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ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES
No. 170

Prominent Suffragist gives $10,000 cash bail for
I.W.W. agitator arrested by U.S. Government
for conspiracy against the United States.

The men threatened with expulsion from the Senate for 
disloyalty - Lz. Follette, Gronna and Stone - are all
Suffragists.

    Sarah Bard Field, one of the leading
suffragists in the National Woman's 
Party; went to the Federal Building, in 
New York, on October 1st, and gave
$10,000 cash bail for Giovannetti, the I.
W. W. agitator, arrested for conspiracy
against the United States.  She was a 
leader in the suffrage movement to defeat
President Wilson.

    Ohio suffragists have been carrying on 
an almost unprecedented campaign of 
slander, even for suffragists , in their attempt
to make the public believe that 
the thousands of signatures to the anti-suffrage
petition for a referendum were
obtained in dishonorable ways.  They 
have done everything in their power to
have enough names thrown out to prevent
the referendum, but they have
failed, A dispatch to the New York
Journal from Columbus, Ohio, on September
28, says: "Ohio's eighty-six 
county election boards were ordered today
by Secretary of State Fulton to 
place the suffrage referendum on the November
election ballot.  Fulton announced
sufficient signatures had been 
filed."

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    The Ohio anti-suffragists have put detectives 
on the case to trace the accusations
of the suffragists that anti petitions 
were circulated by saloon men, and
thus far have been unable to discover
a single instance!  These detectives, with
a corps of men working under them,
intend to stay on the trail of the suffragists 
and nail every lie which has
been circulated by them.  The suffragists
were the first to support the referendum.
Now they are endeavoring by every
means in their power to tear it down.
They are afraid to submit their cause to
the will of the people, and have placed 
themselves on record in the State of Ohio
as foes of democracy.  The Prohibitionists
who have a campaign this fall are
shying as far away from the suffragists 
as possible.  They won municipal suffrage
in Columbus by a five per cent.
vote of that city, by using imported
women to make a house-to-house canvass,
and by circulating vicious and false
statements concerning the anti-suffragists.
In spite of these facts, Ohio will
again reject woman suffrage at the polls
in November.  The Ohio men are disgusted.
(Woman's Protest)

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    An article in the New York World of 
August 2 tells who the women are who
finance the picketers.  At the head of 
the list comes the multi-millionaires, Mesdames
Belmont, Havemeyer and Guggenheim.
On the day that the pickets 
unfurled their "Kaiser  Wilson" banner
Mrs. Belmont telegraphed to Alice Paul:
"I greatly approve of the position taken
by the Woman's Party and the banners
they have used."

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     At the Saratoga Suffrage Convention
the resolution inviting Miss Rankin to
make addresses in New York State during
the campaign was rejected by the 
committee, and was not even allowed to
come to a vote in the conference.  Is
it possible that this first frail blossom 
of woman suffrage in Congress has suffered
a blight by taking her stand with
the I.W.W.'s? She did not appear in 
the Maine campaign.

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    It is extremely interesting to note that 
the supposed victories of the suffragists
very frequently prove deadly boomerangs.
It was supposed to be a great
triumph for the cause when a woman
and a suffragist was elected to Congress.
It is an undeniable fact that Miss Rankin
has done irreparable injury to the
"Cause." So, too, with suffrage victories
in the west. But for the object
lesson which these states offer, of amazing 
weakness and corruption in government,
the East would be much more 
likely to experiment with woman suffrage.
Countries like Italy and France,
which know nothing of the real working
of woman suffrage, are far more likely
to try it than the eastern and southern
part of the United States, which can
profit by the mistakes of the west.

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    In every country where woman suffrage
is in vogue the woman elected to
the governing bodies of those countries
are socialists.  Montana is running true

to form in sending an I.W.W. advocate
to the halls of Congress.

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    THE LADY FROM MONTANA
Congress sat in solemn session when the 
    scales of Justice weighed,
Balanced up the dross and metal which 
    the souls of men assayed.
'Twas the day of days sublime,
'Twas the Nation's testing time.
"Shall the Kaiser snap his fingers in our 
    face?
Shall our banner dip its colors in disgrace?
Let us fight the Prussian vandal who 
    has dared to treat us so!"
But -- The Lady from Montana faltered 
    "No."
There upon the first occasion where a 
    woman might be heard, 
It was only through persuasion that she 
    faltered out the word. 
On that day of days sublime,
Which was woman's testing time,
Lincoln's pictured eyes looked sadly on 
    the sight.
And men wondered whether they had 
    heard aright. 
While the spirit of democracy was gasping 
    for its breath, 
The Lady from Montana willed its 
    death.
With no notion of derision do we comment
    on the case; 
She had not the wider vision which inspires 
    the sterner race.
In the day of days sublime,
In the nation's testing time,
Would we keep our flag in sight of 
    other lands,
We should never place its staff in woman's 
    hands.
There were shouts of exultation from
    the Hohenzollern foe
When The Lady from Montana voted
    "No."
        Florence Goff Schwarz.

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    Secretary of Labor Wilson has sent a 
letter to Butte, Mont., in which he inferentially 
calls Congresswoman Jeannette 
Rankin a liar. Quick, there is yet 
time to take to the hills. (Seattle Post 
Intelligencer, September 26.)

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   "So long as Parliamentary Government 
endures, or any form of authority 
endures, the Feminists will demand a 
share in this authority. It has been 
the custom during the suffrage campaign 
to pretend that women demand merely 
the vote. The object of this is to avoid
frightening the men, and it may well be 
that a number of suffragists honestly 
believe that they are asking for no more 
than the vote, while a few who confess 
that they want more add that it is not 
advisable to say so; they are afraid to 
'let the cat out of the bag,' but they will 
not rest until all parliaments, all cabinets, 
all boards, are open to women, until 
the Presidential chair is as accessible 
to them as is the English throne. Already 
in Norway women have entered 
the National Assembly; they propose to 
do so everywhere. They will not hesitate 
to claim women's votes for women 
candidates until they have secured the 
representation which they think is their 
right, that is, one half." (W. L. George.)

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WAR AND ANTI-WAR SUFFRAGISTS
    The suffrage street meetings were begun 
last night. Women's part in the 
war, their great and various service to 
the Government, will be dwelt upon by 
the speakers. That service and that 
part, nobly proportionate to women's patriotism 
and capacity for sacrifice, are 
to be urged as reason for giving them 
the ballot. Since, however, the work of 
women for the United States is shared
by the multitude of women who are opposed 
to woman suffrage, the ballot
would be a punishment to them instead 
of a "reward," if the privilege of voting 
is a gift or premium.
    Meanwhile, there is an active variety 
of suffragists that does not regard war 
or peace from a patriotic or American 
point of view. The socialist suffragists, 
women and men, are getting ready to 
disseminate "literature." They, too, are 
to hold daily meetings. They belong to 
a party dedicated to pacifism, to a German 
peace, a party of extreme opposition 
to the war, which it has officially 
declared unjustifiable, "even on the plea 
that it is a war in defense of American 

rights or American 'honor.'" The German 
submarine policy was not an interference 
with American rights, the so-called
American socialists say, but only 
interference with the opportunity of 
"certain groups of capitalists to coin 
money out of the blood and suffering of 
our fellow-men."
    "We brand the declaration of war by 
our Government," the platform adopted 
by the Socialists at St. Louis, last April, 
says, "as a crime against the people of 
the United States and against the nations 
of the world." There never was a 
more unjustifiable war, according to the 
majority Socialists. They have pledged 
themselves to "continuous, active, and 
public opposition to the war through 
demonstrations, mass petitions, and all 
other means" within their power. They 
pledged themselves to labor for the repeal
of all conscription laws. The Socialist 
Party, according to the pamphlet, 
"The Socialist Party Platform," published 
at the national headquarters in 
Chicago, "urges upon the workers in the 
mines and forests, on the railways and 
ships, in factories and fields, the use of 
their economic and industrial power by 
refusing to mine the coal, to transport 
soldiers, to furnish food or other supplies 
for military purposes."
    It is to aid this precious program that 
the Socialists want woman suffrage.
These allies may be as troublesome as
the picketers to the discreeter suffragists 
who have given up other war work 
for the greater war work of persuading 
a stolid public to vote for the suffrage 
amendment. (New York Times, September 
18.)

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I. W. W OUTBREAKS HALT
BUSINESS OF AUSTRALIA
   Word of I. W. W. outbreaks, which 
have brought business in Sydney and 
throughout entire Australia to an absolute 
standstill, and which culminated
in the burning of a schooner loaded with
copra last week, was brought to San 
Francisco, yesterday, by passengers of 
the steamer Ventura.
    The strikes in Sydney delayed the 
Ventura for six days, and it was not until 
the farmers came down out of the 
surrounding hills and loaded their own 
cargoes that the vessel was able to sail.
    Ivan Nelson, a Sydney exporter, who 
arrived on the Ventura, said that conditions 
were the worst he had ever seen,
and that the strikes have completely 
ruined business. He lays the trouble to 
I. W. W. agitators, who, he says, are 
extremely active. He said that he received 
a wireless message en route, telling 
him that the schooner Miranda, in 
which he had a $30,000 interest, was set
on fire in Sydney harbor, with a loss to 
cargo and ship amounting to £60,000.
(San Francisco Chronicle, September
10.)

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    "Suffrage first" is still the cry of the 
suffragists, both militant and so-called
conservative. Harriet Lees Laidlaw, 
vice-chairman of the New York Suffrage 
Party, says in the New York Times Magazine 
for August 19: "I say proudly 
that the Woman Suffrage party stands 
for suffrage first." The Socialists stand 
for Socialism first, the I. W. W's for
revolution first, and these three groups, 
not one of which puts America first, are 
the most serious national menace confronting 
our country today.

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THE VOICE OF THE DANGEROUS
FANATIC
    To the Editor of the Press: Woman 
suffrage is of more importance than 
prosperity, peace or war, of more importance
than international relations or national 
defense; of more importance 
than commerce, revenue or U-boats, than 
tariff, taxes or transportation, of more 
importance than military or naval 
force.
    All these are trivial compared with the 
right of 20,000,000 women to representation 
in Government. It makes but little 
difference to women what the form of 
Government is if they are unrepresented.
    Dorothy Vosell.
    Washington, D. C. 

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    "The Masses," that best friend of the 
suffragists, has been again barred from 
the mails, "for seeking to undermine 
those means which the nation has 
adopted to protect the people of the 
United States as well as civilization itself
from the assaults of a powerful foe
after a declaration of war has been 
made."

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    The Indiana woman suffrage law was
declared unconstitutional by a judge of 
the Marion County Superior Court on 
September 17.

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POLICEWOMAN IS 
BADLY BEATEN IN 
MAKING ARREST
    One policewoman and a policeman 
were severely beaten yesterday afternoon 
when they arrested Modest and 

Frank M. McDonald, brothers, at their 
home at 826 Eddy street. After the 
free-for-all fight in which the arrests 
were made, Policewoman Katherine 
Eisenhart was taken to her home suffering 
from many bruises, and Detective 
William O'Brien was treated at the 
Central Emergency Hospital for a 
broken nose. 
   While O'Brien struggled with Frank
M. McDonald, 24 years old, Modest, 18
years old, kicked and beat Mrs. Eisenhart.
After a struggle that lasted twenty 
minutes, O'Brien succeeded in handcuffing 
both the brothers. (San Francisco 
Chronicle, September 4.)

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WOMEN JURORS 
TO SIT IN RED
LIGHT TRIALS
    Announcement was made in Police
Judge Oppenheim's court, yesterday, 
that women will be likely to be called
upon ultimately to try the Police Court 
cases involving disorderly houses. Lieutenant 
Charles Goff, of the morals squad, 
demanded a venire of women to be summoned 
to try Ernest and Marie Papens, 
proprietors of the Hotel Palm, 808 
Kearny street, both charged with keeping 
a disorderly house.
    Judge Oppenheim granted the request 
and issued an order for a venire of fifty 
women to be in court July 17, when the 
case will be called for trial. From this 
number a jury of twelve women will be 
selected, if no legal objection is made. 
(San Francisco Chronicle.)

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POLICE MATRON ASKED 
TO EXPLAIN TAXI RIDE
AND MIDNIGHT LIQUOR
    Brandy, diamonds and a taxicab ride
are commingled as incidents of a midnight
adventure that Miss Anna M. Finley, 
police matron at the Desplaines 
street station, will be asked to explain
at her hearing before the trial board of 
the civil service commission.
    Detective Sergeant John J. Brown, of 
the Lake street station, will be a witness.
He is expected to relate how he 
met Matron Finley at 12,20 o'clock on 
the morning of October 6 at Sacramento 
avenue and Madison street, and how he 
walked with her to Madison street and
Kedzie avenue. He says he will add:
    " 'How does it come you're out so 
late?" I asked the matron.
    " 'Oh, a little card party with friends,'
she answered, 'but I want to stop in 
some place.'
    "So we stopped in at the Park Inn 
for thirty-five minutes, and while she 
had a drink of brandy, I smoked a cigar.
    "I put her in a taxi at 1 o'clock. Yes, 
sir.' She was sober!"
    Matron Finley went to the company's 
offices on West Twenty-first street the 
next day, it is alleged. At noon Superintendent 
Charles W. Gray telephoned 
the police that she had come in intoxicated, 
and waving a revolver. She was 
questioned, and the charges resulted.
(Chicago Herald.)

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NEWTON HITS AT PICKETS
Malone's Successor Refers to Them as 
"The Freaks of Their Sex"
Special to the New York Times.
    Washington, October 3. -- The press
agent of the National Association Opposed 
to Woman Suffrage has given out 
an interview by Byron R. Newton, the 
new Collector of Customs at New York,
which quotes him as saying of the defeat 
of suffrage in Maine:
    "In this great world crisis I feel like 
thanking God that there are in this country 
still left so many real women 
who appreciate the power womanhood 
had always had and exerted in the development 
of civilization. I believe that 
the war may be a blessing to our country, 
in checking what I regard as a menace
to civilization -- and by menace I 
mean that group of restless, abnormal
women who seem to have a perverted 
and diseased ambition to do anything 
and everything except those things which 
God Almighty and nature designed them 
to do.
    "Women have set the milestones of 
progress along the path of civilization in 
this world, and I am truly thankful that 
the American women -- despite the freaks 
of their sex -- are rising to the occasion 
and continuing to do that splendid work."

Issued by the Cambridge Anti-Suffrage
    Association, October 10, 1917.
Margaret C. Robinson, Chairman of the 
    Press Committee.
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ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES 
No. 169 

Mrs. Robert Lansing, wife of the Secretary of 
State, accepts position as Secretary of the 
National Anti-Suffrage Association. 

Elihu Root, America's greatest statesman, presides at big 
Anti-Suffrage meeting in Utica. 

Maine soldiers vote overwhelmingly against Woman Suffrage. 

Officers of Connecticut Suffrage Association resign to 
join the "Militants." 

    The National Association opposed to 
Woman Suffrage announces with great 
pleasure the acceptance by Mrs. Robert 
Lansing of the secretaryship of that organization, 
to which she has been unanimously 
chosen. Mrs. Lansing's life has 
been in official circles in Washington. 
Her father, Hon. John W. Foster, was 
Secretary of State under President Harrison. 
Her husband, the present secretary 
of State, holds a position particularly 
responsible and important at the 
present time because of the World War.

    The Colonial Theatre at Utica was 
packed to its utmost capacity on Sept. 
24, the occasion being an Anti-Suffrage 
mass-meeting. One hundred of the 
most distinguished citizens of the city 
sat on the platform. The speakers were 
Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., President 
of the National Anti-Suffrage Association, 
and Mrs. Grace Duffield Goodwin. 
The presiding officer, former 
Secretary of State Elihu Root, received 
a great ovation. 
    The stage audience was on its feet as 
Mr. Root arose to take his place at the 
speaker's table. He said: 
    Ladies and Gentlemen--friends and 
neighbors:
    "I must thank you first, for your kind 
and gracious welcome. It is not my 
purpose in presiding here tonight to 
make a speech about woman suffrage,
but rather to introduce those who will 
discuss that much worn subject. I think 
it is unfortunate that the subject should 
be thrust upon us now, at time when 
all that care for their country requires all 
their energy and strength and enthusiasm 
and heart and soul for the service of 
their country in the peril that confronts
it. I think it unfortunate that we should 
be compelled to turn aside from our efforts
towards making our country victorious 
over that cruel, brutal and 
arrogant enemy which does not hesitate 
to murder women and children and which 
seeks to destroy the liberties of the 
world, in order to have controversy over 
the question of woman suffrage. But 
the subject is thrust upon us. It can 
not be allowed to go by default and these 
ladies who do not wish to be public 
characters, who are not seeking a place 
in politics, who love their homes and 
have high ideas of womanhood, have 
buckled on the armor of discussion and 
are determined that the question shall 
not go by default.
    I could not come here and introduce 
them to you if I did not sympathize with 
their views. I am opposed to the granting 
of suffrage to women. I formed an 
unfavorable opinion of the project many 
years ago, and time, far from changing 
my opinion, has but confirmed it. I am 
opposed to it because I think it would 
be bad for the government of the country, 
for the state and bad for the women. 
Nevertheless I should not have taken 
my mind off subjects which are more intense 
in their engrossment to come here 
to preside, were it not for two things. 
One is, I have deep sympathy for the 
good and noble women of Utica who are 
trying to do their duty by womanhood 
and their conutry, in making the gallant 
fight for anti-suffrage in this country.
And the other is, that I could not refrain 
from coming to help you welcome to my 
own native country, the daughter of my 
honored and dear friend, John Hay; and 
not only honor that great American 
whose character, whose intelligence and 
the value of whose public service has 
illustrated the democracy of our time in 
America, but who is the wife of that 
young senator, brilliant in action, brilliant 
in promise, whose love and devotion 
to the public service is a bright 
augury for the future of our Republic. 
    It is with sentiments of sympathy 
and of gratitude for the honor that is 
permitted me, that I present to you Mrs. 
James W. Wadsworth, Jr."

    Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president 
of the National American Woman Suffrage
Association, has made a statement, 
regarding the recent defeat of 
the suffrage amendment in the Maine 
election to the effect that the suffrage
education during the election 
in Maine will be of value later 

on, as "the suffrage question is never 
settled until it is settled affirmatively."
    "The effect of every state repudiation,"
says Mrs. Catt, "can but serve 
to focus the effort of the National Suffrage 
Asociation anew upon the federal 
route to the suffrage goal. More and 
more of our work concentrates upon 
Washington as the focal point."
    In other words, the clearer it is that 
the people of this country are opposed
to Woman Suffrage, the harder will Mrs. 
Catt and her followers work to get politicians 
to force it upon them against 
their will!

    The Brooklyn Citizen in an article on 
"The Maine vote" hints that the opposition 
to woman suffrage is much 
stronger in distinctively American communities, 
like Maine, than had been suspected, 
and that the suffragists may be 
mistaken in expecting assistance from native 
voters rather than foreign born.
"The Citizen" is right. The strength of 
the suffragists in the New York campaign 
will be among those elements 
of the population, largely foreign, 
where socialism, pacifism and disloyalty 
to the United States are strong. 
The Citizen urges that a campaign of 
exceptional vigor must be waged in 
New York if suffrage is not to be 
defeated in November. It was noted
with interest in the Massachusetts 
campaign that the places where the 
suffragists worked hardest, and the 
towns where suffrage leaders lived, all 
gave overwhelming victories to the anti-
suffragists.

    Although proclaiming themselves absolutely 
confident of winning in Maine, 
"because Maine is such a progressive 
state," the suffragists since the election 
assure us that they knew they couldn't 
win there "because Maine is so old-fashioned!"
"We did not expect Maine to 
pass the suffrage amendment," said Mrs. 
Raymond Brown, former President of 
the N. Y. Suffrage association. "It is 
generally conceded that Maine is fifty 
years behind the times politically."

    Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse says 
"the carrying of a state amendment for 
suffrage is a matter of education. The 
Maine voters have not been sufficiently 
educated on woman suffrage. We believe 
the voters in New York state are 
more enlightened."

    Under the heading "Enlightenment"
The New York Times of Sept. says:
    "Maine it seems, wasn't sufficiently 
'enlightened' to vote for woman suffrage 
In New York State, illumination is supposed 
to have dissipated some of the 
darkness of the electorate which gave
that 188,000 'anti' majority in 1915. 
The second campaign will have better 
luck. Just as it did in Ohio, doubtless. 
Unenlightened Ohio beat woman suffrage 
in 1912 by a majority of 87,000. In 1914
enlightened Ohio beat woman suffrage 
by 182,000. Spread the light!
    The light is spreading. The illumination 
is brilliant already. In this year 
1917 what could illuminate more radiantly 
the suffragist sense of public duty,
of patriotism, of the proportionate values 
of public needs and civic responsibilities 
than the statement of an illustrious feminist 
to the campaign conference of the 
New York State Woman Suffrage Party 
at Saratoga the other day.
   You have been splendidly organized, 
and through that organization have been 
able to do unparalleled work for the nation 
since war came. But let me tell you 
now that, for the next two months, nothing 
you can possibly do for the Government 
will be equal in value to the work 
you do to carry this State for equal 
suffrage next November. 
    The martyrs of Washington are enlightening.
Miss Rankin is enlightening. 
The Woman's Peace Party is enlightening. 
Enlightening are the suffragists 
sure to turn up in the polyonomous societies 
and councils and conferences and 
leagues and unions to oppose conscription 
and the war and promote German 
peace. Enlightening is the plan of the 
New York Socialists proposed more than 
two months ago, for nightly outdoor

suffrage meetings. The Socialists are 
particularly eager 'to spread the coming 
of democracy for women,' for, as the 
New York Call, a Socialist organ, says 
for our enlightenment, 'virtually every active 
Socialist woman is a pacifist.'
    There is enlightenment in the congratulations 
of the Massachusetts Socialist 
Convention to the Washington picketers. 
There is enlightenment in the strength 
and activities of the I. W. W. in Idaho, 
Montana, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Washington, 
States blessed with woman suffrage, 
and socialism is strong in those 
States. The fight for woman suffrage 
'must be won,' says the New York Call. 
There is no end of enlightenment."

    The Maine soldier boys in camp voted 
against suffrage by a bigger ratio than 
the folks at home did -- and that result 
may give a hint as to why the cause 
finds the going rough.

ADVICE TO NEW YORK 
VOTERS:
Remember Maine 
and Do the Same
    The Brooklyn Standard Union of Sept. 
11 expresses great surprise at Maine's 
rejection of suffrage forgetting that 
Maine is the 12th state since 1912 to 
take similar action. It says: "This surprising 
rejection of suffrage by a vote 
approximating two to one remains a mystery.
Seeing the wave which has been 
sweeping eastward dashed all to pieces 
on Maine is as painful as it is astonishing."
It forgets that this "wave" [*a*]effects 
only legislators, afraid of the revenge 
of suffrage lobbyists. The people are 
not afraid of them and the people are 
against woman suffrage.

    The New York World, commenting on 
the suffrage defeat in Maine says: "evidently 
suffrage in the East needs a new 
leadership that has a clearer understanding 
of public opinion and of the forces 
that move public opinion. It has become 
largely the fad of rich women who use 
it to exploit themselves."

    Mrs. Dudley Malone was one of the 
picketers sent to jail and according to 
the New York Call, Mr. Malone is a 
"New Man." That explains it all.

    The statement by a leading suffragist 
that Woman Suffrage in Maine was "deferred 
but not defeated," reminds one 
of the Irishmen, who, seeing on the tombstone 
the familiar inscription "Not dead, 
but sleeping" remarked "Begorra, if I 
was dead, I'd own it!"

To the Editor of the Times, 
   New York City.
Dear Sir:
    Among the several points of similarity 
between the suffragists and the Kaiser 
are the periodical statements issued by 
their leaders explaining, in effect, that 
they are delighted with the results of 
defeat, that the defeaat demonstrated 
the splendid science of their generals,
the weakness of their enemies, the unconquerable 
strides of their army; and 
that their latest repulse proves anew
their invincible power, their triumphant 
victory.
    Very truly yours, 
    Mrs. Jno. A. Church.

    The Boston Post, commenting just before 
the election on suffrage activities in 
Maine, said: "Some of the suffrage 
speakers have been rather unfortunate 
in their experiences. At Orington fair, 
the other day, one of the militant kind 
took occasion to criticize her audience. 
"Look at that row of men sitting on that 
fence over there!" she shouted, pointing 
at a fringe of country gentlemen who 
were viewing the races from an inexpensive 
point of vantage. "Look at them!"
continued the lady seeker for votes. "Do 
you see a single intelligent countenance 
there?"
    Whereupon the crowd burst into a 
chorus of jeers and catcalls, and followed 
it up with such a din of cowbells 
and motor car horns that the lady was 
forced to desist. A few minutes before 
this episode, Mrs. Henry Preston White, 
of Boston, an effective anti, had delivered 
a brief address from the grandstand, 
and was received with hearty applause."

    Certain papers with suffrage sympathies 
have waxed somewhat caustic about 
the mismanagement of the Maine campaign 
declaring that the suffragists made 
the same serious mistake which they 
made in the Massachusetts campaign, of 
trying to answer the Antis! The suffragists 
are, however, deserving of sympathy 
rather than blame. It is true they 
are unable to answer the Antis, but on 
the other hand it is a sad give-away if 
they show themselves afraid to try -- so 
what can the poor things do?

    The attempts of the so-called "conservative" 
wing of the suffragists to belittle 
the National Woman's Party by constantly 
referring to it as a "small 
group," is natural enough, in face of the 
great disrepute the picketers are bringing 
upon the whole suffrage movement. 
But this "small group" is rapidly becoming 
a large one by attracting to it the 
younger and more militant suffragists 
throughout the country. Organizations 
formerly in sympathy with the National 
Association are constantly seceding to 
join the militants, who have since March 
organized state branches in North and 
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
Rhode Island, Mississippi and 
Louisiana. Their organ, "The Suffragist" 
has more than doubled its circulation 
during the past year, and money rolls 
into coffers apparently in a steady 
stream.
    A glance at the long list of members 
of its National Advisory Council should 
rid any one, once for all, of the idea that 
the Woman's Party is an insignificant, 
neglible group. Passing over the many 
names made familiar only by suffrage 
activities, and noting only those of independent 
reputation, we find Mrs. O. H. 
P. Belmont, Mrs. Florence Bayard 
Hilles, Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr, Miss 
Crystal Eastman, Mrs. Phoebe A. 
Hearst, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 
Mrs. Frederick C. Howe, Miss Fola La 
Follette, Mrs. William B. Lamar, Miss 
Hazel Mackaye, Josephine Preston 
Peabody Marks, Miss Juila Marlowe, 
Mrs. May Wright Sewall and Miss 
Grace Strachan. 
    In a recent number of The Suffragist 
appears a striking article by Lavinia 
Dock in justification of the picketing. It 
is called "The Young Are at the Gates."
The younger women among the suffragists 
are, in fact, conspicuously identified 
with the Woman's Party. The future 
of woman suffrage in this country undoubtedly 
lies in the hands of this party 
From its ranks would come the leaders 
and bosses, if votes for women were 
won.

    The Springfield Republican of Sept. 27 
says:
    "No more interesting political situation
exists within the state to-day than 
is found in the ranks of the Connecticut 
woman suffrage association, with its 
38,000 members and upwards -- minus a 
few. The minuses are recent ones, 
caused by the resignation of the president, 
Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, and of 
the treasurer, Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, 
the headquarters secretary, Miss Caroline 
M. Flanagan, and a few others.
These resignations were accepted at a 
meeting held in this city on Wednesday. 
Of significance is that part of Mrs. Hepburn's 
written resignation in which she 
says that the national association, of 
which the Connecticut association is a 
part, dictates the policies of the latter 
and determines all of its essential concerns. 
Mrs. Hepburn says she does not 
see how the national association can do 
otherwise, and she admits that national 
work is of first importance; but she believes 
the work of the national association 
is futile and out of date, and she 
adds:--
    "This summer the National has lined 
up with the antisuffragists in their condemnation 
of the suffrage work which the 
woman's party is doing at Washington, 
in spite of the fact that this is the most 
practical work which has been done this 
summer toward securing the passage of 
the federal amendment. This carping 
attitude on the part of the National association, 
taken in connection with their 
own unwillingness or inability to adopt 
any adequate policy, has made me realize 
that I cannot consistently serve as president 
of the state branch of he National 
association, notwithstanding my devotion 
to the Connecticut woman suffrage association."
    The resignation of Mrs. Bennett is 
couched in terms more general. She 
gives strong indorsement to the methods 
adopted by the women pickets in Washington. 
Whether she intends to help 
personally conduct campaigns similar to 
the one in Washington she does not 
state, but leaves no doubt concerning 
her sympathies. Beyond question the 
withdrawal of Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. 
Hepburn from the state association is a 
hard blow -- not because it cannot spare 
two, three or four or more members, but 
because these women have been largely 
responsible for the building up of the 
splendid organization itself.

Issued by the Cambridge Anti-Suffrage
    Association, October 10, 1917.
Margaret C. Robinson, Chairman of the 
    Press Committee.
For subscription rates, apply to Mrs. 
    Georg Sheffield, 33 Brewster street,
    Cambridge, Mass.

    Extra copies of this issue may be 
obtained at 10 cents per dozen, 75 cents 
per hundred, or $5.50 per thousand, 
upon application to Miss M. M. Wells, 
687 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.
    Large orders should be placed promptly, 
before the type is distributed.

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ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES
No. 171 

"FRAU" SCHWIMMER, SECRETARY OF 
THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE 
ALLIANCE, IMPLICATED AS AN 
ACCOMPLICE OF VON BERNSTOFF IN 
PLOTS TO RUIN RUSSIA. 
--
A member of the Ford Peace Party finds testimony 
in Russia of her connection with Colonel 
Nekrasoff, a member of the Russian Commission 
to the U.S. who betrayed his country 
to the Germans, and with Count von Bernstoff 
whose crimes against our government 
are the blackest in the ambassadorial history. 
---
Under the heading, "Poor Russia Betrayed 
at Home and in America by 
Men in High Council," the New York 
Herald of October 7th prints an article 
by Herman Bernstein a member of the 
Ford Peace Party unearthing startling
facts about the treachery which sold a 
people. He tells of the many plots to
betray Russian made in this country between
German spies and members of
the Russian Commission at Washington. 

Mr. Bernstein went to Russia to investigate
this question, and has accumulated 
much noteworthy information. Incidentally
he throws some interesting 
light upon "Frau" Schwimmer's activities
which indicate that her mission to
this country was not one of "peace" but
of sinister portent to the peace of the
world. Mr. Bernstein says: 

"The revelations contained in the materials
submitted by Bourtseff to the
Russian government expose the machinations
of the former Czar's servants, 
who worked hand in hand with German
agents for Russia's destruction, and
which probably cost Russia countless
millions of lives." 

"One of the chief offenders, according
to the charges made by witnesses now in
Russia, was Colonel Vladamir Nekrasoff, 
a member of the Russian commission
(to the U.S.) who returned to Russia
some time ago. Nekrasoff lived at
the Belleclaire Hotel here, and occupied
two other apartments in New York. One
of the witnesses testified that ONE OF
HIS APARTMENTS WAS KEPT IN
THE NAME OF ROSIKA SCHWIMMER.
WHERE COLONEL NEKRASOFF
AND COUNT VON BERNSTORFF. 
THEN GERMAN AMBASSADOR
TO THE UNITED STATES, 
MET SEVERAL TIMES. 

"It will be remembered that Rosika
Schwimmer, an Austrian pacifist advocate, 
was the originator of the Ford
Peace Expedition. It was Mme. Schwimmer, 
who introduced Henry Ford, the
idealist with millions of dollars, to



finance the expedition. She misled and
deceived him by assuring him that she
had documents from the  neutral governments
to the effect that they were eager
for the calling of a conference, and that
they would participate in such a conference. 

"I was with the Ford expedition, as a
guest of Mr. Ford, and within the first
few days I realized that Henry Ford
was the victim of a bold adventure, that
MME. SCHWIMMER HAD NO SUCH
DOCUMENTS AS SHE DESCRIBED
TO MR. FORD AND THAT SHE
WAS WORKING FOR GERMAN
AND AUSTRIAN INTERESTS, 
RATHER THAN IN THE INTEREST
OF DURABLE PEACE. 

"It was pathetic to see Mr. Ford, 
whom I regard as one of the noblest
idealists of our age, when it dawned
upon him that something was wrong
with the expedition. I was the first to
declare to Mr. Ford that I would leave
the expedition upon reaching Stockholm.
I felt that I could not be identified with
an expedition whose moving spirit, Rosika
Schwimmer, was disguising behind
the noble ideals of Mr. Ford and his
purest motives a scheme which was intended
to serve not only her own selfish
interests, but perhaps also one of the
groups of belligerents against another. 
Henry Ford was the first man to leave 
the expedition in Christiana. I was his 
first guest to leave it. 

