
Genesis to Revelation, and is the basis of all church
action." - From Preface to Vol. II.

In one of his recent close studies of Mrs. Stanton
and her "Bible," and its influence and reach, James
Callaway makes the following illuminating compilation:

"Sarah A. Underwood, one of the commentators,
says: 'The influence of the Bible against the elevation
of woman has been great because of the infallibility
and the Divine authority with which the teachings
of the Bible have been invested.'

"Mrs. Stanton in her comment on the widow whom
Jesus praised for casting in her two mites - all she
had - does not approve of the widow's conduct. Instead
of the commendation Jesus gave her, Mrs.
Stanton says: 'Self-development is a higher duty
than self-sacrifice, and should be 'woman's motto.'

"Joseph K. Henry, of the Revising Committee,
says: 'Let him who can show just cause why woman
should not look to reason and to science rather
than the Scriptures for deliverance; let him speak
now, or forever after hold his peace.

" 'When reason reigns and Science lights the way,
a countless host of women will move in majesty
down the coming centuries. A voice will cry, "Who
are these?" and the answer will ring out: "These
are the mothers of the coming race, who have locked
the door of the Temple of Faith and thrown away
the key." '

"On nearly every page of the 'Woman's Bible' is
a fling at the Scriptures. And yet what a following
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has! She was Susan
B. Anthony's preceptor and this 'Woman's Bible'
was Susan B. Anthony's textbook. Suffragette
writers in the magazines of the day teach what the
'Woman's Bible' teaches. This idea of marriage as
set forth in the New Testament is ridiculed. Mrs.
Pankhurst caught the meaning of this New Bible
when she declared her 'object was to demoralize the
world of society, shame the churches and upset the
whole orderly conduct of life.'

that Christianity is a failure. But with the end of
the war there will be an added reason, the need of
more people.

We have a foretaste of what to expect even in
Staid Old England. In a recent sketch Sir Conan
Doyle tells us what he sees on the streets of London
every evening. He graphically describes the parade
of young women by the hundreds, walking the pavements,
arm in arm, laughing loudly and singing and
making remarks to the soldiers. "They do not belong
to the ranks of the unfortunate women - most
of them do not - but are engaged during the day
performing the ordinary task of messengers, porters,
stenographers, office keepers, and such occupations
as fell before to young men," says Sir Conan,
justly alarmed by the spectacle of such wanton abandonment.

If such things be possible now, what must happen
when this kind of harlotry is justified by public
policy looking to repopulation and "sanctified" by
"the Religion of Nature," seeking the freedom of
women through the overthrow of the Religion of
Christ? They tried it in Babylon and Tyre. They
tried it in Athens and Rome. What came of it history
tells us. But the Modern Aspasia will none
of the lessons of history. She glories in her shame
and worships at the Free Love Shrine of Max Eastman
who makes jokes and ribald cartoons at the
expense of Jesus of Nazareth and swears in five
keys and seven languages upon "The Woman's
Bible" of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

* * * *

Here, to come back to our text and point of departure,
we have the most vital question of modern
times - in the Southern part of North America involving
our political being and our social structure
- everywhere involving life, religion and morals -
with a newspaper press asleep to all appearance;
deaf and dumb, and blind, as well; in the great
cities, silent as the tomb; in the smaller cities, empty
as a house-to-let; in town and village, emulating the
vacuity of its betters! Since Christian civilization
has gone to smash among the high-brows of the
East and self-government has become a lost art in
Gotham, it were a kind of fatuity to look in that
general direction; but the South, what do we see
there! The Capital of Virginia once had a press
that gave lessons in political economies and Charleston
at least one newspaper that almost made the
War of Sections. Time was when the word of John
Forsyth went forth from Mobile to the farthest corners
of the Republic, and Kendall, Bullitt and Walker
made New Orleans a National sounding-board of wit,
wisdom and eloquence. Alack the day! Forsyth is
dead and Erwin Craighead groweth in years apace.
Even the Bakers are gone from the Crescent City,
leaving Robert Ewing too busy chasing party shadows,
and young Thomson looking too sharply after
Champ Clark's Presidential qualities, to bother
about the structure of society and the danger of the
Universe. Fanaticism has the floor. Why philosophize -
even specify? The boys creep around dead
walls and slip in and out of silent alleys, and wonder
what time o' night it is, and whether 'twill ever be
day! As for the honor of the cloth - a free, independent,
fearless, upright, outspoken press - inspired
by the memory of bye-gone glories - invigorated
by the sense of public and professional duty
- they will none of it; they have none of it; nowhere;
and nobody left to tell the tale except the
Courier-Journal, which was and ever will be - as the
Good Book says - "one among ten thousand and altogether
lovely."

"Lest Ye Forget" - Only 14 States For Suffrage, and 34 Against. No need for Undue Haste or Excitement.

[*Here it is in Black & White - You cannot escape the truth - Every southern Legislature should give a rising vote against it -*]

THAT DEADLY PARALLEL
No. 1.
The FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT to the Constitution of the United States as adopted in 1870:
ARTICLE XV.
Sec. 1.  The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Sec. 2.  The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

No. 2. 
The PROPOSED--"SUSAN B. ANTHONY" Amendment to the United States Constitution:
Sec. 1.  The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of SEX.
Sec. 2.  Congress shall have the power by appropriate legislation to enforce the provisions of this article.

