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THE WASHINGTON HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1915.
HECTOR PUBLIC
MM VOTE
Women CaU Wilson "Little
Evader" Because They
Can't See Him.
HURT THEIR OWN CAUSE
Mrs. Heron Asks if "Mothers' Day
Will Be Celebrated in Reverence
if They Succeed.
By MRS. JOHX B. HERON".
Vice President National Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
Dozens of newspapers have recently
condemned the action of two suffrag
ists who Insisted upon an interview
with President Wilson in New York,
and insultingly called him a "little
evader" because he refused to meet
them.
The reported declaration of Mrs. O.
H. P. Belmont, a suffrage leader, that
no ruler, not even the Sultan, is
guarded so closely as the President,
supplementing the announced deter
mination of these suffragists, to "fol
low the President in a tug to the
Mayflower" is deeply significant of the
manner in which these vote-seeking
women regard the highest official of
our government at one of the most
critical periods of our country
Snn"rnKit Hart Their Cnnnr.
Every one believes that these women
have hurt their cause 1 this act.
Even papers in favor of suffrage for
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women have pointed this out but
what these men and women refuse to
see is that this Incident is not iso
lated, that it represents but the cul
mination of a Ions series of insults,
disrespect and contempt for legally
constituted authority that has been
an integral part of the woman suf
frage agitation since Its very Incep
tion. Antlsuffragists have only recently
quoted passages from the very first
pages of the official History of Wom
an Suffrage, edited by Susan B. An
thony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in
which the most "up-to-date" femi
nists are distanced in expressions
against the home, motherhood and
Christian ideals; but the sincere and
mistaken believers in the vote for
women cannot admit that rebellion is
a cardinal plank in the suffrage plat
form. "
In England, militancy did not develop
'n a day. Thousands of apologists for
minor offenses defended the suffrage agi
tators until they felt themselves strong
enough in public opinion to disregard all
authority. The same thing is happening
In the United States. When several Phil
adelphia women visited the White House
and were denied an interview with the
President recently, many editors con
doned their action, and criticised Mr.
Wilson for not seeing them.
Foriret Wflnon'n Interview.
These papers forgot that women rep
resenting this same organization of suf
fragists had interviewed the President
nine times in the last year on this sub
ject, and that his position had been made
perfectly clear to them: that on the last
occasion he had been "cross-examined."
aceordinq: to his own words. Neither did
many of these apologists remember that
on a previous interview the women had
"turned up their noses and refused to
shake hands with the President."
Also, it was too far in the past to re
member that when a former President
addressed the suffragists at their request
tire" years ago. he was hissed the first
time anything of the kind had happened
to the piesident of the United States.
These two women are not altogether
to blame Their organization is partly
responsible and public opinion and the
apologists who so easily forget their
past misdeeds are also responsible.
Any one who has ever heard the presi
dent of the National Suffrage Association
well rememters her pride in an ancestor
who persistently refused to pay taxes;
those who remember her own defiance
01 ine lax collector a ear ago; mat sne
and her executive committee and not
the Congressional Unionists personally
defended the "blacklisting" of Senators
and Congressmen last fall, cannot be told
that this is an isolated instance.
When, last May. the mavor of New
York City was derisively called a "poor
boy." it was a suffrasrvt leader that ap
plied the term. When, last November.
the mayor of Philadelphia waa Insulted
In his chambers and called upon to re
sign It was a president of a suffrage as
sociation who made the demand. When,
on April 3. the mayoralty candidate in
the Chicago election was hooted down
a public opera house woman suffragists
were the ringleaders In the agitation.
That woman suffrage means letting
down the bars of restraint to a class of
women who are In potential rebellion
against our entire system few men can
believe. When suffragists, for instance,
hurl packages ot "literature" Into the
faces of the "antis." tear down American
flags and destroy property at county
fairs, etc.. the men excuse It It seems
a far cry from that .to militancy. When
the most violent attacks are made on
our laws, our women called "slaves," and
our men called "oppressors" all is con
donedbecause it is for a "cause" head
ed by women.
The first time the suffragists heckle the
President, they are excused and he is
mildly crlticlzed-and then, when the tenth
times comes, at a time when grave In
ternational problems have suddenly In
spired a new respect for his position,
these apologists condemn the individual
and the incident, but attempt to convince
themselves that "votes for women" Is
something better and more dignified
than its representatives. The gentleman
who told the suffragists several months
ago that "the antis ought to be burned
alive." and that they "couldn't BV too
aggressive to suit him" was an encour
ager of militancy.
Petted Violent Women.