"The testimony of one of the witnesses 
in Petrograd against Colonel Nekrasoff
to the effect that von Bernstorff, 
then German ambassador to the United
States, and Colonel Nekrasoff, a member
of the Russian Commission in America, 
met several times with Mme. 
Schwimmer in 1915, casts a very strong
suspicion on Mme. Schwimmer's activities 
in this country and her peace propaganda. 
The bringing together of representatives
of enemy governments is more
than strange, but, in the light of the
disclosures brought out in the charges
against Colonel Nekrasoff that he had
betrayed Russian military secrets to the 
German and Austrian authorities, the
incident assumes serious proportions. 

"A shadow is thus cast on the Ford
Peace Expedition, which was engineered 
by Rosika Schwimmer, perhaps to serve
both German and Russo-German interests." 



MRS. CATT'S LETTER OF "WARNING"
TO ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS ANSWERED

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt recently
sent a letter of "warning" addressed to
Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., president
of the National Association Opposed
to Woman Suffrage; Mrs. Robert
Lansing, Secretary, Miss Alice Hill
Chittenden, president of the New York 
State Anti-Suffrage Association, and
Mrs. Margaret C. Robinson, of Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, editor of the
Anti-Suffrage Notes. 

"I write to warn you that any further
dissemination of statements by your
organization or its representatives, 
which insidiously imply that I am disloyal 
to my country, will meet with the
treatment their enormity deserves,"
wrote Mrs. Catt. 

Mrs. Wadsworth replied: 

"This organization has always been
careful to use your own authorized utterances, 
as reported in suffrage organs
or reliable newspapers, and has accused
you of no beliefs or sentiments not expressed
therein." 

Mrs. Robinson's reply to Mrs. Catt
was as follows: 

Mrs. Carrie Catt, 

Dear Madam: Your letter of October
1st complaining of certain statements in
the "Anti Suffrage Notes" is at hand. 
You must certainly be aware that you
have been widely quoted in the press as 
urging your followers to put "Suffrage
first," and as having proposed that the
Constitution be torn into shreds if it
stands in the way of woman suffrage. 
You have in your employ highly paid, 
able press agents, and you have easy
access to the press throughout the country. 
If these statements were false you
could easily have corrected them. Since
you have not done so, you can have no
just cause for complaint if the reading
public assumes that they are true.
 
Neither have you chosen to reply to an
article in the Toronto Daily News of 
May 12 charging that your speech in
that city the night before was "distinctly
unpatriotic." The writer states that
"the United States was attacked rather
than defended by you;" that you brought
the charge of dishonest elections against
your country; and he adds: "And this
from a woman who, we hear, has been
honored by appointment on the National
Defense Committee! 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."
If this article is false in its statements, 
you could easily have corrected 
it. Since you have not done so, the responsibility 
for its acceptance is yours, 
not mine. 

You say: "I did not bring Frau 
Schwimmer to this country, nor did I invite
her to come." As you are president
of the International Woman Suffrage
Alliance, of which she was widely advertised 
as the secretary, and as she
spoke at suffrage meetings all over the 
country and was one of the principal
speakers for your cause in the Ohio campaign, 
even speaking in a saloon, it
would be a natural inference that the association
of which you are the head was
instrumental to bringing her here to do
this work. The public would be greatly 
interested in learning under what auspices
she DID come, if not yours, to
work for suffrage just at that time and
to strengthen the pacifist movement to
the utmost of her ability. It appears 
from your own official organ, the Woman's 
Journal, that shortly after your arrival
from Europe on the "Kaiser William
II," "Frau" Rosika Schwimmer, 
then press secretary of the International


Suffrage Alliance, and president of the
Hungarian Woman Suffrage Association, 
arrived with a peace plea which you
personally assisted her to present to
President Wilson--at the time of the
Kaiser's most successful advance on
Paris. The Central Powers have been
shown to be behind much of the peace
agitation in this country. Was "Frau" 
Schwimmer working for her government?

You say "Frau" Schwimmer was not
an officer of the International Suffrage
Alliance at the time of her visit to this
country--that she held that position only
for a few months. If you will refer to 
the press of that period you will see
that she was constantly heralded as 
Secretary of the International Suffrage
Alliance, and that THE STATEMENT
WAS NEVER ONCE DENIED. The 
Woman's Journal refers to her as Secretary 
of that Alliance. WHY WAS 
THE PUBLIC MISINFORMED AT
THE TIME? The correction seems a 
trifle belated. 

You disavow all responsibility for the
activities of the People's Council. Its 
leaders, suffragists who were prominent
Peace workers with "Frau" Schwimmer, 
have publicly announced that THE
PEOPLE'S COUNCIL IS THE DIRECT
OUTCOME OF "FRAU"
SCHWIMMER'S PEACE SHIP ENTERPRISE.
She was an honorary
member of the Woman's Peace Party
when you were its Vice-President; she 
was employed by your followers in Ohio
to work for your cause; she was constantly
heralded as Secretary of an Alliance
of which you are the President. 
If her activities were carried on without
your sanction or approval you have allowed
no previous knowledge of the fact
to reach the reading public. If, during 
the last three years, anti-suffrage criticism 
or an awakened conscience has
made you less a pacifist and more a patriot,
none is so ready to congratulate
you as the anti-suffragists, but your 
present contention that you "did not
sympathize" with "Frau" Schwimmer's
peace plan, and that "no act (of yours)
is or ever has been due to her influence,"
is hardly in harmony with the record in
the files of the Woman's Journal, official
suffrage organ, which shows that you
were so much in sympathy with her objects
at that time that you accompanied
her to Washington to see the President
and place before him an alleged petition
brought by "Frau" Schwimmer from the
women of Denmark, France, Holland, 
Austria, Canada, Hungary, Italy, Norway, 
Russia, Great Britain, Germany
and the United States. (Woman's Journal, 
September 19, 1914.)

You protest against being linked, by
implication, with the I. W. W. It is your
cause through other prominent leaders
which I connect with the I. W. W. The 
People's Council openly affiliated with
them at a mass meeting in Seattle at
which the speakers were Elizabeth Freeman
and Mrs. Alice Parks, both prominent 
suffragists; Miss Rankin is generally
reported to have ranged herself on
the side of the I. W. W. SARAH
BARD FIELD, A SUFFRAGE
LEADER IN THE CAMPAIGN TO
DEFEAT PRESIDENT WILSON, IS
REPORTED TO HAVE PAID ON
OCTOBER 1 a $10,000 CASH FINE
FOR GIOVANNETI, THE I. W. W. 
AGITATOR, ARRESTED FOR CONSPIRACY
AGAINST OUR GOVERNMENT. 
The I. W. W. are stronger in
suffrage states than in any other part
of the country, because the doubling of
their strength through the votes of their
women makes their class vote a powerful

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political weapon, while the women of
other classes largely stay away from the
polls. 

You say the I. W. W. has not "endorsed"
woman suffrage. Surely since
the Maine election you must realize that
the public endorsements of woman suffrage
by organizations are not worth the 
paper they are printed on. In Maine, 
as in Massachusetts woman suffrage
was "endorsed" by every conceivable organization, 
but it was overwhelmingly
defeated at the polls nevertheless. I 
have never claimed that the I. W. W. 
had "endorsed" woman suffrage. I do 
claim that it was largely owing to the
VOTES of the I. W. W. that woman
suffrage won in Montana and Nevada, 
the only states you have been able to 
win by popular vote in the last five 
years. Is not Miss Rankin looking to 
their votes to support her in her attempt
to gain a seat in the Senate? 

You say "Bill" Haywood and Emma
Goldman are Antis. I am not informed
as to Mr. Haywood's views, but Emma
Goldman herself has denied that she is
opposed to woman suffrage. She believes 
in no government, therefore in no votes
for anybody; but declares that if men
vote women should vote also. You will
hardly claim that this is anti-suffrage
doctrine. 

You refer to Kaiser Wilhelm as the
leading anti-suffragist in the world. 
Surely you do him injustice! It is believed
in England that Germany gave
generous financial support to the militant 
suffragists in that country; his followers
in this country have given the
warmest praise to the picketers at 
Washington for their insults to the President
and Mr. Root. And can you doubt
that the Kaiser would rejoice and give
hearty thanks to the good old German
deity if our Congress could be FILLED
with suffragists, who, like Miss Rankin, 
would vote to allow German's insults
to us to be swallowed meekly, who
would vote against conscription, and
who would ally themselves with that element
in our population which is striving
to hamper our government in every way
in order that Germany may win the 
war? I doubt if you yourself would rejoice
more over a suffrage victory in
New York than would the German Kaiser--
which certainly proves that he is
not a typical anti-suffragist.

You say you resent being held responsible
for activities which would render 
our country a prey to a foreign 
power. The efforts of the Woman's
Peace Party to keep our country unprepared
and defenceless most certainly
tended to render our country a prey to
a foreign power. You were long an officer
of that society, even through you resigned
from it when the "Peace idea"
was no longer popular.

You protest against "mudslinging" on
the part of the anti-suffragists. Why
not also on the part of your own followers,
who in every campaign declare
that their opponents are allied with all
of the forces of evil? You are yourself
reported as stating, again and again,
that anti-suffragists have won at the
polls by fraud and corruption, and by
the purchase of ignorant voters, but 
YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE
TO FURNISH ONE ATOM OF
PROOF. It is not "mudslinging" but
simple statement of fact, that with very
few exceptions the people, both men and
women, who have achieved notoriety for
disloyal or treasonable conduct since we
entered the war are known as ardent
supporters of the cause of which you are
the leader.

You say that one state, Wyoming, has
passed a law forbidding slander in political
campaigns. It is possible that
such a law has proved necessary in a
state which has enjoyed the purifying influence
of woman suffrage for forty-
seven years?

You refer to Mrs. Annie Riley Hale, 
who was recently arrested for a seditious
speech, as one of my "co-workers." Mrs.
Hale very appropriately severed all connection
with the Anti-Suffrage Association
before she made that speech or before
she appeared with your co-worker, 
Crystal Eastman, at a meeting of pacifists
for "Women Only" held in New
York a few weeks ago.

You warn me against "personal attacks"
on you or your fellow workers.



To quote your speeches and record your
acts as vouched for by your official organ,
can, no matter how ardently you
may wish these things forgotten,
scarcely be construed by the fair-minded
as "personal attacks." I must claim the
right to accept reports in the reputable
press as reliable if you do not take the
trouble to correct or deny them.
                 Yours truly,
                     Margaret C. Robinson.

P.S. The latest issue of the "Woman
Citizen," your official organ, has just
reached me. The cartoon on the cover, a
picture of a case of whiskey bottles, is
labelled "The Case Against Woman Suffrage."
Shall you be able to circulate
this issue in Wyoming, where there is a
law against slander?

Miss Minnie Bronson, editor of the
Woman's Protest, and general secretary
of the National Anti-Suffrage Association,
declares that she will publish a full
exposure of the peace plots of Frau
Schwimmer, comment upon which
aroused Mrs. Catt's ire, in the Woman's
Protest" for October. (Copies at
10 cents each may be obtained at 1621
K street, Washington, D.C.) Miss
Bronson says:

"I have spent several days in New
York looking up the record. If Mrs. Catt
thinks the public has utterly forgotten
her connection with Frau Schwimmer
early in the war, and that she can bluff
us out of printing the truth about these
peace plots, she is mistaken. I have
discovered data proving that she aided
Frau Schwimmer, and the 'Protest' will
publish this data in full."

"We have not accused Mrs. Catt of
anything not expressed in her own statements,
or a matter of record," Miss
Bronson continued.

"Her connection with Frau Schwimmer
is a matter of record. We shall
publish her protestations and denials in
'deadly parallel' with the truth.

"Mrs. Catt declares in her letter,
which I note is published in this week's
Woman's Citizen,' that she did not
bring 'Frau' Schwimmer to this country;
that 'Frau' Schwimmer was not an
officer of the International Suffrage Alliance
at that time: that she 'did not
sympathize' with 'Frau' Schwimmer's
peace plans.

"THE RECORD SHOWS THAT
'FRAU' SCHWIMMER CAME HERE
AS AN ENVOY AND SECRETARY
OF THE INTERNATIONAL SUFFRAGE
ALLIANCE, OF WHICH
MRS. CATT WAS AT THAT TIME
PRESIDENT. AFTER A CONFERENCE
IN LONDON OVER WHICH
MRS. CATT PRESIDED. SHE NOT
ONLY 'SYMPATHIZED' WITH
FRAU SCHWIMMER'S PEACE
PLANS, BUT SHE SIGNED THEM
WITH FRAU SCHWIMMER, AND
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED FRAU
SCHWIMMER TO WASHINGTON
TO PRESENT THEM TO THE
PRESIDENT: AND WE CAN
PROVE IT BY THE FILES OF THE
OFFICIAL SUFFRAGE ORGAN."

Frau Schwimmer is not a married 
woman, but being a feminist she believes 
that all women should use the married
woman's title in order that the mother 
of illegitimate children shall not be conspicuous 
for the lack of it.

The Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer, of 
October 1, 1914, under the heading "Exhorts 
in Saloon in Suffrage Cause. Hungarian 
Woman Invades Barroom Near 
Columbus. Asks Men's Support" says: 
"After speaking in saloons and churches, 
factories, women's clubs, on the streets 
and in schools in eleven Ohio cities 
Madame Rosika Schwimmer, of Budapest, 
Hungary, SECRETARY OF THE 
INTERNATIONAL SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE,
returned to Cleveland yesterday.



She brought this message with 
her: 'Voters of Ohio are going to grant
the ballot privilege to women next 
month. Why do I say that? Because 
there was no heckling, no interference,
no objections raised at any of my meetings
--NOT EVEN IN MY STREET 
AND SALOON MEETINGS.'"

Frau Schwimmer was a false prophet.
Ohio voters defeated woman suffrage by 
a majority of 182,000!

American suffragists were playing
Frau Schwimmer's game in starting the 
Woman's Peace Party, and if they had 
had the political power they crave, 
woman suffrage would have proved a 
"war measure" of prime importance to 
Germany, and possibly wholly disastrous 
to the Allies.

In her letter to Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. 
Catt says of Frau Schwimmer: "I believe 
her to be an absolutely honest and 
virtuous woman." Mrs. Catt is the leading 
suffragist in the United States, and 
has been proposed by Dr. Shaw as a 
candidate for the presidency of the 
United States. Would she make a safe 
guide through the troubled waters of international 
politics?

Mrs. Catt certainly finds herself in a 
trying position. It must indeed be humiliating 
for a loyal citizen of the United 
States to find that she has been innocently 
aiding and abetting one who, Mr. 
Bernstein believes, was acting as an accomplice 
of Count von Bernstorff, whose 
crimes against our government are the 
blackest in ambassadorial history. It 
must be a cruel blow for so ardent a 
peace advocate as Mrs. Catt to learn 
that her fellow officer in the International 
Suffrage Alliance, employed to 
work for the suffrage cause in this 
country, is held partly responsible for 
the ruin of Russia, the indefinite prolonging 
of the war, and the consequent 
death of millions of men. To have this 
appalling information reach the public 
on the eve of the New York election is 
a calamity to the suffrage cause. Mrs. 
Catt is truly to be commiserated.

LIKE SEEKS LIKE
Mrs. Annie Riley Hale, who was arrested 
for a seditious speech at the Hartford 
meeting of "The People's Council,"
recently had already resigned from the
Anti-Suffrage Association BECAUSE 
THE ANTIS ARE NOT PACIFISTS!
In a letter written by her on May 30, 
1917, she says: "I have renounced all 
my anti-suffrage connections and burned 
my anti-suffrage bridges behind me."
She gives her reasons as follows: "I
FIND SO MANY MORE SUFFRAGISTS 
ARE WILLING TO HELP THE 
FIGHT ON MILITARISM THAN 
ANTIS THAT I HAVE TOLD THEM 
I WOULD NOT COMBAT THE SUFFRAGE 
MOVEMENT FURTHER."
What Mrs. Hale euphoniously calls "the 
fight on militarism" is really a fight 
against protecting ourselves from the 
most militaristic government on earth."

Germany's reasons for backing a 
peace movement are clear. It was to her 
advantage to keep us unprepared and 
defenseless. Why has she also been 
eager to strengthen the suffrage movement 
in enemy countries? Because under 
woman suffrage the power of men 
individually and collectively is only half 
what it is in male suffrage States. Inasmuch 
as the sovereignty of a nation depends 
in the last analysis upon its manhood, 
the selfish determination of suffragists 
to vitiate and devitalize the political 
power of men, thereby playing directly 
into the hands of our nation's enemies, 
stands as one of the crying shames 
of our era.

"W. C. C." writes to the New York 
Tribune on October 8 as follows:

It is perfectly true that the Kaiser is 
opposed to woman suffrage for Germany, 
but it is safe to say that he is 
strongly in favor of its adoption by the 
countries with which he is at war -- just 
as he would be in favor of anything else 
that would certainly emasculate and 
weaken them. 

Is it not plain that the amazing 



strength displayed by Germany in this 
most terrible war, for which she is responsible, 
is possible only in the case of 
a man-ruled country? The Kaiser, unfortunately, 
is perfectly aware of this, 
as are also his Prussian advisers. It is 
therefore certain that he and they will 
continue to oppose woman suffrage -- for 
Germany!

Now, we and our allies are determined, 
for our self-preservation, that 
Germany shall be defeated, and, more 
than all, prevented from starting another 
world war against civilization. Many 
statesmen are considering how this can 
be accomplished. Let me suggest a 
method both simple and effective. 

It is this: Compel defeated Germany 
to adopt woman suffrage, and so begin 
to breed a race of "he-women and she-
men!'" We and our allies will then have 
nothing to fear from her, provided we 
continue as normal nations, content to 
remain men and women, as God created 
us.    W. C. C. 

New York, October 8, 1917.

TO THE NEW YORK
VOTERS!

Three Years of War Have 
Demonstrated:
what Lincoln learned in 1861; what 
France found out in 1870; what Russia 
is realizing today.

A Democracy Must Be STRONG 
in order to Be SAFE.

Every element that is working to 
WEAKEN the American Government is 
in FAVOR of "VOTES FOR 
WOMEN."

Every Socialist, every Pacifist, every 
Feminist, every I. W. W. believes in 
WOMAN SUFFRAGE. 

Government is a MAN'S job.

Woman Suffrage WEAKENS Government.

The Ship of State must be MANNED, 
not WOMANNED.

We want no more WOMEN CONGRESSMEN, 
weeping about war and 
defending the I. W. W., which has been 
most ACTIVE in the States WHERE 
WOMEN VOTE.

The American Republic has survived 
140 years and a great Civil War -- because 
of its STRENGTH. Without 
woman suffrage it is the greatest defender 
of democracy and the best protector 
of womanhood in the world.

Russia, on the other hand, a nation 
with 90,0000,000 voters, men and 
women, is proving that democracy 
MUST BE DIVORCED from extreme 
RADICALISM -- with which woman 
suffrage is always affiliated -- or go down 
in DEFEAT.

The voters of New York State must 
decide the question of woman suffrage 
on November 6th.

REMEMBER: A Vote Which Will 
Help the RADICALS of both Sexes to 
RUSSIANIZE the greatest State in the 
Union will Help the KAISER to 
PRUSSIANIZE the American People.

Do your DUTY as a PATRIOT and 
Defender of DEMOCRACY.

Vote to Protect the MAJORITY of 
American Women, who wish to KEEP 
OUT OF POLITICS.

VOTE NO
On Woman Suffrage November 6th.

ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES -- No.  171      3

    Rheta Child Dorr, a radical Suffragist, 
Feminist and Socialist, has recently 
spent some time in Russia, where she 
has had a chance to see how her theories 
work out in practice. In the San 
Francisco Chronicle of October 14th 
she says:
    " I have lived for three months in the 
capital of revolutionary Russia.
    "I have seen the fondest dreams of the 
Socialists suddenly come true, and the 
dream turned out to be a nightmare such 
as I pray that this or any country may 
forever be spared.
    "I saw a people delivered from one 
class of tyranny deliberately hasten to 
establish another, quite as brutal and as
unmindful of the common good as the 
old one. I saw these people, led out 
of groaning bondage, use their first liberty 
to oust the wise and courageous statesmen 
who delivered them.
    "I saw elected delegates to the people's 
councils turn into sneak thieves and looters. 
I saw law and order and decency 
and all regard for human life or human 
rights set aside, and I saw responsible 
statesmen in power allow all this to go 
on, allow their country to rush toward 
an abyss of ruin and shame because 
they were afraid to lose popularity with 
the mob.
    "I think the most unkind thing any 
friend of Russia can do is to minimize or 
conceal the facts about the terrible upheaval 
going on there at the present 
time. Russia looks to the American 
people for help in her troubled hour, 
and if the American people are to help 
they will have to understand the situation. 
No discouragement to the allies, 
no assistance to the common enemy need 
result from a plain statement of the 
facts. The enemy knows all the facts 
already.
    "Germany knows that the road to Petrograd 
is clear before her armies. Why 
should we conceal the fact? The German 
people know that their armies are 
reaping the harvest fields in the rich 
black earth of Southern Russia. Why 
shouldn't our people know it? They will 
have to know it a little later when famine 
begins to grip Petrograd. The Germans 
know that the murdering of officers 
and the massacre of loyal soldiers is 
still going on. We ought to know it, too.
    "Russia is sick. She is sick almost to 
die with excesses, and the leadership 
which would bring the panacea is violently 
thrown aside because suspicion of 
any authority has bred the worst kind of 
license.
    "Russia is insane; she is not even 
morally responsible for what she is doing."

    "The men at present forming the Socialist 
party in the United States are in 
a peculiar position. They are under the 
grave accusation of not being socialists 
at all, but friends of Germany and consequently 
foes of the country in which 
they live." (New York Times, October 
15.)

A VOTE FOR 
WOMEN SUFFRAGE 
MEANS 
A VOTE FOR 
SOCIALISM

   Morris Hillquit, Socialist candidate 
for mayor of New York, states his war 
platform as follows: "I am for peace 
on the basis proposed by the Russian 
Republic--no annexation, NO INDEMNITIES." 
Germany must not be required  
to pay one cent for the ruin she 
has wrought, according to Morris Hillquit. 
In an interview in the New York 
Call of October 8th he says: "At our 
meetings now we tell the people THEY 
NEED NOT SUPPORT SOCIALISM 
UNLESS THEY ARE PREPARED 
TO VOTE FOR THE SUFFRAGE 
AMENDMENT TOO."  "The Call" of 
October 5 says: SOCIALISTS TO A 
MAN, WILL VOTE FOR IT. But 
the voting alone will not suffice. The 
propaganda for woman suffrage must 
from now on until election day, constitute 
a big issue of the Socialist 
campaign. Our Socialist candidates 
must see to it that every voter knows 
exactly his business to talk suffrage to 
his neighbors, shopmates and friends."

   "Socialism, for that matter, would itself 
automatically bring woman suffrage."  
(New York Call, October 4, 
1917.)
    So, also would woman suffrage bring 
Socialism.

    In every big suffrage parade in New 
York city, Socialists have taken a prominent 
part. In the parade  which is being 
planned for October 27th the Socialists 
will not be among the marchers. 
Why? The New York Call of October 
10th tells us "that although greatly in 
sympathy with the purposes of the parade, 
and as anxious for the winning 
of the vote as anybody in the world, 
they feel that the present differences of 
vital principles between themselves and 
the middle class suffragists is so great
that even the common cause of suffrage 
cannot bridge the gap." In other words, 
the "middle class suffragists," by doing 
Red Cross and, other work, have alienated 
the sympathies of the Socialists, who 
are now heart and soul with the picketing 
group at Washington, whose activities 
are viewed with such favor by the 
enemy with which this country is at 
war. The socialists will distribute their 
literature along the course of the parade.

MRS. WHITEHOUSE AND "THE 
MASSES"
    "The Masses," Max Eastman's Socialist 
magazine, which the suffragists have 
declared is their "best friend," leads 
a stormy life. It has not only been debarred 
from the New York subway stations 
for insulting cartoons of President 
Wilson, and for the blasphemous articles, 
but has been more than one debarred 
from the mails recently for disloyalty 
in opposing the draft. Therefore just 
at election time the suffragists prefer 
not to be coupled with it in the minds 
of the voters. Vera Boarman Whitehouse, 
chairman of the New York 
State Suffrage Party, wrote to the 
New York Telegram of October 3rd saying: 
"We wish to assure you that the 
New York State Woman Suffrage Party 
has never in any way whatever appealed 
for funds to help out, or to support 
'The Masses,' or any other paper, 
or magazine, at any time, or under any 
circumstances, or conditions." MRS. 
WHITEHOUSE NEGLECTS TO 
STATE THAT IT WAS SHE HERSELF, 
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE 
WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY, and a 
group of her suffrage co-workers, who 
appealed for support for "The Masses!" 
In its issue for February, 1916, under 
the heading "To the Women Readers of 
'The Masses,' " the following appeal appeared:
    "Will you give $5.00, or more, as a 
New Year's gift to 'The Masses?' We 
ask you to give this as a woman in appreciation 
of the intelligent support this 
magazine has always given to the cause 
of the modern woman. In cartoons, in 
verse, in editorial, in story, 'The Masses' 
has stood for us all along the line as no 
other magazine in America has, Max 

Eastman, Floyd Dell, Art Young, and 
the rest are genuine, warm hearted feminists. 
They like us and want us to win. 
Now what can we do for them  We 
propose to surprise 'The Masses' this 
year by a New Year's present of $2,500 
from the women who have appreciated 
its stand for feminism. Will you be 
one? 
Very sincerely yours,
Alice Carpenter,
Zona Gale,
Marie Jenney Howe,
Anna Strunsky Walling,
Vera Boarman Whitehouse."

    What has Mrs. Whitehouse to say to 
this?

    Mayor Mitchel is a candidate for re-
election on his record as one of the best 
mayors New York has ever had, and on 
a platform of straight loyalty to American 
ideals. HE REFUSES TO MAKE 
WOMAN SUFFRAGE A CAMPAIGN 
ISSUE. 

    The New York Call (Socialist) of October 
17th urges its readers "to sweep 
out of office Mr. Mitchel and all the reaction, 
oppression and hypocrisy for 
which he stands, and to elect in his place 
Morris Hillquit, the man who not only 
stands for the rights of the oppressed 
and exploited masses, but who also 
stands uncompromisingly for the rights 
of women, and who has proclaimed 
woman suffrage a campaign issue 
"which overshadows all others as a permanent 
measure of social justice and 
progress,"

    Hamlin Garland, the well-known 
writer, although claiming to be a radical 
refuses to support Hillquit, the Socialist 
candidate for mayor of New York city. 
He says: "I cannot vote for him. Without 
calling in question his honesty or 
ability, I cannot overlook the quaint and 
curious gang which his election would 
carry into power. We are not ready to 
hand over to a foreign born man the 
enormously important and complicated 
affairs of New York city when we know 
that behind him are all those who are 
opposed to military service and bitterly 
antagonistic to all that President Wilson 
is doing for the defense of American institutions. 
New York city is peculiarly 
vulnerable to inside as well as outside 
attack. It is filled with men who are 
traitorous to the commonwealth that 
shelters them, and the election of Mr. 
Hylan or Mr. Hillquit would be a civic 
setback, almost a civic calamity."

    Under the influence of Socialist leaders 
the public school children in foreign 
districts in New York have gone on 
strike and are smashing windows of 
school buildings and creating every sort 
of disorder within their power. They 
march with a banner inscribed "We 
want Socialism." The Boston Herald 
and Journal commenting thereon says: 
"All the anxieties and discontent of 
the great center, all the anti-war 
feeling of the crowded East side, all 
the malignant and secret activities of 
pro Germanism * * * conspire 
to furnish the turning over of the 
city--schools, city treasury and all--to 
the friends of mis-rule and corruption."

    Do you want to strengthen all these 
forces of misrule?
    Do you want to double the political 
power of the Socialist, anarchist, pro-
German, pacifist, anti-war elements in 
our population?
    It is THEIR women who will go to 
the polls. The farmers' wives and the 
great mass of homemaking women will 
not go into politics.

    The Oneida-Kenwood Suffrage Club is 
making a vigorous campaign for the 
election of Mrs A. M. Kinsley, candidate 
for the Socialist Party for city 
chamberlain. (Post Standard of Syracuse, 
October 9.)
  
"REDS" AMONG 
JAILED SUFFS

Say Two of Women Imprisoned 
for picketing Are 
Anarchists.

    That a number of  east side radicals 
with a strong leaning toward things anarchistic 
have been recruited among the 
militant suffragettes who have been sent 
to the workhouse for picketing and creating 
disturbances in the vicinity of the 
White House became known yesterday.
    One young woman in particular, who 
is now serving a term of thirty days in 
the Occoquan workhouse, has been associated 
prominently with various anarchistic 
groups in this city. The young 
New York radical is Ernestine Hara, 
who was an associate here of "Percy 
the Rebel," and who was a frequent and 
conspicuous attendant of soapbox meetings 
in Madison square.
    It has been learned that in many 
cases wealthy women of this city have 
paid the expenses of young women like 
Miss Hara who could not afford a picketing 
junket out of their own resources.
    A prominent suffragette said yesterday 
that at an anarchistic meeting, held 
recently in Madison square, she heard 
a speaker say that "Johns and Hara are 
down in Washington raising hell." 
(New York (N.Y.) Mail, October 6.)

   Kate Sadler, the I. W. W. woman 
who was arrested at a riotous joint 
meeting of the People's Council and the 
I. W. W. in Seattle on August 16 for 
calling President Wilson a "traitor," 
was elected President of the People's 
Council at a Sunday meeting in Seattle, 
on October 7. H. W. Pohlman, a member 
of the Council, was one of the 
speakers. He said in part: "The way 
to stop the war is to stop contributing 
to it. To do this we must fall back on 
the methods of our brothers the I. W. 
W." He reported members from agricultural 
districts as declaring that they 
"would plant only enough land for their 
own wants next year and let the President 
plant the rest for the use of the 
army." This plan to starve our soldiers 
is worthy of von Bernstoff himself. 
Was it hatched by him in the New 
York apartment held by the Russian 
traitor in Frau Schwimmer's name, and 
did she hand it on the people she trained 
on the Peace Ship to do Germany's work 
under the name of "The People's Council?"

    The fruits of Woman Suffrage are so 
little to its credit that suffragists are 
seldom willing to be judged by them. 
Lady statesmen from the West sometimes 
comes East to speak on public 
platforms, but they are seldom allowed 
to come a second time, and there are 
many private apologies for them always 
accompanied by the statement "It really 
isn't fair to judge the movement by 
HER" Our lady congressman was heralded 
by the suffragists as their ideal of 
what a woman politician should be, but 
she is apparently so discredited already 
that she is not allowed to speak in the 
suffrage campaigns in Maine and New 
York. The picketers at Washington, 
whose methods are the direct result of 
suffrage teaching, are disowned and repudiated 
by many of their sisters as 
"merely the lunatic fringe of the movement." 
These manifestations of the suffragism 
are not a fringe of the movement 
-- they are THE SHODDY IN 
THE FABRIC, which will not stand 
the test of wear, but goes quickly into 
unseemly holes and tatters.

   Washington, October 22. -- Alice Paul, 
Chairman of the Woman's Party and 
Caroline Spencer, of Colorado Springs,  
were sent to jail today to serve seven 
months for picketing the White House. 
(New York Times.)

4   ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES - No. 171

In New Zealand Woman Suffrage Has 
Brought Socialism and Enormous Cost 
of Government

    Woman suffrage was granted in New 
Zealand in 1886 and full parliamentary 
suffrage in the year 1893.
    The International Encyclopedia states 
that for the past twenty years the Socialistic 
Labor Party has either been in 
full power, or held the balance of power 
in both the Australian states and in New
Zealand.
    Let us look at the economic situation
in those suffrage commonwealths. For 
the year ending June 30, 1914, before 
any war debt or expenses had been contracted, 
we find that the total public indebtedness 
of New Zealand, the Australian 
States and the commonwealth of 
Australia amounted to the vast sum of 
$1,936,381,000. This was equal to a 
family debt of $1,555 and a per capita 
debt of $311. Comparing this debt, most 
of which has been contracted under 
woman suffrage, with the same kind of 
statistics in this nation, namely, the 
combined debt of our forty-eight states 
and our national debt, a total of (in 
1914) $1,313,895,615, equal to a family 
debt of $65 and a per capita debt of $13. 
Think of it, $65 here compared with 
$1,555 under full woman suffrage in
New Zealand and Australia.