Can Southern Men and Women Forget so Soon?
The Official History of Woman Suffrage, by Susan B. 
Anthony, names the following persons as instrumental in 
securing the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution:
Susan B. Anthony, Anna Dickinson, Frederic Douglass
(negro) and Theodore Tilton.  This amendment was adopted 
in 1870, Susan B. Anthony advising "that now is the opportune 
time."  She reckoned well, for the South was in the
shameful throes of Reconstruction and, STRANGE AS IT 
MAY SEEM, the Congressional Records show that SEVEN 
SOUTHERN STATES RATIFIED this INIQUITOUS Article.  
Those Southern States were helpless, under THEN 
existing conditions, with negroes in the majority in their 
Legislatures, and Susan B. Anthony well knew the methods 
necessary—FRAUD AND FORCE.  PRESENT indications 
seem to establish, beyond any question of doubt, that the 
thought and hand that prompted the FIFTEENTH 
AMENDMENT, in fact the two Amendments were drafted 
and proposed by the same parties and at the same period, 
the REPUBLICAN PARTY at that time adopting the Fifteenth, 
but would not accept the other.
Many times has Congress been asked to right the injustice 
done the South, but without avail.  (CIRCUMSTANCES
forced it to recognize this menace when it affected Washington 
and in order to procure relief, Congress passed a law 
taking away the right of suffrage to EVERY citizen of the 
District of Columbia)—; Congress has, however, been kind 
to the South, in that it HAS NOT EXERCISED the authority 
vested in it under Section two of the Fifteenth Amendment.  
HAD WE NOT BEST LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE?

The Official History of Woman Suffrage, by Susan B.
Anthony, names the following persons as instrumental in
securing the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution:
Susan B. Anthony, Anna Dickinson, Frederic Douglass
(negro) and Theodore Tilton. This amendment was adopted
in 1870, Susan B. Anthony advising "that now is the opportune
time." She reckoned well, for the South was in the
shameful throes of Reconstruction and, STRANGE AS IT
MAY SEEM, the Congressional Records show that SEVEN
SOUTHERN STATES RATIFIED this INIQUITOUS Article.
Those Southern States were helpless, under THEN
existing conditions, with negroes in the majority in their
Legislatures, and Susan B. Anthony well knew the methods
necessary - FRAUD AND FORCE. PRESENT indications
seem to establish, beyond any question of doubt, that the
supporters today of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment under
existing abnormal conditions, have again decided
"THAT NOW IS THE OPPORTUNE TIME."

NOW as to the PROPOSED "SUSAN B. ANTHONY"
amendment, a careful analysis will show the MASTER

thought and hand that prompted the FIFTEENTH
AMENDMENT, in fact the two Amendments were drafted
and proposed by the same parties and at the same period,
the REPUBLICAN PARTY at that time adopting the Fifteenth,
but would not accept the other.

Many times has Congress been asked to right the injustice
done the South, but without avail. (CIRCUMSTANCES
forced it to recognize this menace when it affected Washington
and in order to procure relief, Congress passed a law
taking away the right of suffrage to EVERY citizen of the
District of Columbia) - ; Congress, has, however, been kind
to the South, in that it HAS NOT EXERCISED the authority
vested in it under Section two of the Fifteenth Amendment.
HAD WE NOT BEST LET WELL ENOUGH
ALONE?

The granting of suffrage to WOMEN would prove a serious
problem, especially to the South and the CONTROL of
suffrage is undeniably a RIGHT which belongs to the respective
STATES and which they should not surrender to
the Federal Government.

NOTE: - It will be observed, the proposed "Susan B. Anthony" amendment does not
state, "race, color or previous condition of servitude." There is no need, as this feature is
provided for in the Fifteenth Amendment.

Brown Printing Co., Montgomery, Ala.


[*Anti*]
From the Chicago Tribune, Feb. 22, 1900.

ARE MEN ENSLAVED?

OUGHT THEY TO BE EMANCIPATED?

CHICAGO, Feb.20.—[Editor of the Tribune.]—Is it not
time that there was an apostle aboard to preach emancipation
to men? Until a man marries his income is usually his
own. His own needs, his own pleasures, his own gratifications
are all that he is bound to consider in the disbursing
of it. When he marries the case is quite different. "With
all my worldly goods I thee endow" comes to have a meaning
and a reality which he never suspected before. His
wife has a mortgage claim upon him which is apt to turn his 
cigar fund, his theater fund, his little supper fund into a
perpetual sinking fund for the purchase of bonnets, gowns,
and other toilet necessaries. As time goes on there come
other needs—doctors' bills, nurses' bills, baby clothes and
carriages, all of which it is his bounden duty to meet. For
this he toils in the workshop, the store, or the office, wherever

heavy manual labor or severe mental strain will bring golden
returns. And all the while, if things go well with him, the
wife sits at home, busy, indeed, with household cares, but
spared the steady and exhausting labor in the outer world
which her masculine copartner is undergoing for her sake.
Often this supported and protected woman is doubling and
trebling the burden which rests upon her husband's shoulders
by her own ignorance of, or inattention to home duties,
thus necessitating more servants, more waste and extravagance,
more occupation for the nurse and the doctor.