The papers which petted the Philadel
phia suffragists who visited the White
House week before last, encouraged the
New York suffragists who raised all the
hub-hub last week and yet some of these
same papers condoned the one offense
and criticized the other, without per
ceiving a connection.
Some men seem to have lost their
logical senses on this question, and seem
to think that you can incite women to
seek more license, and be more disre
spectful to everything under the sun, and
yet retain the old-time womanliness and
courtesy of their grandmothers. In Chi
cago, where it is impossible to convict
a woman of murder, the seventeenth
woman charged with this crime was
found with a smoking revolver In. one
hand and a newspaper clipping in the
other, announcing that "no Jury will
hang a woman." It is safe to say that
not one of the men who allowed the six
teenth woman to go free thought that
he was encouraging another crime of the
same nature thereby.
That is the position of many women
and men who believe you can, plunge all
our women into politics and still keep
them as they are. Suffrage for women
has been tried out for one or two genera
tions in scarcely settled Western States,
and we have the testimony of two suf
frage pioneers of Colorado only last week
that it has proved a failure. But the pity.
of It Is that most of these atones also
reveal the presence of characteristics of
selfishness, sordldneas, and even corrup
tion that we do not like to associate with
lo-f the actions of American womanhood.
Do you believe that our country coma
succeed under any system that lowered
the status of Its womanhood? Do you
think that "Mothers' Day" would be the
same if the women our children should
then honor are to be pointed out Indi
vidually as "Chicago's woman boss," "a
henchwoman of Hinky Dink," or "the
woman who made He double-cross fa
mous?" And yet every week this ballot
agitation is encouraging more women to
do things which the children of tomorrow
cannot respect, or associate with the
ideal of "mother."
EMPEROR DID NOT PAY
BOATMAN FOR JOURNEY
Sixty-six Years Later Francis Joseph
Is Reminded of Debt and Sends
$40 for Trip.
Spreu! Cable t- The TVa-Jiingtoo Hrrtid.
Rome. May 22. Sixty-six years ago
Antonia Bolgaro. a boatman, rowed
three German tourists across Lake Mag
giore to Leveno. At the end of the trip
the mayor of Laveno met them with
much ceremony and in the shuffle the
three forgot to pay the ferryman their
S cents each.
Antonio complained to the mayor, who
offered to pay him, but when the boat
man was informed In a whisper that his
passengers were the Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria and two aids travel
ing incognito, he refused.
Throughout his life, therefore. Antonio
has been known as the Emperor's boat
man. He recently celebrated his hun
dredth birthday. In honor of the occa
sion ha had his photograph reproduced on
a postcard to send to his friends. He
also dispatched one to Francis Joseph,
with a few words recalling the ferry
trip.
Despite his war preoccupation, the
Emperor sent a money order for J40 to
the long unpaid boatman, who Is said to
have quoted, as he signed the receipt:
"Poor man. No greater grief than to
remember days of Joy, when misery Is
at hand."
Chinese Delegation to London.
London. May 22. According to tele
rranhlc information which has been re
ceived in official quarters In London
from Pekin. a special mission is being
dispatched to London by the Chinese
(.ni.Fnmpnt tn rifsrus varlntut nnrf
of Ihe situation with respect to Japan.
The mission win travel via I'etrograd.
BRITISH DESIRE
WAR PUBLICITY
?
People Are Angry Because
Officials Treat Them Like
Mere Children.
BELGIANS ARE STARVING
Bishop of London Pleads for Patience
and Fortitude on Public's Part
Until War Ends.
Special CVble to The Wiaston Herald.
London. May 22. Once more there Is a
strong wave of indignation not only In
the press, but among practically all In
telligent people here against the absurdi
ties of the censorship, which keeps the
nation In constant Ignorance of what is
happening In the war.
Time and again It has been said that
whenever we get any information of
value In regard to what is happening to
the English army In Flanders we get it
from the French official communiques or
the French papers. The English people
object to being treated like children.
Report Are Doctored.
Nobody here yet knows exactly what
happened at Neuve Chapelle, which
might have been an important victory
and hae relieved the city of Lille of
the presence of German troops If some
body had not blundered. But who?
Even Sir John French's reports are
carefully doctored and edited hefore they
are published, and as everybody knows
this they are of no value, because peo
ple here always have the impression that
something may have been covered up.
But nobody knows how to force the
government to take the people Into Its
confidence, as thu French government
has consistently done ever since the be
ginning of the war. with the gratifying
results that the people of France have
Implicit trust in their government, while
the English are under the impression
that official red herrings are continually
being dragged across the trail.