    Has woman suffrage brought prohibition 
in New Zealand? Hardly! The saloon 
exists everywhere, and barmaids in 
short skirts dispense drinks.
    Mr. Hornaday, an American correspondent 
for the Los Angeles Times, 
writing to his paper about the saloon 
traffic in New Zealand says: "Liquor 
selling is the most profitable business in 
New Zealand. Scores of hotels are conducted 
for no other purpose than to 
carry on the business of dispensing 
drinks over the bars. It is piling up 
fortunes for many license holders. The 
good will of some of these licenses is 
worth $10,000 a year. In towns the license 
fee is $200 and outside it is $125 
a year."
   "Licenses are granted only to hotels, 
but the man obtaining a license can 
have as many bars in his hotel as he 
pleases. I stopped in one hotel in Aukland 
which contained four bars. One 
could hardly turn around without running 
into a bar. Most hotels conduct 
three bars, and a few of them have as 
many as five. The total number issued 
last year was 1,042 and counting three 
bars to the hotel (average) would total 
more than 3,000 bars in a population of 
a little over 1,000,000."

Eighteen Suffragist Prisoners 
Attack the Superintendent 
of Washington Institution.

SUPPRESSED BY NEGRESSES

Fierce Rough and Tumble Fight Attends 
Removal of Mrs. Johns to 
Asylum Hospital.

    Washington, October 4.--Militants of 
the Woman's Party serving time in 
the District of Columbia Workhouse for 
demonstrations before the White House 
were charged today with mutiny as a 
result of their rough-and-tumble fight 
yesterday with guards and negro women 
prisoners. The development furnishes a 
new phase for the investigation of conditions 
at the workhouse, undertaken by 
the Board of Charities on complaints of 
the militants. 
    The charge of mutinous conduct is 
made in a report by Alonzo Tweedale, 
auditor, in charge of the workhouse 
while the superintendent is suspended 
pending outcome of the inquiry. A long 
story is told by the report of how the 
eighteen suffragists attacked the acting 
superintendent, the prison matron, and 
three male guards who had been called 
to the rescue when the officers sought to 
remove one of their number, Mrs. Margaret 
Johns, for medical treatment at 
the Washington Asylum Hospital.
    It tells of negro women of the prison 
kitchen force rallying to the aid of their 
boss, the matron, when she was threatened 
with a blow on the head with a 
club, of a general wild scramble about 
the workhouse corridors and yard, and 
eventually of Mrs. Johns's departure for 
the hospital in a doctor's automobile 
after she and her guards had been much 
mauled and ruled about. (New York
Times, October 5.(

    If you want hard common sense 
on the question of woman suffrage, 
go to the Maine farmer. 
Ida Husted Harper quotes one of 
them as saying, apropos of the 
picketers: "If Mother Catt can't 
manager her unruly kittens, I'm 
dummed if I want her to manage me!"

Shall We Waste on Woman 
Suffrage the Taxpayer's 
Money so Urgently Needed 
for National Defense?

    Do YOU want to pay HIGHER 
TAXES for a WEAKER Government, 
more political turmoil, more frequent 
and expensive elections, more women 
Congressmen, more offices for suffragists 
and all the other frills and EXTRAVAGANCES 
demanded by a FEMINIZED 
electorate and the politicians who 
COURT ITS APPROVAL?
    With WOMAN SUFFRAGE, Govment 
costs $22,71 more a year for every 
man, woman and child in California, Oregon 
and Washington, THAN better 
Government costs in New York, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey WITHOUT 
woman suffrage.
    These are United States Census Bureau 
figures: 
    State Government costs $6.39, County 
Government $15.45, and Municipal Government 
$48.08 per capita in California, 
Oregon and Washington, or a total 
of $69.92 per capita.
    In New York, Pennsylvania and New 
Jersey, State Government costs $5.39, 
County Government $3.80, and Municipal
Government $38.02; or a total of 
$47.21 per capita. (See U. S. Census Report,
"Wealth, Debt and Taxation," Vol. 
II, pp. 40, 210, 560).
    Hon. Dennis J. Egan, Chief Clerk, 
Board of Election Commissioners, City 
of Chicago, says:
    "The principal causes contributing to 
the recent INCREASED ELECTION 
EXPENSES are: 1st, the Woman's 
Franchise Act. . . . .
    "The influence of the woman's vote is 
clearly traced. In 1913, there was one 
primary and one election, in neither of 
which did the woman participate, and 
the total cost was $418,643.87. In 1914, 
there was a city primary, a city election, 
a fall primary and a fall election, in 
all of which the women participated and 
the cost leaped to $1,156,295.84. . . . .
    "It is estimated that the total election 
expense due to the woman's vote alone 
will aggregate $791,929.00.
    "The cost per precinct for the primary 
registrations will average about 
$84, and in some precincts only eight,
ten or twelve persons will be registered, 
at a cost of eight, ten or twelve dollars 
per head." (See First Annual Report, 
Board of Election Commissioners, City 
of Chicago, pp. 52, 53, 55).

    Miss Rankin is referred to affectionately
by "Solidarity," the official organ 
of the I. W. W. as "our representative."
The New York Times comments: "It 
was not they who put her in Congress -- 
it was woman suffrage."
    In every country where women vote, 
the women elected to parliament or 
Congress are Socialists.

    Miss Rankin is prophesying a suffrage 
victory in New York, as she has 
prophesied suffrage victories in every 
state where woman suffrage has been 
defeated in the last five years. 

    The so-called "Conservative Suffragists"
continue to put out much press material 
to the effect that the picketers 
are few in number and a negligible part 
of the suffragists in this country. They 
naturally do not record the rapidly growing 
list of prominent suffragists who are 
leaving the ranks of the conservatives to 
affiliate themselves with the picketers. 
The officers of the Connecticut State 
Suffrage Association have recently gone 
over, and Mrs. Victor L. Berger has recently 
resigned as vice-president of the 
Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association 
because it was not radical enough, and 
will affiliate with the picketers. 

    Thirty-one Milwaukee women voiced 
their approval of picketing on Sunday,
October 14, by forming a committee of 
the National Woman's Party. The 
meeting was held at the home of the 
well-known Milwaukee Socialist, Victor 
L. Berger.

    We have been told times without number 
that the English Parliament voted 
for woman suffrage out of gratitude for 
women's war work, but Mabel Vernon,
secretary of the National Woman's 
Party, let the cat out of the bag at a 
suffrage meeting in Milwaukee, on October 
14. As a reason why the picketers 
should not stop their agitation she declared 
that suffrage succeeded in England 
"only because munition workers,
headed by SYLVIA PANKHURST, 
threatened to strike if woman suffrage 
was not included in the reforms granted 
by the government!" LACK OF MUNITIONS 
MEANT DEFEAT FOR 
ENGLAND AND WORLD DOMINION 
FOR PRUSSIANISM, and so, 
with the knife at its throat, Parliament 
gave way! A. pleasing picture, is it not? 
The public should be grateful to Miss 
Vernon for making these facts known.
The question has still to pass the House 
of Lords. Will they give way, also? A 
victory for woman suffrage in England 
will enormously strengthen Germany's 
chances of winning the war. Russia 
should be sufficient warning. 
    Miss Vernon declares herself certain 
that the suffrage amendment will be 
passed by the next Congress. She adds:
"If we feel so sure, why do we keep 
agitating? Because we must not let the 
interest die down." The picketers kept 
up the interest beautifully in Maine, insuring 
a glorious victory for the anti-
suffragists.

    The following cryptic utterance is 
credited by the Utica Daily Press to 
Mrs. Catt: "Oh, my sisters, let me tell 
you you have won your cause in New 
York. Whether the vote says 'yes' or 
'no' you have won your battle."

    Ida Husted Harper writes in the New 
York Evening Sun of October 8th on the 
influences which defeated woman suffrage 
in Maine. She admits that the 
men organized for the defense of our 
government, and ready to give their lives 
for it -- the United States soldiers -- are 
more strongly opposed to woman suffrage
than the population as a whole. 
She says: "THIS WAS THE FIRST 
OPPORTUNITY TO TEST THE SOLDIERS'
VOTE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE. 
IN EVERY CAMP THERE 
WAS A MAJORITY AGAINST IT, 
WITH A TOTAL OF ALMOST TWO 
TO ONE. The official count of the 
state was 20,600 in favor, 38,838 opposed."
In reality some of the camps 
gave considerably MORE than a two to 
one vote against woman suffrage! In 
regard to the future prospects of woman 
suffrage she says: "Mrs. Deborah Knox 

Livingston, who managed the campaign, 
says: 'It is my firm conviction that no 
amount of education will ever carry the 
New England states for woman suffrage. 
The Federal amendment is the only instrument 
that will give equal suffrage 
to New England.'" Mrs. Harper adds:
"Mrs. Livingston would reach the same 
conclusions if she went through a suffrage 
campaign in any state, as conditions 
are practically the same in all."
This frank admission that WOMAN 
SUFFRAGE HAS FAILED TO WIN 
POPULAR APPROVAL IN THE 
UNITED STATES and that the suffragists 
have no hope of reversing this 
decision of the people, is certainly a notable 
contribution to the discussion of 
woman suffrage.

Suffragists dean votes for 
    women in the name of "democracy."
    They are, however, 
    the foes of democracy.
    Their leaders admit that it 
    is "hopeless" to get the 
    people to vote for 
    woman suffrage, but announce 
    their determination 
    to force Congress and State 
    Legislatures to grant it IN 
    SPITE OF THE WILL OF 
    THE PEOPLE! They are 
    betraying the cause of democracy 
    while chanting 
    its watchwords.

    In these great war times, when world 
foundations are shaking and civilization 
itself is at stake, certain suffrage papers 
till columns with matter like this: "There 
is NOTHING now that will keep Mrs. 
Catt from her breadmaking or jelly 
making." Think of that! In the face of 
an exciting suffrage campaign in the 
greatest state in the Union, NOTHING 
keeps Mrs. Catt from her breadmaking! 
But are women really fitted for politics, 
if in times of great political stress, when 
their wisdom is needed to save the nation, 
they remain glued to the bread 
board?
    The next item is of even deeper and 
graver import: "Mrs. B. F. Pitman, of 
Boston, HAS GONE INTO HER OWN 
KITCHEN FOR HER PRESERVING!"
If Mrs. Pitman had boldly invaded 
a stranger's kitchen the fact 
might have passed unnoticed, but TO 
GO INTO HER OWN KITCHEN 
FOR HER PRESERVING -- no wonder 
it is heralded in the press. (Londonand 
Paris papers please copy). Other thrilling
items follow: "Mrs. Lewis Ball, 
treasurer of the State Organization, has 
been doing up jellies for the past 
month." "Mrs. Glendower Evans IS 
NOW TAKING COOKING LESSONS!"
&c., &c., &c.
    But really now, isn't it a blessing that 
the millions of anti-suffrage wives and 
mothers throughout the country do not 
feel it necessary to put it in the paper 
every time they peel a potato or make a 
loaf of bread? The paper famine would 
be something fierce.

Issued by the Cambridge Anti-Suffrage 
    Association, October 10, 1917.
Margaret C. Robinson, Chairman of the 
    Press Committee.
For subscription rates, apply to Mrs. 
    George Sheffield, 33 Brewster street, 
    Cambridge, Mass.

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ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES
No. 172

Suffrage Attempt to Thwart
the Will of the People Fails
in Ohio--Anti-Suffragists
Win by 137,000.

Suffrage and Socialism go down to defeat
together in Ohio, while Prohibition comes
within 900 votes of winning.

Indiana also lost to the Suffragists.

Suffrage and Tammany win in New York--Good
government rejected in New York City by
overwhelming majority--Loyalty to American
ideals a losing issue as the Socialists bring a
Suffrage victory.

New York must spend annually $2,900,000 more on
elections, when every dollar is needed to help win
the war.

"It is as a gift from Socialism, from Pacifism, from
those who, unconsciously or with intent, serve
Germany that Woman Suffrage is fastened upon
this city and state." (New York Times)

Can the suffragists take a hint?
Have they possibly begun to have a
vague suspicion that Ohio does not favor
Woman Suffrage?

Under the heading "Disloyalty Triumphs
in New York," the Boston Transcript
of November 7th says: "The result
of the election in New York City
has no element of encouragement in it
so far as that state is concerned."  "The
influences at work there," it says, "were
those of opposition to the war, of muddy
or doubtful patriotism, of Germanism
leagued with spoils hunger. These influences
were surely bad enough, and it
is of no use to cloak them, or to pretend
that the result is not as bad as it appears
to be."

"Ohio, which has had considerable experience
in socialism and squelched its
overgrowth this year, has beaten woman
suffrage for the third time by a majority
of some 100,000. It is not of the happiest
omen that New York's reversal of
the verdict of 1915 was accompanied with
and chiefly caused by the tremendous
increment of the Socialist vote.
In New York City in 1915 there were
238,865 votes for the suffrage amendment,
324,853 against it. The total
vote was 563,718. In New York, on
Tuesday, there were 334,011 votes for it
and 241,315 against it, a total vote of
575,326. The Socialist vote for Mayor
in 1913 was 32,310. This year it was
142,178, an increase of over 400 percent.
The Socialist campaign for suffrage
as a means of increasing the Socialist
vote directly and winning woman
voters to socialism and class consciousness
has had its evident fruits. IT IS
AS A GIFT FROM SOCIALISM,
FROM PACIFISM, FROM THOSE
WHO, UNCONSCIOUSLY OR WITH
INTENT, SERVE GERMANY, THAT
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IS FASTENED
UPON THIS CITY AND
STATE. Ohio, taught by experience,
was on her guard.
IT IS NOT DEMOCRACY. IT IS A
CLASS STATE, THAT THE SOCIALISTS
SEEK. BY THE TIMELY
HELP OF THE ENEMIES OF DEMOCRACY
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
HAS WON. The Socialist suffragists
will use it for the Bolshevikation of the
city and state, for the detriment of the "capitalists
and the bourgeosie." The suffragists
loyal to American institutions
must beware of the false friends, the
economic international and domestic peril
which they have innocently helped to
increase. Woman suffrage in New York
is due to socialism."--(Times, Nov. 8).

(Special to the New York Times)
Columbus, Ohio, November 6.--Ohio's
answer to the propaganda of disloyalty
and treason, conducted by the Socialists
in many city campaigns in the State,
has been given. The cities in which an
issue was made of the war there was a
flat repudiation of the Socialist propaganda.
This was notably true in Dayton,
which the Socialists carried in the August
primary, but in which they are now
beaten two to one.In Hamilton, a former
Socialist stronghold, they have also been
defeated, and in Toledo where there
was a Democrat. Cornell L. Schrieber
pitted against them, Schrieber won by
a big majority.
In reviewing this phase of the election,
Governor Cox, who practically led
the fight against socialism, said:
"The most reassuring thing in the
election is the widespread repudiation of
Socialism wherever the issue was raised.
Notwithstanding the Socialists drew
from a greater number of disappointed
groups than ever before, the red flag of
destruction aroused communities to real
sense of moral, rellgious, and patriotic
duty. Ohio is patriotic and reverent as
well, and the Socialist leaders who inveighed
against both God and the Government
have had their lesson. It is
most earnestly hoped that the Federal
Government will adopt vigorous methods
now to repress open treason. Liberty of
speech never intended an outlaw's license
to destroy the base of our institutions,
and the average soap-box orator
who has attempted to poision public
thought in the most trying hour the
world has known is not an economic
factor save as a consumer, and the Federal
authorities, with profit to the cause
and peace to the communities, might
well intern him and put him to work."
The political results generally are a
disappointment to Democrats. They
have failed to make gains in either Cleveland
or Cincinnati. The Cleveland reelection
of Mayor H. B. Davis is declared
to be a direct slap at Newton D.
Baker, Secretary of War, who came to
Cleveland to direct the campaign and
to make speeches.

Suffrage won in New York by about
90,000, this majority being given almost
entirely IN NEW YORK CITY, where
the Socialist vote increased 110,000, and
where EVERY SOCIALIST HAD
BEEN ORDERED BY HILLQUIT TO
VOTE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE!

When California voted for Woman
Suffrage by a majority of 5000, it voted
for the recall of judges by a majority
of 100,000. Woman Suffrage is an inevitable
accompaniment of radicalism.

It is interesting to remember that a
Tammany politician, invited to speak at
the "Suffrage Shop" run by New York
Suffragists several years ago, declared
that he wanted Woman Suffrage whether
its effects were good or evil. He now
has his wish and Tammany will be so
strengthened by this doubling of the vote
it can control that it need hereafter fear
no rival except Socialism, which will also
be enormously strengthened.

THE WAVE OF RADICALISM
IN NEW YORK, INCITED AND
STRENGTHENED BY GERMAN
PROPAGANDA IS AN ENORMOUS
BLOODLESS VICTORY FOR GERMANY.
THE RADICAL VICTORY
IN RUSSIA HAS BROUGHT RUIN
TO THAT COUNTRY. THE RADICAL
PROPAGANDA IN THE ITALIAN
ARMY IS BRINGING RUIN TO
ITALY. THE RADICAL VICTORY
IN NEW YORK MEANS AN ENORMOUS
STRENGTHENING OF THE
PACIFISTS, SOCIALISTS, PRO-
GERMANS AND EVERY ELEMENT
WHICH IS OPPOSED TO OUR WINNING
THE WAR. AND THE SUFFRAGISTS
REJOICE!

The plea of New York suffragists has
been "Give us the vote so that we can
give up working for suffrage and devote
ourselves to helping to win the war."
Now that the vote has been given them,
do they intend to keep their word?
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Chairman of
the New York City Woman Suffrage
Party, when she was asked last night
if the headquarters were to be closed,
said:
"No indeed. We have leased our
headquarters for another year and we
shall go right on with our work. Now
we have to educate women for the full
rights of citizenship. We are going to
start tomorrow night with a meeting at
Cooper Union to work for the Federal
amendment. Our work has only begun."
--(New York Times, Nov. 6)

The suffragists have been telling the
New York voters that England and
France as well as Russia have given
votes to women and that "America must
not lag behind." Now Dr. Shaw says:
"The New York election will have a
decided influence upon the British Parliament
in granting the extension of suffrage
to women of Great Britain. It
will also have an influence with the
French Parliament."

Gertrude Atherton, the well known
Feminist, made the amazing claim that
all the intelligent women of New York,
if they had been enfrenchised, would
certainly have voted for Mayor Mitchel.
She evidently had not seen the announcement
of the straw vote taken at
Columbia University a few days before
the election, when the large majority of
the young men students noted for Mitchel,
AND THE LARGE MAJORITY
OF THE YOUNG WOMEN STUDENTS
OF BARNARD AND TEACHERS'
COLLEGE VOTE FOR HILLQUIT

Tammany already announces its intention
to oust Police Commissioner Woods,
of New York, and replace him with a
Tammany leader. Does Tammany favor
Woman Suffrage? Sure! TAMMANY'S
POLICE WILL FIND THE
SOLID PROSTITUTE VOTE OF

2    ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES -- No. 172 

NEW YORK WHICH IT CAN CONTROL, 
AND WHICH WILL NUMBER 
MANY THOUSANDS, A TIDY 
ASSET. In Denver this vote has long
been considered a perquisite of the party 
in power. 

          According to the census of 1910 there 
were 1,944,357 residents of New York 
City who were born in other countries. 
Today the number must be considerably 
over 2,000,000. The politicians will take 
great pains to get the foreign women 
naturalized. Tammany Hall will be indefatigable 
in the case of every foreign 
born woman whose vote might be obtained 
by the usual Tammany method. 
FOREIGN-BORN WOMEN WHO 
ARE MARRIED TO NATURALIZED 
CITIZENS ARE NATURALIZED 
BY THE ACT OF MARRIAGE, provided 
they might lawfully be naturalized 
if single. 

          The papers which were ardently pro-
German in the New York Campaign 
were also ardently pro-suffrage. All the 
enemies of the United States want to 
put its government into the hands of 
those who cannot enforce the laws or 
defend the government. 

           That "new man" Dudley Field Malone, 
who in his zeal for woman suffrage 
gave up his position as Collector of the 
Port of New York in order to devote his 
life to helping the pickets, is charged 
with having employed seventy Germans 
in positions where they could acquire information 
regarding movements of 
troops, etc. This "new man" campaigned 
for Hillquit, the Socialist candidate 
for mayor of New York, and is accused 
of helping to finance Viereck's 
German organ, The Fatherland. Another 
proof that practically every person, 
male or female, accused of disloyalty 
to our government is an ardent suffragist.

           Question: Do the Ohio women want 
to vote?
           Answer: 63 per cent of the women 
eligible to vote refused even to register 
for the municipal election in Columbus, 
although that city was a center of the 
heated suffrage campaign.

To the Editor of The New York Times:
           Until the outbreak of war in 1914 I 
was a believer in woman suffrage. In 
January, 1915, I entered the preparedness 
campaign, and during the following 
two years devoted myself to the work 
of arousing our people to the need for 
immediate military preparation.
           Throughout this period more than 150 
audiences passed under my observation 
in the territory lying between Maine and 
Tennessee, Utah and the Atlantic Coast, 
and a correspondence which embraced 
all of the States of the Union.
           My experience compelled me to abandon 
my advocacy of woman suffrage. I 
had seen enough of the behavior of women 
under the threat of war to conclude 
that they are unfitted to deal in advance 
with any of its questions, to take any 
action whatever of a preparatory nature, 
or to act constructively at all until after 
war has become a settled state and men 
have put their work into their hands.
           Also I found that the suffrage movement 
was given over to pacifism in its 
socialistic form, and that is chief officers 
were to be found among the most active 
opponents of those who were striving to 
prepare the country for the very emergency 
that has since overtaken us.
           My conclusions may be summarized as 
follows:
           That in our present undertaking to be 
strong is to prevail, to be weak is to invite 
defeat; that the exchange of masculine 
strength for feminine weakness in 
our Governmental councils would prolong 
hostilities, would lessen the power 
of our blows, and would make for an inconclusive 
peace, leaving a new and 

more terrible war awaiting us be-
the horizon.
           For the foregoing weighty national 
reasons I am unalterably opposed to woman 
suffrage.
           First let us finish the war and rid the 
world of its tyrant nations; not before 
then will it be safe for us to consider 
the effeminization of our electorate.
                      HENRY A. WISE WOOD
           New York, Nov. 1, 1917.

           NEW YORK'S NEW VOTERS
           "The greatest provocation the police 
had came from women on the east side 
acting in behalf of the Socialist ticket, 
who insisted on getting within the polling 
place zone and buttonholing voters with 
importunities to vote for Hillquit.
           Police reservations from the Clinton 
Street Station were called out in the 
morning to suppress a riot at the polling 
place of the Fourteenth Election 
District of the Fourth Assembly District, 
at Rivington and Ridge Streets. 
Patrolman Lipski said that Gussie Weinstein, 
of 15 Eldridge Street went up to 
the line of voters and shouted:
           "What's the use of you men voting?
All the votes are being bought up!
           The woman refused to obey the policeman's 
order to move on, and was arrested.
By this time a large crowd had 
gathered. Women screamed and men 
shouted at the policeman until he sent 
in a riot call. The reserves arrested 
three other women, who said they were 
Sarah Loaferm, of 92 Ridge Street, Esther 
Saranoff, or the same address, and 
Esther Ploxin, of 95 Cannon Street. Esther 
Ploxin was charged with assaulting 
the policeman. 
           Later in Essex Market Court, Miss 
Weinstein was sentenced to five days 
in the workhouse, Sarah Loaferm was 
fined $10 or three days. Esther Saranoff 
received the same sentence, and Esther 
Ploxin fined $20 or five days. 
The women did not pay their fines, and 
were sent to the city prison." -- (New 
York Times, Nov. 7.)

           Suffragists claim that there were 
20,000 women in the recent suffrage parade 
in New York. By the actual count 
of an adding expert from the Burroughs 
Adding Machine Co., and his assistants, 
there were 9859 women and 354 men 
marchers. In 1915 they were by actual 
count 26,000 marchers. The remarkable 
falling off was probably due to the fact 
that this year the socialists refused to 
march in the parade because the suffragists 
were too conservative and "middleclass"
as opposed to "working class."
The pickets are more to their liking.

           In the parade a banner was carried 
stating that the women of Indiania can 
vote! Don't the suffragists read the 
papers?

          It is said to have been proved by affidavits 
filed with the exemption boards 
throughout the country that SOCIALISTS 
CONSTITUTE 98 PER CENT 
OF THE SLACKERS OF THE 
COUNTRY.

           Anna Katherine Green, writing to the 
New York Times, of Nov. 4 says: 
           "First, in regard to the enrollment of 
the New York State Suffrage Party.
           It should be remembered that no one 
of the opposition has seen these names 
or learned with what accuracy they 
were obtained. When the suffrage people 
in New York City were asked to 
show the alleged enrollment to interested 
parties of the opposition they were told 
that the lists were in Buffalo. And 
when the enrollment was asked for in 
Buffalo it was then said to be in New 
York.
           To this let me add that a suffrage 
official has put down over her signature 
that a million or more of names have 
been attested by the Secretary of State, 
but when the Secretary was asked if the 
enrollment had been attested, his answer
was "No." We have as evidence of 
this a photographic copy of the letter of 
the Secretary of State."

SUFFRAGE CAMOUFLAGE
           Woman Suffrage is alien to American 
ideals. The more American a community 
is, the stronger its opposition to Woman 
Suffrage, as Maine has shown. 
The districts in New York City which 
are filled with foreign men and women 
are the soil in which the seeds of Socialism, 
Suffrage and anti-American propaganda 
take root most quickly and easily. 
Knowing this, the Suffragists have 
got up a plan for working among foreigners 
on a colossal scale. They call 
it an "Americanization movement."
Mrs. Frederick Bagley, Chairman of this 
"Americanization" Committee says:
"Our committee wants to make loyal 
American citizens out of the alien and 
foreigner. The schools are doing this 
through the children. OUR aim is to 
reach the adult, the foreign mother."
We thought so.
           Gertrude Atherton, writing in the 
New York Times, in defense of woman 
suffrage says, apropos of the illiterate 
foreign women in New York: "It is to 
these women that clever suffragists have 
been talking for the last ten or fifteen 
years, and THEY ARE EASIER TO 
PERSUADE that suffrage would improve 
their lot than the women who 
have led a smug little life." It is an interesting 
admission that the women who 
cannot read or write are more easily 
persuaded to be suffragists than women 
of more education. Sixty-five years of 
suffrage agitation have failed to convince 
American women that they should 
enter politics, therefore suffragists are 
turning their guns upon poor foreign women, 
unable to read or write, or to inform 
themselves of real facts, and they 
are doing this under the beautiful camouflage 
of "Americanization."
           It is worth remembering that a Hillquit 
or a Hylan will also find the ignorant 
woman EASIER TO PERSUADE 
than the more intelligent woman, and also 
EASIER TO GET TO THE 
POLLS.

           There was a large number of negro 
women at work in districts in Harlem, 
where they have a strong organization.
The suffragists had extended their organization 
even into Chinatown, and 
Chinese women, who have taken a picturesque 
part in the campaign in their 
district, were busy in stimulating the 
vote. Chinese women, who sat on the 
platforms at suffrage meetings and even 
made speeches during the campaign, did 
their work yesterday in the Chinese 
homes and outside the polls, but the
watchers at the polling places in the 
Chinese district were women from other 
districts. 
           Italians, who previous to this year had 
not been enthusiastic for suffrage, had 
been converted in numbers in this campaign, 
and a big lot for the amendment 
was expected from them. Many Italian 
women watchers were on duty. Dr. 
Shaw and Mrs. Catt dropped in on one 
polling place in an Italian district and
started to question an Italian woman 
who was keeping a keen eye on the proceedings. 
She had just English enough 
to say, "I am a violent suffragist," but 
not enough to make herself understood 
when further questions were asked about 
the progress of the cause. -- (New York
Times, Nov. 7.)

           For the first time in their lives, two 
hundred Chinamen born in New York 
are going to vote in an election, and 
every one of them is going to vote for 
woman suffrage, says Miss Amy Wren, 
a lawyer in Brooklyn. She has a large 
clientele of Chinese, and has not only 
talked suffrage and preached suffrage to 
her Chinese friends, but she has actually 
escorted them to the polls where they 
registered, and she will escort them 
again on Election Day to make sure of 
her work.--(New York Tribune, Oct. 24.)

SUFFRAGE DEMONSTRATION.
           Socialist women of New York City 
who did not take part in the suffrage 
parade Saturday because the women 

who marched were avowedly in sympathy 
with the war are planning a "votes 
for women" demonstration of their own. 
           It is to be held in Union Square next 
Saturday afternoon. Plans for the 
demonstration were discussed yesterday 
at a rally held in People's House, 7 
East Fifteenth Street, under the auspices 
of the Socialist Suffrage Campaign 
Committee.
           An intimation that the public demonstration 
in addition to pleading the 
cause of suffrage will be strongly anti-
war in spirit was made by Theresa Malkiel, 
who presided at the meeting.--(New 
York Tribune, Oct. 29.)

           Jessie Ashley, Socialist-Pacifist-Feminist 
and formerly an officer of the National 
Suffrage Association, waxes wroth 
over that party's refusal to admit the 
pickets to the suffrage parade. "The 
Call" of Oct. 28, quotes her as follows:
           "Thousands were indignant at the attitude 
of the Woman's Suffrage party. 
They went out of their way to insult 
the White House pickets. Even though 
they may not agree with them, such 
tactics do not aid the suffrage cause. 
Those that will vote for woman suffrage 
whole-heartedly and who firmly believe 
in woman as an equal, will be those that 
vote for Hillquit.

           The "New York Times" of Nov. 9
says:
           "The Cooper Union praise meeting of 
the suffragists was naturally given in 
large part to rejoicing and rose wreathed 
anticipation after the New York victory,
by whatever pacifist and pro-German aid 
attained. * * * The Socialists whose 
menfolk have given the New York women 
the ballot will not work for the war for 
the triumph of Democracy. Suffrage or 
no suffrage they will labor as the man Socialists 
labor, against the war and for 
a German peace. These sinister allies, 
and the taint of pacifism and socialism 
on so many suffrage chiefs, the dubious 
past utterances of some of the most famous 
of them, make it imperative for 
the multitude of suffragists who are not 
pacifists or Socialists or enemies of 
preparedness to emit a clear note of 
loyalty. Not that their loyalty is doubtful, 
but because they are in unpatriotic 
company. "THE DARK FORCES"
ARE AT WORK HERE AS IN RUSSIA.
THEY WILL BE INCREASED 
BY WOMAN SUFFRAGE. It is salutary 
for the woman suffragists who are 
for America First to utter the faith that 
is in them.
           The "Times" usually so accurate, is 
mistaken for once. It was the Anti-
suffragists who adopted "America First"
as their slogan at the very beginning of 
the war. No suffragist of note is on 
record for anything but "Suffrage, First, 
Last and All the Time." Mrs. Laidlaw
boasted only a few weeks ago that New 
York suffragists were proud to announce 
that they put "Suffrage First."

           Congressman C. B. Smith, of Buffalo, 
speaking at the suffrage Victory mass
meeting at Cooper Union, hoped that 
other suffragists would join his distinguished 
friend and colleague, Jeannette 
Rankin, in Congress. He need have no 
anxiety on that score -- the Socialists will 
see that his wish is fulfilled. We have 
been assured times without number that 
the Shaw-Catt-Whitehouse suffragists
"repudiate" the picketers, but there was 
nevertheless wild cheering when Congressman 
Francis said that if the President 
did not quickly release "the innocent 
women confined to cells" Congress
would beat him to it.
           Mr. Laidlaw, husband of Harriet Lees
Laidlaw, made a speech, declaring that 
men-suffragists "had learned to be auxiliaries."
This is pleasant reading for 
Berlin. When the suffragists, whose 
leaders are pacifists and socialists, have 
brought all the men of the country to 
the place where they will meekly accept 
the position of "auxiliaries" Germany 
can unfurl her flag from the Capital at 
Washington.

ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES - No. 172   3

    Unless the Legislature next winter 
takes some action changing the requirements 
that qualify voters, foreign-born
women who are married to citizens may
vote after a residence of one year in the 
State, four months in the county, and 
thirty days in the election district. 

    The voting of the women in New York
will probably add about 60 per cent, to 
the number of election precincts, if the 
same number of registrants to 
a precinct is maintained. It added about
$700,000 to election expenses in Chicago
for the women to vote. The increase in 
New York has not been estimated. In 
1916 the election expenses in New York
were about $1,600,000. It may, therefore, 
cost about $1,000,000 more for 
each election, or $1 each, for the women 
to vote in this State. 

    President Wilson was hissed at a recent 
meeting, of militant suffragists in 
New York, where Dudley Field Malone
was the speaker. When will the President 
wake up to the fact that his only
hope of satisfying them will be to become, 
like Mr. Laidlaw, an "auxiliary," 
and let them run the government?