To one who has studied these conditions thoughtfully
for years, the question must often arise, Is it not men, after
all, who are "enslaved," who need "emancipation"? Why
do not they "arise in their might" and throw off the
shackles which bind them to the oftentimes petty and tyrannous
exactions of women? If rights and not duties constitute
the sum of human good, why do not men abandon the
whole scheme of social order and seek each one his own
gratification, and let women do the same? Surely men, if
anybody, have the best of reasons to welcome the industrial
and political equality of women.

The apathy of home-loving women concerning woman
suffrage has been bemoaned ever since the agitation in its
favor commenced. It is not possible that the reason of this
apathy is that women who are supported and protected in
the home have a deep sense that what the suffragists propose
to them, is to follow the example of the dog in the fable
and drop the piece of meat in their mouths for its deceptive
reflection in the water? The privileges which they have are
good and wholesome, and they prize them, and it is a latent

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and well-founded fear that, if the suffrage agitation goes on
unchecked, it may lead to an abrogation of them, which is
constraining these women to take upon themselves the unwelcome
burden of opposing it.

Already fewer men are marrying, more married men are
depending upon their wives for support, more women are
being thrown upon the world for the support of themselves
and their children. Men are not hysterical; they will not
shriek about emancipation; but if their homes are neglected
and given up to noisy contentions, if women abandon home
duties and avoid motherhood and its attendant cares, men
will not be many generations in finding out that the labor
and service which they bestow upon their homes are wasted,
and they will seek their own gratification and leave women
to shirk for themselves. There are few women who will be
willing to do a man's work in the outside world and bear
and rear children besides. The industrial and political independence
of women, therefore, seems to be a short and
straight road to anarchy.

C. F. C.

Issued by the Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage
to Women. For this and other literature apply to
Miss Alice L. Griggs,
1127 Montana St., Chicago.

[*Ala*]

BEWARE!
MEN OF THE SOUTH: Heed not the song of the suffrage siren!  Seal your ears against her vocal wiles.  For, no matter how sweetly she may proclaim the advantages of female franchise,--
REMEMBER, that Woman Suffrage means a reopening of the entire Negro Suffrage question; loss of State rights; and another period of reconstruction horrors, which will introduce a set of female carpet-baggers as bad as their male prototypes of the sixties.
DO NOT JEOPARDIZE the present prosperity of your sovereign States, which was so dearly bought by the blood of your fathers and the tears of your mothers, by again raising an issue which has already been adjusted at so great a cost.
NOTHING can be gained by woman suffrage and much may be lost

(Extracts from The Messenger)
THE NEGRO
AND THE 
NEW SOCIAL ORDER
A Reconstruction Program, Prepared by Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph (negroes),
Editors of The Messenger, March 10th, 1919
THE MESSENGER PUBLISHING CO.
2305 SEVENTH AVENUE                                NEW YORK CITY
POLITICAL PROGRAM
   Page 6--Political action must go hand in hand with industrial 
action.  A class of people without the vote or the privilege 
of determining the kind of government under which they 
live, has neither security of life nor property from which liberty 
proceeds.
   In view of the foregoing WE DEMAND the rigid enforcement 
of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, 
which were primarily framed to give protection to negroes.
   WE DEMAND the reduction of representation in the South 
upon the basis of actual voting population.  The negro is not 
allowed to vote, which is in criminal violation of the Federal 
Constitution.
   We condemn all property and educational tests for suffrage.
   WE DEMAND universal suffrage without regard to race, 
color, sex, creed or nationality.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
   We favor the adoption of the Susan B. Anthony amendment 
to the Constitution, granting suffrage to women--both white 
and colored.
("Suffrage democracy knows no bias of race, color, creed or s
ex."--Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt.)
SOCIAL EQUALITY
   Page 9--We favor "social equality" in every sense of the 
phrase.  WE DEMAND a new order based upon a society of 
equals.  Evasions, pretexts and excuses cannot explain away 
the fact that no genuine brotherhood can exist so long as the 
issue of social equality is not squarely met.
   SOCIAL EQUALITY has grown out of the two cardinal and 
corollary principles of identity of treatment and free inter-changeability.
INTERMARRIAGE
   We now approach the American bugaboo--the question upon 
which the negroes and whites alike set up false theories in 
flagrant violation of the most fundamental principles of social 
evolution.  We refer to intermarriage between the whites and 
negroes.  WE FAVOR THE INTERMARRIAGE between any 
sane, grown persons who desire to marry--whatever their race 
or color.  WE FAVOR THE INTERMARRIAGE OF WHITE 
MEN WITH COLORED WOMEN AS WELL AS COLORED 
MEN WITH WHITE WOMEN, because there is no natural or 
instinctive aversion.
   Race purity is both a myth and without any value.
   WE THEREFORE DEMAND THE REPEAL OF ALL LAWS 
AGAINST INTERMARRIAGE AS BEING INIMICAL TO 
THE INTERESTS OF BOTH RACES.  We further call attention 
to the fact that there is no desire to check the associations 
of white men with colored women, colored women with white 
men, nor to serve serve any interests of negro men.  And inasmuch 
as no law requires any woman under any circumstances 
to marry a man whom she does not will or want to marry, 
these laws narrow themselves down to the prevention of 
WHITE WOMEN MARRYING COLORED MEN whom they 
desire to marry.
   WE DEMAND as much intercourse--economic, political, and 
social, as is possible between the races.

