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A MAGAZINE OF NEIGHBORLINESS
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VOLUME II
NUMBER 24
APRIL 4, 1914
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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THE ECONOMIC ASPECT OF WOMAN SUFFRAGEr~
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BY JOHN COWPER Powys
T was a little dangerous to introp.uce_
my lecture by that particular ~u.~e
["That March of the Men of Harlecn ].
It has . an exciting effect upo~ t~e
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Celtic mm d • I think the racial question is
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so interesting, and lies behm_ ~o many ?
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our o-reatest problems. If this is an exc~t"
ing hour n:
the
City
or
Boston in regard
to
my
subject.
You
know it is a
yet more exciting hour in
my own country .
(Applause.)
No
one
coming
from Britain,
no one with
Celtic
blood,
can feel calm
tonight of all
nights in the
world. In regard to this subject, as in regard .to all.
race counts for much.- more than either politicians or sociologists have allowed. As I
look through an audience as inspiring as·
this one, I am very curiously aware of so interesting differences of race among youSlavonic, Gtcrman, Hebrew, Latin. I believe,
lllYself, that a great deal of the temperalllental sympathy and temperamental antagonism that I and I suppose many other
IJ>eakers Reem fated to produce come from
bee. I have a shrewd suspicion that a cerll.ln strain of blood, which for obvious realOns I shall not name, when it exists in an
abundant degree, is almost driven out of its
let111Es by my arguments. If any such are
'-ere, I hope they will leave quietly, and
~ !,lr Plac-?s will be taken by those of a very
"Ulleren t race.
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and stir up the deepest waters we can get
our hands and mi:;;siles into.
At the present hour I consider the mos;;
important role a man can play fs the r ole
of asking embarrassing questions. I shout ...
like to have on my tombstone : ' 'He asked
uncomfortable questions:• It would prove
that I was what I aspired to be. The men
who ask such questions are agitators. and
agitators may be unscrupulous men of action ·or visionary dreamers. but they must
be antinomian skeptics. The worJ.d of intellect, heroism and love would come to an
end without agitation. We must have it.
psychologieal, ptysiological. and, above all,
spiritual. You will say: "But these people
do nothing but excite others. They are no;
very brave themselves. they are extremely
lazy, and they find it easier to talk than t o
earn their own living in a respectable way:•
My· friends. there are other things in the
world besides respectable citizens, and no
race of human beings earn their living to
more admirable effect from the point of
view of angels and devils and gods. of our
children's children's ctildren, than agitat ors. ( Applause.)
God knows I draw back-I dare not say
all that I think. How many speakers. lecturers. and ethical leaders dare do that?
But sometimes. when there is a sort of electricity abroad, as there seems to be in this
hour, strange things are said. In those moments. when you drive an agitator into a
corner. and you may hope for a rippling of
the waters-and that is what we want.
i,Ve want unscrupulous men of action.
There are plenty of people to talk and
write, but the people who have achieved
and changed things have nearly always been
men of action, and have cried out, as did
Oliver Cromwell, ''Take away that bauble! "
We want visionary dreamers.
They are
men without fear, and fear is the enemy
without which the world would reorganize
itself tomorrow. And we want absoll,tely
rolrl-hloodPri skP.ntics. whn anal v zP a nrl An-
moon. Aud wl,en they come to deal with
our theories and categorical rmperatives
they grow so weary that. even irony runs in
an exhausted stream. You know that iook,
my masculine friends , with which your
opinions are received when you announce
them in a peculiar tone! (Laughter.)
It is to the irony of women that I appeal.
The leaders of the suffrage movement are
not lacking- in humor, but it does not always
appeal to their opponents. It is the humor
of martyrs, the wit of courage. It is because they understand the secret of life.
that life refuses to be put in any category.
·They understand growth. that evolution is
organic, that it is perpetual change, and
that we men, with our ideas of objective
truth, are simply shutting ourselves 1,l,P m
laboratories and m1:king squares_ and c~les
on blackboards; We are changmg, anc.'6we
are part of the change. The thing analyzing and the thing analyzed are one. The
great flux goes on, and we in. the midst of it
analyze what is about us and what we ourselves are fated to be.
Women, by being near the flow of life, by
being the true creators, through the magic
of the life force. of the world that is to be.
understand certain things better than men
do. And they understand, though they are /
too wise to put it into words (and l take a
fiendish dE-ligh t in betraying them here)
that in no sphere are there any absolutely
fixed or eternal principles. I know the pain
this is to many persons hearing me. · But
there are relative truths only. We come •
here to a very crucial and dangerous
ning. Still it is necessary to begin at the
bottom even of a quicksand. Surely every
one of you men has noticed and wondered
· at the extraordinary lack of moral sense in
the woman nearest to you. Women in this
respect are right. The strange, unscrupulousness we note in the best women is tlleir
wisdom and clairvoyance.
How does this bear on the economic aspect of wo man suffrage ? vVell. there are
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No
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no one with
Celtic
blood,
can feel calm
tonight of all
nights in the
world. In reto this subject, as in regard .to all,
cou"nts for much. more than either poli1 or sociologists have all<:>we~ .. As I
through an audience as msp1rmg _asone; I am very curiously aware of so m1.g C:ifferences of race ~mong Y?Uc, German, Hebrew, Latin. I believe,
that a great deal of the temperasympathy and temperamental antag···that I and I suppose many other
ers seem fated to produce come from
I have a shrewd suspicion that a cerstrain of blood, which for obvious real shall not name, when it exists in an
Ult degree, is almost driven out of its
··1:iy my arguments. If any such are
r hope they will leave quietly, and
p1aces will be iaken by those of a very
:erent race.
going to begin with the ec,;momic
of the woman question. I am so
-us ~to say at the very start that it is
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--in this matter to bring everybody
therefore I am going to make an attempt
express my racial feeling, and bring in
the gentlemen to whom I have just
:e reference. In order to do this, a ceramount of diplomacy is necessarya certain amount of MacchiaevellianHaving said that, I am anxious to ap'my subject in the following manner:
·are three kinds of people essential
• world-unscrupulous men of action,
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lI'Y d.reamers, and antinomian skepJt You try to conceive the world withthese three, you will understand how
·we should be lost. Of course. my
B the enemies are saying, under their
th: "Yes, your three,-unscrupnlous
~f action, in other words. criminals:
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mary dreamers, in other words, mad; antinomian skeptics, in other words,
1:fnkers and free-laughers." A happy
or beginning to a lecture upon the
Woman question!
But in ·all these
it is necessary to go to th·e bottom
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do nothing but excite others. They are no.
very brave themselves. they are extremely
lazy, and they find it easier to talk than to.
earn their own living in a respectable way:•
My friends, there are other things in the
world besides respectable citizens, and no
race of human beings earn their living to
more admirable effect from the point of
view of angels and devils and gods. of our
children's children's ct.ildren, than agitat ors. ( Applause.)
God knows I draw back-I dare not say
all that I think. How many speakers. lecturers, and ethical leaders dare do that?
But sometimes, when there is a sort of electricity abroad, as there seems to be in this
hour, strange things are said. In those moments, when you drive an agitator into a
corner, and you may hope for a rippling of
the waters-and that is what we want.
vVe want unscrupulous men of a·ction.
There are plenty of people to talk and
write, but the people who have achieved
and changed things have nearly always been
men of action, and have cried out, as did
Oliver Cromwell, "Take away that bauble!·•
We want visionary dreamers. They are
meri without .fear, and fear is the enemy
without which the world would reorganize
itself tomorrow. And we want absolutel y
cold-blooded skeptics, who analyze and ana\vze :and analyze, and are prepared to discuss everything ·that exists, and ask embarrassing questions about every single one of
our actions, our preconceptions, our principles and our ideas. And they also know no
fear.
While men are habitually cowards,
women, in love, in war, and in devotion,
r.ave never known a moment's fear , once
they are really possessed. They have always tended to go straight to the limit, and
I rejoice in their courage.
(Applause.)
All these agitators have had devoted womP.n
friends. Women knew them and recognized
them. Ancl women as women are more profoundly skeptical in all convictions, princi ples, and prejudices and•moralities than the
most extreme antinomian 'man •· that you
could ever discover. Good women are much
more skeptical than wicked men. Do you
realize that women are wise with that
subtle, intuitive, rythmical wisdom of the
earth, of nature, tile music of the spheres,·
and that they go straight in a clairvoyance";'
a strange occultism, to the point, whereas .
men, with their logic and reason, go around
it across it and sneak around life ;-but
women follow life as the ocean follows the
that we men, with our ideas of objective
truth, are simply shutting ourselves up 111
laboratories and making squares and circle!;
on blackboards. · We are changing. and we
are p 1rt of the change. The thing analyzing and the thing analyzed are one. The
great flux goes on, and we in the midst of it
analyze what is about us and what we ourselves are fated to be.
Women, by being near the flow of life, by
being the i.rue creators, through the magic
of the life torce, of the world that is to be;
understand certain things better than men
do. And they understand, though they are
too wise to put it into words (and I· take a
fiendish dE'.!ight in betraying them here)
that _ no sphere are there any absolutel y . _
in
fixed or eternal principles. I know the pain
this is to many persons hearing me. But
there are relative truths only. We come
here to a very crucial and dangerous begill.•
ning. Still it is necessary to begin at the
bottom even of a quicksand. Surely every
one of you men has noticed and wondered
at the extraordinary lack of moral sense in
the woman nearest to you. Women in thts
respect are right. The strange, unscrupulousness we note in the best women is their
wisdom and clairvoyance.
·
How does this bear on the economic aspect of woman suffrage? Vlell, there are
no ultimate and fixed principles in any
sphere at all. Then why is it that so many
among us perpetually appeal to these as if
t hey were real? I am not speaking' of re ligion now . . It is possible for a man of any
religious faith whatever still to understand
this. For faith , to be faith , must be in
something that does not appear, and in
what seems impossible, But :we have a
right to be Macchiavells of skepticism in
regard to ultimate questions in ethics, politics, and in the great economic aspect of
the sex question.
V'J"e have a right to
analyze everything, and we must do it. I
am so anxious to make everybody here ask
himself the most embarrassing question he '
can possibly ask. Take the conviction nearest to you. and ask yourself : What would
it be like if it were not true, if the opposite
were true? Vve Ii.ave had enough of repeating the same old catch-words. VVe are
slaves of catch-words and slang phrases.
"Liberty!" "Justice!" We have turned liberty and justice into muttons and weak tea.
Liberty and justice; if the y are worth anything, are worth being paid for with blood.
Is it not possible that we have been
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Q : If a ne w party form s in England by
a coalition of the Liberals and the Laborites, under the leadership of Lloyd-George,
will the prospect fo r women be brighter ?
A : Yes, I certainly think so.
Q (:Miss Craw ford) : Whom do you consider the most distinguished feminist in
England today ?
A: There are so many, and each takes
a different aspect of feminism . I would say
vVells, but he has got fri g htene d and started
explaining. I wo uld say Shaw, but he always lea ve s o ut the im11ortant element of
romance. The man who best understands
wcmen. I should be inclined to say, is
.Jos eph Conrad.
Q: Is fr ee love op1rnsed to true Christia nity?
A: No, most certainly not. It has even
been practis ed by true Christians.
Q ( i\irs. Ga llup ) : What is your present
a ttit ude toward the militants ?
A:
Still sympathetic, but wholly from
th e outside.
Q: Wha t is yo ur opinion of the Anarchist
criticism of woman s uffrage ?
A : I am s o sorry to say that I am ignorant of the latest phases of the ir criticism.
Q (M r. F a sccia ): Wou ld it not be better
if all !)rejudices were r emo\· ed, and men
li ved as brothers ?
A : I should like to have my revenge on
some people fir s t . I do not think we shall
e ver elim inate t he fi ghting quality.
Q: What are the prospects of getting
from the single to the dou ble tracl, in thfs
generation ?
A : As soon a s the Irish question is
settled I believe Y:e sha ll see a great movement to ward it in Engla nd.
Q ( :\frs. Sc dderman) : Do you expect the
collapse c f th e present English go vernn:ent '?
A : Ce rtainl v n ot.