    A BLANKET DENIAL
    In reply to Mrs. Robinson's letter to 
Mrs. Catt, published in Anti-Suffrage
Notes 171, Mrs. Catt says: 
    "To every single or collective insinuation, 
implication, or direct charge, published 
or spoken in any place, at any
time, by professional anti-suffrage campaigners, 
or 'the reputable press which
has conveyed the impression that I, or
any other officially responsible leader of 
the National Suffrage Association, has, 
by word or deed, been disloyal to our 
country. I make complete and absolute
denial here and now, and spare the 
reader the tedium of detail." 
    Mrs. Catt is really TOO considerate. 
Our readers would cheerfully have borne
the tedium of reading whether Mrs. Catt
really did say the Constitution should be 
torn to shreds, whether she really did 
make what the Toronto press called "an 
attack on the United States" last May, 
whether she approved of having "Frau"
Schwimmer speak for her cause in Ohio
saloons, etc. etc. In regard to the 
"Frau," Mrs. Catt reiterates that she
was NOT connected at the time of her
visit with the International Woman Suffrage 
Alliance, so it is now up to Miss
Blackwell, editor of the Women's Journal, 
to explain why the Journal advertised 
her as holding that position. 
    Mrs. Catt declares that nobody 
brought "Frau" Schwimmer to this
country and nobody sent her! She came
because she believed the war (begun by
her own country!) could be averted, "and
that, like Joan of Arc, she was called of 
God to see that this was done." 

    It is a favorite quotation of the suffragists 
that "Democracy means the
right of those who submit to authority
to have a voice in their own government." 
What they really mean is that 
to them Democracy means the right of 
the minority to force its will on the majority. 
That is what they have tried to
do in Ohio, and is what they intend to
try to do to the whole country by means
of the Federal Suffrage Amendment. To 
send our boys to die for Democracy
abroad while allowing the suffragists to 
overthrow the will of the people at home
is a gruesome anomaly. 

    A letter from Miss Blackwell in the 
Boston Herald and Journal of November 
5th was most cheering to Anti-Suffragists, 
for when suffrage abuse becomes 
most violent, when Anti-Suffrage
"fraud" and "alliance with liquor" are 
trotted out, we know suffragists see defeat 
on the horizon. Miss Blackwell
says: "Examination shows that eight-tenths 
of the petitions were circulated 
by saloon keepers, bartenders and other
men directly interested in maintaining
the liquor business. The petitions were
filed by the Ohio Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage, which claims to have

paid the circulators." Mrs. Catt, in a 
recent open letter to Antis, objected violently 
to what she calls "mud-slinging"
on the part of the Antis, referring to a 
statement which the suffragists have not 
even attempted to deny, that practically 
every person, man or woman, who has 
been charged with disloyalty to our government 
is an ardent advocate of woman 
suffrage. But her own followers in 
every unsuccessful campaign resort to 
the most insulting charges against their 
opponents, which they are never able to 
prove. The suffragists are furious that 
they have not been allowed to overthrow 
the will of the people in Ohio, where 
suffrage was defeated by 87,000 in 1912, 
and by 182,000 in 1914. They lobbied a 
suffrage bill through the legislature a 
few months ago, and were wild with joy 
at thus stabbing democracy in the back. 
Their fury at having the people decline 
to have their decision overthrown is 
great, and they therefore resort to "mudslinging"
of the most abusive kind. But 
if Miss Blackwell knows that fraud on a 
gigantic scale has been practised in Ohio 
is she not going to have the criminals 
brought to justice? Is she willing to be 
a party to the crime by allowing such 
evil deeds to go unpunished?
    In regard to the supposed alliance between 
Anti-Suffragists and the liquor interests 
it is well to remember that it 
was the suffragists in the last Ohio campaign 
who courted those interests to the 
extent of having "Frau" Schwimmer, 
who was campaigning for them, speak 
in saloons. This same "Frau" Schwimmer 
is now accused of having been in 
league with Count von Bernstorff and 
the Russians who betrayed their country 
to the Germans. Mrs. Catt, in a recent 
letter, compares the "Frau" to Joan 
of Arc. Somehow one can't quite picture 
the "Heavenly Maid" speaking for 
suffrage in a saloon!
    It is extremely curious if the liquor interests 
in Ohio are strong enough to defeat 
woman suffrage by 137,000 that 
they were not strong enough to win their 
own battle by a majority of more than 
1700.

    Max Eastman, editor of "The 
Masses," was to have spoken to several 
clubs of Chicago women during the first 
two weeks in November. The non-political 
clubs have decided to strike his name 
from their list of speakers, but the Political 
Equality League has decided that
Mr. Eastman is safe. How politics does 
elevate women!

    No attempt has been made yet to circulate 
the November issues of "The 
Masses," which has been printed, but not 
placed on newsstands because of the 
fears of the dealers that they might be 
acting in violation of the Trading with 
the Enemy act. It was said at the offices 
of Ward & Gow yesterday that 
that company had refused to handle The 
Masses, Bull, and similar publications, 
and that other large news companies 
were taking the same course. (New York 
Times, November 7.).

    Great alarm has been spread among 
publishers and editors of periodicals 
which have been carrying on a veiled 
propaganda against recruiting and 
against the war, by the suggestion of 
Judge Henry W. Rogers, of the United 
States Circuit Court of Appeals in his 
decision denying the mailing privilege to 
"The Masses," that the criminal prosecution 
of the editor of that publication 
should be considered.
    Articles which were brought to the 
attention of the court in the case 
against The Masses had been written 
by Max Eastman, its editor, the Rev. 
John Haynes Holmes, of the Church of 
the Messiah, and Bertrand Russell, 
Floyd Dell and Merrill Rogers are officers 
of the publication with Eastman.

    Three American newspaper correspondents 
who returned from Petrograd on a 
Norwegian American liner yesterday 
said they were forced to leave Russia 
because the country was no longer fit 
for any human being to live in, and was 

going from bad to worse daily. (New 
York Times. November 7.)

    Women have attained political equality 
in Russia, the suffragists tell us, and 
they continue to hold Russia up as a 
model to the United States. Rheta 
Child Dorr, the militant suffagist, whose 
eyes have been opened by seeing her 
radical theories in practice, tells of the 
treatment the "equal" woman receives 
in Russia. She says: "Petrograd and 
Moscow are literally running over with 
idle soldiers, many of whom have never 
done any fighting, and who loudly declare 
that they never intend to do any. 
They are supported by the government, 
wear the army uniform, claim all the 
privileges of the soldier and live in complete 
and blissful idleness. The street 
cars are crowded with soldiers, who, of 
course, pay no fares. It is impossible 
for a woman to get a seat in a car. She 
is lucky if the soldiers permit her to 
stand in the aisle or on the platform.
'Get off and walk, you boorzhou,' said a 
soldier to my interpreter one day when 
she was hastening to keep an appointment 
with me. She got off and walked."

    IS THE WORK OF DR. SHAW
AND MRS. CATT ON THE WOMEN'S 
COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE 
OF SO LITTLE VALUE 
THAT IT DOES NOT SUFFER 
WHEN THEY GO OFF FOR DAYS 
AND WEEKS TO DO POLITICAL 
CAMPAIGNING IN NEW YORK?

    The statement made in Anti-Suffrage 
Notes 171 that Mrs. Annie Riley Hale 
"was arrested for a seditious speech" in 
Hartford was made on the authority of 
Mrs. Catt. Mrs. Hale was not convicted, 
we learn, so the judge evidently 
was not convinced, as Mrs. Catt is, that 
the speech was "seditious."

   "OUR JEANETTE" AND THE 
    SOCIALISTS
    Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin will 
speak tonight at a meeting in Cooper 
Union under the auspices of the Industrial 
Section of the Woman Suffrage 
party. The other speakers will be 
George Berry, Leonora O'Reilly, Maud 
Swartz, John Mitchell, Melinda Scott 
and Mary E. Dreirer. Rose Schneiderman 
will preside. (The Call, October 29).

    The Socialists sold 25,000 copies of 
"The Call" along the route of the suffrage 
parade. "One little 'news Comrade'
described her day (she finished at 7 in 
the evening) as a combination of thrills:
    'First they would stare at me, then 
they would buy; some never bothering 
for the change. Once, when I halted in 
the way of a soldier, he smiled, saying, 
'I'm in khaki, but I'm for Hillquit,' and 
he displayed a Hillquit button.'" (New 
York Call, October 28).
    The Russian soldiers and some of the 
Italian soldiers are also Socialists.

    Men politicians of all parties are out 
to win the women's votes. District leaders 
throughout the city are letting the 
women know at club houses, where their 
men constituents gather to smoke and 
talk politics, the latch string is out for 
voters of the other sex, who are asked 
to take literally the "welcome" woven 
into the doormat. The enrollment of the 
women and their participation in elections 
from now on will make it necessary 
to double the number of election districts 
in the city and to spend about twice as 
much money as heretofore has been 
spent to hold an election. There are at 
present 2068 election districts in New 
York City.
    With women participating, the election 
in the Twenty-second District, it is 
predicted, will be of absorbng interest. 
The district is honeycombed with socialism.
The Socialists are already talking of 

running Morris Hillquit as their candidate 
to succeed Congressman Bruckner 
and to run him on a peace platform.
    Tammany leaders are running a lively 
race with their Republican rivals in an 
effort to win the favor of the woman 
voters. Tammany this year will have 
something far more substantial to offer 
than the empty blandishments Chairman 
Sam Koenig is preparing to offer to the 
women voters. Tammany will have 
jobs, and according to statements 
made yesterday in well informed circles, 
is preparing to dispose of some of these 
where they will do the most good. 
    An estimate of the added cost of future 
elections in Brooklyn is about 
$1,000,000." (New York Times, November 
10).

    Activity of Government Secret Service 
agents in this country has caused those 
engaged in the interest of Germany to 
adopt new tactics. The German sympathizers 
are now working along lines 
that tend to cover the chances of detection. 
Many of them have joined the 
Socialist party, and are preaching sedition 
under the guise of Socialist doctrine. 
    Officials are satisfied that the German 
agents have obtained a strong hold on 
the Socialist party.
    It was on account of this new and 
concealed form of assisting Germany 
that the government suppressed certain 
Socialist newspapers. OFFICIALS
ARE NOW THOROUGHLY AWARE 
OF THE DIFFICULTIES THAT 
CONFRONT THEM IN FIGHTING 
SEDITION WITHIN THE LIMITS 
OF THE UNITED STATES, AND 
WILL BE THANKFUL FOR ANY 
AID THAT MAY COME FROM PATRIOTIC 
CITIZENS WHO ARE 
AWARE OF SUSPICIOUS OF 
WHAT IS TAKING PLACE. (New 
York Times, November 10).
    THE ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS WERE 
ALSO AWARE OF THIS DANGER, 
AND WERE DOING THEIR UTMOST 
TO PREVENT THE GREAT 
AND INEVITABLE STRENGTHENING 
OF SOCIALISM WHICH 
WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALWAYS 
BRINGS. IMPORTANT MEMBERS 
OF OUR GOVERNMENT, HOWEVER, 
CHOSE TO THROW THEIR 
INFLUENCE ON THE SIDE OF 
THE RADICALS!

    The Supreme Court of Indiana has declared 
unconstitutional the Presidential 
suffrage law passed by the Indiana legislature 
last winter. Despatches received 
from the west indicate that this decision 
will have a direct effect upon other 
states whose legislatures have passed 
such laws. In most of these states, just 
as in Indiana, the Constitution defines 
voters as "male citizens."

    In adding New York to their map the 
suffragists must take off Ohio and Indiana.

Issued by the Cambridge Anti-Suffrage 
    Association, November 15, 1917.
Margaret C. Robinson, Chairman of the 
    Press Committee.
For subscription rates, apply to Mrs. 
    George Sheffield, 33 Brewster street, 
    Cambridge, Mass.

    Extra copies of this issue may be obtained 
at 15 cents per dozen, $1.00 per 
hundred, or $9.00 per thousand, upon application 
to Miss M. M. Wells, 687 
Boylston St., Boston, Mass.
    Large orders should be placed promptly, 
before the type is distributed. 
    Special rates for large orders if placed 
promptly.

ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES - No. 172
AT THE COST OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS
New York suffragists flooded the state with full page advertisements full of misleading statements. The following statement was made in reply, by the New York Man Suffrage Association:
"An attempt to mislead the Voters is a form of political corruption. It strikes at the heart of the honest government and democratic institutions.
An attempt to mislead the Taxpayers is an effort to obtain their money under false pretenses.
It is with deep regret, and only because we recognize it as our duty, that we expose the misleading statements which the abundantly financed Woman Suffrage Party is spreading broadcast over the State in whole page advertisements.
They are not ordinary statements, but figured out To Deceive You, Mr. Voter
The Woman Suffrage Advertisements Say:
1
"In New York, the cost per voter is $1.60. In Chicago, 57 cents. So in Chicago a man and his wife can both vote for 46 cents less than a New York man alone."
This statement is incorrect. The cost per voter is $3.29 in Chicago, or $6.58 for man and wife. The cost per voter in New York is $2.20, as shown below.
In 1916, Chicago's election expenses, officially estimated, were $2,500,000.
(See Official Report, Board of Election Commissioners, City of Chicago, page 55).
In 1916, New York's election expenses, officially estimated, were $1,634,450.
(See Official Report, Board of Election Commissioners City of New York, page 10).
The official returns show that 759,750 men and women voted in Chicago in 1916. Divide this number into $2,500,000 and the cost per voter is $3.29 in Chicago.
The total number of registered voters in New York was 742,751 in 1916. Divide this number into $1,634,450 and the cost per voter is $2.20 in New York.
In Chicago there were six elections last year:
A primary in February, a city election in April, a Presidential primary in April, an election of Judges in June, a general primary in September, and a general election in November.
Many of Chicago's voters voted at all six elections. The suffragists have divided the election costs of Chicago by the total number of votes cast there at six elections, instead of by the number of persons who cast these votes. And they compare the expense per vote in Chicago with the cost per registered voter in New York.
All this, Mr. Voter is to conceal from you the fact that Chicago's election expenses have doubled under woman suffrage.
Don't take our word for it. Go to the Public Library. Get the Official Reports. Take pencil and paper and figure for yourself how they have tried to mislead YOU.
Read what Dennis J. Egan, Chief Clerk, Board of Election Commissioners, City of Chicago, says about increased election costs due to woman suffrage.
(See Official Report, Board of Election Commissioners, City of Chicago, page 55).
Here is a table from "Financial Statistics of Cities." published by the U.S Census Bureau. Go to the Public Library and check these figures, Mr. Voter. They are on page 180:
With Woman Suffrage
City Population Election Costs
San Francisco . . . . 452,255 $222,829
Los Angeles . . . . . . 452,140 201,317
Seattle . . . . . . . . . . . 313,029 112,373
Denver . . . . . . . . . . . 245,523 94,565
Total . . . . . . . . . . 1,462,947 $631,081
Without Woman Suffrage
City Population Election Costs
Detroit . . . . . . . . . . 546,183 $106,057
Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . 457,723 108,834
Milwaukee . . . . . . . 419,589 74,312
Minneapolis . . . . . . 343,466 33,429
Total . . . . . . . . . . 1,766,961 $320,632
You can see for yourself that each suffrage city and five suffrage cities taken together, have nearly doubled the cost of elections!
2
"Look at California. No State tax there at all."
Now for the facts:
California has no State tax on general property. State expenses are met by taxes on business, industry, corporations, and inheritances. General property is taxed by the counties.
But California has the highest per capita cost of State Government in the United States. (See page 68, U. S. Document, Financial Statistics of States.)
In California, State government costs $12.17; country government, $20.67, and municipal government, $49.74 per capita. Total, $82.58 per capita.
In New York, State government costs $8.27; county government, $4.09; municipal government, $39.49. Total, $51.85 per capita.
Why do suffragists tell you that there is no State tax in California, when government costs $30.73 more a year for every man, woman and child in California than better government, without woman suffrage, costs in New York?
Because, knowing that is is impossible to prove that woman suffrage is worth anything, they are trying to make the voters believe that it would cost nothing.
3
"Look at five other Suffrage States–rates between $1.20 and $3.34 per $1,000. Only four go as high as $5.00 or over. Two have $8.00. Where men only vote, half the States have rates of $5.00 or over."
These statements are attempts to confuse you, Mr. Voter. See page 124, "Financial Statistics of States," for 1915, published by the U. S. Government.
There you will find the figures the suffragists give–and those they conceal.
There you will find that eleven male suffragist States have rates of less than $3.00 per $1,000; that the average rate for all States is only $2.75 per $1,000, compared with an average rate of $4.73 per $1,000 in the States where women vote.
However, the actual cost of government is not shown by State taxes on general property. California, with the most expensive government in the United States, has no State tax on general property. New York had a State tax rate of 10 cents per $1,000 in 1915. Why did not the suffragists mention it?
Election costs do not come out of the general property tax. This is why the suffragists give you State tax rates instead of actual government cost payments for State, city and county government.
"It is well to remember the fact that the cost of elections is a direct tax upon the different individual localities throughout the State, and no part of it comes out of the State Treasury," says the Official Report, Board of Election Commissioners, City of New York, page 17.
With such evidence of the unreliability of suffrage statements that are open to verification, is there any reason to believe their statements that cannot be verified, such as the suffrage claim regarding the number of women who are alleged to have signed suffrage petitions?
Other advertisements of the suffragists claim that England has agreed to woman suffrage. England has NOT done so, nor will England do so by a vote of the people. The same is true with regard to France and Italy. It is notable that in all these countries the suffragists' claim for success is based on the belief that they can obtain their deires from the politiic.ans, without regard to the will of the people.
In all countries they are trying to take advantage of the war situation to further their political ambitions.
If POLITICALLY AMBITIOUS WOMEN will use such means to WIN THE VOTE, what can we expect from these women WITH THE VOTE?
THESE ARE THE WOMAN who would be active in politics, THE MAJORITY of women do not WANT the vote, and will not USE the vote, if forced upon them.
Without the ballot, even now, this comparatively small number of politically ambitious women controls NUMEROUS AND LEADING POLITICIANS of all parties, even to the extent of inducing them to treat WITH CONTEMPT the expressed will of the people. In this very election the suffrage issue is again forced upon the State by our WOMAN-RULED LEGISLATORS despite its defeat only two years ago BY OVER 194,000 MAJORITY.
With the ballot, through Women-Ruled Politicians, and Women Congressmen, THESE WOMEN WOULD CONTROL THE GOVERNMENT.
Men, use your vote; women, use your influence
TO , PREVENT THIS IRREPARABLE CALAMITY!
If Ever on Earth Government Was Distinctivey a Man's Job, IT IS RIGHT NOW.
If Ever on Earth Government was Distinctively a Man's Job, it is Right Now."

ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES
No. 173

NEW YORK ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS 
WON "UP-STATE" BY 3,856

Suffrage Victory Wholly Due to the Socialist 
    Vote in New York City, Largely Cast by 
    German-Americans
Socialists and Mrs. Catt Now Cry "On to Washington" 
    to Force Congress to Pass the Federal Suffrage Amendment. 
    Socialists Will Then Demand Immediate, i. e., 
    Pro-German Peace
125,000 SOCIALIST WOMEN TO BE NATURALIZED 
    AT ONCE
One of the Eleven Socialists Elected to the New York Legislature 
    Declares: "OUR PROGRAM IS SABOTAGE. WE INTEND 
    TO DO ALL THE DAMAGE POSSIBLE." He Exults Over 
    the Fact That There Will Be Ten Men to Back Him in 
    "THROWING MONKEY WRENCHES INTO THE MACHINERY."
Socialism Has Ruined Russia and Brought Defeat to Italy. It 
    Now Threatens the United States
ITS CLOSEST ALLY IS WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Seditious Letters, Urging the Blowing Up of the White House, 
    Found on Suffrage Pickets
"We welcome every Socialist vote"–-Dr. Anna Shaw

(Special to The New York Times.)
    Washington, Nov. 26.–Anti-suffrage 
carried up-State in the recent New York 
elections by 3,856 and the great majority 
in New York City alone brought victory 
to the champions of votes for women, 
according to the recapitulation of 
election figures made public by New 
York Republican State Chairman George 
A. Glynn, Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, 
Jr., president of the National Association 
Opposed to Woman Suffrage, in 
calling attention today to the up-State 
result, as disclosed by the Glynn figures, 
repeated and emphasized her charge that 
"the increased pro-German, pacifist, 
Socialist vote of 110,000 which went to 
Morris Hillquit and suffrage in New York 
City caused the adoption of suffrage by 
the State as a whole."
    Mrs. Wadsworth declared Mr. Glynn, 
if his figures are correct, should have 
called attention to the fact that the antis 
won up-State, and continued: "Had it
not been for these 110,000 German-born 
voters in New York City who want peace 
at any price, the anti-suffragists would 
have carried New York again in 1917, as 
they carried it in 1915, and as they car- 
Ohio three times, Michigan twice, and 
Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New 
Jersey, West Virginia, Nebraska, North 
Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. 
The majority of the American 
people, men and women, are opposed to 
women suffrage. It is never adopted at 
the polls except on a wave of socialism 
or through popular indifference."

HOW PRO-GERMANS AND PACIFISTS 
FORCED SUFFRAGE 
UPON NEW YORK
    Woman suffrage was carried in New 
York by pro-Germans, pacifists and 
socialists. The election figures prove it.
    The suffragists actually polled fewer 
votes outside of New York City than 
they did in 1915, but the pacifist, pro-German,
 socialist vote cast for Hillquit 
carried woman suffrage.
    Hillquit ran on a pacifist platform. 
He opened his campaign by speaking in 
German to German-Americans. He insisted 
that every man who voted for him 
should not only vote, but work for woman 
suffrage. 
    The socialist gain, the suffrage gain, 
and the number of German voters is simlar 
in every borough of Greater New 
York.

    Mr. Hillquit polled 142,178 votes. This 
was a gain of 110,021 votes over the 
legitimate socialist vote of 1913 and 
1916.
    The proof that this was not a 
legitimate socialist vote, but a pro-
German, pacifist, anti-American vote, is 
found in the fact that in three years, 
from 1913 to 1916, the regular socialist 
vote of Greater New York did not increase 
one thousand. Russell, the socialist 
candidate in 1913, received 
32,057 votes. Benson, the socialist candidate 
in 1916, received only 31,787 votes and 
the socialist labor candidate received 
only 1,333 votes in New York City.
    Hillquit gained this sudden, significant 
increase of 110,000 votes in a city where 
according to the United States Census of 
1910, there were 102,513 German born 
men of voting age, naturalized or with 
first papers. This was in 1910. Since 
then, the number of German born men 
who have rushed to obtain American citizenship 
is enough to explain the entire 
Hillquit increased vote of 110,000 very 
significantly.
    As these men, one by one, marked 
their ballots for Hillquit–-and against the 
war-– they thought the secrecy of the ballot 
box would shield their submarine attempts 
to stop this war. But the figures 
expose this trick unmercifully. The 
United States Government has already 
announced its discovery that pro-Germans 
throughout the country were using 
socialism as a shield for sedition.
    Consider these facts:
    In Manhattan, there were 40,786 male 
voters of German birth.
    In Manhattan, there were 37,306 more 
votes cast for Hillquit than any socialist 
candidate ever received before. There 
were 32,446 more votes for woman suffrage 
than in 1915. There were 32,483 
fewer votes against woman suffrage than 
in 1915. 
    In Brooklyn, there were 34,100 male 
voters of German birth. In Brooklyn, 
the socialists gained 36,631 votes, the 
suffragists gained 35,027 votes, and the 
anti-suffragists lost 31,890 votes.
    In the 8th assembly district the anti-suffragists
 won–-where the lowest socialist 
vote was cast and the smallest socialist 
gain was made.
    In the 22nd assembly district, where 
the largest suffrage vote was cast, the 
socialists also made their greatest gain 
and polled their largest vote.

    In the entire city, the socialists received 
107,805 more votes than the largest
previous socialist vote in every borough.
    In the entire city, the suffragists received 
95,913 more votes, and the anti-
suffragists 79,538 fewer votes, than in 
1915.
    Even in their difference, the figures 
are significant.
    If, as Mr. Hillquit said, "All the Socialist 
votes were cast for the woman 
suffrage amendment," the suffrage and 
socialist gains would be the same-–unless 
the suffragists lost 12,000 votes, and the 
anti-suffragists gained 16,000 votes from 
other causes.
    If, in other words, there were 12,000 
or 15,000 men who, like Henry A. Wise 
Wood, Admiral Fiske and other anti-suffrage 
converts, voted for suffrage in 
1915, but against suffrage in 1917, on account 
of its association with pacifism, 
its representative in Congress, or the 
pickets, all the figures are most reasonably 
accounted for.
    If the suffragists could have carried a 
straight American election, they would 
not have lost Maine by two to one a few 
weeks ago,
    If they could have won without Hillquit's 
100,000 pro-German pacifists "born 
in Germany"–-they would not have lost 
Ohio by 137,000 the same day they carried 
New York.
    The socialists and pacifists declare 
that the New York victory will hasten 
the passage of the Federal amendment, 
and that then, "free women of the world" 
will stop the war by "forcing the laying 
down of arms."
    In other words, every pro-German, 
pacifist, and socialist hopes to force 
country-wide woman suffrage by Federal 
amendment–-and then demand a referendum 
to men and women voters on this 
war!
    Shall socialists and pacifists fight the 
American army from behind by the same 
methods that have ruined Russia and 
injured Italy?
    Shall our brave boys "over there" depend 
for their arms, food, clothing and 
lives on pacifists and women Congressmen 
over here?
    If the Kaiser can get the pacifists, socialists, 
and suffragists to weaken America 
as Russia and Italy have been weakened, 
the cause of America and her Allies will 
be lost, and an autocrat will rule the 
world.

    The New York Anti-Suffrage Association 
resolved itself into a "State Committee 
of the National Association Opposed 
to Woman Suffrage." At a meeting 
on November 27, Miss Alice Hill 
Chittenden, former president of the state 
association, spoke of the necessity for 
opposing the Federal Suffrage Amendment. 
She said: "The suffragists refuse 
to act as good patriots and call off 
their campaign for this amendment at the 
present session of Congress, and, therefore, 
in justice to the other States, and 
out of loyalty to our national association, 
and to our courageous leader, Mrs. James 
W. Wadsworth, Jr., we must unite with 
that association in opposing the passage 
of the Federal amendment. Other States 
must have the same chance and opportunity 
New York State has had of having 
this question decided by the vote of the 
people, and not have suffrage forced 
upon them by the legislators of three-
fourths of the States."

    "To suffragists, the foreign-born are 
a hope and a promise." (Woman Citizen, 
Nov. 17.) Also to the Socialists 
and pro-Germans.

    In New York, with only men voting, 
the socialist vote increased four-fold. 
In Chicago, with women voting, it increased 
seven-fold, according to the New 
York Call, of Nov. 9, which adds: "This 
seven-fold increase in the vote gives 
promise that Chicago will send several 
men to Congress with socialist cards in 
their pockets next fall."

    "A convention of East Side Socialists 
met yesterday at Forward Hall, No. 175 
East Broadway, to make plans for naturalization 
of 125,000 East Side women 
in three years." (New York American, 
November 19, 1917.)

    "The Socialist party is going to initiate 
without delay the big work of reaching 
the new voters by special propaganda 
adapted to their needs, and it is, furthermore, 
going to concentrate on the task 
of naturalizing the foreign born working 
girls, thousands of whom are already 
socialists but are not yet citizens. At a 

meeting of the City Executive committee 
of the Socialist party of New York held 
last Wednesday evenng the question of 
special propaganda among women occupied 
much of the time and was given 
careful attention. All the Socialist women 
and girls who have rendered such 
splendid service in the Socialist suffrage 
campaign, are asked to hold themselves 
in readiness for the new, interesting work 
they will soon be called upon to perform." 
(New York Call, Nov. 17.)

    "Of the more than 1,000,000 women in 
the state of foreign birth, 65 per cent or 
about 650,000 were married. If half of 
their husbands were naturalized, 325,000 
of these women could vote through the 
citizenship of their husbands.
    There are between 400,000 and 500,000 
women of foreign birth who may become 
voters through the operation of the 
equal suffrage amendment." (New York 
Call.)

    Organized and advertised as a nonpartisan 
meeting of suffragists under a 
"Committee of One Thousand Women," 
with its purpose a pilgrimage to Washington 
in favor of the national suffrage 
amendment, and in opposition 
to the imprisoning of White House 
pickets for that cause, a big gathering 
of newly made women voters 
in Public School 40 last night was 
stampeded for socialism and propaganda 
in favor of "the free women of the 
world stopping the war by forcing the 
laying down of arms." Several speakers 
insisted upon the nonpartisan character 
of the gathering, regardless "of what 
they say of us tomorrow," but the loudest 
applause of the night came for a proposal 
that grateful recognition go to the 
Socialists for the large part they had 
played in the suffrage victory, while a 
suggestion that President Wilson had 
earned the gratitude of the women voters 
by his championship of their cause in this 
State was received in absolute silence.
    More than 300 women, all that could 
jam themselves into the hall, responded 
to the appeal for a rousing protest in 
behalf of the pickets who, it was said 
repeatedly, were being starved to death, 
exposed to loathsome contagous diseases, 
and otherwise mistreated. Toward the 
end of the evening, Mrs. Bella Neumann 
Zilbermann, losing sight of both suffrage 
and the face of the imprisoned pickets, 
harangued the women in favor of socialism 
and elicited a hubbub of approving 
response when she asserted: "The 
noise of socialism will yet make President 
Wilson quake in his Presidential 
chair in the White House. The spirit 
of rebellion had been awakened in the women 
of America, and who knows where 
rebellion will lead America?"
   At that the audience was so aroused 
that the speaker's next remark, which 
ended with something about "we will yet 
lay down our arms and quit the war" 
was received with so many cries of approval 
that its exact nature was lost. 
That there might be no mistake about 
her remark and the audience's reception 
of it, Mrs. Zilbermann was asked by a 
reporter for The Times exactly what she 
said at which the audience had shown 
such nearly unanimous approval.
    "I said," she replied, "that I believe 
the women of the world, the free women 
of the world, can yet force the men to 
lay down their arms. I am unquestionably 
opposed to the war; I have not been 
misunderstood about that? Of course, I 
am against the war, and I know the 
power we women have now. Mind, I 
didn't say it is to happen immediately."
    Mrs. Beard opened the meeting by assuring 
the women that their needs must 
force the passage of the national amendment 
since they were not yet entirely 
free. Then she introduced Miss Lou 
Rogers, a cartoonist. Attired in a flaming 
red waist, Miss Rogers made a suffrage 
speech in which she declared she 
"realized right off the reel women didn't 
have to go begging and beseeching with 
their hats in their hands any longer."
    "I don't mind saying I'm a Socialist," 
she continued, and was forced to pause by 
the noisy reception of her declaration. 
"I tell you we owe a great debt of gratitude 
to the Socialists for their magnificent 
championship of suffrage and the 
help they gave the suffrage cause by their 
votes at the recent election which enfranchised 
us."
    No Socialist audience could have received 
the declaration with louder approval. 
Not a single protesting voice 
rose at that or at any later reference to 
socialism though there were a few women 
present who kept quiet.

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    "We Socialists have got some hard 
fights before us," she went on. "We 
know gosh dern well now and we'll know 
it a lot better before this war is over." 
    It was during the appearance of Helen
Todd, who came next, that the comparative 
attitude of the gathering toward
President Wilson and toward the Socialist
cause was best illustrated. 
   "I want to thank the Socialists for
their magnificent support of suffrage, 
both in California and in New York," she 
said, and the crowd drowned out her
voice with its roar of applause. 
    "I thank President Wilson from the 
bottom of my heart for his championship
of suffrage in this State," she said a 
moment later, and there was not a single
handclap, and when she asserted that 
President Wilson should not be blamed
for conditions in the jail, because he
didn't know about them, and would remedy
them as soon as the women told him,
she was interrupted with cries of protest.
Mrs. Beard arose as soon as Mrs. 
Todd sat down. 
    "Yes, President Wilson does know,"
she said to an accompaniment of warm
applause, "he knows exactly what is taking
place. And he knows we are coming
to Washington, and he very quickly sends
back word he will be in Buffalo when we
get there. We promise President Wilson
a very uncomfortable day just the 
same. He didn't think we would get
New York, that was why he was so keen
about it. But just the same we will go
to Washington. we will visit Secretary of 
War Baker. And as for President Wilson
we can send word to the White 
House that we no longer care to talk to 
President Wilson about the suffrage
amendment, and that we can take care of
him and his party politically. You've
got the right psychology of it, and he's
going to get it pretty soon, and what we 
do propose to do, since President Wilson
flees Washington, is to make ourselves 
heard there just the same." 
    Mrs. Clarendee Smith voiced a direct
threat that President Wilson would be
forced to endorse the Susan B. Anthony
amendment for national suffrage or that
the women voters of New York would
not allow a single Democratic Congressman
to be elected next year. (New
York Times, Nov: 12.)

    Mrs. St. Clair Stobert, an English woman,
who has seen the horrors of war at
close range in Serbia and who has done 
superb war relief work in that stricken
country says. "The women who clamor
for peace now, as a group clamored in 
New York the other night, are utterly
ignorant of the lessons taught by three
years of this war, or they are brutal, or
they are working for the Germans."