In spite of the splendid generosity of
America, there Is no doubt' that thou
sands of Belgians who have preferred
to stay at home in their devastated
country are now practically starMng
because the German army of occupa
tion refuses to feed them.
The chiefs of the neutral commission
which la distributing America's gifts of
food declare that unless more help is
speedily forthcoming the number of
people who are actually starving will
very soon run Into many hundred
thousands.
At least 1.500,000 Belgians are now
destitute, and with the rapid exhaus
tion of meat and vegetable supplies
there probably will be before harvest
time 2,500,000 pAple In Belgium who
must be fed and clsthed solely by char.
Ity, while the remainder of the popu
lation, some 4.500.000, will get their
pitiful dally allowance of bread from
the neutral commission and pay for it.
"In Liege alone, at the present mo
ment, 30,000 women, old men. and chil
dren are dally lining up to get their
half-pound of bread and their pint of
soup," the report of the commission
says. In MalfTfcs 23,000 out of 40,000
are entirely destitute, and In Brussels
nearly 250.000 Belgians wait every day
for their bread of tears, while the ba
bies are barely being kept alive for
want of milk."
Emphasises Patience.
Preaching In a West End church the
other day the Bishop of London strongly
emphasized the necessity for patience
and fortitude during the war.
"It Is no use pretending." he said, "that
everything is going so very smoothly to
day. We have had enough of facile op
timism. We want facts. We are up
against the biggest thing we have ever
faced In the history of the nation. That
great, long battle line Is where It was in
October. There Is a standstill In the Car
pathian Mountains: we do not know what
Is happening In the Dardanelles. What
the nation needs is fortitude; what the
sergeant at the front calls "stick it.'
"When I was preaching on something
of this kind at general headquarters, a
sergeant wrote home and said: "I was
getting fed up with the war. but the
bishop has been here, and he .has told us
to stick It. so I am going to stick It.'
"We will never give up this contest for
the freedom of the world the Christian
principles of the world the freedom of
our nation and national honor. We must
never give up. We must have fortitude
to bear more casualty lists, day after
day. to bear more anxieties, more ships
gone down, more people dead or wounded
In the great cause and go on.
"Take the men in the trenches. What
lo you suppose my own brigade has done
since October? They have never had a
battle and never yet been attacked. All
those five months through the long win
ter those brilliant barristers who never
thought they were going to be soldiers
at all, but have offered their lives for
their country, men who were making
their thousand pounds a year in Lon
don, day after day stick It for their
country's sake forty-six killed, seventy
wounded, 215 Invalided home they have
stuck It right enough and shown fortitude."
NOTES OF THE SCHOOLS
An "immediate relief" association is
being organized among; school people
for the purpose of making a fund
available Immediately to the family of
a deceased employe. It Is set forth
that marriage will not affect member
ship.
Myles Connor, editor-in-chief of
Tech Life, has been awarded the Har
vard Alumni scholarship.
The last issue of Balance Sheet came
out Friday. It contains dignified edi
torials, bright stories, clever carica
turingthe work of Vernon Snow
nd a 'call down on high school
frats."
Central High School will hold its
annual luncheon June 3. The alumni
excursion is scheduled for June 10.
Powell-Johnson Parent Teacher As
sociation wants a summer school and
playground at 'the Powell School. It
is planned to have a summer coach
ing school and open the manual
training shops and domestic science
rooms for summer work.
'
Miss Annie E. Loomls will act as.
hostess at the meeting of the English
Teachers' Journal Club at Wilson Nor
mal School next Thursday afternoon.
Miss S. E. Simons will give a resume
of the work of the club.
Three of the best stories offered by
students in the short story class at
Central will be published In the next
issue of "The Review." "Finance on
Pennsylvania Avenue," by Leigh Hunt
won flrst honors; "The Lane That
Turned." by Phillis Brown, second
honors, and "The Silent Household,"
by Lulu Holhy, third.
Parent League will hold" Its final
meeting at Wilson Normal School
Tuesday afternoon for the election of
officers, musical, literary program and
social hour.
The Sandalwood Box and Scenes
from the "Merchant of Venice" will
be presented by the Hubbard School
at Wilson Normal Friday night.
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Censor Passes Marseillaise.
Paris, May 22. A concert was recent
ly given here for charity. The pro
gram was duly submitted to the cen
sor, who returned it with the notice
that there was one item of which the,
text had not been submitted to him.
This proved to be the Marseillaise.
The words of the Marseillaise were at
once, of course, sent up to the censor,
and. after having been presumably
read with care, were solemnly passed.
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