   "Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and, according to our republican theory, the rightful rulers of the Nation."  Official History Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, page 281.
   "We will see that Negro women in the south shall vote."  Ida Husted Harper, Editorial Chairman of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in the New York Globe, November 4, 1918.

[*Add negro men & women to This, & fancy our Refined Womanhood!*]

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN ACTION!
Would Southern Men Approve of This?
Votes for Women Means Jury Duty for Women?

Suffragist leaders are careful never to
mention to their audiences in the East of
in the South the subject of Jury duty for
women.  When questioned about it, one of them
replied:  "Oh, that can be arranged very pleasantly."
Let us see how it is arranged in the States
where women vote.

   For many weeks of the spring of 1917 a big 
I.W.W. murder trial was in progress in Seattle.
Six of the jurors were women.  Mrs. Sarah J.
Timmer was juror No.. 11.  She had received word
before she entered the box that "her children had
contracted the measles."  Calling the jury in,
Judge Donald said to Mrs. Timmer:

   "Mrs. Timmer, I have been informed that you
are worried about your children.  I'm powerless
to let you go home, but both sides agree that I
my communicate to you any word your family
physician desires to convey.  Don't let your attention
be attracted by anything but the trial.  We'll
keep you advised and you will have no cause to
worry.  Remember, no news is good news."
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 8, 1917.)

   It must be a grand and glorious feeling for a
woman to be drawn as a juror on a murder case,
likely to last two months, when the children of
her family have contracted the measles!

   A month later the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
said:  "the confinement imposed on juries in
murder trials is beginning to tell on most of the
members of the Tracey jury, especially the women
jurors, the majority of whom have families.  During 
the last month numerous stipulations have 
been arranged between attorneys for both sides,
allowing children of the jurors to see their parents
for a few minutes in the presence of witnesses.
The defense attorneys estimate that it will be
nearly two weeks yet before they are through
submitting evidence."

WOMEN OF WEALTH MANAGE TO ESCAPE
JURY DUTY.
   One of them told an eastern friend how she did
it.  She said:  "I was determined I would not
serve on that jury, so I got a doctor to give me
something which would make me violently sick
for a little while;  then I called another doctor,

who, finding me very sick, gave me a certificate
that I was not able to serve on the jury."  The
poor man's wife cannot afford to pay two doctors'
bills to escape the disagreeable duty which suffragists
have forced on her, so she is obliged to
serve.

   An article from the "Spokesman Review" of
Spokane, Washington, a suffrage state, tells how
the jury law works there:

   "While the law is so stern that it refuses a 
mother permission to go to her baby while she is
doing jury duty, there is nothing to prevent a 
baby going to its mother, at least that how the
law was interpreted in the court of Judge William
Huneke, when baby Margaret Hackett went
to the courthouse for her dinner.

   "Father rushed Margaret, aged three month,
in an automobile to the court house.  Mother gave
baby her 6 o'clock meal, and father and infant
retired, subject to hurry calls during the night.

   "Mrs. R.W. Hackett was serving on a jury
which failed to agree."  It has also been reported
directly by letter that a two months old baby has
been left at a day nursery while its mother serves
on a jury.

   WOMEN IN THE SUFFRAGE STATES ARE
SERVING ON JURIES IN MURDER CASES, 
COMMERCIALIZED VICE CASES, AND WHISKEY CASES.

   An Alabama Court Official states that his observation 
of criminal trials for more than thirty
years has shown that at almost every term of
court language is used and incidents recited from
the witness stand that grate on the sensibilities
of all refined men present.  Profanity, obscenity
and the detailed narration of the immoral acts and
doings of the lowest type of humanity are brought
out in all their revolting nakedness.  A suffragist
naively argued that if women were on the juries
all this would be "cut out!"  This is childish.  It is
a fact that it is not cut out in the suffrage States.
Most Judges are refined men and would eliminate
all such testimony if they could legally and justly
do so.
   Men of Alabama, do you like this prospect for
your wife, your daughter, or for the woman who
may become your wife?  If not,

WAKE UP and FIGHT WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Whenever and Wherever It Bobs Up Its Head.

WHY THIS HYSTERIA?  ONLY 14 STATES FOR SUFFRAGE
AND 34 AGAINST.

rite your Congressmen and Senators To-Day to Vote against the
Federal Suffrage Amendment.

Issued by Alabama Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.