    A new recruit who has joined the
group of students taking the full training
course at the Rand School (Socialist)
is Miss Elizabeth Stuyvesant, formerly
Organizing Secretary for the Suffrage
Picket Organization of the National Woman's
Party. She was associated with 
Mrs. Sanger last year in the operation
of the latter's birth control clinic and was 
one of the editors of the Birth Control
Review. Miss Stuyvesant was arrested
four times in ten days while picketing before
the White House gates last summer.
"With the splendid victory for suffrage,
in explaining why she had given
up suffrage picketing for Socialsm, "the
enfranchsement of the women of America
is now only a question of time. The
big task of freeing the men and women of
this country will remain even after the 
women have become politically free. The
one hope of a social revolution lies in the
organization of the working classes for
effective political and industrial action. 
The Socialist party offers the most practcal
program for such action." The 
courses given at the Rand School are expected
to appeal strongly to newly enfranchised 
voters who wish to learn how
to exercise their right to vote as effectively
as possible."

    Commenting on the fact that the suffragists
give the credit for their victory
to the leadership of Mrs. Whitehouse 
and Miss Mary Hay, "the big boss," the 
New York Call of November 18th says:
    "Isn't it painfully and pitifully funny?
    You didn't know, dear women voters
of New York, that it was Mrs. Whitehouse's 
and Miss Hay's great leadership
that got you the vote on election day!
    You thought it was the Socialists who 
gave it to you. You have been reading
that fact, however grudgingly it may
have been put, in almost every newspaper
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Even the New York Times, so mad that
it didn't realize how stupidly it was 
bungling things, said that the Socialists
of New York had presented the women
with suffrage as a "gift!"
    You know that the Socialists have
steadily and persistently, year after year,

voted to enfranchise you. But hitherto
their numbers were too small to beat
the reactionaries that voted against you. 
This year, however, the Socialists vote
grew enormously, because thousands of
people realized for the first time that
the Socialist party is the only party that 
really represents the true democratic
ideals of America. And it does not take
a giant intellect to understand that this
enormous Socialist vote, all solidly a 
suffrage vote, turned the trick and won 
for you your political liberty."

HOW THE VOTE CAME TO 
NEW YORK'S NEW CITIZENS
    "Conventions may come and conventions 
may go, but the work of the Socialist 
suffragists will go on forever.
    Yet when the suffrage victory came 
to New York state the antis were the 
only ones who gave the Socialists credit 
for it. At the Woman Suffrage party 
headquarters mention of the Socialists'
services met with only a tittering response, 
while Mrs. Whitehouse referred 
to it with smiling hesitation.
    And the Socialist women? What of 
them?
    It won't take a three-day convention 
at the Ritz-Carlton to tell you of the 
work the Socialist women did in making 
themselves voters. Nor would any number
of lengthy conventions convey the 
humiliations these women endured, working 
without financial backing.
    In those six weeks more than 2,000,000
pieces of literature were given out in 
New York city.
    In the high cost of living demonstrations 
more than 35,000 women took part, 
while 15,000 people saw the Union 
square living moving picture. Nightly 
up to election time ten street meetings 
were held in all parts of the city, with 
women as the speakers.
    More than 200 women went out daily
to distribute literature, even the mother, 
with her baby carriage, "doing her bit,"
and there are 400 women who still stand 
ready to repeat this service.
     Then there were the indoor rallies, in 
the course of which more than $2,000 
was raised. The suffrage edition of "The 
Call"--of which more than 25,000 were 
sold by a tireless, spunky band, chiefly to 
people who had never seen "The Call" before--
was a tremendous achievement in 
itself. Beside this, there were 6,000 
booklets sold.
    There was, too, a memorable trip to 
Yaphank, two days before election, when 
the women were told they could not 
speak to the "boys." These women included 
Bertha Mailly, Theresa Malkiel, 
Sarah Volovik, Frances Rainess, Ethel 
Nelson and S. Serber.
    If you should go up to Yaphank and 
see some of the little suffrage stickers, 
or, perhaps, find a stray piece of the 
30,000 pieces of literature distributed 
there, think of these six women who 
were bound to deliver their message of 
suffrage and Socialism--and did it, despite 
all obstacles. 
    Women speakers who were ready at 
any time to go out in all kinds of wind 
and weather numbered many. These 
were: Marie MacDonald, Esther Friedman, 
Sarah Volovik, Florence Wattles, 
Jennie McGehe, Marian Lange, Frances 
Rainess, Rose Cahan, Mina Eskenazi, 
Fannie Jacobs, Marie MacPherson, 
Fannie Warshawsky, Zelda Rosen, 
Celia Milner, Sara Shapiro, Ethel Nelson,
Kate Dobronyi, Rose Brody, Alma 
Krieger, Elizabeth Freeman, Ella 
Reeve Bloor, Eva Glut, F. Park, Anna 
Gitlow, Pauline Newman, Lottie Lindner, 
B. N. Zilberman, Frieda Heller, 
Rose Herret, Bessie Adler, Ernestine 
Goldstein, B. Braverman, Jennie Schonberg, 
Rose Katz, B. Tuvim.
    At the same time Anita C. Block and 
Meta S. Lilienthal and Anna Rappaport 
were fighting tirelessly with their 
pens." (New York Call, Nov. 24)

    If there was any one thing running 
loose and wild around the Socialist campaign 
headquarters, 7 East 15th street, 
last night, it was plain, vociferous, unadulterated 
enthusiasm. And male and 
female it was created by, the better half 
becoming conspicuous because of the action 
of the voters of New York state 
yesterday in putting that state on the
suffrage map.
    But there were four things in all 
which made for the prevailing and triumphant 
atmosphere. One was the 
amazing vote polled by Morris Hillquist 
and the other Socialist candidates; second, 
was the complete defeat of John 
Purroy Mitchel, who stood in the campaign 
at the other side of the political 
and intellectual fence from Socialism; 
third, was the amazing Socialist vote 
cast in all parts and conditions of the 
country, and, fourth, was the aforesaid 
Socialist victory.
    The latter brought peculiar joy to 
those gathered to hear the returns. At 
the last referendum in New York on 
woman suffrage, taken only two years 

ago, the issue was snowed under. So 
was the issue of Socialism. AND YESTERDAY,
HAND IN HAND (YOU 
BET!) SOCIALISM AND FEMINISM 
FORCED THE FATES TO REVERSE
THEIR DICTUM AND THE 
VOTERS TO ACT ACCORDINGLY.
    The victory of suffrage was looked 
upon as a prophecy, linked as closely 
as it was with the rise in the Socialist 
vote. 
    The crushing defeat of Mitchel also 
brought joy.
    Amos Pinchot, Prof. J. McKenn Cattell, 
Prof. H. W. L. Dana and a host 
of other notables were present at different 
times during the evening. (New 
York Call, Nov. 7.)

    A committee of suffragists has been 
appointed in New York city to attend to 
the political education of women voters. 
On this committee are Miss Lillian D. 
Wald, an ardent Socialist, and Miss Virginia
Gildersleeve, dean of Barnard college. 
If Miss Gildersleeve succeeds in 
educating the women voters along the 
lines that the Barnard girls have been 
educated she will prove a big asset to 
the Socialists. When a straw vote was 
taken before the election at Columbia 
and Barnard, the majority of men students 
voted for Mitchel--the majority of 
women students Hillquit.

    Another member of the committee for 
the political education of women voters 
is Mrs. Vladimir Simkhovitch, of Greenwich
House Settlement. That Mrs. Simkhovitch 
is eminently qualified for the 
job, no one can doubt after reading in 
"The Survey" (that magazine of "uplift,"
Socialism and pacifism, of which 
Jane Addams is assistant editor.) an article 
on "How the Vote Was Won." The 
article says:
    "When the polls opened at 6 on election 
morning, Mrs. Simkhovitch was discovered 
seated on a precarious campstool, 
wearing a broad, yellow votes-for-
women sash. There she sat for eleven 
mortal hours, fortified from time to time
by a fat ham sandwich in one had, a 
hard-boiled egg in the other.
    Every voter as he came up she greeted 
by name. AND, AS THE LAW PROHIBITS
ELECTIONEERING SO 
NEAR THE BOOTHS SACRED TO 
DEMOCRACY, SHE FOUND OTHER 
MEANS OF GREETING.
    'Good morning Mr. Guglielmo. YOU 
SEE I AM HERE. How is little Angela's 
sty?'
    As a man and a father Mr. Gulielmo
was flattered, and as a neighbor HE 
KNEW SOMETHING WAS EXPECTED 
OF HIM.
    Mrs. Simkhovitch modestly refrains 
from telling of the campaigning 'close to 
the ground,' which she did in the neighborhood 
of Greenwich House." ("The 
Survey," Nov. 17.)

    Morris Hillquit's personally conducted 
Bolsheviki hired Madison Square Garden 
last night to stridulate over the Socialist 
party showing at the last election.
On the surface of things--by the mere 
sound of the spoken word--that was 
about as far as they went; but there 
was a disagreeable undercurrent.
    Neither Hillquit nor any other speaker 
ventured outspoken attacks against the 
United States or the Allies, nor did they 
risk praise for Germany, but throughout 
their talk, which swung in wide orbits, 
ran insinuations that were comprehended 
instantly by the initiated and that provoked 
thundering cheers.
    Probably 3,000 persons, at least half 
of whom were women, shivered in the 
polar airs of the Garden while Hillquit, 
Charles W. Ervin, editor of the New 
York Call; Jacob Panken, Municipal 
Judge-elect; Assemblyman A. J. Shiplacoff, 
Alderman-elect Algernon Lee and 
others exulted over the election of eleven 
assemblymen and seven aldermen, predicted 
such success at the Congressional 
election of next year as really would 
"represent the views of the masses" and 
appealed for support for the Call, "our 
brave and wonderful organ, which has 
more power than all of the great organs 
of the capitalistic press."
    HILLQUIT SOUNDS KEYNOTE
    Hillquit, as chairman of the meeting, 
sounded the note for speechmaking. He 
said that the last election established 
Socialism as a permanent factor in the 
political and social life of America, and 
that this had been accomplished in the 
face of opposition unprecedented for violence 
and venom. The vote of 150,000 
that the Socialist party polled was a 
straight vote for socialism, he insisted.
He claimed credit for winning suffrage 
for women. 
    "I do not ask the political gratitude 
of women on that account," Hillquit
continued. "We do not expect either 
recognition or support from the conservative
women of he rich, and THEIR
FRANTIC DISCLAIMER ONLY 
AMUSES US. We claim the support of 

the workingwomen by the same title by 
which we appeal to the workingmen.
NOR WILL WE SOCIALISTS REST 
UNTIL THE FULL POLITICAL 
RIGHTS OF ALL WOMEN IN THE 
COUNTRY HAVE BEEN SECURED 
BY PROPER AMENDMENT OF 
THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION."
   "On to Washington!" said Hillquit, 
and the 3,000 screamed with delght. "On 
to Washington! The Socialist party 
must be represented by an imposing delegation 
to voice in Congress the sentiments 
and demands of the masses of the 
American people. The campaign begins 
tonight. In the general breakup of capitalism, 
socialism alone is emerging as 
the hope of man. Despite a world torn 
by fighting, socialism remains the strongest 
force in the universe. It works for
peace!"
    The mere mention of the word "peace"
evoked hysterical cheering. Peace was
really the keynote of the meeting.
    Asssmblyman Shiplacoff exulted over 
the fact that there would be ten men 
to back him "in the job of throwing 
monkey wrenches in the machinery."
    "OUR PROGRAMME," HE CONTINUED 
FRANKLY, "IS SABOTAGE. 
WE INTEND TO DO ALL 
THE DAMAGE POSSIBLE. The first 
thing on our programme is the repeal of 
the miserable constabulary law which 
slipped through on a drunken night 
when the floors of offices back of the 
Assembly Chamber were covered with 
bottles."
    Marie MacDonald and Assemblyman-
elect Weil predicted that the Socialist 
vote would double within a year. (New 
York Sun, Nov. 26.)

    AT HILLQUIT'S MASS MEETING, 
NOVEMBER 25, A MAGAZINE 
CONTAINING ARTICLES ON THE 
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION BY LENINE 
AND TROTZKY, LEADERS 
IN THE PRESENT PACIFIST DEMORALIZATION 
IN THAT LAND, 
FOUND READY SALE IN THE 
LOBBY. ADVERTISEMENTS ALSO 
WERE CIRCULATED FOR A BALL 
IN SUPPORT OF THE MASSES, A 
SUPPRESSED PUBLICATION 
WHOSE PUBLISHERS HAVE
BEEN INDICTED FOR VIOLATION 
OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT.
    (New York Sun, Nov. 26.)

    Speaking in the heart of the district 
that polled a large Socialist vote in the 
recent election, Henry A. Wise Wood, 
addressing the Bronx Open Forum in 
the Morris High School Auditorium, 
166th street and Boston road, yesterday 
afternoon, declared that the people of 
the Bronx should be ashamed of those 
Socialists who preach sedition and must 
take steps to stop such preaching.
    The Socialist, the pacifist and the conscientious 
objector who do not raise their 
hands in this war, said Mr. Wood, are 
parasites on the back the man who 
carries the gun and who is preserving 
the life and liberty of the man who refused 
to fight for his country.
    "They lie when they say they want 
free speech," he declared. "FREE
PROPERTY IS WHAT THEY
WANT. THEIR DOCTRINE WOULD 
BREAK UP SOCIETY. THE SOCIALIST 
HATES THE LAW BECAUSE 
IT RESERVES THE RIGHT 
FOR A MAN WHO HAS EARNED 
HIS PROPERTY BY THE SWEAT 
OF HIS BROW TO KEEP IT. THEY 
HATE SOLDIERS BECAUSE THEY 
PROTECT MEN AND THEIR PROPERTY.
AND THEY HATE THE 
FLAG BECAUSE IT IS THE SYMBOL 
THAT BINDS THE SOLDIER 
TRUE TO HIS TRUST. SOCIALISM 
HAS LAID RUSSIA OPEN TO 
THE GERMANS AND HAS BROKEN 
DOWN THE NATIONAL FIBRE OF 
THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE." (New 
York Times, Nov. 26.)

    Finland adopted woman suffrage a 
few years ago. As usual socialism soon 
followed. Seventeen Socialist women 
were elected to the Diet at the last 
election. For months the social disorder 
has been great and Socialist deputies 
have toured the country seizing whatever 
it pleased them to take. The peasants 
were obliged to bury their crops in order 
to keep them from these rapacious 
"deputies." On November 14th the Socialists 
declared a general strike throughout 
the country. They organized a 
"Red Guard" of workmen, who secured 
arms from the Russian garrison and 
fleet, and the strike became a revolution.
These Red Guards are now roving 
about, murdering and pillaging at will, 
and terror reigns in this country where 
women vote.

BOLSHEVIKI DEMAND ALL
CORPORATE PROPERTY
Abolish Class Distinctions and Privileges 
    Petrograd, November 26.--The Maximalist
Commissioners have proclaimed 
the abolition of class titles, distinctions 
and privileges. All persons henceforth

ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES -- No. 173       3

are "citizens of the Russian Republic. 
The corporate property of nobles, merchants 
and burgesses, according to 
proclamation, must be handed over 
to the State. 
    The Maximalist Commissioners,  who 
are identical with the Bolsheviki--the 
men who want more--have put into specific 
form certain phases of their program, 
which, in a word, is to make all 
men and women equal not only before 
the law but in their social, educational 
and industrial environment. The program 
not only includes the abolition of 
all class and ownership distinction, as 
did that of the French Revolution, but 
at the death of each "citizen" and "citizeness" 
his or her property, which certain 
reservation for the bringing up of their 
offspring, is to be absorbed by the State 
and again divided among those who need 
it.

WHERE WOMEN ARE EQUAL.
    Washington, Nov. 17.--Belated dispatches 
from Ambassador Francis, 
reaching the state department today, told 
of the fighting in the streets of Petrograd 
in which students of the military 
academy and battalions of women participated.
THE AMBASSADOR SAID 
CADETS AND WOMEN TROOPS 
WERE SLAUGHTERED BY THE 
BOLSHEVIKI.

"ON TO WASHINGTON!"
    "On to Washington!" cries Mr. Morris
Hillquit at a meeting celebrating the 
great Socialist vote and woman suffrage 
given by it to New York. "The 150,000
votes which we gained in the State," he 
says, "turned the [suffrage] defeat of 
two years ago into a decisive victory this 
year, and these votes have come in decisive 
number and heaviest from precisely 
the same districts which have 
given us the heaviest Socialist pluralities."
Mr. Hillquit rejoices in "the 
150,000 female Socialists" added to his 
party. The twin victories of Socialism 
and feminism in New York must bear
fruit at Washington. There must be "an 
imposing" Socialist delegation in the 
next Congress. "Socialism works for 
peace." Whereat there is a tumultuous, 
ecstatic cheering. Socialism works for 
the obstruction of the war, for a German 
peace. We all know that. A large 
number of. German pacifists has been 
added to the New York electorate.
    "On to Washington!" is the cry of the 
National American Woman Suffrage Association 
also. Mrs. Catt, president of 
the association, is to head the campaign 
for the Federal suffrage amendment:
    She and other leaders of the association 
assert that, with the new leverage 
of women's votes in New York, and 
the approaching election of forty-three 
members of Congress from that State 
the National Woman Suffrage Association 
is confident of "putting through real 
business" early in the coming session.
     The supreme business of the country 
and the world, the prosecution of the 
war, momentous legislation and revision 
of legislation, must be neglected.  The 
suffrage amendment is "the real business" 
which Congress must agree to, 
under constant  pestering and treat.  The
suffrage workers will be on hand next 
week when Congress meets.  Delegates 
of every State suffrage association will 
be present.  The name of each Representative 
will go on the black list or the 
white, according to his views, ascertained 
since adjournment by the indefatigable 
agitators. In the second week of December 
the National Association will 
meet in Washington.  In that crowded 
city, full today of all the engrossing 
tasks, military, naval, economic, industrial, 
financial, transportation, a multitudinous 
nexus of the gravest responsibilities
 which the Government has ever 
had to bear, the national suffrage convention 
will be held for the purpose of 
personally bothering, persuading, or bulldozing 
Congress to pass the Federal 
amendment at once. There will be some 
1000 delegates.  They will be there to 
filch the time which Congressmen owe 
to the country and the war, to distract 
their attention, to cajole or menace, to 
interfere with the vital work of the nation 
at the gravest hour of its  history. 
(N.Y. Times, Nov. 27).

        The Boston Herald asks whether, 
when Congress is again in session, "Miss
Rankin will devote her attention to defence 
of the I.W.W. and the militant, 
war-hindering branch of suffragism, the 
two subjects which  have engaged her
chief attention so far." 

          Woman suffrage leaders worked hard 
to persuade the 130,000 New York soldiers 
to vote for woman suffrage, which 
will enormously strengthen socialism
and pacifism, Germany's strongest allies. 
These ladies are, probably unwittingly,
trying to use our army to bring defeat 
to the United States as Lenine and 
Trotzky have used the Russian army to 
bring defeat to Russia.  And American 
politicians wish all success to the ladies!

           Five members of the President's cabinet 
wrote to Mrs. Whitehouse, head of
the New York Suffrage Party, expressing
the hope that her cause would be 
victorious. These gentlemen will now 
undoubtedly help the ladies put through 
the Federal Amendment.  Are they ready 
for the next step - an immediate, pro-
German peace?
THE "SUN" WAKES UP TOO LATE
            "Friends of woman suffrage, among 
whom "The Evening Sun" has long 
ranked itself, fervently hope that the 
women of New York State and their 
leaders will be guilty of no mistake calculated 
to cause misgivings or regrets 
over the great victory won on the sixth 
of this month.  One of the assurances 
always given by the spokesman and 
spokeswoman of the cause has been that 
sex antagonism in politics growing out
of women voting was impossible, even 
unthinkable.  By their arguments on this
head they overcame the fears of many 
men.  Otherwise it is doubtful if the 
women could ever have achieved the 
vote.
               There have been since the late election 
renewals of pledges and professions of 
opinion that the women would array 
themselves with the existing parties, 
splitting up according to personal temperament 
and opinion pretty nearly in 
the same ratio as men.
               This was, of course, the true plan and 
position for the women.  It gave heart
even to the doubters; it filled the friends 
of suffrage with  joy and pride.  Therefore,
it is not a little dismaying to find 
a strong current in the contrary direction 
setting in at the first formal gathering 
of women for political purposes held 
since the vote was won.  We cannot 
help regarding the policy and action outlined 
at the convention of the New York 
State Woman Suffrage  Part, held at 
the Ritz-Carlton, as a shocking blunder,
and, indeed, as an inferential breach of 
faith.  The concerted attack made upon 
United States Senator Wadsworth and 
State Senator Elon R. Brown can be 
regarded in no way save as a sex attack, 
the raising of the sex issue, and as such
it is a betrayal of all those who voted 
for suffrage and a menace of demoralizing 
strife in the years to come.
                  For women to band themselves together 
for this purpose is to a certain degree
to vindicate the attitude of the men attacked.  
It is to create a dangerous feeling 
among public men generally that 
hereafter, if they want to keep in public 
life, the true plan will not be to do right 
but to speak and to vote in such a manner 
as to 'please the ladies.'
                  One thing the women who are steering 
their sister voters at this momentous
time may be sure of.  Men will not tamely 
accept the view of politics represented 
by the prosecution of Messrs. Wadsworth 
and Brown.  Their fears and their 
ire will be alike aroused, and with or 
without open organization they will react 
by pooling all their issues and supporting 
those whom they will regard as 
unjustly victimized.  Here we have the
sex line with all its distresses and its 
dangers, but it cannot be said for a moment 
that the provocation has been on 
the masculine side." (New York Sun, 
Nov. 22.)

                  Governor Whitman, of New York, is 
also awakening too late to what he has
done in helping to fasten woman suffrage 
on the State.  He is beginning to realize 
that the female politician is more deadly 
than the male.  He says: "If I had 
believed that the women of this state 
would support or vote for any man as a 
candidate for public office merely because 
he supported woman suffrage, I 
would not have voted for woman suffrage.
If I had believed that they would
 refuse to support a man worthy for public 
office merely because has was opposed 
to woman suffrage, I would not have 
supported it either."

                  Finding themselves exposed to very 
sharp criticism for their proposal to put 
a reprisal plank in their platform, New 
York suffragists have decided to leave it 
out.  They don't need the plank; they 
can take their revenge, and evidently 
mean to, without it.

                  "The Woman Citizen," organ of the 
National Suffrage Association, states 
that the women voters in New York 
will defeat Senator James W. Wadsworth, 
Jr., if he dares to run for re-election, 
because of his opposition to woman 
suffrage.

To the Editor of the Union,
    Dear Sir:  There is one comforting 
thought in respect to the situation in 
New York. The importance of the State 
in its relationship to the nation will compel 
the attention of the people of this 
country from coast to coast.  Woman 
suffrage in New York State will be submitted 
to the most exacting test in its 
history.  If suffrage in the Empire State

runs amuck the Associated Press and 
the powerful publications of its greatest 
city will spread the news broadcast.  If 
New York goes wrong the whole world 
will know. Its weaknesses may be the 
salvation of the nation. 
                           J.R. Lewis.
 
           (Special to the Brooklyn Eagle)
     Patchogue, L.I., November 16. - One 
of the first visible results of the granting 
of the franchise to women will appear 
in the annual budget for Suffolk, which 
will contain, Supervisor Riley P. Howell 
reports, an additional $10,000 in the budget 
for election expenses to take care 
of the additional printing needed for the 
election.

      "Sarah Stephenson and Amy Wren 
and a horde of other women politicians 
have besieged the District Attorney's office 
in quest of jobs "as a recognition to 
the great woman's vote." (Brooklyn 
N.Y., Eagle, Nov. 18, 1917).

     MISS MARY HAY ENDS WOODS 
          BOOM
        One of the first results of women's entrance 
into politics is their loss of independence 
as reformers.  At the New 
York Women's City Club, a few days 
ago, an enthusiastic woman suggested
that the City Club ask Mayor-elect Hylan
to reappoint Police Commissioner 
Woods.  A chorus of "No's filled the 
room, and Miss Hay, the "big boss" of 
the woman suffrage party, jumped to her
feet, "That's just the thing you must 
NOT do.  Go slow!" she cried.  "It 
would be most unwise to start your political 
career with a thing that is perfectly 
impossible of fulfillment.  Don't 
get in bad by asking for something you 
can't have and that will jeopardize your 
standing with the administration." In 
order to "stand in" with Mayor Hylan 
these women dare not ask that the best 
police commissioner New York has had 
for a generation should be retained in office!  
Miss Hay is trying to keep her 
women together in the hope that they 
may become a political power which can 
be wielded with effect against any political 
party who is not subservient to the 
will of the suffragists.  She is likely to 
meet with many difficulties in this undertaking.  
Mrs. Joseph Saunders, chairman 
of the New York Woman's Democratic
County Committee, was one of 
those present who resented her advice. 
"We Tammany women have always 
done everything with the men," she said 
after the meeting.  "Why, I went down 
to Shadow Lawn myself with a big delegation 
when we were working for Wilson 
last year.  You can't keep the women 
out of Tammany, and if it hadn't been 
for Tammany you wouldn't have the 
vote now. No? Well, if Tammany had 
been against it I guess you wouldn't 
have won, would you?"

            A man, signing himself "No Tooton," 
writes to the New York Globe of November 
16 concerning the great god luck 
which has befallen Tammany.  He says: 
            "The leaders of Tammany are 'tickled 
to death' over it.  Is it over winning the 
election?  Not at all!  Although that, 
too, was an enjoyable frolic this year, 
because every newspaper but one fought 
them.
           'TAMMANY'S GREAT VICTORY IS 
WOMAN SUFFRAGE!  BECAUSE IT 
WILL DOUBLE (AT LEAST) IT'S 
'REGULAR' VOTING STRENGTH.
     "The anti-Democratic press is obsessed 
with the idea that the regular Democratic 
party of New York City is merely 
an aggregation of thieving politicians 
who depend upon public office holding 
for a livelihood, and that deprived of office 
Tammany is dead.  I have heard that 
for over fifty years in this town where 
I was born, and yet Tammany wins (as 
has just  happened) its greatest victories 
when it is out of office and pronounced 
'dead' or dying from starvation.
      "Tammany voters gets a lot of fun out 
of 'politics: they enjoy the game.  Being 
mostly Irish, or descendants of Irish, 
they get almost as much fun out of 'politics' 
as out of a fight.  The greater the
odds against them the  more fun, and the 
greater credit for winning.  A fight on 
even terms hardly interests a real Irishman - 
he is not used to it.
      "Then there is the poetry of it.  The 
great mass of Tammany's voters are addicted 
to permanent matrimony and run 
to large families, lots of daughters 
among them.  Their women are noted for
loyalty to their men- fathers, husbands, 
sons, brothers, and their friends.  And 
they are just as good fighters (and more 
stubborn) as the men.
       "The foes of Tammany  have their work 
cut out for them, believe me!"
       "Loud purrs from the Tiger and the 
whole Catt family." (Boston Herald and 
Journal.)
       The San Francisco Chronicle of November 
8 commenting on the suffrage victory 
in New York says:
       "For the sake of the cause, we could  

wish that suffrage had carried by votes 
of the honest farmers, rather than by 
those of Tammany, but we must accept 
our victory as it comes to us.  NOR IS
IT POSSIBLE NOT TO RECOGNIZE 
THAT VOTES FOR WOMEN ARE 
MOST EARNESTLY SOUGHT BY
THOSE LEAST LIKELY TO MAKE 
GOOD USE OF IT.
       "For the masses of good women suffrage 
comes not as a privilege but a 
duty.  The majority of women in comfortable 
homes apparently do not wish to 
vote and can hardly be got to do so
when duty calls.  ALL THE RADICAL 
ELEMENTS FAVOR IT BECAUSE 
THEY ARE IN DEADLY EARNEST
AND ARE SURE THAT THEIR 
WOMANKIND WILL VOTE EVERY 
TIME.  THE CRIMINAL CLASSES 
ALSO FAVOR IT FOR SIMILAR 
REASONS.
        "The trouble is with the large number 
of women who say that they did not and 
do not wish to vote, and, what is more, 
they wont.  And they are mainly of the 
class who would, if they voted, vote in 
the interests of the best possible government."

     PICKETS DISFRANCHISED
          (From the Buffalo Express)
       Thirty-one suffragettes received penitentiary 
sentences, varying from six 
days to six months. Ten of these were 
from New York, including two from 
Buffalo.  The extreme sentence was given
to Lucy Burns, of New York, one of the 
most conspicuous leaders in the picketing 
movement.  During the trial Miss Burns 
received word that someone had proposed 
her as a candidate for Congress in New
York.  Although she stated that she 
would not consider running for office until 
the proposed Federal amendment is 
in force, Miss Burns appears not to have 
realized that by her defiance of law she 
has made herself ineligible either to run 
for office or even to vote in this State.
          The Election Code of New York contains 
the following:
          Any person who has been convicted of 
an infamous crime and has been sentenced 
or committed therefor to a State 
prison or penitentiary, who votes at any 
election unless he shall have been pardoned
and restored to all the rights of 
a citizen, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
          The term "infamous crime" as here 
used appears to be defined by the later 
language of the statute as a crime for 
which a prison or penitentiary sentence 
is imposed, and we believe it has commonly
been so construed.  It follows, 
therefore, that every New York woman 
who has engaged in the picketing campaign 
in Washington and has received a 
penitentiary sentence has thereby flung 
away in her own case the enfranchisement 
which the State has just voted to 
women, unless she is able, as an individual, 
to obtain full pardon and restoration 
of citizenship.  It is needless to add that 
a person disqualified from voting is not 
eligible to run for office.

     DOCTORS EXONERATE PICKETS' CUSTODIANS
     Washington, November 22. - An inquiry 
into conditions at the Government 
workhouse at Occoquan, where militants 
arrested for so-called White House 
picketing are confined, has been made 
by physicians named by the commissioners 
for the District of Columbia, at the 
request of President Wilson.  A report
completed today is said to exonerate the 
workhouse authorities of charges made 
by the militants and to state that the 
food and sanitary conditions are excellent.

    HUSBANDS' RIGHTS UNDER SUFFRAGE
              Suffrage continues to raise new ethical 
as well as political problems.  What, for 
example, is the right of a husband to 
pay his militant wife's fine and procure 
her release when she insists on going to 
jail? Can a law-abiding husband file a 
bond for good behavior for his wife 
when she does not want to behave?
                The interests of the "Cause" of 
course, are paramount over most things 
--over self-respect and decent conduct.  
But for the benefit of matrimonial concord 
it is clear that various judicial decisions 
are needed to determine the rights 
of non-militant husbands in suffragist 
households. (New York World, Nov. 19, 
1917).

                 Mrs. William Kent has been sentenced 
to fifteen days in the workhouse with 
the usual alternative of a $25 fine.  
Money for the fine had been sent to the 
court before she was tried by her husband, 
and was  paid automatically as 
soon as she was sentenced, despite her 
protests.
                She will file papers for a new trial 
to defeat her husband's paying the fine.  
She insists on going to jail; he insists 
on paying the fine.
               The National Woman's Party, which 
is doing the picketing at Washington, 
held a meeting at the Ritz-Carleton, in

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New York, on November 9. Mrs.
Thomas Hepburn, who recently resigned
from her position as President of the
Connecticut Suffrage Association in order
to join the militants, said:
 
"We took charge of the President,
that much is certain," Mrs. Hepburn
continued, as the women began to laugh
and cheer. "We attended to his education
all right. Whenever he went to drive
he had to read our signs. That's why
he sent the message to New York just
before election. You've got to educate
the best of men." 

[Staff Correspondence]
Washington, November 9.--President
Wilson received this afternoon for almost
an hour's private conference Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Catt and Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, president and honorary
president, respectively, of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association;
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, president of
the Ohio suffragists, and Mrs. Horace C.
Stilwell and Mrs. A. H. Beardsley, representing
the suffragist of Indiana.

The purpose of the suffrage leaders
was to thank the President for his assistance
in the New York campaign, just
ended, and to lay before him the national
suffrage situation.

The women left the White House
greatly pleased with their interview.

Later the White House authorized the
statement that the President was told
of the New York campaign by the suffragists,
who expressed appreciation of
his attitude, and that a general discussion
of the suffrage movement followed.

"The President listened to all that we
had to say with apparent interest and
asked us many questions," said Mrs.
Catt. "We stated to him the political
situation as viewed by suffragists
since the victory in New York. We
made clear to him that we believe it is
the duty of the nation to grant the Federal
amendment now, in order that the
women may be saved the expense and 
the long struggle which are involved in
the State by state referendum. We are
all agreed about this, and are anxious
that the Federal amendment should pass
the 65th Congress.

