| Show IS N NW W WOM N or Of W Al TH A 11 ORE ONE ONI or Of THAT SEX SAYS SO NEW YORK Jan 15 Now New NewYork York woman has too much money to spend With V those these enormous fortunes at her command sho aho steeps steep in inthe tho the dogra degradation atlon of lu luxury declares Mrs Cobden She adores her person until I am un often minded of or a Turkish h harum She SOt measures all humanity bv by its ith tl clothes ts her husband ail aft his fello by their wealth anti and ability to acquire ac no- quire piira more wealth Sho She measures the value of or a movement mo by the women who lead it it and women b bj- bj tho the fairness fair n ness rg of th their ir raiment Sho She ha has no timo time timeto to think of vital of the hour no civic civic pride because sho Iho is too busy bus adorning her person steeping herself in tho personal luxury which deadens the soul foul to know what chat i is really going on Oil in in thu great pulsing world worM of under dog humanity hu hn manity next to her nor own In England the women of or the aristocracy aris aril r are aro not always the women onion of wealth In New York the woman without without with with- out wealth wealth and and clothe rs appears to bo ho boa ben a n mere mero nonentity without power and in in- fluence In England you YOU find the men spending their wealth wraith in m keeping up tho tim family estates rather rathor than n in decking the persons of or their women folks In America and part particularly Now Nos- York the tho men give c their un r attention to making mOlle and flod nj trust their wives to hold bold up the e educational the intellectual intel and lO the sartorial end The En En- takes pride in iii what his hib wife for his country th the New York m man n manIn manin Ul in In the tho appearance she makes on un his bis money It is money that i is sapping the minds and bodies of oN New cw Yorks York's so so- called aristocracy today was pity rather than corn in inthe inthe inthe the voice of Mr Mrs Cobden Sanderson Sanderson the famous P J English sh suffragette as she thus thud arraigned n the immensely rich women of ew York And Mrs Sander Cobden son hi w not the sort of person who speaks thoughtlessly lr Sho She has been in America since ince October 21 5 She has studied c Americans in the their r drawing rooms in their houses in the hou cs and in charities She ignot is ig not hero horo for OT the tho Turpo of writing a look hook about us She is here on ona ona a pleasure trip with her husband who is tho the head henl of one oue of England's most artistic printing and binding elt establishments establish ments moats and he is hero hern to talk about books hooks But in in Eu England l nd Mrs Ire Cobden Cobden- n is is a figure lre in the thc world of or politicians and statesmen Sho She is one oue of t the he recognized and ar aristocratic stoc headers lead head ers era of tho equal suffrage e movement und and when sho reached New York the equal suffragists found her out ont and n naked asked kM hor hr to ad rp M their meeting n nt at t Cooper Union on Thursday evening On morning Mrs on woke up to find herself famous anions for fOT daring darin to havo criticised tho the rich women of York for having int de described them as steeped in the d degradation on of luxury And thero she sheat sat at in tho the glittering brocade gilt It reception room o othe of the Hotel Seville nn an aristocratic ari nl cu- nl- nl most Dresden Dresden liko liko k figuro ur with exquisito gray hair r typical hn J h pink l cheeks heek an and gray cray gown gown wn pitying York women women wo woo wo- wo men from the bottom of her heart You Vou must not misunderstand m Tn sn 1 I Iam am not deliberately criticising Now Nov York women nomon I ani but put putto to m mf m. h by e rv fI f pr ry thou thoughtful ji woman I meet noeL I to find you OU a n self self- J. J yet et people 3 and ani l lx I the nr first t question put to me here there every everywhere rC In III hat N Is tim matter with Ith us And m my answer n wr Is la so ISO far CRr as 8 tho the New York woman n Is concerned d Too much money mone too much pcr pet personal luxury too m ch bridge too many cloth clothes an antoo and too little Interest In your tell fellow 0 men Your our New V York must have hR an ln awakening And I that the the- thesal salvation sal sal- of oC their souls