Q : \V ould )·c u g h"e t he Yote to wom e n
on ac count of the ir ina lien ab le rig ht. or for
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SUFFRAGE.
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WOMAN
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fooled ? I sometimes think our masters, the
unscrupulous men of action, are arranging
it th a t we should talk a great deal about
liberty and justice, and meanwhile they cut
out our hearts.
You can go on t alking
about li berty and justice to the end of the
world, and not a single thing will change;
and our business is to change a great
many things. Therefore we must ask embarrassing questions. \Ve must ask if there
are in the world anv such things as liberty
and justice. We asi ume that they are written in the :.Ylilky Way, in the system o f
things. The y are not.
\Ve assume too
much. The y are written only in our own
blind brains and foolish hearts. They are
words.
What do we really find? That we are at
the !)arting of t he ways. \Vhat else do we
find ? Progress ?-that ridi culous ideal of the
market-place! It does not matter what we
do , we say, the great purpose will triumph.
because e\·olution will look after it. But
suppose evolution is careless, diabolical, and
cares not a jot for all our morality ? \Vhat
then ? Suppose t he human race has for two
thousand years gone in the wrong direction ? \ Ve must ask: Is it a good thing to
have woman s uffra ge, and why ? Why is the
economi c aspe ct of woman suffrage more
important than any other ?
First of ail .
suffrage-what is suffrage? The right t o
vote.
It implies a ten-millionth ·part in
the national palaver, mostly of fools. vVe
vote, and the supposition is that the people
we vote for go t here, and the further supposition is that when they are there the y do
what we want them to. Neither of these
suppositions is true. of course. vVe must
ask: Is representative government played
out ? Is t h e party system of government
outworn ? Has the point been reached
where our taste is a little sick of them ? 1f
it h a s. and I discern indications tha t it has.
what does it matter whether or not wome n
g-e t the \·ote. when in a little while men
also are going to lose it "
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If this be so. what should we substitute
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repeat these catch-words, and think all is
well because we are broad-minded and believe in liberty and justice.
Our broadminded catch-words are air and wind and
dust when it comes to the real pinch, and
the pinch is the economic pinch.
vVhat makes woman a slave today is tlie
economic condition which prevails.
(Applause. ) If a woman is dependent on a
man. for all pra ctical purposes she is his slave. \Vhen you come down to bed-rock in
this matter, you find that this is quite lit- · ~
erally true. 1Ve must eat and drink first of ·,
all. The two prime purposes · of life are
food and the propagation of the race. The
economic question •is an animal, scientific,
physiological question. It is the question
that occupied the minds of grandpapa and
grandmama and the hairy cave-man.
We
may talk and talk, but behind liberty and ·
justi ce and everything else, you get these
two great economic and sexual necessitieshaving food and having children.
Since the economic aspect of woman suffrage is the really important thing, what
wculd happen if you gave women the vote? _
I am coming to a part of m y subject that ~
interests me more than any.
A certain :
number of people are afraid that if you
made every woman the equal unit of society with every man. and made that unit
the person and not the head of the family,
every kind of catastrophe, moral and otherwise, would come about-free love the least
of them.
In certain quarters the wor~
" feminism" is supposed to be synonymous
with " free love." Read your dictionary! •
Don·t think, though, that I am afraid to talk
about free love, or about anything else.
Everything ought to be discussed. Now.
here you want to make the woman the equal
unit of society with the man and quite
obviously the first step in th~t direction
would be the endowing of motherhood. AnY·
body who thinks the endowing of mother:
hood would lead to free love is right in one
sense, because love would be free between
the individual man and woman, and you
would get the ideal monogamistic state. D 0
you think there is any beau ty in being bou nd
together when one is a slave and the other
a victim '? Ko, motherhood must be a profession. and ought to be paid five times 85
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been practised b,· true Christians.
Q (Mrs. Gallu11 ) : What is your present
attitude toward the militants?
A:
Still sympathetic, but wholly from
the outside.
Q: \ Vhat is your opinion of the Anarchist
criticism of woman suffrage?
• A: I am so sorry to say that I am ignorant of the latest phases of their criticism.
Q (Mr. Fasccia ): Would it not be better
if all prejudices were remoYed , and men
lived as brothers ?
A: I should like to have my revenge on
some people first. I do not think we shall
ever eliminate the fi ghting quality.
Q: \ Vhat are the prospects of getting
from the single to the double track in thfs
£eneration?
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As soon as the Irish question is
settled I believe ,,_.e shall see a great movement toward it in England.
Q (Mrs. Sodderman): Do you expect the
collapse cf the present English govern:rr..ent?
A: Certainly not.
Q : 'Would yc-u give the vote to women
on account of their inalienable right, or for
expediency ?
A:
There are no inalienable rights;
there are only what ,ve get b,- fighting.
Q (Mr. Margolis ) : Would it not be better to try to think clearly instead of label·
Jing ourselves Socialists or Anarchists?
A : One person is never so strong as
many united for one cause. \\' here would
Napcleon be without his army?
Q:
Since ,vhere women have the vote
immorality is qwindling, does it not make of
priests and preachers and rabbis political
Anarchists when they oppose woman suffrage?
A: I don't like the assumption that political Anarchists are necessarily immoralists.
Q (Mr. Harbour): How do you account
for the opposition of so many intelligent
women to woman suffrage?
A:
I believe it is a certain atavistic
subtlety of feelin g which makes them
: shrink from the shock of a transitional
period. They dread the dust and sweat and
blood of the arena. You will find the same
sort of thing in extremely refined artists
like Matthew Arnold.
" Greatness lies not in being strong, but
in the right using of strength ; and strength
is not used rightl y when it only serves to
·c arry a man above his fellows for his own
solitary glory.
He is greatest whose
strength carries up the most hearts by the
attraction of his own."-Henry Ward
Beecher.
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That ,,·e are at
t he parting of t he way s. \ \'hat else do we
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find ? Progress ?-that ridiculous ideal of the
n1.arket-place ! It does not matter what we
do , we say, the great purpose will triumph ,
because eYolution will look after it. But
suppose evolution is careless, diabolical, and
cares not a jot for all our morality? vVhat
then ? Suppose the human race has for two
thousand years gone in the wrong direction? \ "le must ask: Is it a good thing to
have woman suffrage, and why? Why is the
economic aspe ct of woman suffrage more
important than any other?
First of ail,
suffrage-what is suffrage? The right t(}
vote.
It implies a ten-millionth ·part in
the natic-nal palaver, mostly of fools. vVe
vote, and the supposition is that the people
we vote for go there, and the further supposition is that when they are there they do
what we want them to. Neither of these
suppositions is true, of course. \'v·e must
ask : Is representative government played
out? Is the party system of government
outworn?
Has the point been reached
where our taste is a little sick of them? lf
it has, and I discern indications that it has,
what does it matter whether or not women
get the vote, when in a little while men
also are going to Jose it ?
If this be so, what should we substitute
for the vote? PersonaJJy, I should substitute a sort of universal referendum, by
which each government should be ruled in
a highly centralized manner for a period of,
say, ten years, ·b y an oligarchy of officials
chosen by the dictator, the Napoleon, elected by the universal referendum. Ti:J.ese
officials would have absolute power. They
would make of men an industrial army,
governing entirely by tyranny. And the
nation would be one great trust, and Socialism would have come. (Applause.)
ReaJJy and truly, the economi c aspect of
woman suffrage will never be shelved and
done with as decided until we have Socialism. Women will never be really free or
have justice until Socialism is established ..
(Applause.) The conditions are such that
for economic ~sons, given the system as
at present it exists, it is impossible that
women should be paid as they deserve to
be paid, and should take their place as they
must take their place in the industrial action of the world. Why must we have the
economic aspect of suffrage discussed? Do
yon not know that all our talk, all our
philoso phies, all our books, aIJ our parliaments and Yoting, d e11end upon the economi c situation, ·and that not alJ the legislation in the world c:an cliange the economic situation? Only economic pressure
can do that. and economic pressure demands force behind it. Now suppose a man
should arise who was an unscrupulous man
of action. a visionan' dreamer, and an antimonian skeptic; and then the thing would
be done. But it will never be done while we
two great economic and sexual neceEsitieshaving food and having children.
Since the economic aspect of wolllan sur.
frage is the really -important thing, what
wculd happen if you gave women the Yote?
I am coming to a part of my subject that
interests me more than any.
A certain
number of people are afraid that if You
made every woman the equal unit of society with every man, and made that unit
the person and not the head of the family,
every kind of catastrophe, moral and other\Yise, would come about-free love the least
of them.
In certain quarters the word
"feminism" is supposed to be synonymous
with '"free love." Read your dictionary!
Don·t think, though, that I am afraid to talk
about free love, or about anything else.
Everything ought to be discussed. Now.
here you want to make the woman the equal
unit of society with the man, and quite
obviously the first step in that direction
would be the endowing of motherhood. Anybody who thinks the endowing of motherhood would lead to free love is right in one
sense, because love would be free between
the individual man and woman, and you
would get the ideal monogamistic state. Do
you think there is any beauty in being bound
together when one is a slave and the other
a victim? No , motherhood must be a profession , and ought to be paid five times as
much as any other. (Applause.)
I really do not care very much what making woman the equal of man will lead to.
What are you afraid of? Think that out,
and you will find that there is a little tincture cf purely animal meanness .in your
fear. Have you no trust in women? Do
you think all the world would run amuck
in an orgy of licentiousness? - That is an
insult to your mother, your sister, your
wife. Of course we know women, we who
love them, far better than that. They would
see to it themselves that there would be
something very different. (Applause.) The
peopl"e who associate feminism and free
love are either humbugs or rascals. They
are the people who support and frequent
brothels. They know that brothels would
be closed, and women workers would no
longer be driven on the street by insufficient wages. They do not want that to
happen, and so they cry : "Free love ! Free
love! ·• and all the fakirs cry with them.
(Applause.) No , women would prevent that
orgy; and surely you do not think you ca:·,
have an orgy like that without them!
As a matter of fact, it may turn out that
the vote is not the most important aspect
of the woman qu·e stion. It may be more im·
portant to be a feminist than a suffragist.
and it may even be that no one can be a
suffragist in the logical sense without being
a feminist too.
Now, there are certain
a mong you who. having read Strindberg and
Nietzsche and Dostoievsky and are inclined
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City Planning.
)Ir. Geor1!e B. Gallup , 72 E
wealth Avenue, Doston, CJ
::i.1rs. E. D. Foster, 41 Huntir
Miss Freda Rogolsky, 357 C
::i.1r. Henry S. Victorson, 15 C
. Mr. D. F. Ladd, \VeJJesley.
l\1rs. L. B. Noyes, 146 Mai
AYenue, Boston.
1\lr. R. G. McKerrall, 41 Mar
Everett.
,·rnigration.
Mr. Henry S. Victorson, 15
Boston. Chairman.
Mr. Maurice Casper, 39 No. I
Mr. Julius J. Shapiro, 115 Sal•
Miss Ida Goldberg, 19 Aubur
Mr. Frank Boliver, S3 Chamb1
l\lr. George E. Rower, Jr., 4~
Avenue, Roxbury.
Mr. JII. T. Rush, 3 Bowdoin ~
.Education.
Miss Miriam Allen deFord, 98 '
Miss · Helen Veasey, 2S Shaft,
Grove Hall, Dorchester.
Mr. Isaac Isaacs, 36 Allen s·
· Mr. Louis Simons, 164 Union S
erett.
Mr. H. L. Greene, 104 Belviden
Mrs. Jno. J . Sullivan, Weld S
Roxburr.
Housing.
Mr. William C. Terry, P . 0. I
Boston, Chairman.
Mrs. Carrie G. Barr, 15 Joy Str
. Mrs. Eva Hoffman, 125 Leveret
Mrs. E. D. Foster, 41 Hunting
• Mr. George B. Gallup, 72S C
wealth Avenue, Boston.
Mrs. A. L. Rienzi , 171 EYerett
AIJston.
Health.
• l\Ir. Elmer Eldridge, 14 Harvar,
Brookline, Chairman.
llliss Gertrude S. Cohen, 44a Jo~
::IIr. DaYid Simpson, 3 Fairlee St
Somerville.