"The National Woman Suffrage Association
and its auxiliaries have asked
a great many favors of him in the last
year, and he has done his best to grant
every one. Today we outlined to him
the programme we have before us, and
he said he did not see any reason why
we should not carry it out. We asked
if he could do anything to assist the
campaign, and he gave us renewed assurances
of his sincere friendship for
our cause. We believe that he is going
to do everything he can to help us."
(New York Tribune. Nov. 10.)

SEDITION AMONG THE PICKETS?
(Staff Correspondence)
Washington, Nov. 21.--The Department
of Justice is now looking into the
relations of certain members of the National
Woman's party with pacifists, anarchists
and anti-war agitators. Picketing
has been tainted from the beginning
with the suggestion that camouflaged
disloyalists could well afford to interest
themselves in a movement so embarassing
to the government. That is obvious.

Seven of the officials of the National
Woman's Party and the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage are avowed
pacifists, who either have taken part in
recent pacifist and anti-war agitations
or who have been identified with peace
organizations.

Crystal Eastman is a member of the
executive board of the National People's
Council. She was until recently secretary
of the American Union Against Militarism,
whose literature the government
barred from the mails. She spoke at the
"peace conference" held in Chicago last
September while the Governor of Illinois
was sending troops to break up the meeting.

Sara Bard Field also attended the
Chicago "peace conference." When the
police entered the building to disperse
the pacifists Miss Field attracted attention
by openly defying them to arrest her.

Fola La Follette, a daughter of Senator
La Follette, participated in the deliberations
of the Emergency Peace Conference
held in Madison Square Garden last
May. She was one of the supporters of
the plan to change the name of this organization
to the People's Council.

May Wright Sewall, of Indianapolis,
has been identified with the anti-war
movement from the beginning. Vida
Milholland is an avowed pacifist, but
has made her pacifism incidental to her
work as a suffragist.

Mrs. Amos Pinchot has been associated
with the peace movement through
the activities of her husband.

Joy Young until a few months ago
was an executive member of the American
Union Against Militarism.

The Department of Justice is particularly
interested in some intercepted correspondence
of Lucy Burns and Peggy



Baird Johns, two members of the National
Woman's Party who are now in
jail for picketing the President.

Both have been sentenced to Occoquan
twice, once last September and again
last week. Before she was sent to the
workhouse last September, Mrs. John's
mother, at Babylon, Long Island, sent to
her daughter a letter, of which the following
is a copy:
"Babylon, Sept. 26, 1917.
"My Dear Peggy:  I got your letter
after I had sent yours last night.   You
speak of the tapestry and mahogany in
your room.   I don't see why you don't
put some in your pocket.
"Do write if you can.   Your father
says he hopes you are getting a big salary,
and probably it is paid by the Germans.
Loads of love,
Mother."

It may be that Mrs. John's father is a 
humorist and that he was having his little
joke about the source of his daughter's
income.   The District administration,
however, is taking no chance with
jokesmiths these days, and so put the
letter in the archives.

Enter, through the mails, one A. Turner,
of the Rand School, 140 East Nineteenth
Street, New York.   The Rand
School is an institution of advanced and
highly inflammatory thought, founded by
a lady much encumbered with riches.   A.
Turner evidently is an old friend of Mrs.
Johns.   They call each other "comrades."
Here is a part of his letter, too long to
be printed in full:
"Rand School, 140 East Nineteenth
Street, New York.
"Dear Peggy:    Just a line to let you
know that I noticed the announcement
of your arrest in the New York press
last evening.
"My dear child, why kid yourself by
doing such futile work?    There are so
many sensible things you can get into
prison for--for instance, if you attempted
to blow up the White House, I would
say go ahead.
"If you are keen upon carrying some
banner why did you not come to the office
and get our banner, which reads:
'We Demand the Release of A. Berkman
in the Name of Humanity.'    That
would be something worth getting a dose
of isolation for.
"I am still yours for Anarchism.
"A. Turner."

Lucy Burns' note to Peggy Johns contains
this very interesting paragraph.
"About your work, the woman's party
will see that every one is fed up and
rested, after you get out till you are
perfectly strong.    Hundreds of people,
not alone in the woman's party, but in
the whole labor movement, and in the
progressive and pacifist groups, will look
after you, for you are fighting for all
of them."   (New York Tribune, Nov. 22.)

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AS THE
HIGHEST DUTY

Wisdom was not justified of her children
on the "Victory Night" of the
State Woman Suffrage Party.    Rejoicing
and pitiless, the suffragists are to
make a campaign in every Congress
and Legislative district against candidates
who refuse to swallow the Federal
amendment.    Colonel Roosevelt pleaded
for a "concrete" patriotism.   He reminded
the jubilant sisterhood that "the country
is at war for its own vital interests,
and also for the vital interests of mankind."

The patriotism of the suffrage ladies
is to take the concrete form of "a concerted
drive on Congress this winter," as
Dr. Shaw put it, "that they [the suffragists]
may devote themselves solely
to carrying on the needs of our Government
during this terrible war."   Which
is to say, put the Federal amendment
through Congress, and we will be patriotic.

Mrs. Whitehouse was even franker in
her avowal of conditional and secondary
patriotism.    "Our greatest duty is"--
not to help win the war, nothing so significant
as that--"to use our new power
in every way to obtain suffrage for the
women of the country."   "If we make
this"--moving on to Washington--"our
first object, we shall be putting promptly
to the best advantage, to the service of
that same human liberty for which we
have worked so long unarmed, our new,
our powerful weapon of votes."

When the fate of liberty hangs in the
balance, the noblest duty of women that
can vote is to force the ballot upon unwilling
States.

Starvation, suffering, misery, sickness,
absolute want prevail over great regions
of Europe.    A thousand just needs call
on every generous, every humane, heart.
It was a hard time in which to raise
funds for suffrage.    It is the more gratifying
to know that the New York Woman
Suffrage Party was able to collect
a campaign fund of more than $400,000.



Armenia and Syria, Serbia, Romania, 
Poland, Belgium, are not sufficiently interested, 
at present, in this all-momentous 
business of woman suffrage.

It is unfortunate that the leaders of 
the New York Woman Suffrage Party 
should make a decision so indefensible. 
(New York  Times, Nov. 22)

Annie C. Patterson of Brooklyn, writes 
to the New York Times of Nov. 15, as 
follows:  "The utter and absolute and 
unconditional defeat of Germany is the 
supreme issue before the whole world 
today, and until that is settled once for 
all, all else should, I believe, be absolutely 
subordinated to it. WOMEN WHO 
ARE NOT SUFFRAGISTS SEE 
THIS, BUT MOST SUFFRAGISTS 
SEEM TO BE UNABLE TO REMOVE 
THEIR MINDS FROM THE 
LITTLE NARROW-GAUGE TRACK 
ON WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN 
RUNNING FOR SOME YEARS.

Six men and one women, comprising 
part of the business and editorial staff 
of The Masses, the Socialist magazine, 
together with the Masses Publishing 
Company, were indicted yesterday by the 
Federal Grand Jury for violation of the 
Espionage act. There were two indictments, 
one charging the corporation and 
C. Merrill Rogers, Jr., business manager 
of the magazine, with having "unlawfully, 
willfully, knowingly and feloniously" attempted
to use the mails for the transmission 
of matter declared to be unmailable,
and the other charging Rogers, Max 
Eastman, editor of the magazine, and 
others named with him of having conspired, 
while the country was at war, to 
cause or to attempt to cause "insubordination, 
disloyalty, mutiny and refusal of 
duty in the military and naval forces of 
the United States."

The illegal acts were committed, the 
indictment said, "when the United States 
was at war with the Imperial German 
Government," and in order "unlawfully 
and willfully to obstruct the recruiting 
and the enlistment service of the United 
States."  It is alleged that the magazine
contained articles, poems, cartoons, and 
pictures "calculated and intended to induce
persons liable to military service to 
refuse to submit to registration and 
draft for service and to induce persons 
available and eligible for enlistment and 
recruiting to fail and refuse to enlist for 
service therein."
        
In September Mr. Eastman wrote to 
President Wilson congratulating him for 
not having adopted "the entire animus 
of the allied war on German." (New 
York Times, Nov. 20.)
         
These conspirators are, naturally, all 
suffragists.
        
All county chairmen, supposedly expert 
in corralling male votes, are laboring 
hard to comprehend the bisected situation 
that has arrived.  Just as one has 
about learned how to master the naturalized 
male immigrants who can't yet 
speak English, is it not hard to devise 
means of gathering in the naturalized female 
immigrant who can't yet speak English?  
Quandaries are without number.  
Are there any books that tell how to 
manage women? Don't they merely say 
women are still a mystery?  If there are 
popular novelists who have charted the 
feminine heart they have an excellent 
chance to gain appointment as adviser 
to party chairmen - salary no object.
Are the voting women like Mrs. O.H.P. 
Belmont, or Mrs. Norma de R. Whitehouse, 
or Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, or 
Emma Goldman?  And  now that all have 
the vote, who can control the janitress, 
the climber, the domestic, the store girl, 
the seamstress, the milliner, the cabaretist, 
the factory operator, the stenographer, 
the school teacher, the small settlementer, 
the trained nurse, and the 
other feminist votes?

Giving the vote to all women over 
twenty-one will mean doubling the number 
of election districts in order to handle
the voting, doubling the number of inspectors, 
doubling the police guard, doubling 
the cost of elections, doubling the 
printing and other campaign expenses, 
the running of women candidates for office 
if the male candidates do not pledge 
themselves as required, dividing up the 
jobs and "patronage" hitherto given to 
male voters for party services, putting 
up as party leaders committee men acceptable
(which means attractive) to 
women. (Boston Transcript, Nov. 14).

   THE TWO WONDERLANDS
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chairman of
the Woman Suffrage Party of New York 
city has mode the clearest and most impressive 
declarations of unconditional
feminist patriotism, taking precedence of 
even the Greatest Issue of All Time:
              
"If the fate of my country hung on 
one man, and that man could save the
country, but was opposed to the Federal 
amendment, I should vote for him."
               
What sublimity for calm courage, what 
a great choice and great refusal! The 



force of feminist devotion could no further 
go.
                
It would be wrong, however, to regard 
seriously the first artless proceedings
and pronouncements of the woman suffrage 
leaders, exulting in, yet visably embarrassed 
by, their new boon.  The just 
commentary comes from a parallel world.
                
The chief difficulty Alice found at first 
was in managing her flamingo; she succeeded 
in getting its body tucked away, 
comfortably enough, under her arm,
with its legs hanging down, but generally, 
just as she had got its neck nicely
straightened out, and was going to give 
the hedghog a blow with its  head, it
would twist itself around and look up in 
her face with such a puzzled expression.
 (New York Times, Nov. 23, 1917.)

     A BRAVE MAN.
 Justice Jacob Marks of the Municipal 
Court dampened the rejoicing over the
suffrage victory, which overshadowed 
everything else at the tenth annual dinner 
of the Women Lawyers' Association 
at the Cafe Boulevard when he asserted 
bluntly that in his opinion the most rabid 
of the suffragists today would probably 
become in short time just as violent 
antis. A chorus of negation arose at the 
remark, and cries of "Now, Judge, you 
don't mean that," and "Why, the very 
idea!" prevented the Justice from continuing 
his speech for several minutes.

"The result of last Tuesday's election 
was a complete surprise to me," said
Justice Marks. "I have not recovered 
from the schock of it yet. And let me 
tell you all I am not in the least optimistic 
as to the result."

At this point there were audible murmurs
from his listeners who were not 
sure that they had heard aright. Their 
doubts in the matter were set completely 
at rest in a moment, however, for raising 
his voice to carry above the hum and 
buzz of women's voices, the Justice went 
on: "And let me tell you that those of 
you who have been the most rabid for the 
vote will after a few years become the 
most rabid to give up the vote."

In the absence of any provision either 
in the organic or the statutory law to 
prevent women from becoming candidates 
for or holding any office filled by election 
or appointments, it is now assumed by 
leaders among the women who have 
fought so hard and successfully for the 
ballot that it will be within their power 
to nominate and if they can gain the 
necessary support, elect a woman Governor 
of the State of New Yorker a 
Mayor of the City of New York.

The Socialists, with women always a 
factor in their party management in 
1914 nominated a woman for Secretary 
of State. In this year's election the Socialists 
had several women candidates for 
the Assembly, nominated from districts 
in this city. (New York Times, Nov. 14.)

RUSSIA AND THE SINN FEINERS
BELIEVE IN VOTES FOR 
WOMEN
Dr. Anna Shaw and other suffrage 
leaders have been trying to give the impression 
that most of the countries of 
Europe, including France and England, 
have already capitulated to the suffragists
and that America must therefore 
follow suit. Mrs. Skeffington, the Sinn 
Fein agitator now in this country, 
breaks this bubble very effectively in a 
letter to the New York Times of November 
24th. She says: "None of the European 
allies have given their women 
the vote except Russia. The Sinn 
Feiners in their proclamation of an Irish 
Republic on the other hand granted the 
franchise to all men and women over 
"twenty-one." Does America want to 
line up with Russia and the Sinn Feiners, 
or with France, England and Italy? Mrs. 
Skeffington adds apropos of England:
"So far as I am aware, the question is 
by no means settled. The proposal to 
enfranchise a very limited number of 
women is merely one of many points under 
consideration in the measure now 
before the British House of Commons, 
and there is yet no guarantee that even 
this limited women suffrage will become a 
law. Such as it is, the proposal is to extend 
the franchise merely to women over 
thirty years of age, and as most of the 
women who make bombs and run elevators 
are under thirty, it is not quite 
clear how their "fruitful and concrete"
patriotism is to be rewarded."

Issued by the Cambridge Anti-Suffrage 
    Association, December 3, 1917.
Margaret C. Robinson, Chairman of the 
    Press Committee.
    Extra copies of this issue may be obtained 
at 15 cents per dozen, 60 cents per 
hundred, or $5.00 per thousand, upon application 
to Miss M. M. Wells, 687 
Boylston St., Boston, Mass.
    Large orders should be placed promptly, 
before the type is distributed.

[*Dupl.*]
ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES
No. 174

A SOUTHERN WOMAN SPEAKS HER MIND
Mr. James Callaway, in a column conducted by him in the Macon
(Georgia) Daily Telegraph, prints the following letter, on November 30,
from a distinguished Southern woman who sent it to him with the request
that it be published.
"Has woman suffrage, with, comparatively speaking, a little band of wilful
women, 'made cowards of us all?'
"Men, who were once real men, are almost perjuring their souls to curry
favor with this small band of dissatisfied, hysterical females, who in no way
are representative of the women of the nation, or of anything else, for that
matter.
"Mr. McAdoo fairly spills over with 'what the women are doing for their
country,' as if the loyalty of the American woman was a discovery of the
present administration!
"To what 'women of the United States' does he allude when he wishes
to offer the most dastardly insult written in the annals of history, that 'votes
for women,' choked down the throats of 90 per cent of the women of the
nation, is the price of their loyalty, in the opinion of these self-appointed
judges of a fitting 'reward?' Surely one may say 'thou treadest on holy
ground with most unholy feet!'
"The 'solid South' elected Mr. Wilson. This eternal prating of 'women's
votes' is mere stupidity, and every well-informed man and woman knows
it. Today it is this same South that rises in all her outraged dignity to say,
and in no uncertain tones, to any man or woman, be he or she of high
or low degree, that the loyalty of her womanhood is without and beyond
price!
"The women of the South know what war is. They have tasted its deadly
fruits of hunger, cold and privations. Drunk to its bitter depths and dregs
its fiery cup of gall! Standing upon the ashes of all save hope, we passed through our Gethsemane over fifty years ago.
"But we come today as one to face again, for the second time, war and
all its horrors, and when hearts and souls are quivering with emotion, tears
for the cruel sufferings of the past, dried but yesteryear, men dare offer this
affront to us of added burdens, loathsome responsibilities, and would, with
flattering, nauseous words, weigh out hearts' blood in political scale and
prate of 'vote!' Are we clean gone mad? It is past belief that American
manhood could fall so low!
"For every woman who stands and shrieks for the ballot there are hundreds, 
aye thousands, telling you they do not wish it. Do not force their
patience too far!
"The Western State are thinly settled; if the rest of the country does not
please the dissatisfied suffragettes let them 'go West and grow up with the
country!'
"The women of the South do not come to plead, gentlemen; they demand
that the sovereignity of their States be not disturbed at this most critical hour!
"Yet the Southern press sits and sucks its thumb while our very birth-
right is being sold for a mess of petticoats! Have our men become spineless
cacti? Will they submit, as dumb, driven cattle?
"'New York went for suffrage' we are told with bated breath. With over
400 per cent increase in Socialism, more than 70 per cent foreign-born, is
that surprising?
"But what is that to the South? The purest American blood in the nation
flows in her veins and people. Instead of following, as sheep led astray, let
us take warning from the experience of New York and stand firm in the
faith of our fathers, and that ever safe rock of ages, the sovereignity of our
States!
"Barter your own souls and your manhood if you must; play your cheap
political games; weaken your government when its united strength is most needed, but spare your women!
"The fifteenth amendment and the force bill! How proudly they boast
of these two dastardly achievements in their Official History of Suffrage!
To 'dear Anna Dickinson, Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony we
owe them!' Suffragettes all!
"The wound is scarce healed, and some way we feel that our statesmen,
no matter how great the pressure, be it under the thinly buttered sop of 'war
measure,' that unspeakable insult of 'reward' or any other trumped-up vaporings 
of political expediency, will indeed hesitate, ere they loose these upon
the Southern women for the second time, and add to them that pestiferous
old maid and her legacy of hell, the Susan B. Anthony amendment!
"To the naked eye it is not visible, but a careful examination of the 'inside 
of the suffrage cup' shows these startling words: 'Made in Germany.'
"Beware, indeed, oh woman of the South, of these Greeks who would
bear to you this gift.
A SOUTHERN WOMAN."

THE FEDERAL AMENDMENT WORTH A MILLION SOLDIERS TO GERMANY
A letter from Morrison Swift published in the Boston Herald and Journal
of December 12 says:
"Women's fitness to receive the vote at this time should be tested by their
attitude toward the greatest question of the epoch--the world war. By this
test so many of the vote-demanding women have failed that women should
not be granted the ballot while the war lasts. THEIR POSSESSION
OF THE FRANCHISE WOULD ONLY RENDER DEMOCRACY
MORE INSECURE THAN IT IS. Of course there are many exceptions,
but THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE SUFFRAGISTS HAVE
SHOWN THEMSELVES INCAPABLE OF THINKING INTELLIGENTLY 
ABOUT THE WAR. And the war is infinitely the greatest
present subject, infinitely greater than the subject of women's votes.
In their unintelligence about this supreme matter they rival the blind Russian 
Bolsheviki. They rank far below the British suffragettes in perspicacity, 
for when the war came the latter halted their propaganda to help save
the world.
Prior to the war I strongly favored giving women the ballot immediately,
and worked for it. When the war disclosed the inability of most of these
vote-seekers to grasp the meaning of the terrific new issues that had arisen,
I abandoned that position. When the war is over let them have the vote if
we win. If the Prussians win, let the women ask these Prussians (whom
their policy is aiding) for the vote, and see what they will get.
Should we lose the war, the ballot both for men and women would become 
an empty form in this country. By turmoiling for the ballot now,
while the very existence of the ballot is at stake, these women are assisting
the Germans to triumph, and thus are laboring to cancel the value of the
vote, which they claim so highly to revere. And the women do not see this!
But they tell us they are competent to vote! A FEDERAL AMENDMENT ENFRANCHISING SUCH WOMEN IN THIS CRISIS
WOULD BE WORTH A MILLION SOLDIERS TO GERMANY.

WHERE WOMEN VOTE
Chicago is dead broke. "Chicago is in a hole." Chicago can't pay its
debts--it has a deficit. But never mind--Chicago has woman suffrage, so
nothing else matters. Chicago aldermen met on December 7, the Chicago
Tribune tells us, to discuss methods by which the city could meet its financial 
deficit, which calls for emergency action. One suggested lowering the
annual license fee for saloons from $1000 to $500. That would, of course,
mean many more saloons. But never mind that, if only women can vote!
Another suggested getting rid of Major Funkhouser, of the police force,
thereby saving his salary. "There's more vice in Chicago now than before
we had Funkhouser," said one gentleman. What? With women voting?
Unless assistance is obtained from some quarter Alderman Richert predicts
that next year half the police and fire departments will be laid off, electric
street lighting curtailed and almost every other municipal function interfered 
with. Think of that! We were promised a municipal paradise if only
women could vote, but it seems that CHICAGO MUST HAVE MORE
SALOONS, LESS POLICE AND FIRE PROTECTION AND DARKENED 
STREETS IN ORDER TO PAY FOR THE LUXURY OF
VOTES FOR WOMEN, WHICH COSTS CHICAGO $700,000 ANNUALLY.
There was one vote in Congress against our government's declaration
of war against Austria. It was given by the one Socialist Congressman,
Meyer London.
There was one person in Congress who felt that a vote for the declaration 
of war against Austria needed an explanation or apology. That was
the one woman Congressman, Miss Rankin. She said: "When the United
States declared war on Germany it virtually declared war on Germany's
allies. The vote that we are now to cast is not on the declaration of war.
If it were, I should vote against it."

IS MRS. CATT MORE "FRIGHTFUL" 
THAN VON HINDENBERG?
Suffragists in convention at Washington claim to have raised $1,000,000
to be used to defeat candidates for Congress who may refuse to vote for
the Federal Suffrage Amendment. This amendment aims to take away from
the people all right to decide who shall exercise the sovereign power in
the different states. Mrs. Catt announced at the session on December 13
that a campaign would be made in 1918 to defeat enough men voting against
the amendment to change the result in each house at the next session.

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What a sweet morsel for Berlin if America's statesmen run to cover
from Mrs. Catt's attack! What an incentive for Germany to continue its
policy of "frightfulness" abroad, if it works so well in America! But will
such action really recommend the timid gentlemen at Washington to the
women whose votes they would be seeking hereafter? It is a very deep
instinct in the normal woman to admire bravery in men. The unprecedented
crop of weddings at the present time is the result of the admiration excited
in our girls by the courage of our splendid young soldiers in going so
cheerfully to meet the Kaiser's hordes. What a sad contrast to this courage
if Congress goes down before Mrs. Catt! And how the suffragettes themselves
will despise the men they can boss!
The surrender the suffragists demand is complete and abject. The
redoubtable Lucy Burns says: "A congressman who wants to be considered
a friend of suffrage will have to give more than his vote this session. They
will have to do actual campaigning among reluctant colleagues and also
seek to bring their parties into line." So congressmen must be prepared
to barter their independence, body and soul, when they begin to capitulate.
Mr. Laidlaw, husband of Harriet Leese Laidlaw, a suffrage leader in New
York, says suffrage men learned to be "auxiliaries" in the New York
campaign. When senators and representatives accept the position of "auxiliaries" 
to the political women who wish to dominate them the German flag
will soon float from our Capitol. Until the millenium arrives Government
must be a man's job; no government has ever long endured which placed
political power in the hands of its women.
The anti-suffrage women of the country--and they are the great majority
--still believe in American men; and they are confident that the men in
whose hands our government rests will be as fearless in facing Lucy Burns
and even Mrs. Catt herself as our soldiers in facing the Crown Prince and
von Hindenberg.

Is Europe full of underfed children?  Yes.
Is the world full as never before of misery, much of which could be
alleviated?  Yes.
Nevertheless, American women pledged $1,000,000 to be used in 1918
alone for suffrage work! Among the larger donations were these: Mrs.
William Thaw, Pittsburgh, $12,000; Mrs. Stanley McCormick, $2000; Mrs.
Robert G. Shaw, Boston, $1000; Mrs. V. Everitt Macey, Washington, $1000;
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, $1000; Mrs. Joseph Fels, $1000; Mrs. Cyrus
H. McCormick, $1000; Mrs. Arthur Ryerson, Chicago, $1000; Mrs. Wirt
Dexter, Boston, $1000; the Leslie Funs, $13,000, and a pledge by Mrs.
Ogden Mills Reid to raise $13,000.
Suffrage, what crimes are committed in thy name!

"Government by Tantrums"

Under the title "Censor the Picketers!" E. S. M. writes in "Life" for
December 13:
"A good many of these women are pupils of Mrs. Pankhurst. * * *
They are without compassion and without scruple. They are enemies of
their country. Their controlling desire is to force their will upon other
people. This is war-time. They are interfering with our war efforts. * *
They should be absolutely and permanently suppressed, so that nothing
more shall be heard of them until the war is over. If we are to have government
by tantrums it must not be till after the war. If a lot of malefactory
vixens are to get legislation by mob methods, let us put it off at least until
we have settled accounts with Germany and are ready to give a new enemy
due attention."

Submarine Politics

Miss Minnie Bronson, general secretary of the National Anti-Suffrage
Association, says:
"The suffragists are conducting an organized campaign to conceal from
members of Congress the fact that the Susan B. Anthony amendment positively
destroys the right of the people to vote on the question of woman
suffrage, as provided for in their State Constitutions; that it forces suffrage
upon unwilling States by vote of the Legislatures of other States.
"We have received a letter signed by a woman member of Congress,
addressed to another member, in which she says:
"'Of course, voting for the Susan B. Anthony amendment is not voting
to enfranchise the women. It simply delegates power to the various State
Legislatures to extend the right of suffrage to the women.'
"This is submarine politics, camouflage--the sort of thing used by Lenine
and Trotzky to fool the Russians into separate peace. The letter quoted was
sent to a Southern member known to be opposed to the amendment. It is
believed that it was sent to other such members--to lead them into voting
to take away the control of the suffrage from the people of their own States
without realizing it.

Robs People of Power over Local Elections

"The Federal amendment gives the Legislature of Idaho the right to say
who shall vote for mayor in Cincinnati--after the people of Ohio have
defeated woman suffrage three times at the polls! It gives the Legislature
of Wyoming the right to say who shall vote for aldermen in Boston, although


the people of Massachusetts have denied such power to their own State
Legislature, and reserved it to themselves. It gives the Legislature of Utah
the right to say who shall vote in New Orleans without regard to the will
of the people of Louisiana. It gives the Legislature of Maine the right to
say that Chinese shall vote in San Francisco, without consulting the wishes
of the people of California.

No More Vicious Measure Has Ever been Proposed in
Congress

"Democrats and Republicans, patriotic suffragists like Senator Borah,
of Idaho, and all anti-suffragists agree that this bill means the destruction
of local self-government. Yet there are men in Congress who do not even
know that it is NOT referred to the PEOPLE of the various States--and
politically ambitious women are doing all in their power to keep members
of Congress in ignorance of what this bill means.
"This amendment gives the suffragists and socialists the right to annoy
and pester every Legislator in the United States until a majority of the men
in thirty-six Legislatures have surrendered their judgment and principles to
political threats and cajolery.
"It means that no Legislature in the United States can meet without
being surrounded by suffrage pickets. It would be an official indorsement
of nagging as a national policy. It would give every radical woman the
right to believe that she could get any law she wanted by picketing and
pestering her city council, her Legislature, her Congressman or her President--
no matter how the people voted, nor what national crisis interfered
with her wishes. And if feminism can be put through by pestering, regardless
of the will of the people, so can pacifism, socialism, and all other isms.

Defeated Sixteen Times at the Polls

"Woman suffrage has been voted upon nineteen times since 1912. Sixteen
times it has been defeated at the polls. Three times--in Montana,
Nevada and New York--it carried as the direct result of the socialist vote.
This fact has been demonstrated mathematically, and is admitted by the
socialists themselves.

Cannot Win Straight American Election

"The suffragist-socialist political machine is threatening Congressmen
and ordering them to pass this bill, precisely because the radicals are NOT
STRONG ENOUGH to carry woman suffrage at a straight American
election and win by popular vote.
"But if Congress surrenders to these impotent threats, the American
radicals of all races will double their political power--while the conservative
women on the farms and in the homes, who do not want suffrage, cannot
be expected to exercise political power in sufficient numbers to offset the
increased radical vote of the big cities. And thus the Federal amendment
would open a straight road to the Hillquits, Lenines and Trotzkys of
America to Russianize and Prussianize this country."

She Wants Women to Vote

Bismarck, N. Dak., Dec. 14.--A sentence of five years in the penitentiary
at Jefferson City was imposed today by Judge Martin J. Wade, of Des
Moines, on Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, convicted of making utterances in
a speech at Bowman, N. Dak., last summer, tending to discourage obedience
to the military registration.
The sentence followed a long speech by Mrs. O'Hare, in which she
reiterated her opposition to war and defied Judge Wade to do his worst.
Witnesses at her trial testified that Mrs. O'Hare declared in her speech
at Bowman that "Mothers who raised their sons to be cannon fodder were no
better than a farmer's brood sow," and that "young men who are foolish
enough to enlist or volunteer are only good enough for German fertilizer."
Mrs. O'Hare was editor of a socialist paper in St. Louis and later went
on a lecture tour. (Washington Post, Dec. 15.)

Loyal Congressman to be Replaced by Feminine Pacifist
in Socialist District

New York, Dec. 14.--Pacifists, who make up a large percentage of the
voters in the Fourteenth Congressional district, probably the largest anti-war
territory in the city, have set about the task of penalizing their congressman,
F. H. La Guardia, for enlisting in the aviation corps and flying with the
American forces in France.
The paradox of permitting a congressman to fight for his country while
a large number of his own constituents are fighting against the war is one
that will not be countenanced longer, say those who are engineering the
drive against the aviator-legislator. And if they have their way they will
not only unseat him in Congress, but fill his place with a FEMININE
PACIFIST.
The Fourteenth Congressional district, which was the scene of numerous
wild anti-war meetings during the days of the draft, includes much of the
lower East Side. It extends from Fourteenth street, on the north, to Fourth

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street, on the south, and from the East river, on the east, to West street, on
the west.  (Washington Post, Dec. 15.)

Mrs. Catt has decided not to be a candidate for senator to succeed
Senator James W. Wadsworth, Jr., of New York.

Mr. James Callaway, in the Macon Telegraph for December 9, says, 
apropos of the Federal Suffrage Amendment:
"The House is to act on it at once--and submit the Susan B. Anthony
amendment for universal suffrage to the Legislatures of the States. The
time for this political move is unfortunate, for it precipitates an agitation
upon the country, when the Southern States need domestic tranquility.
Rumor says it is all done for the purpose of advancing the political fortunes
of Secretary McAdoo.
Washington is full of engrossing tasks--military, naval, economic, industrial,
transportation--the new Austrian trouble, the gravest responsibilities
the government ever encountered, but the 1000 delegates from suffrage associations
cry out: 'We come first!' And the 'swish of the petticoats,' as
Watterson puts it, has conquered. Suffrage comes first.
The aftermath will be ours in the South for all the coming years."

[*Men*]
THE KAISER'S VICTORY IN
NEW YORK 

On November 6th, 1917, the German Kaiser won a great victory in
New York. Ten Socialists were elected to sit in the New York Legislature, 
and the women of New York City and State were given the vote. Why is
this a victory for the Kaiser? BECAUSE WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND
SOCIALISM ARE PARTS OF THE SAME RADICAL MOVEMENT,
WHICH IS THE KAISER'S STRONGEST ALLY. It has been for
years his effective tool. In the years before the war when the Socialists
held their international conferences in Europe, the German Socialists assured
their comrades of France, Italy and England that there would be no more 
war,-that the working classes by standing together shoulder to shoulder
in opposition to war could prevent it, and that they, the German Socialists,
would refuse to fight. This promise gave the Socialists in other countries
a false feeling of security, and they opposed any measure of preparedness
for war by their own governments, thinking they knew that the expense 
was unnecessary. What was the result, on that fateful day in August,
1914, when Germany began the war? German Socialists followed their 
officers without demur in the invasion of neutral Belgium, leaving ruin and 
desolation in their track, and committing crimes against a peaceful population 
which left the civilized world aghast. The Socialists of other countries 
realized too late that they had been tricked-and that largely owing to 
themselves their governments were unprepared to meet Germany's assault.
Professor Blanchard, the French Exchange Professor at Harvard last
year, is authority for the statement that owing to this unpreparedness the
lives of half a million French soldiers were wasted at the beginning of
the war. Socialism had served the Kaiser well.