SOME FACTS ABOUT SUFFRAGE LEADERS
A CAUSE IS NO STRONGER THAN ITS LEADERS
Why this Hysteria? Only 14 Sates For Suffrage and 34 Against.
(By J. B. Evans)

The writer realizes that controversial subjects like
Woman Suffrage should be tabooed in a crisis like
that our country now faces, but if Northern agitators
can come among us and discuss it in our
High School building, he feels that a native of the State, 
who has its best interests at heart, should be excused for
saying a few words through the press in opposition to a 
propaganda which he honestly believes is a worse menace
to society and good government than a war with Germany.

In her recent speech at Montgomery, Dr. Shaw accused
me of attacking the leaders of the movement instead of
the cause itself. She was mistaken or misinformed; but
I know of no better way to judge cause than by its leaders.
So I will mention a few facts as to some of them.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the first and foremost 
leaders and advocates of Woman Suffrage, and an
agitator of the fanatical type. She was one of the authors
of the History of Woman Suffrage, and a brilliant 
woman. But it is hard to understand how a Christian
woman can follow such a leader or her teachings. She 
regarded the Bible as a man-made libel of women, and so 
dissatisfied was she with it that she wrote one of her own,
called "The Woman's Bible," in which she tore the Good
Book into shreds from Genesis to Revelations, not even
exempting Jesus Christ from criticism on account of His
attitude toward women. In the Suffrage History some 
verses by a Suffragette are quoted with approval, winding 
up with these lines:

"This doctrine of Jesus, as preached up by Paul, 
If embraced in its spirit, will ruin us all."

Susan B. Anthony, the most prominent leader, was a 
rabid hater of the Southern people to the day of her 
death, and an absolute worshiper of the negro. Not a 
great while before her death she expressed keen regret 
that the statue of "Mr." Fred Douglass, her intimate 
negro friend, erected at Rochester, New York, faced 
South instead of North, because "Mr." Douglass had 
nothing in common with the South.

Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was the bosom friend of Miss 
Anthony, and is thoroughly imbued with all her South-hating, 
negro-loving propensities. In July, 1915, she went 
directly from Montgomery to Philadelphia and addressing 
the Suffrage department of the Federation of Colored 
Women's Clubs, she said, "I hate to speak of colored people 
or white people, to speak to colored people or white 
people, I do like to speak to women." She deprecated the 
fact that some negro men were opposing woman suffrage, 
and said that in so doing he was hurting his own people. 
"He then shows he is not better than the white man and 
he ought to be better than the white."

Dr. Shaw is a woman of engaging manners and magnetic 
personality, but her intellectual development, as 
evidenced by her writings, is decidedly mediocre. I do 
not, however, entirely agree with a very prominent neurologist, 
Chas. L. Dana, who said it is comparable to that 
of an eleven year old child. 

[*They mean to insinuate Mrs W. wrote the Ballad?*]

Another is Mrs. Norman D. R. Whitehouse, State President 
of the New York E. S. A. In the January, 1916, 
issue of the Masses, edited by Max Eastman, a radical 
Socialist, Feminist and Woman Suffragist, appeared a 
"Ballad" setting forth in gross language that Jesus 
Christ was the illegitimate offspring of Mary, a fallen 
woman, and praising her husband, Joseph, for taking her 
to the Manger to protect her from the gossip and insults 
of their neighbors. In the following issue of the same 
magazine, February, 1916, appeared a long advertisement 
appealing to Woman Suffragists for donations to help the 
magazine in financial difficulties. Among much other 
gush it said: "In cartoon, in verse, in editorial, in story, 
the Masses has stood by us as no other magazine in 
American has. We propose to surprise the Masses this 
year by a New Year's present of $2,500.00 from the 
women who appreciate its stand for Feminism." This 
was signed by Visa Boorman Whitehouse (Mrs. Norman 
DeR.), Alice Carpenter, and other prominent Suffragists. 
It is needless to mention Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, the 
woman of divorce fame; everybody knows her. Can any 
cause be a good one with such leaders?

If you advocate the cause, don't you endorse its leaders 
and all they stand for? And don't forget that among its 
most earnest advocates are all Mormons, all Socialists, all 
Feminists, negro preachers and negro school teachers. A 
nice bunch for ladies to be associated with even politically.

In conclusion, many prominent substantial business 
men are asking by what authority the City High School 
Auditorium is used for their harangues by political agitators, 
and whether the citizens of Selma are expected to 
vote another bond issue for the erection of another school 
to be lent to such purposes. The twelve hundred Selma 
women who signed a protest against Woman Suffrage, 
many of whom have children at the school, should protest 
en masse against its desecration.