Samuel Segall, 15 Blossom
Miss Anna V. Eldred, 4 Kearsar
nue, Roxbury.
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Play and Recreation.
Mr. J . S. London, Y. M. C. A.,
Chairman.
llliss Ida S. R. Goldberg, 19
Street, Boston
:'lliss Anna V. Eidred, 4 Kearsart
nue, Roxbury.
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are broad-minded and beand justice.
o·ur broad1rds are air and wind and
mes to the real pinch, aud
economic pinch.
voman a slave today is the
.ion which prevails. (Ap.voman is dependent on a
Lctical purposes she is his
u come down to bed-rock in
find that this is quite litmust eat and drink first of
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:>pagation of the race. The
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le minds of grandpapa and
the hairy cave-man.
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alk, but behind liberty and
rything else, you get these
mic and sexual necessities[ having children.
uomic aspect of woman suf:ally important th ing, what
' you gave women the vote? .
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man and woman, and you
ideal monogamistic state. D0
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one is a slave and the o 1
, motherhood must b~ a pro.tght to be paid five times as
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Mr. E. H. McIntosh, 247 Beale Street,
Wollaston.
Budget and Appropriations.
Mr. R. G. McKerrall, 41 Marie Avenue,
Everett, Chairman.
Mr. George W. Coleman, 177 W. Brookline Street, Boston.
l\'liss Elizabeth Hunter, 36 Hancock
Street, Boston.
Miss. Freda Rogolsky, 357 Charles
Street.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, Wellesley.
Mr. J. J. Sullivan, Weld Street, West
Roxbury.
Mr. J. S. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston.
Municipal Affairs.
Mr. Arthur 0. Tay lor, Box 3507, Boston,
Chairman.
Mr. W. C. Ewing, 987 Washington St.
Mr. M. T. Rush, 3 Bowdoin Street.
Mr. John H . Gutterson, P . 0. Box 13-1.
City Planning.
Mr. George B. Gallup, 72S Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Chairman.
Mrs. E . D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave.
Miss Freda Rogolsky, 357 Charles St.
Mr. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, Wellesley.
Mrs. L. B. Noyes, 146 :.VIassachusetts
Avenue, Boston.
1Ir. R. G. McKerrall, 41 Marie Avenue,
Everett.
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:.\Ir. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.,
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:.\Ir. Ma~1rice Casper , 39 No. Russell St.
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:.\I:· Juhus J. Shapiro, 115 Salem Street.
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:.\Ir. Frank Holiver, S3 Chambers Street.
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Mr. isaac l_saacs , 36 Allen Street.
' r. oms Simons, 164 Union Street Everett
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R~xbno . . .J. Sulll\"an, Weld Street, W.
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Mrs. A. L. Rienzi, 171 Everett Street,
Allston.
Labor.
Miss Louise A. Grout, 154 Newbury
Street, Boston, Chairman.
Mr. Peter E. Timbley.
Mr. Simon Robinson, 34 Temple Street.
:.\'Ir. K. F. Lindblad, 67 Sudbury Street.
Law School, 14 Ashburton Place.
Mr. G. G. Mills, P. 0. Box 53, Watertown.
Mr. George E. Power, Jr., 451 Walnut
Avenue, Roxbury.
Mr. Clarence Marble, 179 Vine Street,
Everett.
Judiciary.
}1r. Herbert P. ·ware, care of Adams &
Glynn, 30 Court Street, Boston, Chairman.
Mr. J. J. Freedman, _ 06 Union Park
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Street, Boston.
Miss Bessie Kisloff, care of B. U. Law
School, 11 Ashburton Place. Boston.
Mr. Irving L . Hoffman. care of B. U.
Law School , 11 Ashburton Place, Boston.
}fr. Louis Chandler, 2S School Street.
Transportation.
i\fr. Clarence iVIarble, 197 Vine Street,
Everett, Chairman.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, 'l,Vellesley.
:.\fr. H. L. Green, 104 Belvidere Avenue.
Mr. Samuel P. Levenberg, 23 Browning
Ave .. Dorchester.
Mr. J. S. Ballou, 53 State Street.
To Investigate Credit Unions. {Special.)
Mr. Leonard Martin. Chairman, AntiSaloon League, 344 Tremont Bldg.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan, 24 Traverse Street.
Mr. K. F. M. Lindblad, 67 S udbury St.
Ways and Means.
Mr. James P. Roberts, 141 Milk Street.
Mr. J. S. Ballou, 53 State Street.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan. 24 Traverse Street.
Mr. George B. Gallup, 72S Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, Wellesley.
Mr. Samuel P. Levenberg, 23 Browning
Avenue, Dorchester.
Dr. Jacob T. Pollock, 212 Chestnut St..
Chelsea.
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Friends of our efficient sergeant-at-arms
will be sorry to hear that he has been ill.
although in spite of his illness he attended
Town Meeting as usual on Thursday. :.'Ir.
Ladd. who has been appointed assistant
sergeant-at-ar ms. was also present at th,;
last meetings, his Thursdays, as well as all
his other evenings, having been taken by
the soup kitchen.
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sympathy must be extended is Mr. Rower,
who is ill with appendicitis. :.\'Irs. Roste!·,
too , has been tired out by her work in the
soup kitchen, but we hope that a good re;;t
now will bring her back to her usual
strength and activity.
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on city planning on a municipal lodgin:;house is the finest possible example of the
kind of work our committees are doing. :.\Ir.
Gallup and his committee have been working for three months on this bill, Order Xv.
1. They have been in correspondence with
municipal lodging-houses all over the country. They have done practi cal investigating, some members of t he commit tee even
spending the night in various 25-cent lod~ing-houses in Boston so as to understand
thoroughly t heir workings and their deficiencies. They have collected a scrap-book
of clippings 8.nd publications on the subjed
that is permanently valuable.
The report.
recommending :ct hotel. industrial shops and
a muni cipal farm, shows the result of such
11reparation.
The Town :.feeting has still
another reason to be grateful that Mr. Gallup is one of its citizens.
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for the widening of Avery street. The m -=n
are still desperately in need of food. clothes
and shelter, but most of all of employment
by which they can earn these things.
At
present the employ ment department is ·b eing
continued under }frs. Foster's care at }1organ Memorial, and anyone knowing of · opportunities for work. especially hotel, farm
or day-laboring jobs, will confer an inestimable ben efit by sending word to her to
that effect.
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History Club, of whic-h )Ir. Allen is director.
is to hold a );'ew Voters· Rall)· in Faneuil
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;\lr. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.,
Boston. Chairman.
;\lr. l\'laurice Casper, 39 No. Russell St:
Mr. Julius J . Shapiro, 115 Salem Street.
l\liss Ida Goldberg, 19 Auburn Street.
• l\lr. Frank Boliver, 83 Chambers Street.
:Mr. George E. Rower, Jr., 451 Walnut
Avenue, Roxbury .
Mr. M. T . Rush, 3 Bowdoin Street.
Ave .. Dorchester.
Mr. J. S. Ballou, 53 State Street.
To Investigate Credit Unions.
Ways and Means.
Mr. James P . Roberts, 141 Milk Street.
Mr. J . S. Ballou. 53 State Street.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan , 24 Traverse Street.
Mr. George B. Gallup, 72S Commonwealth A venue, Boston.
Mr . D. F . Ladd, Wellesley.
Mr. Samuel P. Levenberg, 23 Browning
Avenue, Dorchester.
Dr. Jacob T. Pollock, 212 Chestnut St.,
Chelsea.
.Education.
l\Iiss Miriam Allen deFord , 98 Tyler St.
Miss · Helen Veasey, 28 Shafter Street,
Grove Hall, Dorchester.
Mr. Isaac Isaacs, 36 Allen Street.
· Mr. Louis Simons, 164 Union Street, E verett.
Mr. H. L . Greene, 104 Belvidere Street.
Mrs. Jno. J. Sullivan, Weld Street, W.
Roxbury.
Publicity
Mrs. George B. Gallup, 728 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Chairman.
Mr. George W. Coleman, 177 W. Brookline Street, Boston.
Mr. J. S. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston.
Mr. A. D. Skelding, Boston Post.
Mr. Wm. V. Bottom. 121 St. Stephen St.
Miss Freda Rogolsky, Peabody H ouse.
Housing.
Mr. William C. Terry, P . 0 . Box 3347,
Boston, Chairman.
Carrie G. Barr, 15 Joy Street.
Eva Hoffman, 125 Leverett St.
E. D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave.
George B. Gallup, 728 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
Mrs. A. L. Rienzi , 171 E verett Street,
Allston.
Mrs.
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Mr. Elmer Eldridge, 14 Harvard Place,
Brookline, Chairman.
Miss Gertrude S. Cohen, 44a Joy Street.
Mr. DaYid Simpson, 3 Fairlee Street, W.
Somerville.
-Mr. Samuel Segall, 15 Blossom Street.
___ Miss Anna V. Eldred, 4 Kearsarge Ave.,. nue, Roxbury.
Play and Recreation .
Mr. J. S. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston,
Chairman.
Miss \Ida S. R. Goldberg, 19 Auburn
Street, Boston.
Miss Anna V. Eldred, 4 Kearsarge Ave. nue, Roxbury.
(Special.)
Mr. Leonard Martin, Chairman, AntiSaloon League, 344 Tremont Bldg.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan , 24 Traverse Street.
Mr. K. F. M. Lindblad, 67 Sudbur.y St.
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The Town :\Ieeting- has still
another reason to be grateful that Mr. GalJu11 is one of its citizens.
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The sou;i kitchen has been closed, since
the city is r eady to tear down the building
for the widening- of Avery street. The m-=n
are still desperately in need of food. clothes
and shelter. but most of all of employment
by which they can earn these things.
At
present the employment department is ·b eing
continued under Mrs. Foster's care at Morgan Memorial, and anyone knowing of opportunities for work, especially hotel, farm
or day-laboring jobs, will confer an inestimable benefit by sending word to her to
that effect.
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History Club, of which Mr. Allen is director.
is to hold a >Jew Voters' Rall,· in Faneuil
Hall, on the afternoon of April 19th. Gov. ernor Walsh is to be the speaker of the day.
All Jiersons interested are invited to attencl
this meeting, which is receiving the co-operation of the Town :vreeting among other organizations.
Citizenship.
Mr. H . L . Greene, 104 Belvidere Street,
Boston, Chairman.
Mr. George Weitzer, 100 Brighton St.
Miss Turner.
:\1r. Frank Boliver, S3 Chambers St.
To
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Unemployment.
"Let us believe in the great mass of the
people-not because they are intellectually
clever, not because they are independent
thinkers, hut because in the lon ~ run th o:,
sa.fest and sanest safeguards of nation<'il
character are to be found no t in the subtle ·
jugglery of the mental attitude of the few.
but in the sound, sane feeling laid down in
the fun damental c•ha racter of the p;reat mass
of the nation."-Prof. George E. Vincent.
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Bill Xe. 35, equal suffrage. Referred to
committee on judiciary. In co mmittee.
Bill >Jo. 36, seriousness in meeting.
Referred to committee on immigration.
In
committee.
(Special.)
Mr. Arthur 0. Taylor, Box 3507, Boston .
Chairman.
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"The effort to 11rohibit all combin ations,
;:-ood or bacl, is bound to fail. and ought to
fail: when made, it me rel,• means thut some
kind of the worst combinat ions are · not .
checke'rl ancl that honest business is checked .
Our purpose should be. not to strangle business as an incident of strangling combinat ions. but to regulate big corporations in
t horough-goin g and effective fashion, so a s
to help legitimate busin ess as an incident
to thoroughly and completel.v safeguarding
the interests of the people as a wbole.'·Theodore Roosevelt.
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It helps you to understand George Brewster Gallup to know that he writes poetry.
Some of his serious verse has been very
highly praised by critics who know g09d
work in this field; and. though he says little
about this verse-writing, one feels the poet
behind the advertising man whenever Mr.
Gallup talks his favorite theme, city planning. To this man city planning means
bringing the Holy City down to earth"making His Kingdom come," in the striking phraseology of the world's greatest
prayer; to a sermon he once heard preached
on the text, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of
Heaven," Mr. Gallup dates his spiritual rebirth into this passion of his life.