The pacifist propaganda carried on subtly in Paris since the outbreak
of the war by the Socialist publication called the "Bonnet Rouge" has been
at last unmasked and shown to be the work of men in the pay of Germany.
Duval, the business manager of this publication, a man of unsavory reputation, 
was stopped and searched last June as he was returned from one 
of his frequent mysterious trips to "neutral" Switzerland, and was found 
to be the bearer of a check of 150,000 francs, of the origin of which he 
could give no satisfactory explanation. Since then proof has multiplied 
against him and his associates. The editor of the "Bonnet Rouge" escaped 
being brought to justice only by committing suicide, and all of his aids are
now under lock and key; but in doing their utmost for three years to
discourage the French soldiers, block military operations, and spread 
treason in the trenches, these French Socialists had already served the 
Kaiser well. Other Socialists are trying to bring about a revolution in
Paris while the soldiers are at the front; and the most disheartening circumstance 
the French army faces today is the danger that it may be deprived
of support by political traitors working behind its back in the interests of
Germany.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN RUSSIA? Socialist propaganda 
widely disseminated at enormous expense by the Germans has brought 
Russia to the verge of ruin, and has added a terrible weight to the burden
which the other allies are carrying. Thousands more of our soldiers must
die because Russia insists on talking peace, at a time when there can be
no peace, instead of doing her part to win the war. In the name of
"Peace" her radicals have piled the streets of Moscow with murdered
men, women, and children. In the name of "Peace" they are slaying the
women soldiers whom they have made their "political equals," undoing the
great work of the bloodless revolution and extending the miseries of the 
war indefinitely. In a critical hour the Russian Socialists accepted as
their leaders men sent by Germany to compass the destruction of their
country, and by doing so they have rendered Germany services of the
greatest value. Like the Socialists in other lands they, too, have served the
Kaiser well.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN ITALY? The awful story of German 
plotting in Italy is of tremendous interest to the United States, where
similar work is being attempted. The Italian armies were overrun
by spies who managed to distribute Socialist pamphlets and fake newspapers,
THEIR PEACE PROPAGANDA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
ITALIAN DEFEAT. Germany worked upon the mere ignorant of the 
Italian soldiers until they believed her assurances that if they would cease
to fire upon their Austrian brothers universal peace would come. Then,
when they ceased to fire, she mowed them down and drove through them
to the plains. Her victory was not a militant victory, it was a propaganda
victory. In achieving this defeat, Socialism had served the Kaiser well.
In Italy woman suffrage is so closely connected with Socialism that the 
Italian suffrage association has no separate existence-it is frankly there what it is in reality everywhere, merely a part of the Socialist movement.

WHAT HAVE THE RADICALS ACCOMPLISHED IN ENG-
LAND? In the years immediatley preceding the war, Radicalism was 
rampant in every department of thought-in politics, literature, the drama,
in philosophy and in the church. Mrs. Pankhurst and her followers were
terrorizing the government and the country. In the introduction to her
biography she tells what they were trying to do. She says: "In order to
show the government that it was expedient to yield to the women's just 
demands, we had to make England and every department of English life
insecure and unsafe. We had to make English law a failure, and the 
courts farce comedy theatres; we had to discredit the government and
parliament in the eyes of the world; we had to spoil English sport, hurt
business, destroy valuable property, demoralize the world of society, shame 
the churches, upset the whole orderly conduct of life." A program worthy
of the Huns!

It is believed by many people in England that the unlimited funds with 
which Mrs. Pankhurst was supplied came partly from Germany. It is well
known that the inability of the British government to control its own
women encouraged Germany to begin the war, in the belief that England 
was too weak to right.

Pacifism, which is always part of the radical movement, had lulled 
the country to sleep, and Lord Roberts toiled for years in vain to bring
England to a realization of its danger from the German menace. When
the enemy finally struck, England's plight was pitiable. Months and months
passed before she could properly train and equip the recruits who rushed
to her defence. No rifles, no uniforms, no ammunition, no anything in
the needed quantities; and in England, as in France, hundreds of thousands 
of boys paid with their lives the penalty of this unpreparedness, the
fruit of pacifist teaching. Truly the radicals in England had served the 
Kaiser well. Lucy Burns and Alice Paul, leaders of the suffrage pickets,
were trained under Mrs. Pankhurst. American suffragists, from Dr. Shaw
and Mrs. Catt to their humblest followers, were almost unanimous in their
praise and admiration of Mrs. Pankhurst, who collected thousands of dollars
in this country to use in her work of destruction.

As military success eludes her, Germany counts more and more on
the spread of pacifism in enemy countries to help her to win the war.
THE PACIFIST MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES HAS
SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE WAR BEEN INSPIRED
BY GERMANY AND FOSTERED BY SUFFRAGISTS. Frau Schwimmer, 
an Austrian Socialist, suffragist and feminist, came to this country at
the beginning of the war to work for peace, at a time when the Kaiser's
army was still victorious, and when peace would have been wholly to his
advantage. She was backed everywhere by the suffragists. She spoke at
suffrage meetings in the East, West and South. She campaigned for the
suffragists in Ohio. She started the Woman's Peace Party, which has
done everything in its power to oppose any measure of preparedness on
the part of our government. She founded the Peace Ship, whose object
was to agitate in Europe for a peace which would have been a German
peace. One of her fellow travelers on this Peace Ship, Herman Bernstein,
a guest of Mr. Henry Ford, has found proof in Russia that FRAU
SCHWIMMER WAS IN LEAGUE WITH THE RUSSIANS AT 
WASHINGTON WHO BETRAYED THEIR COUNTRY TO GERMANY, 
AND WITH COUNT VON BERNSTOFF, WHOSE CRIMES
AGAINST OUR GOVERNMENT ARE THE BLACKEST IN AMBASSADORIAL 
HISTORY!

It was men and women associated with Frau Schwimmer on the Peace
Ship-Louis Lochner of Wisconsin, Prof. Emily Balch of Wellesley College,
and Mrs. Alice Parks of California-who founded the People's Council,
that organization which travelled all over the country last autumn trying to
find a place disloyal enough to harbor it, and whose President has since been
arrested for seditious utterances! In Seattle, on August 16, a joint meeting 
of the People's Council and the I. W. W. was held at which A RESOLUTION 
URGING THE OVERTHROW OF OUR GOVERNMENT WAS
ADOPTED WITHOUT A DISSENTING VOTE, and the claim was
openly made that the People's Council was the definite result of the Ford
Peace Party's work. The seed sown by Frau Schwimmer had borne fruit
abundantly, and she, as well as the suffragists who had given her unlimited
opportunities for her work in this country, had served the Kaiser's cause 
well.

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     Every suffrage leader of prominence in this country-- Jane Addams, 
Mrs. Catt, Dr. Shaw, and many others (many of whom are Socialists), 
opposed preparedness with all their might, and it was this fact which converted 
Mr. Henry Wise Wood, Head of the National Council of Defense, 
from suffrage to anti-suffrage. Jeannette Rankin, who seems to represent the 
suffragists and I. W. W.'s in Congress better than she represents Montana, 
voted both against our entering the war and against conscription. How 
could these ladies possibly have served the Kaiser's cause more effectively? 
Within a week after the New York suffrage victory the so-called "Committee 
of a Thousand Women" met in a school house in New York to demand that 
President Wilson pass the Federal Suffrage amendment. One of the speakers 
declared that as soon as they could get this amendment passed that "free 
women," --that is, voting women, -- would then demand an immediate-- that 
is a, a pro-German-- peace. 
     A convention of East Side New York Socialists met at Forward Hall, 
175 East Broadway, on November 18th, to make plans for the naturalization 
of 125,000 forieng Socialist women! They are preparing them to serve 
the Kaiser by voting against our government in its conduct of the war. 
They are eager to gain for him the peace he wants, which would mean 
THE DEATH OF FREE GOVERNMENT THROUGHOUT THE 
WORLD. EVERYWHERE SUFFRAGE, SOCIALISM AND 
PACIFISM GO HAND IN HAND, AND THE ENORMOUS 
STRENGTHENING OF SOCIALISM IN NEW YORK THROUGH 
THE GRANTING OF THE SUFFRAGE TO WOMEN IS A DANGER 
TO OUR GOVERNMENT TO WHICH FEW PEOPLE ARE AWAKE. 
AS THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS WELL SAID, "PEACE PROPAGANDA 
AND SOCIALISM ARE DOING MORE EFFECTIVE WORK
-- ACTUAL MILITARY WORK-- FOR THE GERMAN ARMIES 
THAN THE CROWN PRINCE, HINDENBURG AND VON BUELOW 
PUT TOGETHER. THROUGHOUT THE WAR SOCIALISM 
HAS WORKED ON THE SIDE OF GERMANY, ALWAYS HELPING 
THE ENEMIES OF DEMOCRACY. IT IS AS A GIFT FROM 
SOCIALISM, FROM PACIFISM, FROM THOSE WHO CONSCIOUSLY 
OR WITH INTENT, SERVED GERMANY, THAT 
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IS FASTENED UPON THIS CITY AND 
STATE." 
     Almost without expectation the men and women who have shown themselves 
disloyal to our country since the beginning of the war are ardent 
advocates of woman suffrage. 
    Our government issued a statement that German propaganda is 
using Socialism as a mask. IT IS ALSO USING WOMAN SUFFRAGE
-- AND IT WOULD BE WELL IF OUR GOVERNMENT COULD 
AWAKE TO THE FACT. 
     LEADERS IN THE NEW YORK SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN 
WORKED HARD TO PERSUADE THE 130,000 NEW YORK SOLDIERS 
TO VOTE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE, ALTHOUGH IT WILL 
ENORMOUSLY STRENGTHEN SOCIALISM AND PACIFISM, 
THEREBY HELPING GERMANY TO WIN THE WAR. THESE 
LADIES, PERHAPS UNWITTINGLY, ARE TRYING TO USE OUR 
ARMY TO BRING DEFEAT TO THE UNITED STATES, JUST AS 
LENINE AND TROTZKY HAVE USED THE RUSSIAN ARMY TO 
BRING DEFEAT TO RUSSIA!
     Mrs. Catt is asking for woman suffrage as a "war measure." She has 
never replied to the question whether it is as a war measure for the benefit 
of Germany or the United States, but the recent elction has told us what 
the Kaiser's faithful followers in New York think about it; for THE 
SUFFRAGE GAIN, THE SOCIALIST GAIN, AND THE NUMBER 
OF GERMAN VOTERS IS SIMILAR IN EVERY BOROUGH OF 
GREATER NEW YORK!
     The following illuminating state has been given out by the National 
Anti-Suffrage Association:
     The suffragists actually polled fewer votes outside of New York City 
than they did in 1915. They were defeated upstate by a majority of 3,864, 
but the pacifist, pro-German Socialist vote cast for Hillquit in New York 
City carried woman suffrage.
     Hillquit ran on a pacifist platform. He opened his campaign by speaking 
IN GERMAN to German-Americans. He insisted that every man 
who voted for him should not only vote, but work for woman suffrage. 
     He polled 142,178 votes. This was a gain of 110,021 votes over the 
LEGITIMATE Socialist vote of 1913 and 1916.
     The PROOF that this was not a legitimate Socialist vote, but a pro-
German, pacifist, anti-American vote, is found in the fact that in three years, 
from 1913 to 1916, the regular Socialist vote of Greater New York did not 
increase one thousand. Russell, the Socialist candidate in 1913, received 
32,057 votes. Benson the Socialist candidate in 1916, received only 31,787 
votes, and the Socialist Labor candidate received only 1,333 votes in New 
York City.
     Hillquit gained this sudden, significant increase of 110,000 votes in a 
city where, according to the United States Census of 1910, there were 
102,513 GERMAN BORN men of voting age, naturalized or with first 
papers. This was in 1910. Since then the number of German born men 
who have rushed to obtain American citizenship is enough to explain the 
entire Hillquit increased vote of 110,000 very significantly.

     As these men, one by one, marked their ballots for Hillquit–and against 
the war–they though the secrecy of the ballot box would shield their submarine 
attempts to stop this war. But the figures expose this trick unmercifully. 
The United States Government has already announced it discovery 
that pro-Germans throughout the country were using SOCIALISM as a 
shield for their propaganda, –here is the proof.
     In Manhattan, there were 40,786 male voters of German birth.
     In Manhattan, there were 37,306 more votes cast for Hillquit than any 
Socialist candidate ever received before. There were 32,446 more votes for 
woman suffrage than in 1915. There were 32,486 fewer votes AGAINST 
woman suffrage in 1915.
     In Brooklyn, there were 34,100 male voters of German birth. In 
Brooklyn, the Socialists gained 36,631 votes, the suffragists gained 35,027 
votes, and the anti-suffragists lost 31,890 votes.
     In the 8th assembly district the anti-suffragists won–where the lowest 
Socialist vote was cast and the smallest Socialist gain was made.
     In the 22nd assembly district, where the largest suffrage vote was cast, 
the Socialists also made their greatest gain and polled their largest vote.
     In the entire city, the Socialists received 107,805 more votes than the 
largest previous Socialist vote in every borough.
     In the entire city, the suffragists received 95,913 more votes, 
and the anti-suffragists 79,538 fewer votes, than in 1915.
     Even in their difference, the figures are significant.
     If, as Mr. Hillquit said, "all these Socialist votes were cast for the
 woman suffrage amendment," the suffrage and Socialist gains would be the 
same–unless the suffragists lost 12,000 votes, and the anti-suffragists gained 
16,000 votes from other causes.
     If, in other words, there were 12,000 or 15,000 men who like Henry A. 
Wise Wood, Admiral Fiske and other anti-suffrage converts, voted for 
suffrage in 1915, but against suffrage in 1917, on account of its association 
with pacifism, its representative in Congress, or the pickets, all the figures 
are most reasonably accounted for.
     If the suffragists could have carried a straight American election, they 
would not have lost Maine by two to one a few weeks ago.
     If they could have won without Hillquit, they would not have lost Ohio
by 137,000 the same day as they carried New York.
     The slogan of both suffragists and Socialists now is "On to Washington" 
to fight for the Federal suffragist amendment. Mrs. Catt will have the 
help of every pro-German, pacifist and Socialist in the country in trying to 
force country-wide woman suffrage by Federal amendment. The socialists 
will then demand a referendum to men and women voters on this war, 
hoping to bring about such division and chaos in this country as they 
have achieved in Russia, thereby making a successful conduct of the war 
impossible. TRULY, THE SUFFRAGISTS WILL HAVE SERVED 
THE KAISER'S CAUSE ADMIRABLY WEILL IN HELPING THE 
SOCIALISTS TO ATTAIN THIS END.
     At a Socialist Mass Meeting held in New York on November 25 to 
celebrate the suffrage victory, the writings of Lenine and Trotzky were on 
sale.
     Assemblyman Shiplacoff, one of the ten Socialists elected on November 
6 to the New York legislature, boldly declared: "OUR PROGRAM IS 
SABOTAGE, WE INTEND TO DO ALL THE DAMAGE POSSIBLE," 
and he exulted in the fact that there would be ten Socialists in 
the legislature to back him in throwing monkey wrenches into the 
machinery."
     In New York, with the aid of the German-Americans, the Socialist 
vote increased 400 per cent. In Chicago, where women vote, the gain, 
according to the New York Call, was 700 per cent.
     A writer in the Boston Herald of December 6, 1917, says: "In some 
coming crisis of the war are WE to go the way of Russia, or Italy, through 
pacifist and pro-German Bolsheviki revolution in our midst? It is no impossibility. 
ONLY THE FOOL will not see the cloud in the sky."
     If woman suffrage and Socialism gain a national victory, it will be a 
bigger triumph for the Kaiser than many battles won, and it will have been 
gained with no loss to HIS army, but at terrific cost to the men whom we 
are sending to France to fight our battle for Democracy.
     Socialists and pacifists will be FIGHTING THE AMERICAN ARMY 
from behind by the same methods that have ruined Russia and brought 
defeat to Italy.
     Shall our soldiers "over there" depend for their arms, food, clothing and 
lives on pacifists and women Congressmen over here?
     IF THE KAISER CAN GET THE PACIFISTS, SOCIALISTS 
AND SUFFRAGISTS TO WEAKEN AMERICA AS RUSSIA AND 
ITALY HAVE BEEN WEAKENED, HE CAN WIN THE WAR. THE 
CAUSE OF AMERICA AND HER ALLIES WILL BE LOST, DEMOCRACY 
WILL PERISH, AND AN AUTOCRAT WILL RULE THE 
WORLD.
     Issued by the Cambridge Anti-Suffrage Association, December 18, 1917.
     Margaret C. Robinson. Chairman of the Press Committee.
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ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES
No. 175

Female Lobby Victorious at Washington
Suffrage Passes by One Vote

Organized and Avowed Female Political Coercion
Triumphant

President Wilson Goes Against His Party Platform and
Grants Demand of the Pickets That He Force Suffrage
Through Congress

Representative Government Wrecked

Secretary McAdoo Boasts That He Has Been Secretly
Working for Suffrage

New York Suffragists Choose Hillquit, Who Denounced
Liberty Loan and Favors a German Peace, as Lecturer
at School for New Women Voters

English Socialists, Forecasting Success to the Woman
Suffrage Bill, Plan to Run 300 Socialist Candidates for
Parliament at the Next General Election

"In persisting in their untimely
struggle, in nagging the President, in demanding 
the vote as a 'reward' of patriotic 
service, in giving more money to
the cause of suffrage than to any war
relief, in diverting women's efforts from
needed war work, in fighting universal
military service when it was crucial, in
trying to keep this country out of war
as long as possible, instead of preparing 
for it day and night, the leaders of
the suffrage cause have been but poor
patriots." (Annie Nathan Meyer.)

On December 4, 1917, the President
said to the congress of the United
States, to the governments of all nations, 
and to the peoples of the world:
"Our present and immediate task is to
win the war, and nothing shall turn us
aside from it until it is accomplished.
Every power and resource we possess,
whether of men, of money, or of materials, 
is being devoted, and will continue
to be devoted, to that purpose until it is
achieved."
Yet he himself has turned aside, Congress 
has turned aside, thousands of
suffragists have turned aside, to devote
time to forcing suffrage on the country,
although it is perfectly clear that the
elements opposed to our winning the war
--the Socialists and Pacifists--will be
greatly strengthened by woman suffrage.

"FROM THE POINT OF VIEW
OF CONSISTENCY AND PRINCIPLE, 
MR. WILSON'S ACT CANNOT 
BE DEFENDED." (New York
Times, Jan. 12.)

Representative Clark, of Florida,
uttering the irritation of the Southern
Democrats at Mr. Wilson's change of
opinion or tactics as to the manner of
securing woman suffrage, told the
House that:
No leader, be he Democrat or Republican, 
has the right to abandon his party
on a matter of such vital importance as
this. No specious reasoning can justify
such a change as the President has
made in his position. (New York Times,
Jan. 12.)

"THE WAR CAN WAIT"
To the Editor of the Herald:
Now that the WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS 
are going to take up the time of
Congress with their issue, why not use
the rest of the session for introducing a


standard system of stenography, compulsory 
Turkish baths, and instructions
in woodcarving, Choctaw and bee-keeping? 
A universal phonetic ortography
could also be the theme of several long
debates. The war can wait.
Robert Grimshaw
(New York Herald, Dec. 8.)

The people of Maine defeated woman
suffrage last September by a 2 to 1 vote.
Nevertheless in face of the threats
of the suffragists every congressman
from Maine voted for the federal suffrage 
amendment. The voters of Maine
are evidently a negligible quantity so far
as their representatives are concerned.
Women without the vote have much
more influence upon them than men with
the vote. The same was shown to be
true in several other states.

Mary G. Kilbreth, acting president of
the New York State of Association Opposed 
to Woman Suffrage, today sent
the following telegram to President Wilson:
"I respectfully convey to you the regret 
of this association that you have
departed from the declaration of the
last national platform of the Democratic
party that the franchise to the women
of the country should be extended by
the states, and have also departed from
your own previous declaration to the
same effect, which constituted one of
the issues of the national campaign."
(Brooklyn Standard-Union, Jan. 10,
1918.)

"The Suffragist," organ of the picketers, 
quotes Secretary McAdoo as saying: 
"I have been a suffragist for
years. I am constantly working for you
in ways of which you know nothing."
Wouldn't it be well for the country if
Secretary McAdoo devoted himself exclusively 
for a while to winning the
war? We venture to predict that effective 
help in gaining victory for the
United States would be of greater help
to him in the next Presidential campaign
than having fastened suffrage-socialism-
pacifism upon the country.

Miss Mary G. Kilbreth, acting president 
of the New York Association Opposed 
to Woman Suffrage, asserted yesterday 
that the national House of Representatives 
had been stampeded by a
phantom "woman's vote" which, she declared, 
the suffragists never had been
able to deliver. Miss Kilbreth expressed 
the opinion that representative


government had been wrecked, and
hoped that the people would not "tamely
submit to the yoke." She said it would
be the task of anti-suffragists to use
their ballots to put men in office who
have not yet lost "all the male instincts
of domination and sovereignty."
"The stupendous political deal involving 
a radical change in government has
finally been put through the House of
Representatives by the phantom female
vote--the 'woman's vote' that suffragists 
have never been able to deliver. Its
opposition could not defeat Mr. Wilson
and its support could not elect Mr.
Hughes. And yet it is still a power."
she said.
"THE FEMALE LOBBY AND
THE FEMALE MACHINE HAVE
HAD AN OVERWHELMING VICTORY--
THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES AND THE HIGHEST 
LEGISLATIVE BODY IN THE
NATION HAVE SUCCUMBED. THE
FORMER HAS GONE AGAINST
HIS PARTY'S NATIONAL PLATFORM 
AND REPUDIATED HIS
OWN UTTERANCES IN THE LAST
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
WHEN THE STAND OF THE CANDIDATES 
ON THIS QUESTION
WAS ONE OF THE ISSUES OF
THE FIGHT.
"REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT 
HAS BEEN WRECKED;
THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVES 
HAVE BEEN ROUTED--
STAMPEDED--BY THE WOMEN
POLITICIANS. A WOMAN AUTOCRACY 
HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Will
the people tamely submit to the yoke?
The French dealt summarily with
women politicians after the French revolution, 
but the French are a virile race.
Are we? Suffragists assure us we are
not, and they are proving their case.
The whole recent suffrage policy, not
only of the radical pickets, but of the
so-called conservative followers of Mrs.
Catt, is based on this belief.
"Mrs. Forbes Robertson-Hale in her
book 'What Women Want' in the chapter 
on 'The New Man' says: 'At present 
in the whole world there are only a
few new men. Their number are increasing 
yearly, but still fall far short
of the new women. Every
male instinct of domination and sovereignty 
has to be bred out of the individual 
before he can attain the status
of the new man and be a fit mate for the
new woman. The new man
has to unlearn these deeprooted habits
and instincts of sex. The important fact
for women to realize is that this nation
is the nation where the new man
is most rapidly developing.'
"Mrs. Hale was right. And Mrs.
Catt was right when she said last winter, 
the female of the species have affrighted 
the great men on the hill, meaning 
congressmen at the Capitol. A congressman 
said plaintively last week that
opposition to the suffrage Federal
amendment meant 'political suicide'--
and this at a time when men are dying
by thousands abroad!
"It will be the task of anti-suffragists
to use their ballots to put men in politics 
who have not yet lost all the male
instincts of domination and sovereignty.
"Politicians may now learn that the
Suffrage Party is the minority of the
female electorate. That it is the minority 
is tacitly acknowledged by suffragists 
themselves in always opposing a referendum 
to women. The anti-suffrage
majority may now use the ballot to uphold 
representative government and restore 
rule by the people, which the whole
world is now demanding. Nothing more
anti-democratic, more opposed to rule by
the people could be devised than the
suffragist policy to take the decision of
this controversy out of the hands of the
people and put it in the control of Congress 
and the State Legislatures.
"As The Woman Voter said editorially: 
'It is easier to deal with 200 men
than 2,000,000. It is easier to bring influence 
to bear on a legislator during the
sensitive months before election than on


a voter who does not face defeat and
can afford to risk our displeasure.'
"But how about the displeasure of the
people? Is Ohio the only state where
the people may not be overridden with
impunity?"
The antis yesterday called attention to
these resolutions, adopted at the Albany
meeting referred to by Miss Kilbreth:
Whereas, We maintain that the proposition 
was carried by default and by
the foreign, pacifist, Socialist vote in
New York City, and that it was New
York City that imposed woman suffrage 
on New York State; and
Whereas, a referendum to women has
frequently been urged in this state in
order that women themselves might decide 
whether or not the ballot be conferred 
upon them, and this has always
been opposed by suffragists; and
Whereas, It is logical that this should
be our first legislative appeal to voters,
and only reasonable that we be afforded
this opportunity; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, the enfranchised
women of New York State who oppose 
woman suffrage, demand a resubmission 
of this measure in order that
now, at last, women themselves may
register their will on this question; and
be it further
Resolved, That we procure the introduction 
in the Legislature of the State
of New York of such a concurrent resolution, 
and that our efforts be directed
to secure favorable action thereon that
the women of the State, as well as the
men of the State, may express their
views at as early a date as possible upon
this important question. (New York
Times, Jan. 12.)

WANTED--HE MEN!
"It is plain enough that the way is
now being cleared for a general shake-up 
that shall replace peace-time bureaucrats 
with 'he-men' who will see to it
that our soldiers are equipped with the
best ordnance that can be obtained."
(Boston Traveler.)

The woman politicians now in control
at Washington are not likely to permit
the introduction of he-men into our government. 
They much prefer "New Men"
whom they can boss.

A correspondent writes:
"It is believed that to Secretary
Baker is due the credit (?) for getting
the suffrage bill through the Ohio legislature 
last winter, in direct opposition to
the known will of the people, thereby
making necessary the expense of another 
state wide election in order that
the people might again express their
overwhelming opposition to Woman Suffrage. 
Secretary Baker, like Dr. Shaw,
Mrs. Catt, Jane Addams and most other
suffrage leaders, was not only strongly
opposed to preparedness, but he is still
an ardent pacifist. No wonder, then,
that although we have been at war nine
months we have not put a single American 
division on the firing line; and
when our first army does face the enemy
it will be largely equipped by our allies.
The suffrage definition of the New
Man is as follows:
'Every male instinct of domination
and sovereignty has to be bred out of
the individual before he can attain the
status of the new man and be a fit
mate for the new woman.
The new man has to unlearn these deep-rooted 
habits and instincts of sex. The
important fact for women to realize is
that this nation is the nation where the
new man is most rapidly developing.'
"Does not our Secretary of War perfectly 
fulfill these requirements? Is he
not indeed a most fitting mate for the
New Woman, now dictating to our government 
at Washington, taking the time
of Congress which should be devoted to
winning the war, preparing to take the
energy of countless women in carrying
on suffrage campaigns in forty-eight
states, and expanding money like water
to do it when every dollar is needed to
win the war?
"Secretary Baker had time to make a
speech at the recent Suffrage Convention
in Washington, on 'Women's War
Work," in which he seems deeply interested. 
Why not make him Secretary of 

Not a paper in
Gr. New York except
The Times published This.

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Woman's War Work, and give to some
one else the job of supplying our soldiers 
with guns, ammunition, blankets,
etc.? We do NOT suggest Lincoln Steffens, 
George Creel, Dudley Field Malone, 
Max Eastman, George Viereck, or
Scott Nearing for the job."

"We are all now being punished, and
the stripes are many and sore. Without
doubt our punishment--for indifference, 
lack of preparation, distraught
condition through the clamorous attitude
of suffragists, pacifists, and Socialists,
and for governmental inefficiency--will
be heavier and heavier to the end."
(Prof. G.T. Ladd, of Yale.)

There is no sign, in short, that Mr.
Baker has had any realization that "our
present and immediate task is to win the
war." or that this task called for "every
power and every resource." On the
stand, in the tenth month after we entered 
the war, he thinks it "relatively
unimportant" that many men at the
cantonments have not rifles, or machine
guns, or artillery to train with. He
shows no conception of the complicated
nature of modern mechanism in war.
He seems to consider it relatively unimportant 
that four months after green
men were sent to camps they still lack a
full equipment and are many of them
marking time while they are waiting for
it. Mr. Baker's notion seems to be that
if he manages to get a rifle, or a machine 
gun, or a piece of artillery into
the hands of our men when they start
for France he has done his duty.
That is the opponent of preparedness
in the fullness of his ignorance of what
modern war means the pacifist incurable
and unashamed. (Chicago Tribune, Jan.
12.)

A DANGEROUS THEORY
Grace Wilbert Trout, the suffrage
leader of Illinois, says: "The vote is
as effective a weapon as the gun to fight
for the government." Would she place
ballots instead of guns in the hands of
our soldiers when they reach the firing
line in France? Perhaps that is what
Secretary Baker is planning to do!

Congressman George H. Tinkham, recently 
returned from the European battlefronts, 
has courage and patriotism
enough to sound this warning to his
countrymen.
"Autocracy in Europe has democracy
by the throat and is strangling it. The
reasons for the success of autocracy are
that autocracy is organized, deals more
in deeds than in rhetoric, and modern
autocracies are masculine and not feminine. 
Democracy to be successful in
this the greatest struggle in arms of all
times must organize better than autocracy, 
drop rhetoric for deeds and become 
masculine."

"IT WAS ONLY LAST AUGUST
THAT THE WOMEN'S PEACE
PARTY WAS SENDING PROPAGANDA 
THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY. IMPORTUNING WOMEN 
TO OPPOSE THE GOVERNMENTS 
WAR PLANS, TO OPPOSE
THE DRAFT. FOOD CONTROL
REGULATIONS. WAR BOND ISSUES 
AND A CONTINUANCE OF
THE WAR." (George MacAdam, in
the New York Times Magazine, Dec.
23.)
At the annual meeting of the Woman's 
Peace Party held in Philiadelphia
on December 6-7, 1917, the New York
City branch of the party, of which Crystal 
Eastman is the chairman, announced
"that it had decided to concentrate,
henceforth, upon political action in support 
of candidates for Congress who
stand upon the party's platform of internationalism, 
and state and local candidates 
who stand upon its platform of
anti-militarism." (The Survey, Dec. 22,
1917.)
ONLY SOCIALIST AND PACIFIST 
CANDIDATES, FOR OFFICE,
THEREFORE, WILL RECEIVE
THE SUPPORT OF THESE NEW
YORK WOMEN, WHO NOW HAVE
THE BALLOT!

The New York Call says:
"Now that the fight for the vote is
over, there is just one question the
Socialist women of New York are asking, 
and that is: 'How can we best win
women to Socialism and to the Socialist
party?
Not that we Socialist women have not
always tried to win women to Socialism,
even while we were trying to make suffragists 
of them. In fact, it was always
this ulterior propaganda of ours that
made the mere suffragists dread and
avoid entangling alliances with us even
more than we did with them, if that were
possible.
But the gaining of the vote has
changed all that. We Socialist women
no longer want and need one specific
thing in common with all women. We
now want and need something in common
with all Socialists and members of the
working class--men as well as women--
namely, Socialism."
The confusion, anarchy and disgrace
which the Bolsheviki have brought upon
Russia are an object lesson of the fruits
of extreme Socialism. The Socialists for
whom the New York Call speaks are the
American Bolsheviki.

CALM DOWN, LADIES!
"Certainly the well-behaved, respectable, 
so-anxious-to-please-the-powers-that-be 
suffragists are learning the truth of
the good old maxims that "you never can
tell," that "the unexpected always happens," 
etc., etc. For which one of them
in her wildest dreams would ever have
thought that when the vote did come to
the women of New York, its coming
would be complicated by the almost incredible 
fact that is was the Socialists
who were responsible for its arrival!
The despised, repudiated, cruelly snubbed
Socialists, whom they tried to keep from
speaking on behalf of suffrage before legislatures, 
whom they didn't want to
march with, or work with, or be seen
having anything to do with, for fear even
the appearance of association with them
would "injure" their cause--these very
Socialists it was who turned and presented 
them with the great treasure they had
at this election practically no hope of
winning. What burning coals of fire!
What dismaying poetic justice! What
delicious and exquisite irony!!
But, also, what an unlooked-for and irritating 
complication, what a distressing
blot on a victory that should have been
undimmed by the sinister shadow of Socialism! 
What an unutterable nuisance
not only to have the dear ladies deprived
of the star parts as conquering heroines,
but to have to stand the accusation on all
sides that they are bound to the reprehensible 
Socialists by more ties than that
of mere suffrage!
Cheer up, ladies, and calm down.
Things are not as bad as they seem. The
Socialists will give you a clean bill of
health and proclaim it from the housetops, 
if you wish. It was through no
fault of yours that the Socialists got the
vote for you and the rest of the women
of New York. You always did your very
best to prevent their public espousal of
the suffrage cause. But the time had
come when they did what they wanted
with you, instead of you trying to do
what you wanted with them. It wasn't
your fault, ladies.--New York Call, Dec.
21.
Mrs. Victor Morawetz, head of the
suffrage school of citizenship at 303 Fifth
avenue, announced through the press that
in spite of many protests, Morris Hillquit 
was to be retained on the staff of
lecturers. The protests were made in
view of Mr. Hillquit's well-known pro-German 
proclivities.
Despite numerous protests from members 
of the New York State Woman Suffrage 
Party, yesterday's session of the
citizenship training school, at which Morris 
Hillquit, Socialist leader, spoke, was
attended by a larger crowd than either of
the two previous meetings. It was held
at the Park Avenue Hotel instead of the
headquarters, No. 303 Fifth avenue, as
at first arranged.
Several who arrived too late to hear
the Socialist leader almost wept when
they learned they had missed his discourse 
on the Socialist organization and
its history. After an hour's talk Mr.
Hillquit answered questions, and it was
then that the women pelted him with
queries as to the patriotism of the party
he represents. When questioned as the
loyalty of the Socialist party Mr. Hillquit, 
who was pronounced by some of the
women present as one of the ablest evaders 
of direct questions, replied that the
Socialists were thoroughly and absolutely
loyal. "But the question is," he continued, 
"what constitutes proper loyalty in
the interests of the whole country?"
Women shook the Socialist leader by
the hand, they clung to him, and one
elderly woman almost threw her arms
around his neck as he left the assembly
room.--New York Tribune, Jan. 10.
Applause lasting for minutes marked
Morris Hillquit's lecture on Socialism
to the 300 women preparing themselves
for the use of the vote under the direction 
of the New York State Woman Suffrage 
Party, at the Park avenue hotel.
This was a larger audience than listened
to any of the previous lectures, according
to the party.
Some may have been inimical to the
teachings of the Socialist doctrine, but,
judging from the remarks made at the
close of the lecture, Hillquit, if not
setting some safely on the road to Socialism, 
at least turned their faces in
that direction. (New York Call, January 
10.)
Ida Husted Harper, press agent for
the National Suffrage Association, writes
as follows to the New York Call:
"We deeply appreciate the splendid
support which the amendment has received 
from The Call. If it could have
been duplicated by other papers, the
amendment would receive a far larger
vote than will be the case. Your woman 
suffrage edition of last Saturday
never has been surpassed in the history
of our movement."