Among other things, Dr. Dana says:

"Finally, as to anti-suffrage and intelligence. There is, 
I find, an acute controversy as to which party is the less 
intelligent, the suffragists or anti-suffragists. Real intelligence 
lies in wisdom, in the power to adjust one's acts 
and functions to the environment and its problems; and 
women seem, so far, to have taken in large measure the 
suffrage question, not intelligently, but obsessively. It is 
adopted as a kind of religion, a holy cult of self and sex, 
expressed by a passion to get what they want. There is 
no program, no promise; only ecstatic assertions that 
they ought to have it and must have it, and of the wonders 
that will follow its possession. The minds which lead 
a cause may be great and broad, inspired and unselfish; 
but they are so only when the cause has the same qualities. 
There are many quiet, sensible women who honestly 
believe in this cause, but often the active and aggressive 
workers and writers who think themselves so clever are 
definitely defective mentally. Measured by fair rules of 
intelligence testing, I should say the the average zealot 
in the case has about the mental age of 11. They look 
through a cranny and see a dazzling illumination beyond, 
which is to them the light of a new heaven when it is really 
only the sublimation of an unoccupied "elan vital." Yet 
they consider every one who does not believe with them 
to be unintelligent, so I suppose that they will class as 
such.

Yours very sincerely,
(Signed) Chas. L. Dana, M. D.

"Lest Ye Forget." Write Your Representative in Congress and Your Senators
not to Vote for Woman Suffrage.


To Men Who Endorse
Woman Suffrage
Men in public life who are exposed to assaults by
professional suffragists often lightly declare themselves
in favor of woman suffrage.
If you are one of these men do you realize that you are
helping to force upon women a system which means jury
duty, the loss of greatly valued rights and privileges, and
the hardships which come from increased cost of living,
and that you propose to do this against the wishes of the
great majority of women?
In California women have already lost part of their
property rights, and the cost of government has doubled
since women have voted.
In Washington women serve on juries in whiskey and
commercialized vice cases, and a bill making it compulsory
for women to serve on every jury is now before the Oregon
legislature.
In no state are the suffragists willing to submit the
question of women suffrage to the women themselves.
Why?
Because they know the great majority are against it!
If "just government rests on the consent of the governed"
surely the wishes of women should be considered in
this matter.
You have it in your power to place upon the shoulders of
women the burdens of government, but you cannot take
off their shoulders the burden of women's work, which only
women can do. Is it "fair play" to force them to do double
duty against their will?
Issued by the Public Interests' League of Massachusetts, 687 Boylston St., Boston

MR. VOTER!

REMEMBER That woman suffrage has produced no reform
in social conditions; no laws to regulate woman or child
labor; no improved corporation legislation; no prison
reforms; no health reforms; no purification in politics;
no increase in wages in any of the states that have
granted it that has not been equalled or surpassed in
MAN SUFFRAGE States.

REMEMBER That woman suffrage is only an experiment
and we cannot afford to undertake such an experiment 
under present conditions.

REMEMBER That woman suffrage means suffrage for every
woman and not only for your own female relatives, 
friends and acquaintances.

REMEMBER That the average woman is no better than the
average man.

REMEMBER That every Socialist and every Feminist is a 
Woman Suffragist, and

REMEMBER That the great majority of women do not want
the ballot thrust upon them by the fanatical minority!

Vote AGAINST Woman Suffrage

WOMEN'S ANTI-SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS
687 Boylston Street, Boston.
Mrs. James M. Codman, President. Mrs. Charles P. Strong, Secretary.
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE
BRINGS:
1. Enormous increase in cost of government.
2. The spread of Socialism.
3. A serious weakening of government.
4. Lowering of moral standards through the
teaching of Feminism, which is the "next
step" after woman suffrage.
5. Sex antagonism.
6. Loss of moral influence of good women in 
public life and increase of political influence
by bad women.
7. Jury duty for women.
8. A tremendous strengthening of the vicious
interests in our cities, as is shown in Chicago
and San Francisco.
9. Loss of influence to rural communities, because
it is easier for women in the cities
to get to the polls than for the farmers'
wives.
10. Large increase in the number of indifferent,
stay-at-home voters, who are the great menace at every election.
TAXES MOUNT MADLY
WHERE WOMEN VOTE
Do you wish to pay higher taxes to secure these
inevitable results of woman suffrage? If not,
VOTE NO
Issued by the Maine Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

Anna Howard Shaw Said:
"What is the American Flag But a
Piece of Bunting"

American does not need Military and Industrial Preparedness if it is Prepared
to Live Within its Own Borders."

Speech Made at the Last Session of the Forty-Eighth Annual Convention of the 
National American Woman Suffrage Association.

So much Indignation was Aroused Over this Statement, Throughout the North, that
she Laboriously Composed a Very Eulogistic Peroration to this Flag
Trying to Deny the First, but the Records were Against her.

POLITICS AND PATRIOTISM
WAR AND WOMEN

(By J. B. Evans)

The action of the powers that be in placing the 
management and control of women's war service 
in the hands of suffragist leaders and particularly 
the registration of Alabama women was, from a 
patriotic point of view, distinctly unfortunate. 
The inevitable disappointing result might have 
easily been foreseen. After weeks of publicity 
and explanation through the newspapers of the 
object of the registration, and a formal proclamation 
by the Governor fixing the day and calling on 
all women to show their patriotism by registering 
on that day, very few, comparatively speaking, 
responded. No enthusiasm was shown except by 
the suffragettes, partially all of whom registered. 