George Brewster Gallup is of the purest
Puritan strain so far as his family is concerned. He doesn't bother much about this,
for he is a. democrat with a big D, but he
says it strengthens his sinews to remember it when he is fighting, against great
odds, to make this world a fit place for
children to be born into. For that to him
is the whole meaning. and purpose of '"city
planning": the elimination of the inhumanities and barbarities of cities as we see them
today. He once wrote for the leading paper
of a city not a thousand miles from Boston
a series of one hundred and fifty articles
which covered the whole field of city planning as we now . know it.
And yet this
science had not then been given a name. It
was his idealistic enthusiasm for a more
perfect city that first drew him and George
W. Coleman together. · What this has meant
to the Ford Hall Meetings I need not say.
Mr. Gallup was born in a little town near
Albany, New York, and served his newspaper apprenticeship as reporter on the
Albany Argus. Then he became interested
in library work and helped to organize the
first State Library Association of which Melville Dewey was president.
Somewhat
later he was called to a newspaper position
in another New York city where. at that
time, capital and labor were engaged in
deadly combat. The vision of what the city
might become if these two opposing forces
were made to work together smote Mr. Gallup with mighty force. and he began to try
THE ECONOMIC ASPECT OF WOMAN
SUFFRAGE.
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to take a very cynical view of certain aspects of women's character and personality
-of the sex. There is no use in denouncing
these people. There is no use in shutting
the mouth of any thinker by personal abuse.
Everything must be discussed, and every
opinion aired.
These people would say:
"The whole movement is an indication of a
biological degeneracy.
It is not because
women have become more intellectual that
the change has been bro~ht about, but because men have become more feeble, and
are in a pathological state of neurotic degeneracy. Because of their general lack
of virility, they take a kind of perverted
pleasure in being trampled upon and cruelly
treated by women." I rejoice, therefore,
whenever I see a magnificent, clear-eyed
prize-fighter in the ranks of woman suffrage. I would strongly persuade all baseball and football and cricket players to join
the cause, and above all to go in the processions.
It is true that Strindberg has exposed the
parasite woman, and the vampirish and
cannibalistic aspect of women, which is in
all, even the best of them. You can see it
in the unscrupulousness of mothers, and
the horrible cannibalism of parents who live
by draining the strength of their children.
But I come to a still more subtle point.
Some people in their hearts hold with
Nietzsche that what we want is a dramatic
and exciting world, and that women make
it so. but that in order that they may do so
they must be dangerous. This is an important philosophical aspect of woman suffrage and the feminist movement. I know
some people think that women, when they
have economic equality, will become uninteresting, horribly eugenic, badly dressed
lathe and plaster drabbletags. Why should
I argue with these people? vVell. suppose
I hid in my heart of hearts a sneaking, lurk.
ing sympathy with them ? I understand
their little emotions upon this matter. But
if you think that the dangerousness of women will come to an end .because of their
equality you are grievously mistaken.
If
there is dangerousness in women which
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be not of God-well, go ahead and stamp
it out if you - can. If God is in it, you cannot oppose it. ·And if there be no God, it
is our affair; take the reins, be gods yourselves and use your will.
It is absolutely necessary that in all these
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controversies we keep not only clear heads,
but light hearts. Why cannot suffragists J
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and anti-suffragists even meet at an after- /1
noon tea without quarreling with each other?
We ought to remember that we are all, after .
all, men and women together-brothers and
sisters-and all in a great darkness. We
really and truly know very little as to the
purpose and will of the Invisible Ones be- •,
hind it all. A kind of crepuscular dawn -.,1
may be emerging, but it is not very much.
We are all groping and fumbling and feeling our way. Why, then, should we turn
upon one another and spit out ou, vitriolic
abuse as if we belonged to different planets, ·
instead of being poor human beings, all condemned alike to die? Since life ts snort·, .
let us be content to go together· like good
philosophers. and while we analyze and dissect everything in the skeptic's and agita- ·
tor's way, let us be magnanimous and hon- ..,
arable opponents. A good war is what we.
want, but we must play the game fairly. ,
The economic aspect of woman suffrage,"'..
you see, really means that in the future men .
and women will work together. It seems to ·
me that for the first time in evolution · ,,
women as women have become conscious of
what it means to be a woman from the l
point of view of psychic and intellectual'
consciousness. When such women hear it ~
said that women are either .inferior or su-"
perior to men they smile. They know that.
women are-different; and that the world
will achieve even a temporary- solution of
the mystery only when the intellect of men
and the intellect of women meet and work.
together. Therefore, let the women go over•
to business and politics, and the men to
poetry, culture and the fine arts. For then·
only you -will have the ideal world.
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THE DAILY TEMPLE.
In the very heart of "materialistic" Ne\\' l
York, at 35 East Thirty-second Street, a_.1j.
young woman has established a church for /,
all peoples. She is Elizabeth Knopf, and she I
says she was impelled b,· a vision to found .
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cerned. He doesn 't bother much about this,
for he is a. democrat with a big D, but he
says it strengthens his sinews to remember it when he is fighting, against great
odds, to make this _world a fit place f_
or
children to be born mto. For that to him
· is the whole meaning and purpose of "city
planning" : the elimination of the inhumanities and barbarities of cities as we see them
today. He once wrote for the leading paper
of a city not a thousand miles from Boston
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And yet this
science had not then been given a name. It
was his idealistic enthusiasm for a more
perfect city that first drew him and George
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to the Ford Hall Meetings I need not say.
Mr. Gallup was born in a little town near
Albany, New York, and served his newspaper apprenticeship as reporter on the
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first State Library Association of which Melville Dewey was president.
Somewhat
later he was called to a newspaper position
in another New York city where, at that
time, capital and labor were engaged in
deadly combat. The vision of what the city
might become if these two opposing forces
were made to work together smote Mr. Gallup with mighty force, and he began to try
what he cculd do towards bringing this
happy thing to pass. The president of the
labor union was a friend of his and so was
the president of the Chamber of Commerce.
Through Mr. Gallup 's good offices the two
were made to know each . other as men and
·1 as citizens, with the result that the union
label was soon to be found on all the city
printing and men began to be proud of resi1 · ..
dence in a community of which they had
heretofore been ashamed.
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-f -·'; pride in dur New England communities Mr.
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year befo 7e all sorts of. civic bodies on The
1 ··a.> Perfect City as he sees it. At the Ford Hall
·, _:"{; • . Town Meetings his v1s10n has already
kindled the imagination of the citizens and
has borne fruit in actual civic improvement.
For Mr, Gallup is quite as read y to lend his
shoulder as his silver tongue to the boosting of any good movement ; seconded by
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those in charge of our soup kitchen
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j . :: '\ !:-.' one son is now enthusiastically following
r 1, .·; ., his father 's profession in New York city.
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the cause, and above all to go in the processions.
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It is true that Strindberg has exposed the
parasite woman, and the vampirish and
cannibalistic aspect of women, which is in
all, even the best of them. Ydu can see it
in the unscrupulousness of mothers, and
the horrible cannibalism of parents who live
by draining the strength of their children.
But I come to a still more subtle point.
Some people in their hearts hold with
Nietzsche that what we want is a dramatic
and exciting world, and that women make
it so, but that in order that th ey may do so
they must be dangerous. This is an important philosophical aspect of woman suffrage and the feminist movement. I know
some people think that women, when they
have economic equality, will become uninteresting, hdrribly eugenic, badly dressed
lathe and plaster drabbletags. Why should
I argue with these people ? W ell, sup pose
I hid in m y heart of hearts a sneaking, lurking sympathy with them ? I understand
their little emotions upon this matter. But
if you think that the dangerousness of women will come to an end because of their
equality you are grievously mistaken.
If
there is dangerousness in women whi ch
makes tll.em at once so perilous and so devilishly att,active, it will not disappear for
all the voting in the world.
Now I am going t o talk to the people who
h old the old fashioned Victorian ideals-"m y
backyard, my beer, my wife, m y beefsteak,
I don't know anything about it but I know
I like it and it's mine." If you may know a
profligate by his use of the phrase "free
love," you may know a hypocritical villain
by his use of the phrase, " the sanctity of
the home." If you know a man who says,
The sanctity of the home is in danger,"
send a detective after him. But with these
men are their wives, wh- have been forced
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to listen to this talk, and who have at last
come to think, through utter weariness,
·•suppose my husband is right after all ?"
To the wives and daught ers who have li ved
in this mephitic and miasmic atmosphere. I
a ddress myself. All that is really beautiful
and delicate and precious, in the natural
sense sacred and pure, in the old-fashioned
order of society, will not " e killed. Women
will not cease to be attractive-when they
have more money they will spend more on
dress, and I rejoice in it. And they will
not forget how to cook, how to be gracious
hostesses or charming society women.
The tide is coming on to something real] ~
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important, and we have to face it. We have
to ask ourselves horrible questions and be
good agitators. We have to discu;s every
moral basis and every conviction, principle
and morality in the world. Suppose you ask
yourself : What are you afraid of? " If the
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instead of being poor human beings, ·all~
demned alike to die ? Since life ts sbo11,
let us be content to . go to gether like goO(
philosophers,_ and_ wlule we ai:,a_Yze ana ai.,
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sect everythmg m the skep~1c s and ag11:a,
tor's way, let us be magnammous and h011,
orable opponents. A good war is what
want, but we must play the gam e fa irly.
The economic aspect of woman surrraii
you see, really means that in the future 111
and women will work together. It seems
me that for the first time in evolut:1aia
women as women have become conscious err
what it m~ans to be a_ woman_ from t1't
point of view of psychic and mtellecti
consciousness. When such women hear
said that women are either inferior or
perior to men they smile. They know tha
women are-different; and that the worw
will achieve even a temporary solution
the mystery only when the intellect of m
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and the intellect of women meet and wort;
together. Therefore, let the women go onr
to business and politics, and t he men
poetry, culture and the fine arts. For thes
only you -will have the ideal world.
THE DAILY TEMPLE.
In the very heart of "materialistic" Xe•
York, at 35 East Thirty-second Street, a
young woman has established a church f,
all peoples. She is Elizabeth Kno pf, and s·
says she was impelled by a vision to founi
this spiritual centre, intended primarily for
the working people who pass the Daifr
Temple on their wa y home from work. For
a year and a half she has been traveling ii
Euro pe and the Holy Land to prepare her;
self for this work, and now she has
modelled an old stable into a church, an
moved into its upper s t ory as her perman
home. Miss Knopf is supporting the ente:•
prise herself, and not even a collection TIU
ever be taken.
Every evening she will have religious s
vices, so conducted as to appeal equally t1
the follow ers of all religions or of non
When the Daily. T emple was opened on
cember 28, six different religions were re
resented in the congregation.
Ever y noon there will be an o- en fora
p
on the Ford Hall plan , for t he discussion .
topi cs 11ot necessarily religious.
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Knopf is a militant suffragist, as well as
spiritual enthusiast, and many of these n
diR cussions will be on various aspects
feminism . Dr. Ann a Howard Shaw has
asked to speak on "Women and Rel igion:
The game of success is never a
solitaire.
FRIENDS WHO ARE COMING.
April 12-Dr. Thomas C. Hall . of ..'Ne
York, "Religion and Social Revolution.
April 19-Prof. Walter Rauschenb
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this talk ought to link inextricably in the minds o
the Ford Hall audience the very intimate relatior
which must and should exist between the religiom
motive and the social motive in any effectiw
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scheme of social reconstruction. Dr. Hall is tht
years old.
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son of Rev. John Hall, one of the most famou.
wide reputation. A
of similar 11opula1
preachers America has ever known, and he himscl
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te■ by those who got tl j
wit of his native Ireland . . One of Cooper Union '.
m , Ford Hall. For more 1
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most acceptable speakers, he scored a big hit here.
modnte the crowds who
also, when he g ave an address a year or so ago on '' The A1orals qf A11anh_1
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ADDRESS, "Is the Woman Movem ent Going to Save Society?"
