Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-23 | Page 10 | Suffragettes are Scored by Dr. Shaw

SUFFRAGETTES ARE SCORED BY I SUM Honorary President of National Na-tional Association Repudiates Repu-diates the Militants. PITTSBURG. Nov. 22. Praising President Presi-dent Wilson for his aid to the suffrage cause, intimating that the White House pickets of t he Congressional union, now known as the National Woman's party, had endangered the life of President AVil-son AVil-son by their actions, and declaring that the pickets al the time of the visit of the Russian mission to Washington had carried treasonable banners. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president of the National American Woman Suffrage association, as-sociation, in an address at the closing session of the annual convention here of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage association asso-ciation repudiated picketing and all forms of militancy by workers for equal suffrage. suf-frage. The address of Dr. Shaw came during a discussion of a resolution condemning "the mistaken methods of the pickets'' and resulted in the adoption of the resolution reso-lution by an almost unanimous vote. Tlie arrest, of the While House pickets and their charge of brutality and insufficient insuffi-cient food while confined in jail is arousing arous-ing sentiment throughout the country which will prove hurl ful at this critical time, declared Dr. Shaw. "I am fearful of the harm which may be done at this time, because there are people In this count ry who are opposed to the administration and are opposed to war and are ready to seize any excuse for antagonism against the government. We are a sentimental people, and sentiment senti-ment will appeal when common sense will not, and so today there is sweeping over this country a great "wave of senli-mentality senli-mentality because it i.s said these women are receiving brutal t reatment at the hands of the government." To stop the progress of this wave of "sentimentality," Dr. Shaw said she had two proposals lo make to the Washington police department. First, that a committee commit-tee of respected and trusted citizens investigate in-vestigate the charges made by the pickets, pick-ets, and, second, have those now serving sentences pardoned and allow them to picket under police protection, a police officer of-ficer escorting each picket. This latter proposal. Dr. Shaw said, would soon stop the picketing.