"INSEPARABLE COMPANIONS"
The New York Call, the Socialist organ 
which the United States Government
has excluded from the mails because of
its seditious utterances, in its issue the
day after the New York election said:
"Socialism and suffrage, inseparable
companions in revolutionary political
thought and action, have triumphed in
the election in New York city and state."
That is not the way in which Miss
Blackwell, although herself a Socialist,
would express the significance of the
election; but that is because Miss Blackwell 
is restrained by prudence, and the
New York Call is not. The true meaning
of the suffrage victory in New York
could not be better expressed in a few
words than in a paragraph quoted from
the Call.
Another aspect of the victory won by
these "inseparable companions in revolutionary 
political thought and action" is
indicated in the following statement by
the Call:
"The whole Socialist campaign was
waged squarely on the issue of an early
peace for all warring nations....
Suffrage is regarded by many radicals
as the greatest step toward peace that
could have been made." (The Remonstrance.)
"Let us try never to forget that Socialism 
is for liberalism an ever doubtful 
ally. It has not the passion for liberty, 
it has not the passion for nationality, 
it has no passion, no instinct save
for the struggle against the burgeois
class. It has, at this moment, the instinct 
that, whoever may be the victor,
this war is preparing for it a very great
future. It is impatient for the peace
which will allow it to begin to gather
its harvest, to store away at last the
fruit of so much suffering. It is almost
prepared to neglect, as a fact of secondary 
importance, whether it must do its
harvesting under German guidance or
under some other. Its thought is elsewhere." 
(Daniel Halevy, Paris. From
The New Republic of Jan. 5, 1918.)

Socialist women of New York
State will use all their strength as
campaigners and all their new
power as voters to send a large
Socialist delegation to the next
Congress. Socialists will be instrumental 
in winning nationwide
woman suffrage, as they have been
instrumental in giving the women
of New York equal political rights.
--New York Call, Dec. 12.

Thanks to Socialism, what seemed
impossible a few weeks ago, what has
been impossible for a year and a half,
has come to pass--the Germans have
again assumed the offensive. The
day of their offensives seemed past
forever. It was past, until Socialism
gave it a new birth. Thanks to Socialism, 
democracy in on the defensive as
autocracy is on the offensive; and the
day of democracy's defensive had seemed
past forever.
From the moment when Socialism
rose in Russia the Germans began re-
moving troops from the eastern front,
but at first they did it very sparingly,
and their removals were so slight as
not to affect the relative situation of the
two adversaries in the west. But with
the overthrow of Kerensky and the enthronement 
of the Maximalists, Germany 
felt that she could proceed with
perfect safety. Within the month that
has passed since then she has stripped
the eastern front, and so has Austria.
The two powers have left that front
nothing but a shell. They have been
deluging their western front with reinforcements 
drawn from the east, until
now Germany outnumbers not only all
that England and France have got
against her, but all that they can get.
And the American army is still far off.
That is what Socialism has done.
(New York Times, December 13.)
Max Eastman, revolutionary Socialist,
editor of the suppressed "Masses" and
the originator and first secretary of the
New York Men's League for Woman
Suffrage says on the importance of woman 
suffrage to socialism:
"We have the opinions of hundred in
the States and nations where women vote
to support our expectation that their influence 
will favor rather than retard this
achievement (Socialism).
Mm. Malmberg, the Finnish Socialist
who has graced many suffrage platforms
and marched in various suffrage parades
in this country is now here spreading
German propaganda. She declares that
Belgium made a great mistake not to
let Germany march right through her
borders to attack France.
Her own country, which enjoys the
blessings of Woman Suffrage, is also enjoying 
the blessings of anarchy, with so-called 
"socialist deputies" robbing and
murdering to their hearts' content.
It is a very strange fact, but an observed 
fact, that radical socialism, pacifism, 
the I.W.W. and other agitators,
whose professed aim is to make men 
happier by delivering them from oppression 
are directly serving the ends
of Germany. (New York Times, Dec.
27.)
The Chicago Herald of December 16th
has a full page article headed by pictures
of Mrs. Whitehouse and Mr. Murphy.
labelled "How the Most Beautiful Suffragist 
Won Murphy, the Tammany
Boss, to Votes for Women: It says:
Before the recent election Mrs. Norman 
de R. Whitehouse, president of the
New York State Woman's Party and
chairman of the suffrage campaign committee, 
confronted Charles Francis Murphy, 
boss of Tammany hall, in his sanctum 
and said:
"Wouldn't it be a fine thing if Tammany, 
the big, powerful tiger, would inject 
a little gallantry into its politics
and do the women folk a favor?"
Mr. Murphy looked from his ward
bosses to Mrs. de R. Whitehouse and
back to his ward bosses. He said.
"Boys, I am not going to mix in on
this. I will leave it up to you individually 
in your own wards, but if you want
to know what I personally think I will
tell you that Mrs. Whitehouse is a very
fine woman."
The tiger helped to win suffrage for
women in New York. Now the question
is, "What will the lady do to the tiger?"
Says Mrs. de R. Whitehouse:
"It is safe to say the women will make
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sure New York of a good, wholesome
government and will remove the boss
from his seat at the head of the table
and put him back in the crowd, where he
belongs."
Who does she mean by the boss?"

THEY KNOW THEIR FRIENDS
[From the Springfield Union]
It should be immensely gratifying to
William Randolph Hearst to find himself
lauded in the German press as one who
"in his many newspapers declares frankly
that the United States is fighting England's
battles," and it should be both
flattering and pleasing to Judge Hylan
to learn from the same source that his
election was "a moral box on Mr. Wilson's 
ear." The German newspapers
are very frank in naming the men in
this country they regard as warm friends
of the Kaiser, the list being led by Senator
La Follette and including, besides
Hearst and Hylan, Senators Stone, Hardwick
and Gronna. (Boston Transcript,
Dec. 31.)

GRATITUDE OF WOMEN TO
THE HEART PAPERS
Washington, Jan. 10.
William Randolph Hearst, the New
York American, New York City:
American women should always be
deeply grateful for the militant and constant
support which you and your papers
have given the Federal suffrage amendment.
Dudley Field Malone.
(Chief Counsel of the National Woman
Suffrage Association.)

Washington, Jan. 10.
William Randolph Hearst, the 
New York American, New York City:
The support and sympathy of your
papers have been a strongly contributing
factor in the victory and in our hour
of triumph we remember with gratitude
the help you have given us.
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis,
For the Executive Committee of the
National Woman's Party.

"THE LADY AND THE TIGER"
It was under the above heading that
a correspondent of the New York Evening
Post (suffragist), writing on the 8th
of November, described the suffrage victory
in New York:
"Tammany and female suffrage! A 
glorious pair! May they live long and
prosper together! Though perchance,
one might think that even a suffragist
would blush (if that were possible) in
being wafted to victory in the arms of
Murphy."

"An interesting echo, to 
put it mildly, comes in the
German rejoicing in the
New York election result,
and in Mr. Hearst's part
therein." -Boston Herald, Jan. 2.

Tammany yesterday began its campaign 
to capture the women voters.
The Executive Committee of the democratic
organization named a committee of
eleven of its prominent members "to
ascertain the sentiment among the
women voters as to the best method of
co-operation in party organization and
management." (New York Herald.)

HYLAN MAY NAME
WOMEN TO OFFICE
A delegation of woman suffragists,
headed by Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse,
chairman of the New York state
Woman's suffrage party, today called
upon mayor-elect John F. Hylan at his
headquarters, 50 East Forty-second
street, to urge that he give due recognition
to the newly enfranchised women
of the city in making his appointments.
(New York Mail, Dec. 24.)

Before the first glow dies out of the
Democratic municipal victory and while
woman suffrage is still a novelty, the
Woman's Democratic Club of the City
of New York will hold a victory ball at
Terrace Garden on January 8.
The ball will mark the first get-to-gether
of the men and women aligned 
with Tammany Hall. It is to be a
straight organization gathering. About
[?]000 women are expected to attend,
many of them prominent, but all of them
voters.
Organizers of the ball say that the
affair will be entire political, although
performers from cabarets and two orchestras
will furnish a sideline of entertainment.
(New York Telegraph, Jan. 3)

LOWER STRATA OF WOMEN
HELD MENACE TO POLITICS
Fear that what he called the undesirable
and criminal class of women are
scheming to dominate politics in New
York city was expressed yesterday by
George W. Kessler, secretary of the
Honest Ballot Association, in a lecture
before the Citizenship School of the
State Woman Suffrage Party, at the
Park Avenue Hotel.
"The lower strata of women can and
will be easily organized," said Mr.
Kessler. "I am not so sure that they
have not already been organized. I
know of a political leader who openly
boasted as much a few days ago."
Mr. Kessler declared that the enfranchised
women of the city must be
awakened to their new obligation.
Many women, with whom he had talked,
he said, had told him they did not intend 
to take any part in politics or even to
vote. (New York Herald, Jan. 13.)

Mayor Hylan has accepted
the resignation of all
members of the New York
Woman's Council of National
Defense, and has
placed Mrs. Hearst at its
head with power to fill all
the other positions.
The "Woman Citizen" the organ of the
National Suffrage Association refers
disdainfully to anti-suffragists as "Wadsworthians."
This plan of naming members
of an organization for their leader
is not a bad one. Why not call the followers
of Mrs. Catt the "Felines"?
This would appropriately cover not only
members of the suffrage association but
the female followers of the Tammany 
tiger who are likely to give that organization 
a hold upon New York City
which can never be shaken off.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE
IS A
CURSE TO WOMEN
AND A 
DANGER TO THE STATE
is the wording of an attractive
blue and white stamp heading a
letter received from a California
correspondent. No question as
to this writer's sentiment.

Mrs. Elizabeth Potter, State Congressional
chairman for the Texas Suffrage
Association says in her plea for
the passage of the Federal amendment:
"Texas is one of eight States in which
aliens are permitted to vote immediately
on their declaration of intention to become
citizens. That makes voters of 
40,000 Mexicans and several times that
number of Germans, Austrians and other
foreign-born persons. Aside from the
injustice involved, we women contend
that Texas will not be Americanized at
Dallas or in Congress until its native-born
women are permitted to vote and
offset the votes of its semi-American or
disloyal male voters. We have whole
towns inhabited by Germans and, while
the women remain disenfranchised, these
towns send their own representatives to
the Legislature and to Congress."
Mrs. Potter's idea of remedying this
situation is to enfranchise the wives and
daughters of all the Mexicans, Germans
and the Austrians in her state. A 
stateswoman indeed!

CERTAINLY SOME STATESWOMAN
[From the Louisville Courier-Journal]
Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin, who
opposed the country's going to war for
any purpose, now comes along with a
resolution in the House declaring that
one of the things we should fight for in
this war is the freedom of Ireland. She
fails to explain, however, whether we
should continue fighting with England
until Germany is licked or join forces
now with Germany to lick England. As
a stateswoman Jeanette is certainly
making her mark.

THE CONGRESSWOMAN
From the day she sobbed her inability
to vote for war down to her recent introduction
of a resolution naming Ireland
as one of the countries for whose
freedom we are fighting, she has not lost
an opportunity to demonstrate her utter
unfitness to sit in congress, more particularly
at a time when the loyalty of
its members to the country should be
pure and unquestioned.
Whether her actions have been taken
in guileless innocence or prompted by
the same influences which have made
LaFollette an outcast in his own state,
in either case she has furnished the opponents
of suffrage with a more powerful
argument against the admission of
women to political life than their best
orators could have framed. (Boston
(Mass.) Commercial, Jan. 12.)

MISS RANKIN'S ACCURACY
In an article in the Boston Advertiser
(Hearst) of January 3rd, Miss Rankin
says: "New York, which is considered
a typically American city, has recently
shown not only our country, but the
world what the people of the United
States are thinking with regard to democracy.
The voters of New York have
expressed an overwhelmingly favorable
attitude toward equal suffrage." In the
first place, New York is very far from
a typically American city, and in the
second place, it has NOT shown what
the United States is thinking with regard
to democracy, if by that she means
woman suffrage, since fourteen states
have defeated woman suffrage since
1912. In the third place, New York
State defeated woman suffrage and only
New York City, with its enormous foreign
population, voted for it. Miss Rankin
shows herself hardly a safe guide
even on the subject of woman suffrage.

Miss Rankin is referred to affectionately
by "Solidarity," the official organ
of the I. W. W.'s, as "our representative
in Congress."

THE DOCTRINES OF THE I. W. W. IN PRACTICE
Whatever one may think of the 
Bolsheviki they must at least be given
credit for having presented to the world
during the last few weeks a clear demonstration
of the way in which the doctrines
of the I. W. W., as we have so
often heard them expounded in this
country, are logically applied in actual
practice. The doctrine of international
honor is exemplified by a repudiation of
the national debt. The principle that
the masses of the people have the right
to control the government is first put
into practice by preventing the people's 
representatives from meeting in constituent
assembly and next by intimidating
them at the point of the bayonet. The
oft-repeated assertion that the social
revolution stands for justice, liberty and
fraternity becomes the justification for a
ghastly carnival of massacre and pillage.
A demoralized and broken nation, unable
either to wage war or to make 
peace, unable even to prevent anarchy
and starvation within the confines of its
own capital, a land false to its allies
and despised by its enemies - that is the
situation in which poor Russia finds herself
after a few months of government
according to the tenets of the Berkman-Haywood-Goldman
propaganda.
Surely this sorry spectacle, the hideous
details of which have not yet been
published to the world, should afford a 
timely warning to those social workers,
philanthropists and economic reformers
in this country whose humanitarian
tendencies have sometimes led them to
more than a distinct sympathy with the
professed ideals of an organization
which aims at a social revolution in 
America. Now we know what the
words, "No God, no master," imply.
Translated into cold facts they mean no
national honor, no freedom of speech or 
opinion, no security for any man's life
or possessions, nothing but a reversion
to semi-savagery. (Boston Herald and
Journal, Jan. 22.)
How valuable Russian women must
find their vote!

There is absolutely nothing for women
to work for, to think about, to talk
about, except their own enfranchisement."
(Jeanette Rankin.)

So ardent for suffrage is the Philadelphia 
Public Ledger that it can say:
"The very presence of Miss Rankin on
the floor should be an argument in favor
of the amendment so eloquent as to assure
confirmatory action." Ye gods!

ARE FATHERS REALLY CASUAL?
One hardly knows whether one does
or doesn't mish that Miss Jeannette
Rankin, the lady from Montana, would
explain just what she means by contending
that "the father is only a casual
parent."
There are books that tell about a "matriarchate"
that preceded the "patriarchate" 
in the development of social
relations, and the information contained
in those books may be relevant to the
problem set for us by Miss Rankin. But
then, again, it may not be. One would
not gladly suppose that a lady as advanced
as she would seek to compel the
trying of an experiment that must have
failed when it was tried before, as otherwise
it would not have been abandoned
with world-wide unanimity, as it
was. (New York Times, Dec. 29.)

Who can doubt that the suffragists
will soon have New York women voters
thoroughly trained in high-brow politics?
Out of New York's population of approximately
5,000,000, 150 women attended
the Suffrage School of Women
Citizens on January 8th! At this meeting
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman denounced
domestic work as degrading,
and glorified the stenographer who refused
upon marriage to leave her job to
work in her own home. One indignant
woman demanded: "Don't you think I
am doing a nobler work in the world if
I bring up three children, then if I
punch typewriter keys all day?" "There
we go on babies. I won't start a discussion
on babies or we will be at it all
day." Another of Mrs. Gilman's gems
of thought was this: "The primary mistake
women made was learning how to
cook. Then it was that man discovered
how useful she was to his comfort."
Again: "You have done your duty to
the kitchen and to your family child.
Now you must learn your duty to the
world." Does Mrs. Gilman want "the
family child" relegated to the past and
the "state child" to take its place?

In Germany a system of "secondary
marriages" on a wide scale is being
urged for the express purpose of producing 
the "state child." The offspring
of these polygamous unions, which can
be dissolved as soon as its object has
been attained, is to be handed over to
the care of the state. Does Mrs. Gilman
want this system introduced in this
country? Perhaps Miss Rankin has this
plan in mind when she refers to the 
father as a casual parent! We shall
undoubtedly see many great and surprising
"reforms" when Feminists fill at
least 50 per cent of the seats on Congress,
and when the remaining places
are occupied by "new men" wholly subservient 
to the demands of the female of
the species.

Private letters from Germany state
that the mother of an illegitimate male
child is rewarded by a gift of 100 marks.
If the baby is a girl the mother receives
50 marks. Germany bids fair in 
the next generation to be largely a nation
of bastards, brought up as "state
children."

"A DAUGHTER OF THE MORNING."
This latest book of Zona Gale's may
be accepted as an epitome of the ultimate
aim of feminism. After transcendental
Cosma has educated herself out
of an ignorant country girl into the
equal of the man who gave her the first
impulsion from crudity to intelligence,
has been sought by him in marriage,
and has confessed her love, man and
woman have it out. Cosma protests


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that, having become a suffrage worker 
occupying the honorable post of private 
secretary to her lover, she cannot possibly 
give it up to be just his wife.  "I 
can't exchange this for looking after 
your house and ordering your food, and 
sending off the laundry and keeping 
your clothes mended. Look at all the 
women everywhere. They're all prostitutes 
to housework. Don't let me do 
it." As a climax she amplifies:  "I'm 
not a mother woman. I should love 
children--to have them, to give them 
every free chance to grow. But it would 
be the same with them; their sewing, 
their mending; keeping their ears clean. 
I don't know about it and I shouldn't 
like it."  Cosma is the fine flower of 
feminism, typical of the woman of the 
future, when feminism shall have done 
its perfect work. Miss Gale outlines the 
issue clearly, with a candor and uncompromising 
definiteness that command respect. 
This is whither the feminist 
is tending, suffrage being but a small 
part of the movement designed to emancipate 
woman from the home. 
    It will breed social problems more difficult 
than any encountered yet. If 
women are to compete with men for 
business and employment, and to share 
in their political activities on equal 
terms, the goal set before them by the 
reformers and militants of today, it can 
only be done at the expense of that 
which has hitherto been the special prerogative 
of womankind, the creation 
and preservation of the home. 
    Feminism aims at being the eventual 
annihilator of the home. Cosma is its 
exponent. To the pronounced feminist 
the drudgery of homemaking appears 
irksome and even degrading. A private 
secretary's is an inspiring task, a housekeeper's 
a detested one. Typewriting 
circular letters about suffrage is cosmic, 
but to guide the souls of young children 
aright and see that their bodies are 
strong and clean deadens the finer sensibilities. 
Feminists revile homekeeping 
women as parasites. Prostitutes to 
housework is Miss Gale's name for 
them. But what woman could be more 
of a parasite than she who will accept 
a home only on condition that some 
other woman is hired to do all the work 
in it, who will consent to bear children 
for some one more active and self-sacrificing 
to care for and rear? 
    Home and children are for one another. 
There is no other place really fit 
to bring them up in. And bringing up 
children is the most worth while, exacting, 
world-without-end job that life has 
to offer. A woman's best self must go 
into it. It will absorb any amount of 
energy, tenderness and self-sacrifice, but 
it brings surpassing rewards. And the 
toilsome way, tho it is beset with trials, 
is also rich in satisfaction. They 
are, by the way, the elemental satisfaction, 
which endure because they are the 
most simple, natural, and deeply human 
in the world. In this realm woman is 
supreme. Man provides, but woman is 
the spirit of the home. To make any 
sort of a home is beyond mere man, 
tho any real woman can do it. 
But to make a home with children in it 
a sanctuary in a troubled world, can 
only be done by man and woman together 
in the security of wedlock. 
    But a real woman does not whine because 
she has to keep their ears clean. 
She knows that this, and much more, is 
means to an end, part of her imperative, 
transcendent job. All worth while 
jobs have their details, most imply 
drudgery, nothing at all worth having is 
to be had without a price. Rearing children 
aright costs strength and patience 
and the best years of a lifetime, but not 
having them costs a lonely later life, 
isolated from the companionship and interests 
of younger people, devoid of the 
sweetest solace of advancing years. 
"Take what thou wilt, quoth God, and 
pay for it." 
    Feminism, in the last analysis, is allied 
to anarchism. By this besom of destruction 
property, wedlock, the home, 
all must be swept away. Patriotism, 
too, is doomed. All is part of the same 
impulse of disintegration. It is only fair 
to say that most women who take hold 
of feminism by its suffrage handle do 
not realize in the least whither it tends. 
They are not consciously headed that 
way. Some of the best, most conscientious, 
most patriotic of women, may be 
found in the movement. 
    But it is what it is, and whoever looks 
below the surface discerns plainly 
enough its sinister tendencies. A book 
like Zona Gale's is one manifesto. An 
act like killing a wife because the murderess 
is in love with her husband, and 
justifying the deed out of the mouth of 

a professed feminist like Ellen Key, betrays 
a tendency. These things are revealing. 
Daughters of the Morning 
may scorn a woman's traditional kingdom, 
yet home and mother are words that 
never lose their compelling sweetness, 
and the tender associations of family 
life, not only are the best we have on 
earth, but stand for what we know of 
heaven. (Milwaukee Free Press.) 

    In the late days of the Roman Empire 
woman became "emancipated." Senaca 
says that many of the Roman 
women of his day counted their years 
by the number of husbands they had 
had. This was called "free marriage." 
The so-called wife was absolutely independent.
 Juvenal speaks of one woman 
who had eight husbands in five years. 
This license completely destroyed the 
family, and new-born children were often 
exposed to death. When the Roman 
women became emancipated they lost 
their sense of duty and responsibility. 
They lost their reverence for home and 
the family tie. The lost their sense of 
duty to their children. The result was 
that the Roman Empire, which was 
then the greatest in the world, decayed 
and went to pieces. It fell a prey to the 
inroads of the Northern barbarians. All 
its wealth and all its power ceased to be 
a defense when virtue and honor failed. 

    "THERE ARE IN THE STATE OF 
NEW YORK AT LEAST 400,000 
AND IN THE CITY AT LEAST 
200,000 FOREIGN BORN WOMEN 
WHO HAVE BECOME CITIZENS 
BY VIRTUE OF THEIR HUSBAND'S 
CITIZENSHIP, OR HIS 
NATURALIZATION, WITHOUT 
HAVING TO PRESENT ANY QUALIFICATIONS 
OF THEIR OWN. 
    "In order to become a citizen an immigrant 
man has to meet five tests. He 
must speak English, he must be of good 
character, he must have lived here for 
five years, he must show that he is 'attached 
to the principles of the constitution,' 
and he must take the oath of 
allegiance. But his wife automatically 
becomes a citizen when he does, without 
meeting any of these requirements, except 
that in New York State our suffrage 
amendment provides that a 
woman must have lived in this country 
for five years in order to vote. 
    "THESE IMMIGRANT WOMEN, 
AUTOMATICALLY MADE CITIZENS, 
ARE NOW QUALIFIED TO 
GO TO THE POLLS AND VOTE 
UPON CANDIDATES AND MEASURES 
VITAL TO EVERY AMERICAN." 
(New York Herald, Dec. 23.) 

    Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse accepts 
the credit for having secured the 
enfanchisement of New York women. In 
what spirit does she accept the huge 
responsibility for adding millions to the 
expense of elections in war time, and of 
placing the vote in the hands of hundreds 
of thousands of ignorant alien 
women at the most critical time in our 
country's history? "I have received 
since election thousands of letters," she 
says, "asking what we are going to do 
about the great responsibility which we 
have thrust upon the state. Nothing irritates 
me so much as this assumption 
that the whole fate of all democracy 
rests upon us." 

    Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse, president 
New York State Suffrage 
Party, says: "Many of us have left our 
children at home in the care of their 
fathers, and we don't have to hide 
that."--Speech at the Suffrage Banquet in 
Her Honor, November 21, 1917. 
    (This statement, says the New York 
World, "was greeted with applause and 
laughter.") 

    Our latest pacifist undertaking, i.e., 
sending Mrs. Whitehouse, the New 
York suffragist, to Switzerland to commune 
with the German suffragists and 
Socialists whom it is hoped may be enticed 
to Switzerland to hear her, has 
started under the must promising (?) 
circumstances. Heralded in the press 
one day with the blare of brass trumpets 
as THE PRESIDENT'S PLAN FOR 
CARRYING GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA 
TO GERMAN WOMEN. It 
was corrected the following day, and 
Mrs. Whitehouse's position was reduced 

from that of EMISSARY OF THE 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 
STATES to that of assistant in a little 
pacifist scheme of george creel's ! Mrs. 
Whitehouse's qualifications for this 
work are, 1st: That she held the position 
of head of the New York Suffrage 
Association when Morris Hillquit and 
his followers won suffrage for the 
women of New York. 2nd: That she 
has been associated with the Women's 
Peace Party. 3rd: That she attended 
Socialist meetings every day during the 
two months she spent in Berlin in 1914! 
There can be no question that she has 
EVERY qualification which Mr. Creel 
would consider necessary. Will he himself 
attend to her press notices in Switzerland, 
and will she be heralded there 
as here as President Wilson's representative? 
    When Mr. Creel was appointed 
Chairman of the National Board of Censors 
the Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 
of April 17, 1917, paid him this 
touching tribute: "His singular fame 
came to him as a pacifist. This is related 
for the the benefit of strangers. Home 
folks with ordinary memories know all 
about it. Mr. Creel (who was Police 
Commissioner of Denver) accepted public 
office as a trust for humanity. It 
grieved him to see the policemen going 
about armed; the sight of a 'billy' tore 
his soft heart in twain. He would not 
have it so. He would teach a great lesson 
in kindness. 'Disarm the policemen' 
was his first order. Not necessary 
to relate the Creel order created consternation. 
The Chief of Police rebelled; 
the mayor sidestepped; Mr. Creel's fellow 
commissioners balked; patrolmen 
served notice of a strike. The Public 
laughed. The laughter hurt Mr. Creel. 
He resigned and dusted the dust of Denver 
from his coat tails. Was not Mr. 
Creel's Denver act a true sacrifice upon 
the altar of pacifism?" 
    Who can doubt that Mrs. Whitehouse 
will make the German Socialists complete 
converts to Mr. Creel's propaganda 
and that they in turn will carry 
the convincing message to their Kaiser 
and his Junkers? The German army 
will at once be disarmed, and Berlin, 
unlike Denver, will make moral suasion 
the only weapon of its police. But 
wouldn't it be horrid if Germany should 
only laugh at Mrs. Whitehouse's undertaking, 
for that would hurt Mr. Creel's 
feelings? 

    Miss Minnie Bronson, General Secretary 
of the National Anti-Suffrage Association, 
said at the recent Congressional 
hearing: 
    "The Anti-Suffrage Association made 
a proposition at the outset of the war 
to the Suffrage organizations for hostilities 
to cease during the pendency of 
the war," she added. "They have kept 
on and will keep on more vigorously if 
the amendment is submitted. That will 
start trouble in forty-eight states. 
Picketing will start before the Legislatures 
of those States until thirty-six 
states have renounced their principles. 
It will be a national approval of picketing, 
nagging and annoying." 

    This is the first fruits of suffrage to 
women. Coercion, intimidation, intolerance 
is to be their method of uplift in 
politics. 

    "Modern radicalism has failed because 
its basic principle is one with that of 
Prussianism--if you want a thing it is 
right to take it. This is the novel analysis 
of misguided agitators who warp and 
destroy their own purposes in evilly 
directed campaigns to obtain them, made 
by Mary Austin in an article in the 
November number of "The World 
Court," the organ of the World Court 
League. Miss Austin finds in the present 
mixup in Russia a fruition of the 
best that the modern radicals can accomplish. 
   The radical, Miss Austin says, prates 
of kindness and justice, but when he 
starts to attain such ideals does not 
hesitate to resort to violence and destruction. 
    That is what I mean by saying that 
the weakness of radicalism is the weakness 
of Prussianism--the weakness of 
believing a thing morally right, provided 
you want it badly enough. Internationalism, 
a million dollars, another 
man's wife or a place in the sun---only 
convince yourself that the world would 
be better for your having it and the 
trick is done." 
    Why does she leave out woman suffrage? 

AN ERROR CORRECTED 
    The statement in Anti-S.uffrage Notes 
174 that Mrs. William Thaw, of Pittsburg, 
had contributed largely to the fund 
raised by the suffragists at Washington 
was an error and did Mrs. Thaw, who 
is not a suffragist, an injustice which 
we sincerely regret. It was Mrs. William 
Thaw, Jr., who made this large 
contribution to the suffrage treasury.

    Assemblyman Shiplacoff, (Socialist) 
begins to fulfill his promise to "throw 
monkey wrenches into the machinery" 
by introducing into the New York legislature 
a bill for the repeal of war measures. 

    Carnegie Hall was the scene of a 
Bolshevik demonstration last night when 
Dudley F. Malone as the orator at the 
last stand of the White House pickets, 
quoting an English journalist as authority, 
called upon the nations to witness 
that the leaders of the Bolshevik Government 
had done more than all other 
leaders combined to put into the hearts 
of the German people the desire for democracy. 
    At the word Bolshevik sympathizers 
in the house rose in every quarter and 
yelled themselves hoarse. Led by Rose 
Winslow and Elizabeth Freeman, about 
ten of the ninety-seven pickets on the 
platform rose also, and it was minutes 
before Malone could continue. 
    Mr. Malone, in his acknowledgments 
to the National Woman's Party and its 
leader, Alice Paul, for the present 
status of the Federal Suffrage Amendment
--all because of the picketing and 
the jailing of the pickets--did not forget 
other leaders. He asked that New 
York remember the woman who had 
given hundred of thousands and years of 
work to the cause---Mrs. O.H.P Belmont. 
He likewise praised the Administration 
for the selection of Mrs. Norman 
de R. Whitehouse "for a mission 
abroad in which many men have failed." 
(New York World, Jan. 5.)

To the Editor, 
    England, like America is supposed to 
be fighting this war for democracy--for 
the rights of the people to govern themselves 
as opposed to the autocratic 
power of their rulers. And yet the 
English parliament without permitting 
any part of the electorate to vote on the 
question, is forcing woman suffrage on 
the country in war time, and placing the 
ballot in the hands of 6,000,000 women, 
the majority of whom undoubtedly have 
never favored it! The results of this 
action are taking shape, even before the 
third reading of the bill in the House 
of Lords; the Socialists, well knowing 
that they can count upon a huge increase 
of power through the votes of 
their women, are already arranging to 
run 300 candidates for Parliament at 
the next General Election! The well-
known Englishman, John Massie, is 
authority for this statement. It 
is of interest that business men in 
this country are at last beginning to 
wake up to the menace of woman suffrage. 
The railroad presidents in council 
in New York apprehensive of 
"changes in the government due to war, 
the growth of woman suffrage and socialism" [*a misquotation*]
ask for some guarantee that their 
properties will ultimately be returned 
to them! It is unfortunate that business 
men did not realize earlier the danger 
in the female political machine by 
which a system of organized and avowed 
political coercion is making representative 
government a farce and which will 
be instrumental in bringing close on the 
heels of woman suffrage, a tremendous 
strengthening of Socialism which stands 
for pacifism and for a German Peace. 
    Mrs. Thomas Allen. 

    The thought of the British Empire 
governed by women is a disquieting one 
to England's friends, but will rejoice the 
Kaiser. To have the United States controlled 
by women who are socialists and 
pacifists will be another piece of good 
luck for him. 

Issued by the Cambridge Anti-Suffrage 
    Association, January 21, 1918. 
Margaret C. Robinson, Chairman of the 
    Press Committee. 
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