-Prof. ·w aiter Rauschenbttsch of Rochester, N. Y,
Hv~IN, "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
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seventh season in a lectttre bearing the provocative
title "Is /lie 1,Voman J11ovement Going to Sa'/Je
Society?'' Prof. Rattschenbttsch is too well known
and too dearly loved by this audience to call for
any commendatory comments . A great scholar,
he is also a very great soul. One of the most distinguished Jews in America recently spoke of him
to the Secretary of these :M eeting s as ''The Saint
of Ottr Times .'' From such a man any message
on the relation of Femini sm to the future of th e
race is bound to be an important _contribution to a
vexed problem . Obviously, you will need to come
early that ni g ht!
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r aervlces without cot.ll
be Boston Baptist Socw
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aorvc others, I won
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phnsl1.e th e correct
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honor nncl lo1·e many
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to their aba nclon ed
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NUMBER 24
APRIL 4, 1914
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THE ECONOMIC ASPECT OF WOMAN SUFFRAGEr~
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T was a little dangerous to introp.uce_
my lecture by that particular ~u.~e
["That March of the Men of Harlecn ].
It has . an exciting effect upo~ t~e
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our o-reatest problems. If this is an exc~t"
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the
City
or
Boston in regard
to
my
subject.
You
know it is a
yet more exciting hour in
my own country .
(Applause.)
No
one
coming
from Britain,
no one with
Celtic
blood,
can feel calm
tonight of all
nights in the
world. In regard to this subject, as in regard .to all.
race counts for much.- more than either politicians or sociologists have allowed. As I
look through an audience as inspiring as·
this one, I am very curiously aware of so interesting differences of race among youSlavonic, Gtcrman, Hebrew, Latin. I believe,
lllYself, that a great deal of the temperalllental sympathy and temperamental antagonism that I and I suppose many other
IJ>eakers Reem fated to produce come from
bee. I have a shrewd suspicion that a cerll.ln strain of blood, which for obvious realOns I shall not name, when it exists in an
abundant degree, is almost driven out of its
let111Es by my arguments. If any such are
'-ere, I hope they will leave quietly, and
~ !,lr Plac-?s will be taken by those of a very
"Ulleren t race.
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our hands and mi:;;siles into.
At the present hour I consider the mos;;
important role a man can play fs the r ole
of asking embarrassing questions. I shout ...
like to have on my tombstone : ' 'He asked
uncomfortable questions:• It would prove
that I was what I aspired to be. The men
who ask such questions are agitators. and
agitators may be unscrupulous men of action ·or visionary dreamers. but they must
be antinomian skeptics. The worJ.d of intellect, heroism and love would come to an
end without agitation. We must have it.
psychologieal, ptysiological. and, above all,
spiritual. You will say: "But these people
do nothing but excite others. They are no;
very brave themselves. they are extremely
lazy, and they find it easier to talk than t o
earn their own living in a respectable way:•
My· friends. there are other things in the
world besides respectable citizens, and no
race of human beings earn their living to
more admirable effect from the point of
view of angels and devils and gods. of our
children's children's ctildren, than agitat ors. ( Applause.)
God knows I draw back-I dare not say
all that I think. How many speakers. lecturers. and ethical leaders dare do that?
But sometimes. when there is a sort of electricity abroad, as there seems to be in this
hour, strange things are said. In those moments. when you drive an agitator into a
corner. and you may hope for a rippling of
the waters-and that is what we want.
i,Ve want unscrupulous men of action.
There are plenty of people to talk and
write, but the people who have achieved
and changed things have nearly always been
men of action, and have cried out, as did
Oliver Cromwell, ''Take away that bauble! "
We want visionary dreamers.
They are
men without fear, and fear is the enemy
without which the world would reorganize
itself tomorrow. And we want absoll,tely
rolrl-hloodPri skP.ntics. whn anal v zP a nrl An-
moon. Aud wl,en they come to deal with
our theories and categorical rmperatives
they grow so weary that. even irony runs in
an exhausted stream. You know that iook,
my masculine friends , with which your
opinions are received when you announce
them in a peculiar tone! (Laughter.)
It is to the irony of women that I appeal.
The leaders of the suffrage movement are
not lacking- in humor, but it does not always
appeal to their opponents. It is the humor
of martyrs, the wit of courage. It is because they understand the secret of life.
that life refuses to be put in any category.
·They understand growth. that evolution is
organic, that it is perpetual change, and
that we men, with our ideas of objective
truth, are simply shutting ourselves 1,l,P m
laboratories and m1:king squares_ and c~les
on blackboards; We are changmg, anc.'6we
are part of the change. The thing analyzing and the thing analyzed are one. The
great flux goes on, and we in. the midst of it
analyze what is about us and what we ourselves are fated to be.
Women, by being near the flow of life, by
being the true creators, through the magic
of the life force. of the world that is to be.
understand certain things better than men
do. And they understand, though they are /
too wise to put it into words (and l take a
fiendish dE-ligh t in betraying them here)
that in no sphere are there any absolutely
fixed or eternal principles. I know the pain
this is to many persons hearing me. · But
there are relative truths only. We come •
here to a very crucial and dangerous
ning. Still it is necessary to begin at the
bottom even of a quicksand. Surely every
one of you men has noticed and wondered
· at the extraordinary lack of moral sense in
the woman nearest to you. Women in this
respect are right. The strange, unscrupulousness we note in the best women is tlleir
wisdom and clairvoyance.
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No
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can feel calm
tonight of all
nights in the
world. In reto this subject, as in regard .to all,
cou"nts for much. more than either poli1 or sociologists have all<:>we~ .. As I
through an audience as msp1rmg _asone; I am very curiously aware of so m1.g C:ifferences of race ~mong Y?Uc, German, Hebrew, Latin. I believe,
that a great deal of the temperasympathy and temperamental antag···that I and I suppose many other
ers seem fated to produce come from
I have a shrewd suspicion that a cerstrain of blood, which for obvious real shall not name, when it exists in an
Ult degree, is almost driven out of its
··1:iy my arguments. If any such are
r hope they will leave quietly, and
p1aces will be iaken by those of a very
:erent race.
going to begin with the ec,;momic
of the woman question. I am so
-us ~to say at the very start that it is
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therefore I am going to make an attempt
express my racial feeling, and bring in
the gentlemen to whom I have just
:e reference. In order to do this, a ceramount of diplomacy is necessarya certain amount of MacchiaevellianHaving said that, I am anxious to ap'my subject in the following manner:
·are three kinds of people essential
• world-unscrupulous men of action,
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lI'Y d.reamers, and antinomian skepJt You try to conceive the world withthese three, you will understand how
·we should be lost. Of course. my
B the enemies are saying, under their
th: "Yes, your three,-unscrupnlous
~f action, in other words. criminals:
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mary dreamers, in other words, mad; antinomian skeptics, in other words,
1:fnkers and free-laughers." A happy
or beginning to a lecture upon the
Woman question!
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do nothing but excite others. They are no.
very brave themselves. they are extremely
lazy, and they find it easier to talk than to.
earn their own living in a respectable way:•
My friends, there are other things in the
world besides respectable citizens, and no
race of human beings earn their living to
more admirable effect from the point of
view of angels and devils and gods. of our
children's children's ct.ildren, than agitat ors. ( Applause.)
God knows I draw back-I dare not say
all that I think. How many speakers. lecturers, and ethical leaders dare do that?
But sometimes, when there is a sort of electricity abroad, as there seems to be in this
hour, strange things are said. In those moments, when you drive an agitator into a
corner, and you may hope for a rippling of
the waters-and that is what we want.
vVe want unscrupulous men of a·ction.
There are plenty of people to talk and
write, but the people who have achieved
and changed things have nearly always been
men of action, and have cried out, as did
Oliver Cromwell, "Take away that bauble!·•
We want visionary dreamers. They are
meri without .fear, and fear is the enemy
without which the world would reorganize
itself tomorrow. And we want absolutel y
cold-blooded skeptics, who analyze and ana\vze :and analyze, and are prepared to discuss everything ·that exists, and ask embarrassing questions about every single one of
our actions, our preconceptions, our principles and our ideas. And they also know no
fear.
While men are habitually cowards,
women, in love, in war, and in devotion,
r.ave never known a moment's fear , once
they are really possessed. They have always tended to go straight to the limit, and
I rejoice in their courage.
(Applause.)
All these agitators have had devoted womP.n
friends. Women knew them and recognized
them. Ancl women as women are more profoundly skeptical in all convictions, princi ples, and prejudices and•moralities than the
most extreme antinomian 'man •· that you
could ever discover. Good women are much
more skeptical than wicked men. Do you
realize that women are wise with that
subtle, intuitive, rythmical wisdom of the
earth, of nature, tile music of the spheres,·
and that they go straight in a clairvoyance";'
a strange occultism, to the point, whereas .
men, with their logic and reason, go around
it across it and sneak around life ;-but
women follow life as the ocean follows the
that we men, with our ideas of objective
truth, are simply shutting ourselves up 111
laboratories and making squares and circle!;
on blackboards. · We are changing. and we
are p 1rt of the change. The thing analyzing and the thing analyzed are one. The
great flux goes on, and we in the midst of it
analyze what is about us and what we ourselves are fated to be.
Women, by being near the flow of life, by
being the i.rue creators, through the magic
of the life torce, of the world that is to be;
understand certain things better than men
do. And they understand, though they are
too wise to put it into words (and I· take a
fiendish dE'.!ight in betraying them here)
that _ no sphere are there any absolutel y . _
in
fixed or eternal principles. I know the pain
this is to many persons hearing me. But
there are relative truths only. We come
here to a very crucial and dangerous begill.•
ning. Still it is necessary to begin at the
bottom even of a quicksand. Surely every
one of you men has noticed and wondered
at the extraordinary lack of moral sense in
the woman nearest to you. Women in thts
respect are right. The strange, unscrupulousness we note in the best women is their
wisdom and clairvoyance.
·
How does this bear on the economic aspect of woman suffrage? Vlell, there are
no ultimate and fixed principles in any
sphere at all. Then why is it that so many
among us perpetually appeal to these as if
t hey were real? I am not speaking' of re ligion now . . It is possible for a man of any
religious faith whatever still to understand
this. For faith , to be faith , must be in
something that does not appear, and in
what seems impossible, But :we have a
right to be Macchiavells of skepticism in
regard to ultimate questions in ethics, politics, and in the great economic aspect of
the sex question.
V'J"e have a right to
analyze everything, and we must do it. I
am so anxious to make everybody here ask
himself the most embarrassing question he '
can possibly ask. Take the conviction nearest to you. and ask yourself : What would
it be like if it were not true, if the opposite
were true? Vve Ii.ave had enough of repeating the same old catch-words. VVe are
slaves of catch-words and slang phrases.
"Liberty!" "Justice!" We have turned liberty and justice into muttons and weak tea.
Liberty and justice; if the y are worth anything, are worth being paid for with blood.
Is it not possible that we have been
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Q : If a ne w party form s in England by
a coalition of the Liberals and the Laborites, under the leadership of Lloyd-George,
will the prospect fo r women be brighter ?
A : Yes, I certainly think so.
Q (:Miss Craw ford) : Whom do you consider the most distinguished feminist in
England today ?
A: There are so many, and each takes
a different aspect of feminism . I would say
vVells, but he has got fri g htene d and started
explaining. I wo uld say Shaw, but he always lea ve s o ut the im11ortant element of
romance. The man who best understands
wcmen. I should be inclined to say, is
.Jos eph Conrad.
Q: Is fr ee love op1rnsed to true Christia nity?
A: No, most certainly not. It has even
been practis ed by true Christians.
Q ( i\irs. Ga llup ) : What is your present
a ttit ude toward the militants ?
A:
Still sympathetic, but wholly from
th e outside.
Q: Wha t is yo ur opinion of the Anarchist
criticism of woman s uffrage ?
A : I am s o sorry to say that I am ignorant of the latest phases of the ir criticism.
Q (M r. F a sccia ): Wou ld it not be better
if all !)rejudices were r emo\· ed, and men
li ved as brothers ?
A : I should like to have my revenge on
some people fir s t . I do not think we shall
e ver elim inate t he fi ghting quality.
Q: What are the prospects of getting
from the single to the dou ble tracl, in thfs
generation ?
A : As soon a s the Irish question is
settled I believe Y:e sha ll see a great movement to ward it in Engla nd.