Was this enthusiasm aroused by pure and undiluted 
patriotism or was it zeal for their peculiar 
propaganda and the political advantage they expected 
to gain by having all of the women come to 
them to register? Is it possible that they very 
small per cent of Alabama women who compose 
the Alabama Woman's Suffrage Association are 
more patriotic than they great mass of our women 
outside of the A. E. S. A.? If so, it is gratifying 
to know that in this respect at least they are radically 
different from their Northern leaders from 
whom they get their Suffrage Education and from 
whom they take their orders.

When it became evident that war could not be 
averted unless this country was willing to lay 
down in the dirt and crawl, and the Administration 
was urging preparedness, the Catts, the 
Shaws, the Addamses and practically all the lesser 
lights among the suffrage leaders by their attitude 
and utterances, did everything and said everything 
possible to hinder and deny the President 
in his efforts. Some of their utterances were 
worse than unpatriotic, they were seditious and 
savored of treason. They were all pacifists of the 
aggressive and defiant type. Rev. Anna Shaw referred
to the flag contemptuously as "only a piece 
of bunting." Mrs. Carry Catt frankly declared 
that she was "rebellious" and that this country 
had no right to wage war for democracy until it 
made itself democratic. On May 11, after she had 
been put on the Woman's Committee of the Board 
of Defense, (as unfortunate a blunder as putting 
the Suffragists in control of the registration), she 
made a speech at Toronto, her announced subject 
being National defense. The Toronto Daily News 
in reporting it said among other things "Mrs. 
Catts never reached National defense nor anything 
else but Votes for Women." "She was distinctly 
unpatriotic. The United States was attacked 
rather than defended by the lecturer. The 
position of the women of Yucatan was compared 
with that of the women of the United States to 
the disadvantage of the latter, - an insult to the 
intelligence of her audience and a defamation of 
her country." "Surely even the most ordinary 
ideas of decency would be sufficient to suggest 
that her diatribe be confined to the borders of her 
own country."

Miss Jane Addams, the queen bee of the pacifist-
suffragists closing her philanthropic eyes and 
ears to the horrors of Belgium and France, to the 
shrieks of agony of tortured and outraged women 
and apparently forgetful or unmindful of the 
thousands murdered and starving children 
ground under the heels of fiends incarnate who 
were only obeying the direct orders of the spawn 
of hell who rules them, begged the President "to 
consider the feelings of our German-American citizens" 
before declaring war on their dear fatherland.

When, despite the wails and protests of these 
pacifist-suffragists, Congress declared war and 
the Administration began to prepare for it, the 
Catts and the Shaws from the depths of their own 
fertile brains or inspired by the advice of some 
shifty politician, suddenly conceived the idea of 
changing their tactics, and presto, the word was 
sent to the faithful: "We, the women of America,"
not as women merely, but as suffragists, do 
hereby assume the burden of organizing all the 
women of America for war service, and we shall 
claim all the credit as suffragists for all the patriotic 
services of all the women and we hope and 
expect the reward which we will surely demand, 
viz.: the passage of the Anthony Amendment. Belated 
and newly hatched patriotism in one hand 
and political propaganda in the other, - patriotism 
with a string to it.

In condemning the unpatriotic, words and actions 
of the suffrage leaders, the writer does not 
for a moment mean to charge that any Alabama 
woman is unpatriotic. It has been proved in the 
wars of the past that there are no women on earth 
more patriotic than the women of the South. Unfortunately 
some of them have allowed themselves 
to be misled by bold women who are the 
product of the peculiar social conditions of our 
Northern cities into advocating. political innovation 
the realization of which would be the undoing 
of the South, and the surrender of the vital principle 
of home rule for which their fathers bled and 
died. Most of the members of the Alabama Suffrage 
Association, are daughters and granddaughters 
of Confederate Veterans. In working hand 
in hand, as they are doing, with these Northern 
women for the passage of the Anthony Amendment, 
these misguided daughters of the South are 
endorsing the principles for which Thad Stevens, 
Fred Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and other bitter 
enemies of the South contended, and it they succeed 
then indeed was the blood of their fathers 
shed in vain.

The failure of Alabama women to come forward 
and register was not due to apathy nor to a 
lack of patriotism. It was silent resentment of 
the fact that they were expected to submit themselves 
for registration under the auspices of a political 
organization, an aggressive organization 
with aims and purposes that are distasteful if not 
offensive to the vast majority of our women. They 
feel and resent what they believe to be an attempt 
on the part of the suffrage organization to capitalize 
the patriotism of Alabama women to further 
their propaganda.

Whoever was responsible for turning this work 
over to the suffragists made a serious mistake, 
and however unwittingly, did a grave injustice to 
the women of Alabama.

If this registration had been placed in the hands 
of capable women, even though some of them 
were suffragists, to be controlled and managed by 
them as women and not as members of some controversial 
faction, the result would doubtless have 
been very different.

Selma, Ala., Aug, 17, 1917

(Extracts from the Messenger)

THE NEGRO AND THE NEW SOCIAL ORDER

A Reconstruction Program, Prepared by Chandler Owen
and A. Philip Randolph (negroes),
Editors of the Messenger
March 10th, 1919

THE MESSENGER PUBLISHING CO.
2305 SEVENTH AVENUE
NEW YORK CITY

POLITICAL PROGRAM

Page 6 -- Political action must go hand in hand
with industrial action. A class of people without
the vote or the privilege of determining the kind of
government under which they live, has neither security
of life nor property from which liberty proceeds.