lies heR In the movement InO Th The old Idea of the tho l equal suffrage Is dead The new nev suffragist suit suf Cm Is a creature who through h th tho thu right to vote moans not to In hold power for Cor or her clr for Cor 11 her r own but for or the downtrodden of oC her I sex flex ami anO Now when the tho New ow York woman IH Iii converted on to equal suffrage sh she will soo eo o the tho n needs ed edof dH of or h hoi her lesi leRIt fortunate sisters and nd in workIng work- work In Ing for tor tho the betterment of or their condition will save nave he her own soul out But the only way that the wealthy wealth mOD money eo making makinI and mone money spending N New Yorker will wm be converted to equal suffrage suffrage suf luC fra frage e Is to tv ci have one or more mor of oC our aristocrats Oil our titled women Interested Interest cl clIn In the movement mn conic omo to your country countr nod work for Cor It here When hen the th New Nev NewYork NewYork York woman In her willingness to entertain enter enter- lair tain the nobility at the co cot t ev even n of oC so freakish a movement nt as 45 equal listens to our aristocratic leaders lenders she chic will be hf awakened from her lethargy of or personal adornment to the needs and the cries of oC h her fellow m nei n. n The Tue real hope hop how however cr of equal lul frage e In America lies not In th the lie small circle of or the multimillionaire women but hut butIn butIn hutIn In the maMI masses I have have- spoken before such uch Colle college e l bodies o lles ns as II Mount I let i nod and Bryn MR Mawr wr and th thre re I have hRYC found round young women omen to the th social needs the tho terrible gap between the very Yeo rich and tho the Cr ery poor which tho they thoy will face fac race wh when n they leave Ia coIl col- col Il loge lego p. p The Tle Christian socialistic mo movement nt Is strong In your our colleges college for women and when whon these l girls start mart out as na 3 sociological socio oclo- logical workers worker the they will become suffragists Rn and sni t teach ach equal suffrage to the masses of or tho the poor S STour Your Tour our women of oC culture Yes I have mot met them on the continent They The lore hare loreme me greatly Their culture I Is a a. L veneer veneer on only The They belong to women's omens clubs and tall talk talk talk Botticelli but but the they do donot donot donot not kno know the n needs or the tho politicians of or their own country In Paris In B Berlin In Rome In Madrid I nest meet In drawing rooms the politicians perhaps ps you ou might call them statesmen I of ot the nations In America you OU hear of no iio politician save eave Roosevelt elt N Never NT T has hns one of m my host- host eases ps Introduced mo me to a l fellow guest with the phrase that h he I li is one of our loading politicians Perhaps your women are ashamed of ot your politicians P Perhaps Per Per- r- r haps you rou have havo no men of ot culture IrA an and wealth who aro cure willing to serve sen their nation na na- na- na tion Ion Perhaps Perl you OU men are ue as al dead to th tho call of civic dut duty an as your our Wom women to tho the call all of ot humanity Your Tour men may be 00 steeped Bleeped d In love 10 of ot gold as your women omen In love 10 of personal per adornment What hat your women need no now Is II H R. great movement to stir sUr them The They have had nothing Inspirational since your our rebel rebel- lion since since- tho the question of or abolition brought out some leaders among women Your greatest workers for equal cut suf age frage toda today are women omen who ho have ha been Inherited from that movement women movement women like Julia Ward Howe Perhaps some great groat movement ma may rouse roule your our luxurY luxurY- steeped New York women n to 10 action Certainly In the the- masses maci-es s the leaven cn Is workIng working work- work Ing In I lovo 10 your our democracy your our masses I I was wan dell delighted with Miss 8 Jane Addams and Hull House and all that they stand I for with your our college o girls and their high alms aims But your 11 women of or mere wealth I a and d fine raiment they thc they arc are as nothing to your nation TIle They are ore parasites not life life- givers ers nor producers of oC anything save SIl I discord find and em envy and strife |