Q ( :\frs. Sc dderman) : Do you expect the
collapse c f th e present English go vernn:ent '?
A : Ce rtainl v n ot.
Q : \V ould )·c u g h"e t he Yote to wom e n
on ac count of the ir ina lien ab le rig ht. or for
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fooled ? I sometimes think our masters, the
unscrupulous men of action, are arranging
it th a t we should talk a great deal about
liberty and justice, and meanwhile they cut
out our hearts.
You can go on t alking
about li berty and justice to the end of the
world, and not a single thing will change;
and our business is to change a great
many things. Therefore we must ask embarrassing questions. \Ve must ask if there
are in the world anv such things as liberty
and justice. We asi ume that they are written in the :.Ylilky Way, in the system o f
things. The y are not.
\Ve assume too
much. The y are written only in our own
blind brains and foolish hearts. They are
words.
What do we really find? That we are at
the !)arting of t he ways. \Vhat else do we
find ? Progress ?-that ridi culous ideal of the
market-place! It does not matter what we
do , we say, the great purpose will triumph.
because e\·olution will look after it. But
suppose evolution is careless, diabolical, and
cares not a jot for all our morality ? \Vhat
then ? Suppose t he human race has for two
thousand years gone in the wrong direction ? \ Ve must ask: Is it a good thing to
have woman s uffra ge, and why ? Why is the
economi c aspe ct of woman suffrage more
important than any other ?
First of ail .
suffrage-what is suffrage? The right t o
vote.
It implies a ten-millionth ·part in
the national palaver, mostly of fools. vVe
vote, and the supposition is that the people
we vote for go t here, and the further supposition is that when they are there the y do
what we want them to. Neither of these
suppositions is true. of course. vVe must
ask: Is representative government played
out ? Is t h e party system of government
outworn ? Has the point been reached
where our taste is a little sick of them ? 1f
it h a s. and I discern indications tha t it has.
what does it matter whether or not wome n
g-e t the \·ote. when in a little while men
also are going to lose it "
?
If this be so. what should we substitute
for the \·o te ? P ersonal] ,·. I should sub sti,.. ,,. .....
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repeat these catch-words, and think all is
well because we are broad-minded and believe in liberty and justice.
Our broadminded catch-words are air and wind and
dust when it comes to the real pinch, and
the pinch is the economic pinch.
vVhat makes woman a slave today is tlie
economic condition which prevails.
(Applause. ) If a woman is dependent on a
man. for all pra ctical purposes she is his slave. \Vhen you come down to bed-rock in
this matter, you find that this is quite lit- · ~
erally true. 1Ve must eat and drink first of ·,
all. The two prime purposes · of life are
food and the propagation of the race. The
economic question •is an animal, scientific,
physiological question. It is the question
that occupied the minds of grandpapa and
grandmama and the hairy cave-man.
We
may talk and talk, but behind liberty and ·
justi ce and everything else, you get these
two great economic and sexual necessitieshaving food and having children.
Since the economic aspect of woman suffrage is the really important thing, what
wculd happen if you gave women the vote? _
I am coming to a part of m y subject that ~
interests me more than any.
A certain :
number of people are afraid that if you
made every woman the equal unit of society with every man. and made that unit
the person and not the head of the family,
every kind of catastrophe, moral and otherwise, would come about-free love the least
of them.
In certain quarters the wor~
" feminism" is supposed to be synonymous
with " free love." Read your dictionary! •
Don·t think, though, that I am afraid to talk
about free love, or about anything else.
Everything ought to be discussed. Now.
here you want to make the woman the equal
unit of society with the man and quite
obviously the first step in th~t direction
would be the endowing of motherhood. AnY·
body who thinks the endowing of mother:
hood would lead to free love is right in one
sense, because love would be free between
the individual man and woman, and you
would get the ideal monogamistic state. D 0
you think there is any beau ty in being bou nd
together when one is a slave and the other
a victim '? Ko, motherhood must be a profession. and ought to be paid five times 85
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been practised b,· true Christians.
Q (Mrs. Gallu11 ) : What is your present
attitude toward the militants?
A:
Still sympathetic, but wholly from
the outside.
Q: \ Vhat is your opinion of the Anarchist
criticism of woman suffrage?
• A: I am so sorry to say that I am ignorant of the latest phases of their criticism.
Q (Mr. Fasccia ): Would it not be better
if all prejudices were remoYed , and men
lived as brothers ?
A: I should like to have my revenge on
some people first. I do not think we shall
ever eliminate the fi ghting quality.
Q: \ Vhat are the prospects of getting
from the single to the double track in thfs
£eneration?
~ A:
As soon as the Irish question is
settled I believe ,,_.e shall see a great movement toward it in England.
Q (Mrs. Sodderman): Do you expect the
collapse cf the present English govern:rr..ent?
A: Certainly not.
Q : 'Would yc-u give the vote to women
on account of their inalienable right, or for
expediency ?
A:
There are no inalienable rights;
there are only what ,ve get b,- fighting.
Q (Mr. Margolis ) : Would it not be better to try to think clearly instead of label·
Jing ourselves Socialists or Anarchists?
A : One person is never so strong as
many united for one cause. \\' here would
Napcleon be without his army?
Q:
Since ,vhere women have the vote
immorality is qwindling, does it not make of
priests and preachers and rabbis political
Anarchists when they oppose woman suffrage?
A: I don't like the assumption that political Anarchists are necessarily immoralists.
Q (Mr. Harbour): How do you account
for the opposition of so many intelligent
women to woman suffrage?
A:
I believe it is a certain atavistic
subtlety of feelin g which makes them
: shrink from the shock of a transitional
period. They dread the dust and sweat and
blood of the arena. You will find the same
sort of thing in extremely refined artists
like Matthew Arnold.
" Greatness lies not in being strong, but
in the right using of strength ; and strength
is not used rightl y when it only serves to
·c arry a man above his fellows for his own
solitary glory.
He is greatest whose
strength carries up the most hearts by the
attraction of his own."-Henry Ward
Beecher.
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That ,,·e are at
t he parting of t he way s. \ \'hat else do we
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find ? Progress ?-that ridiculous ideal of the
n1.arket-place ! It does not matter what we
do , we say, the great purpose will triumph ,
because eYolution will look after it. But
suppose evolution is careless, diabolical, and
cares not a jot for all our morality? vVhat
then ? Suppose the human race has for two
thousand years gone in the wrong direction? \ "le must ask: Is it a good thing to
have woman suffrage, and why? Why is the
economic aspe ct of woman suffrage more
important than any other?
First of ail,
suffrage-what is suffrage? The right t(}
vote.
It implies a ten-millionth ·part in
the natic-nal palaver, mostly of fools. vVe
vote, and the supposition is that the people
we vote for go there, and the further supposition is that when they are there they do
what we want them to. Neither of these
suppositions is true, of course. \'v·e must
ask : Is representative government played
out? Is the party system of government
outworn?
Has the point been reached
where our taste is a little sick of them? lf
it has, and I discern indications that it has,
what does it matter whether or not women
get the vote, when in a little while men
also are going to Jose it ?
If this be so, what should we substitute
for the vote? PersonaJJy, I should substitute a sort of universal referendum, by
which each government should be ruled in
a highly centralized manner for a period of,
say, ten years, ·b y an oligarchy of officials
chosen by the dictator, the Napoleon, elected by the universal referendum. Ti:J.ese
officials would have absolute power. They
would make of men an industrial army,
governing entirely by tyranny. And the
nation would be one great trust, and Socialism would have come. (Applause.)
ReaJJy and truly, the economi c aspect of
woman suffrage will never be shelved and
done with as decided until we have Socialism. Women will never be really free or
have justice until Socialism is established ..
(Applause.) The conditions are such that
for economic ~sons, given the system as
at present it exists, it is impossible that
women should be paid as they deserve to
be paid, and should take their place as they
must take their place in the industrial action of the world. Why must we have the
economic aspect of suffrage discussed? Do
yon not know that all our talk, all our
philoso phies, all our books, aIJ our parliaments and Yoting, d e11end upon the economi c situation, ·and that not alJ the legislation in the world c:an cliange the economic situation? Only economic pressure
can do that. and economic pressure demands force behind it. Now suppose a man
should arise who was an unscrupulous man
of action. a visionan' dreamer, and an antimonian skeptic; and then the thing would
be done. But it will never be done while we
two great economic and sexual neceEsitieshaving food and having children.
Since the economic aspect of wolllan sur.
frage is the really -important thing, what
wculd happen if you gave women the Yote?
I am coming to a part of my subject that
interests me more than any.
A certain
number of people are afraid that if You
made every woman the equal unit of society with every man, and made that unit
the person and not the head of the family,
every kind of catastrophe, moral and other\Yise, would come about-free love the least
of them.
In certain quarters the word
"feminism" is supposed to be synonymous
with '"free love." Read your dictionary!
Don·t think, though, that I am afraid to talk
about free love, or about anything else.
Everything ought to be discussed. Now.
here you want to make the woman the equal
unit of society with the man, and quite
obviously the first step in that direction
would be the endowing of motherhood. Anybody who thinks the endowing of motherhood would lead to free love is right in one
sense, because love would be free between
the individual man and woman, and you
would get the ideal monogamistic state. Do
you think there is any beauty in being bound
together when one is a slave and the other
a victim? No , motherhood must be a profession , and ought to be paid five times as
much as any other. (Applause.)
I really do not care very much what making woman the equal of man will lead to.
What are you afraid of? Think that out,
and you will find that there is a little tincture cf purely animal meanness .in your
fear. Have you no trust in women? Do
you think all the world would run amuck
in an orgy of licentiousness? - That is an
insult to your mother, your sister, your
wife. Of course we know women, we who
love them, far better than that. They would
see to it themselves that there would be
something very different. (Applause.) The
peopl"e who associate feminism and free
love are either humbugs or rascals. They
are the people who support and frequent
brothels. They know that brothels would
be closed, and women workers would no
longer be driven on the street by insufficient wages. They do not want that to
happen, and so they cry : "Free love ! Free
love! ·• and all the fakirs cry with them.
(Applause.) No , women would prevent that
orgy; and surely you do not think you ca:·,
have an orgy like that without them!
As a matter of fact, it may turn out that
the vote is not the most important aspect
of the woman qu·e stion. It may be more im·
portant to be a feminist than a suffragist.
and it may even be that no one can be a
suffragist in the logical sense without being
a feminist too.
Now, there are certain
a mong you who. having read Strindberg and
Nietzsche and Dostoievsky and are inclined
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love would be free between
man and woman, and you
ideal monogamistic state. D0
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one is a slave and the o 1
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Mr. Jonah Rabinow, 99 iVIyrtle Street.
Mr. E. H. McIntosh, 247 Beale Street,
Wollaston.
Budget and Appropriations.
Mr. R. G. McKerrall, 41 Marie Avenue,
Everett, Chairman.
Mr. George W. Coleman, 177 W. Brookline Street, Boston.
l\'liss Elizabeth Hunter, 36 Hancock
Street, Boston.
Miss. Freda Rogolsky, 357 Charles
Street.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, Wellesley.
Mr. J. J. Sullivan, Weld Street, West
Roxbury.
Mr. J. S. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston.
Municipal Affairs.
Mr. Arthur 0. Tay lor, Box 3507, Boston,
Chairman.
Mr. W. C. Ewing, 987 Washington St.
Mr. M. T. Rush, 3 Bowdoin Street.
Mr. John H . Gutterson, P . 0. Box 13-1.
City Planning.
Mr. George B. Gallup, 72S Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Chairman.
Mrs. E . D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave.
Miss Freda Rogolsky, 357 Charles St.
Mr. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, Wellesley.
Mrs. L. B. Noyes, 146 :.VIassachusetts
Avenue, Boston.
1Ir. R. G. McKerrall, 41 Marie Avenue,
Everett.
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:.\Ir. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.,
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:.\Ir. Ma~1rice Casper , 39 No. Russell St.
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:.\I:· Juhus J. Shapiro, 115 Salem Street.
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:.\Ir. Frank Holiver, S3 Chambers Street.
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:\Ir. George E. Rower, Jr., 451 Walnut
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Mr. isaac l_saacs , 36 Allen Street.