In view of the foregoing WE DEMAND the rigid
enforcement of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
to the Constitution which were primarily framed to
give protection to Negroes.

WE DEMAND the reduction of representation in 
the South upon the basis of actual voting population.
The Negro is not allowed to vote, which is in
criminal violation of the federal constitution.

We condemn all property and education tests for
suffrage.

WE DEMAND universal suffrage without regard
to race, color, sex, creed or nationality.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE

We favor the adoption of the Susan B. Anthony
amendment to the Constitution, granting suffrage to
women -- both white and colored.

("Suffrage democracy knows no bias of race, color, 
creed or sex." -- Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catts.)

SOCIAL EQUALITY

Page 9 -- We favor "Social equality" in every sense
of the phrase. WE DEMAND a new order based
upon a society of equals. Evasions, pretexts and excuses
cannot explain away the fact that no genuine
brotherhood can exist so long as the issue of social
equality is not squarely met.

SOCIAL EQUALITY has grown out of the two
cardinal and corollary principles of identity of treatment
and free interchangeability.

INTERMARRIAGE

We now approach the American bugaboo -- the 
question upon which Negroes and whites alike set up
false theories in flagrant violation of the most fundamental
principles of social evolution. We refer to
intermarriage between the whites and Negroes. WE 
FAVOR THE INTERMARRIAGE between any
sane, grown persons who desire to marry -- whatever
their race or color. WE FAVOR THE INTERMARRIAGE
OF WHITE MEN WITH COLORED
WOMEN AS WELL AS COLORED MEN WITH
WHITE WOMEN, because there is no natural or
instinctive aversion.

Race purity is both a myth and without any value.

WE THEREFORE DEMAND THE REPEAL OF 
ALL LAWS AGAINST INTERMARRIAGE AS BEING
INIMICAL TO THE INTERESTS OF BOTH
RACES. We further call attention to the fact that
there is no desire to check the associations of white
men with colored women, colored women with white
men, nor to serve any interests of Negro men. And
inasmuch as no law requires any woman under any 
circumstances to marry a man whom she does not
will or want to marry, these laws narrow themselves 
down to the prevention of WHITE WOMEN MARRYING
COLORED MEN whom they desire to 
marry.

WE DEMAND as much intercourse -- economic, 
political, and social as is possible between the races.

Issued by
THE MEN'S ANTI-RATIFICATION LEAGUE OF 
MONTGOMERY, ALA.


[*Shall the white man crawl?*]

   HOW MANY OF THESE WILL YOUR COUNTY AND STATE
PRODUCE, UNDER FEDERAL SUFFRAGE?
   THE GRANDFATHER CLAUSE IN ALABAMA DIED AUTOMATICALLY
IN JANUARY, 1903, SECTION 181.

photograph of three women, with this caption:
MAJORITIES WIN AT THE POLLS
   Suffragists of Ward 2, Chicago, advertised for a candidate for alderman.
From several applicants they selected "Al Russell," saloon keeper, as
the best vote getter.  This hand-picked suffragist candidate for alderman
was defeated on April 6, 1915, by a negro candidate, whose workers are
seen above.

[*This also was sent out in
Texas.  
E.A.B*]

[*w.c.   May 10- 1919.*]
With Their Usual Consistency
A woman high in the councils of New Jersey anti-suffragists
is the pioneer woman to run for office in Hillside, a suburb
of Elizabeth.  This is Mrs. Stockton B. Colt, a president of the
Elizabeth Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, who ran this
spring for a place among the three Hillside Commissioners of
Education.  She failed;  but that is not the point.  The real point
is, why did a woman who believes that a woman should have no
part in directing her children's education outside of the home run
for this office at all?  But whatever Mrs. Colt's reason, she did 
want the office and possibly she might have been elected if women
had voted at Hillside;  that is, if we are to judge by the way
women vote on educational matters in western states.  But men
alone vote in Hillside and Mrs. Colt still sits at home chafing, perhaps,
at the defects in the local schools she would like to have a
hand in curing, but consoled by her satisfaction that she was defeated
by the best of all possible electorates.

The Anti-Suffrage Woman's Creed
__________________
I BELIEVE
in making every effort to protect the
good name of our American men from
the attack of the Suffragists, who charge
that government by man is a failure, and
claim that the women with the ballot and
in the legislature would bring about the 
milennium.

I BELIEVE
in man and have the fullest confidence
in him and his desire and ability to make 
good laws and administer them with
equal justice to all.

I BELIEVE
and contend that if woman does her full
duty she will not think of asking for the
ballot.

I BELIEVE
that to surrender to suffragists would 
mean that man as the head of the nation's
household is a dismal failure.

I BELIEVE
that woman suffrage would mean that
mothers are neglecting their duty in 
not giving to the nation sons who are
worthy descendants of the men and 
women of the Revolution.

D.C. Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.

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