' r. oms Simons, 164 Union Street Everett
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R~xbno . . .J. Sulll\"an, Weld Street, W.
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Mrs. A. L. Rienzi, 171 Everett Street,
Allston.
Labor.
Miss Louise A. Grout, 154 Newbury
Street, Boston, Chairman.
Mr. Peter E. Timbley.
Mr. Simon Robinson, 34 Temple Street.
:.\'Ir. K. F. Lindblad, 67 Sudbury Street.
Law School, 14 Ashburton Place.
Mr. G. G. Mills, P. 0. Box 53, Watertown.
Mr. George E. Power, Jr., 451 Walnut
Avenue, Roxbury.
Mr. Clarence Marble, 179 Vine Street,
Everett.
Judiciary.
}1r. Herbert P. ·ware, care of Adams &
Glynn, 30 Court Street, Boston, Chairman.
Mr. J. J. Freedman, _ 06 Union Park
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Street, Boston.
Miss Bessie Kisloff, care of B. U. Law
School, 11 Ashburton Place. Boston.
Mr. Irving L . Hoffman. care of B. U.
Law School , 11 Ashburton Place, Boston.
}fr. Louis Chandler, 2S School Street.
Transportation.
i\fr. Clarence iVIarble, 197 Vine Street,
Everett, Chairman.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, 'l,Vellesley.
:.\fr. H. L. Green, 104 Belvidere Avenue.
Mr. Samuel P. Levenberg, 23 Browning
Ave .. Dorchester.
Mr. J. S. Ballou, 53 State Street.
To Investigate Credit Unions. {Special.)
Mr. Leonard Martin. Chairman, AntiSaloon League, 344 Tremont Bldg.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan, 24 Traverse Street.
Mr. K. F. M. Lindblad, 67 S udbury St.
Ways and Means.
Mr. James P. Roberts, 141 Milk Street.
Mr. J. S. Ballou, 53 State Street.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan. 24 Traverse Street.
Mr. George B. Gallup, 72S Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
Mr. D. F. Ladd, Wellesley.
Mr. Samuel P. Levenberg, 23 Browning
Avenue, Dorchester.
Dr. Jacob T. Pollock, 212 Chestnut St..
Chelsea.
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::Vlrs. George B. Gallup, 72S Commonwealth Avenue. Boston. Chairman.
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Friends of our efficient sergeant-at-arms
will be sorry to hear that he has been ill.
although in spite of his illness he attended
Town Meeting as usual on Thursday. :.'Ir.
Ladd. who has been appointed assistant
sergeant-at-ar ms. was also present at th,;
last meetings, his Thursdays, as well as all
his other evenings, having been taken by
the soup kitchen.
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sympathy must be extended is Mr. Rower,
who is ill with appendicitis. :.\'Irs. Roste!·,
too , has been tired out by her work in the
soup kitchen, but we hope that a good re;;t
now will bring her back to her usual
strength and activity.
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on city planning on a municipal lodgin:;house is the finest possible example of the
kind of work our committees are doing. :.\Ir.
Gallup and his committee have been working for three months on this bill, Order Xv.
1. They have been in correspondence with
municipal lodging-houses all over the country. They have done practi cal investigating, some members of t he commit tee even
spending the night in various 25-cent lod~ing-houses in Boston so as to understand
thoroughly t heir workings and their deficiencies. They have collected a scrap-book
of clippings 8.nd publications on the subjed
that is permanently valuable.
The report.
recommending :ct hotel. industrial shops and
a muni cipal farm, shows the result of such
11reparation.
The Town :.feeting has still
another reason to be grateful that Mr. Gallup is one of its citizens.
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The sou 1 kitchen has been closed, since
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for the widening of Avery street. The m -=n
are still desperately in need of food. clothes
and shelter, but most of all of employment
by which they can earn these things.
At
present the employ ment department is ·b eing
continued under }frs. Foster's care at }1organ Memorial, and anyone knowing of · opportunities for work. especially hotel, farm
or day-laboring jobs, will confer an inestimable ben efit by sending word to her to
that effect.
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History Club, of whic-h )Ir. Allen is director.
is to hold a );'ew Voters· Rall)· in Faneuil
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;\lr. Henry S. Victorson, 15 Court Sq.,
Boston. Chairman.
;\lr. l\'laurice Casper, 39 No. Russell St:
Mr. Julius J . Shapiro, 115 Salem Street.
l\liss Ida Goldberg, 19 Auburn Street.
• l\lr. Frank Boliver, 83 Chambers Street.
:Mr. George E. Rower, Jr., 451 Walnut
Avenue, Roxbury .
Mr. M. T . Rush, 3 Bowdoin Street.
Ave .. Dorchester.
Mr. J. S. Ballou, 53 State Street.
To Investigate Credit Unions.
Ways and Means.
Mr. James P . Roberts, 141 Milk Street.
Mr. J . S. Ballou. 53 State Street.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan , 24 Traverse Street.
Mr. George B. Gallup, 72S Commonwealth A venue, Boston.
Mr . D. F . Ladd, Wellesley.
Mr. Samuel P. Levenberg, 23 Browning
Avenue, Dorchester.
Dr. Jacob T. Pollock, 212 Chestnut St.,
Chelsea.
.Education.
l\Iiss Miriam Allen deFord , 98 Tyler St.
Miss · Helen Veasey, 28 Shafter Street,
Grove Hall, Dorchester.
Mr. Isaac Isaacs, 36 Allen Street.
· Mr. Louis Simons, 164 Union Street, E verett.
Mr. H. L . Greene, 104 Belvidere Street.
Mrs. Jno. J. Sullivan, Weld Street, W.
Roxbury.
Publicity
Mrs. George B. Gallup, 728 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Chairman.
Mr. George W. Coleman, 177 W. Brookline Street, Boston.
Mr. J. S. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston.
Mr. A. D. Skelding, Boston Post.
Mr. Wm. V. Bottom. 121 St. Stephen St.
Miss Freda Rogolsky, Peabody H ouse.
Housing.
Mr. William C. Terry, P . 0 . Box 3347,
Boston, Chairman.
Carrie G. Barr, 15 Joy Street.
Eva Hoffman, 125 Leverett St.
E. D. Foster, 41 Huntington Ave.
George B. Gallup, 728 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
Mrs. A. L. Rienzi , 171 E verett Street,
Allston.
Mrs.
Mrs.
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Mr.
Mr. Elmer Eldridge, 14 Harvard Place,
Brookline, Chairman.
Miss Gertrude S. Cohen, 44a Joy Street.
Mr. DaYid Simpson, 3 Fairlee Street, W.
Somerville.
-Mr. Samuel Segall, 15 Blossom Street.
___ Miss Anna V. Eldred, 4 Kearsarge Ave.,. nue, Roxbury.
Play and Recreation .
Mr. J. S. London, Y. M. C. A., Boston,
Chairman.
Miss \Ida S. R. Goldberg, 19 Auburn
Street, Boston.
Miss Anna V. Eldred, 4 Kearsarge Ave. nue, Roxbury.
(Special.)
Mr. Leonard Martin, Chairman, AntiSaloon League, 344 Tremont Bldg.
Mr. Leo B. Kagan , 24 Traverse Street.
Mr. K. F. M. Lindblad, 67 Sudbur.y St.
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The Town :\Ieeting- has still
another reason to be grateful that Mr. GalJu11 is one of its citizens.
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The sou;i kitchen has been closed, since
the city is r eady to tear down the building
for the widening- of Avery street. The m-=n
are still desperately in need of food. clothes
and shelter. but most of all of employment
by which they can earn these things.
At
present the employment department is ·b eing
continued under Mrs. Foster's care at Morgan Memorial, and anyone knowing of opportunities for work, especially hotel, farm
or day-laboring jobs, will confer an inestimable benefit by sending word to her to
that effect.
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History Club, of which Mr. Allen is director.
is to hold a >Jew Voters' Rall,· in Faneuil
Hall, on the afternoon of April 19th. Gov. ernor Walsh is to be the speaker of the day.
All Jiersons interested are invited to attencl
this meeting, which is receiving the co-operation of the Town :vreeting among other organizations.
Citizenship.
Mr. H . L . Greene, 104 Belvidere Street,
Boston, Chairman.
Mr. George Weitzer, 100 Brighton St.
Miss Turner.
:\1r. Frank Boliver, S3 Chambers St.
To
Investigate
Unemployment.
"Let us believe in the great mass of the
people-not because they are intellectually
clever, not because they are independent
thinkers, hut because in the lon ~ run th o:,
sa.fest and sanest safeguards of nation<'il
character are to be found no t in the subtle ·
jugglery of the mental attitude of the few.
but in the sound, sane feeling laid down in
the fun damental c•ha racter of the p;reat mass
of the nation."-Prof. George E. Vincent.
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Bill Xe. 35, equal suffrage. Referred to
committee on judiciary. In co mmittee.
Bill >Jo. 36, seriousness in meeting.
Referred to committee on immigration.
In
committee.
(Special.)
Mr. Arthur 0. Taylor, Box 3507, Boston .
Chairman.
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"The effort to 11rohibit all combin ations,
;:-ood or bacl, is bound to fail. and ought to
fail: when made, it me rel,• means thut some
kind of the worst combinat ions are · not .
checke'rl ancl that honest business is checked .
Our purpose should be. not to strangle business as an incident of strangling combinat ions. but to regulate big corporations in
t horough-goin g and effective fashion, so a s
to help legitimate busin ess as an incident
to thoroughly and completel.v safeguarding
the interests of the people as a wbole.'·Theodore Roosevelt.
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It helps you to understand George Brewster Gallup to know that he writes poetry.
Some of his serious verse has been very
highly praised by critics who know g09d
work in this field; and. though he says little
about this verse-writing, one feels the poet
behind the advertising man whenever Mr.
Gallup talks his favorite theme, city planning. To this man city planning means
bringing the Holy City down to earth"making His Kingdom come," in the striking phraseology of the world's greatest
prayer; to a sermon he once heard preached
on the text, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of
Heaven," Mr. Gallup dates his spiritual rebirth into this passion of his life.
George Brewster Gallup is of the purest
Puritan strain so far as his family is concerned. He doesn't bother much about this,
for he is a. democrat with a big D, but he
says it strengthens his sinews to remember it when he is fighting, against great
odds, to make this world a fit place for
children to be born into. For that to him
is the whole meaning. and purpose of '"city
planning": the elimination of the inhumanities and barbarities of cities as we see them
today. He once wrote for the leading paper
of a city not a thousand miles from Boston
a series of one hundred and fifty articles
which covered the whole field of city planning as we now . know it.
And yet this
science had not then been given a name. It
was his idealistic enthusiasm for a more
perfect city that first drew him and George
W. Coleman together. · What this has meant
to the Ford Hall Meetings I need not say.
Mr. Gallup was born in a little town near
Albany, New York, and served his newspaper apprenticeship as reporter on the
Albany Argus. Then he became interested
in library work and helped to organize the
first State Library Association of which Melville Dewey was president.
Somewhat
later he was called to a newspaper position
in another New York city where. at that
time, capital and labor were engaged in
deadly combat. The vision of what the city
might become if these two opposing forces
were made to work together smote Mr. Gallup with mighty force. and he began to try
THE ECONOMIC ASPECT OF WOMAN
SUFFRAGE.
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to take a very cynical view of certain aspects of women's character and personality
-of the sex. There is no use in denouncing
these people. There is no use in shutting
the mouth of any thinker by personal abuse.
Everything must be discussed, and every
opinion aired.
These people would say:
"The whole movement is an indication of a
biological degeneracy.
It is not because
women have become more intellectual that
the change has been bro~ht about, but because men have become more feeble, and
are in a pathological state of neurotic degeneracy. Because of their general lack
of virility, they take a kind of perverted
pleasure in being trampled upon and cruelly
treated by women." I rejoice, therefore,
whenever I see a magnificent, clear-eyed
prize-fighter in the ranks of woman suffrage. I would strongly persuade all baseball and football and cricket players to join
the cause, and above all to go in the processions.
It is true that Strindberg has exposed the
parasite woman, and the vampirish and
cannibalistic aspect of women, which is in
all, even the best of them. You can see it
in the unscrupulousness of mothers, and
the horrible cannibalism of parents who live
by draining the strength of their children.
But I come to a still more subtle point.
Some people in their hearts hold with
Nietzsche that what we want is a dramatic
and exciting world, and that women make
it so. but that in order that they may do so
they must be dangerous. This is an important philosophical aspect of woman suffrage and the feminist movement. I know
some people think that women, when they
have economic equality, will become uninteresting, horribly eugenic, badly dressed
lathe and plaster drabbletags. Why should
I argue with these people? vVell. suppose
I hid in my heart of hearts a sneaking, lurk.
ing sympathy with them ? I understand
their little emotions upon this matter. But
if you think that the dangerousness of women will come to an end .because of their
equality you are grievously mistaken.
If
there is dangerousness in women which
makes them a t once so peri Ions · and so dev-
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be not of God-well, go ahead and stamp
it out if you - can. If God is in it, you cannot oppose it. ·And if there be no God, it
is our affair; take the reins, be gods yourselves and use your will.
It is absolutely necessary that in all these
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controversies we keep not only clear heads,
but light hearts. Why cannot suffragists J
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and anti-suffragists even meet at an after- /1
noon tea without quarreling with each other?
We ought to remember that we are all, after .
all, men and women together-brothers and
sisters-and all in a great darkness. We
really and truly know very little as to the
purpose and will of the Invisible Ones be- •,
hind it all. A kind of crepuscular dawn -.,1
may be emerging, but it is not very much.
We are all groping and fumbling and feeling our way. Why, then, should we turn
upon one another and spit out ou, vitriolic
abuse as if we belonged to different planets, ·
instead of being poor human beings, all condemned alike to die? Since life ts snort·, .
let us be content to go together· like good
philosophers. and while we analyze and dissect everything in the skeptic's and agita- ·
tor's way, let us be magnanimous and hon- ..,
arable opponents. A good war is what we.
want, but we must play the game fairly. ,
The economic aspect of woman suffrage,"'..
you see, really means that in the future men .
and women will work together. It seems to ·
me that for the first time in evolution · ,,
women as women have become conscious of
what it means to be a woman from the l
point of view of psychic and intellectual'
consciousness. When such women hear it ~
said that women are either .inferior or su-"
perior to men they smile. They know that.
women are-different; and that the world
will achieve even a temporary- solution of
the mystery only when the intellect of men
and the intellect of women meet and work.
together. Therefore, let the women go over•
to business and politics, and the men to
poetry, culture and the fine arts. For then·
only you -will have the ideal world.
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In the very heart of "materialistic" Ne\\' l
York, at 35 East Thirty-second Street, a_.1j.
young woman has established a church for /,
all peoples. She is Elizabeth Knopf, and she I
says she was impelled b,· a vision to found .
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for he is a. democrat with a big D, but he
says it strengthens his sinews to remember it when he is fighting, against great
odds, to make this _world a fit place f_
or
children to be born mto. For that to him
· is the whole meaning and purpose of "city
planning" : the elimination of the inhumanities and barbarities of cities as we see them
today. He once wrote for the leading paper
of a city not a thousand miles from Boston
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a series of one hundred and fifty articles
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·which covered the whole field of city planning as we now . know it.
And yet this
science had not then been given a name. It
was his idealistic enthusiasm for a more
perfect city that first drew him and George
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to the Ford Hall Meetings I need not say.
Mr. Gallup was born in a little town near
Albany, New York, and served his newspaper apprenticeship as reporter on the
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Albany Argus. Then he became interested
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in library work and helped to organize the
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first State Library Association of which Melville Dewey was president.
Somewhat
later he was called to a newspaper position
in another New York city where, at that
time, capital and labor were engaged in
deadly combat. The vision of what the city
might become if these two opposing forces
were made to work together smote Mr. Gallup with mighty force, and he began to try
what he cculd do towards bringing this
happy thing to pass. The president of the
labor union was a friend of his and so was
the president of the Chamber of Commerce.
Through Mr. Gallup 's good offices the two
were made to know each . other as men and
·1 as citizens, with the result that the union
label was soon to be found on all the city
printing and men began to be proud of resi1 · ..
dence in a community of which they had
heretofore been ashamed.
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year befo 7e all sorts of. civic bodies on The
1 ··a.> Perfect City as he sees it. At the Ford Hall
·, _:"{; • . Town Meetings his v1s10n has already
kindled the imagination of the citizens and
has borne fruit in actual civic improvement.
For Mr, Gallup is quite as read y to lend his
shoulder as his silver tongue to the boosting of any good movement ; seconded by
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those in charge of our soup kitchen
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the cause, and above all to go in the processions.
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It is true that Strindberg has exposed the
parasite woman, and the vampirish and
cannibalistic aspect of women, which is in
all, even the best of them. Ydu can see it
in the unscrupulousness of mothers, and
the horrible cannibalism of parents who live
by draining the strength of their children.
But I come to a still more subtle point.
Some people in their hearts hold with
Nietzsche that what we want is a dramatic
and exciting world, and that women make
it so, but that in order that th ey may do so
they must be dangerous. This is an important philosophical aspect of woman suffrage and the feminist movement. I know
some people think that women, when they
have economic equality, will become uninteresting, hdrribly eugenic, badly dressed
lathe and plaster drabbletags. Why should
I argue with these people ? W ell, sup pose
I hid in m y heart of hearts a sneaking, lurking sympathy with them ? I understand
their little emotions upon this matter. But
if you think that the dangerousness of women will come to an end because of their
equality you are grievously mistaken.
If
there is dangerousness in women whi ch
makes tll.em at once so perilous and so devilishly att,active, it will not disappear for
all the voting in the world.
Now I am going t o talk to the people who
h old the old fashioned Victorian ideals-"m y
backyard, my beer, my wife, m y beefsteak,
I don't know anything about it but I know
I like it and it's mine." If you may know a
profligate by his use of the phrase "free
love," you may know a hypocritical villain
by his use of the phrase, " the sanctity of
the home." If you know a man who says,
The sanctity of the home is in danger,"
send a detective after him. But with these
men are their wives, wh- have been forced
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to listen to this talk, and who have at last
come to think, through utter weariness,
·•suppose my husband is right after all ?"
To the wives and daught ers who have li ved
in this mephitic and miasmic atmosphere. I
a ddress myself. All that is really beautiful
and delicate and precious, in the natural
sense sacred and pure, in the old-fashioned
order of society, will not " e killed. Women
will not cease to be attractive-when they
have more money they will spend more on
dress, and I rejoice in it. And they will
not forget how to cook, how to be gracious
hostesses or charming society women.
The tide is coming on to something real] ~
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important, and we have to face it. We have
to ask ourselves horrible questions and be
good agitators. We have to discu;s every
moral basis and every conviction, principle
and morality in the world. Suppose you ask
yourself : What are you afraid of? " If the
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instead of being poor human beings, ·all~
demned alike to die ? Since life ts sbo11,
let us be content to . go to gether like goO(
philosophers,_ and_ wlule we ai:,a_Yze ana ai.,
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sect everythmg m the skep~1c s and ag11:a,
tor's way, let us be magnammous and h011,
orable opponents. A good war is what
want, but we must play the gam e fa irly.
The economic aspect of woman surrraii
you see, really means that in the future 111
and women will work together. It seems
me that for the first time in evolut:1aia
women as women have become conscious err
what it m~ans to be a_ woman_ from t1't
point of view of psychic and mtellecti
consciousness. When such women hear
said that women are either inferior or
perior to men they smile. They know tha
women are-different; and that the worw
will achieve even a temporary solution
the mystery only when the intellect of m
ea
and the intellect of women meet and wort;
together. Therefore, let the women go onr
to business and politics, and t he men
poetry, culture and the fine arts. For thes
only you -will have the ideal world.
THE DAILY TEMPLE.
In the very heart of "materialistic" Xe•
York, at 35 East Thirty-second Street, a
young woman has established a church f,
all peoples. She is Elizabeth Kno pf, and s·
says she was impelled by a vision to founi
this spiritual centre, intended primarily for
the working people who pass the Daifr
Temple on their wa y home from work. For
a year and a half she has been traveling ii
Euro pe and the Holy Land to prepare her;
self for this work, and now she has
modelled an old stable into a church, an
moved into its upper s t ory as her perman
home. Miss Knopf is supporting the ente:•
prise herself, and not even a collection TIU
ever be taken.
Every evening she will have religious s
vices, so conducted as to appeal equally t1
the follow ers of all religions or of non
When the Daily. T emple was opened on
cember 28, six different religions were re
resented in the congregation.
Ever y noon there will be an o- en fora
p
on the Ford Hall plan , for t he discussion .
topi cs 11ot necessarily religious.
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Knopf is a militant suffragist, as well as
spiritual enthusiast, and many of these n
diR cussions will be on various aspects
feminism . Dr. Ann a Howard Shaw has
asked to speak on "Women and Rel igion:
The game of success is never a
solitaire.
FRIENDS WHO ARE COMING.
April 12-Dr. Thomas C. Hall . of ..'Ne
York, "Religion and Social Revolution.
April 19-Prof. Walter Rauschenb
"Is the Woman Movement Going to sa
Society ?"
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heels of Prof. Harry Ward's remarkable iddresi
on '' The Challenge of Socialism to Christianit/5m::::==========
this talk ought to link inextricably in the minds o
the Ford Hall audience the very intimate relatior
which must and should exist between the religiom
motive and the social motive in any effectiw
HE Ford Hall m ee
scheme of social reconstruction. Dr. Hall is tht
years old.
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son of Rev. John Hall, one of the most famou.
wide reputation. A
of similar 11opula1
preachers America has ever known, and he himscl
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been Instituted in '
has a rare oratorical gift as well as the delightfu!
te■ by those who got tl j
wit of his native Ireland . . One of Cooper Union '.
m , Ford Hall. For more 1
r4 ,})nil has not been larg!I
most acceptable speakers, he scored a big hit here.
modnte the crowds who
also, when he g ave an address a year or so ago on '' The A1orals qf A11anh_1
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ADDRESS, "Is the Woman Movem ent Going to Save Society?"
-Prof. ·w aiter Rauschenbttsch of Rochester, N. Y,
Hv~IN, "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
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APRIL 19.-PRoF. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH will
seventh season in a lectttre bearing the provocative
title "Is /lie 1,Voman J11ovement Going to Sa'/Je
Society?'' Prof. Rattschenbttsch is too well known
and too dearly loved by this audience to call for
any commendatory comments . A great scholar,
he is also a very great soul. One of the most distinguished Jews in America recently spoke of him
to the Secretary of these :M eeting s as ''The Saint
of Ottr Times .'' From such a man any message
on the relation of Femini sm to the future of th e
race is bound to be an important _contribution to a
vexed problem . Obviously, you will need to come
early that ni g ht!
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and e xpenses. Like\\' "
at , mufllchrns generous!:
for the good of th e c:1
and director of the 11
' usher and his assista j
r aervlces without cot.ll
be Boston Baptist Socw
U118 of the hall, appl'OI
iltnry for running ex
funds, and m a ims its •
manngem e nt of the m ·
bat are the r e sults f1
aml devotion, and W! 1
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ty be outlin ed withi
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n' work Is n totally tj·
1,1umlnatlon to th e
more bl ess ed to ~i"
tie the Ford Hall me 1
t d, Inspired and
urcb a11:ency without ~
tago for Itself, asldn
aorvc others, I won
ork these meetings h j
found In th e ir re
urches th e mselv es.
phnsl1.e th e correct
ent. Jllore than 'ti :c;cc
opted the method s en
nd hRrdly a day go,
urch · ts eagerly imp
1ngecl nttltude of ind
ward soclnl and eco
·tbelr chnnged feeling 1
nldentlfled with orgF
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lhor hnppy r e sult to
Rall meetings have m
nlrlbutlon.
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urches who atte nd
rgely unsympathetic
nlzed r eligion, ha,
former bitte rness, a ·•
fair conshlernllons,
honor nncl lo1·e many
church 111111 synagogu
Protestants and .Tew
nee of the Ford J-Ir
to their aba nclon ed
who hav e ld e ntifi e<
work tor nny le n~ tl
to . respect each otl
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meetings Is also In
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