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Show ASKS SUFFRAGE ISE1T1S' Senator George H. Dern Ironically Wary of Entangling En-tangling Alliances. Parody on Peace Treaty Speeches Greeted With Laughter. IMd.-ntly rati.-riiliiK after nuii U-aders !n tli.) t'nlt.d Stat.-s M-nnt; ;ih liorali, lanlr, I'olnd.r.t'.r and Johnson, Henutor 'oormj II. I.rn, In thu matt okilatun-y. okilatun-y. i.-fdav, mud.- an roldrr:!.-j on th woni-:ut woni-:ut s, hi.Hrare a ii i c j i d t n- n ' , slth this dlf-t''i dlf-t''i -jm r, that h'-iia' i,i I mtu us d Irony and huuiur In uimy of hia "rtherva-t "rtherva-t : i i f " ihfi a Idn-hH, whhh mot with a tumult of lauihi.-r fioin hi:h the Hour of the a-nai.- ii!,. th.: f;a:irrUM, was, In part, as f.dlowf,: "W'h.-n iIiIh propoyi-d (itn'-mlmcnt to the roiit-t 1 1 n i ion of 1 he I' nit i d Si at - was firM mi mri; t ti- 1 to t.n; hi.iir-i j tho mm prompt : -i 'Ha- i ,on w.ih a K-':'' pnj-iir duty, and tout t.'d-i brhlt.-d ,-, of ..(iiH-.hlelird JUStP'f: wo,. Id rrsuli m vsondrrfiii Luiiclitd to Wit-nat.oii Wit-nat.oii and to humanity. Ainericanism Called On. "l-'.t I liiiv.- r..'..-ntly be.-n re-idinK simiry p.-.-, h-, by inor.: or n-'.s distin-iil:-;o-d iii.-'n:-. r of ;;:.r I'nited Stat'-ti f.-fia;.. and J ha', e nun.- to ti e ''oiwi tj .nor. t.t. it If tlo-ff i ail o Jll'-r Of , tll'-lira IllMIIl I'M lii u, if v.- -a. ml to pr-Krre tia-f tia-f undaim-n ' a 1 pnn ipi'-s; of onr kg eriiin-ut us .:..v w:e iai.l ir.un by tlie rt-volulioTi-ary I.i'hi-in, ani utt e are willing to MJCITMd. r fy v-sUi.-. of our s e '. i T S p r t and jr. a r.h-u, we hnoaal not rallf-.' this tn-t'.v J inran t ano. i.d meti t Without cL-r'ain n : -: atiott.s. "I.t-t n.r i ad your attrition to a few of the ini.piltous prop. i.-a.s tn:it are contained con-tained m ti..h ruvt.'i.iiit, or rather, In ;hib a Mit-ia! me n t . " In (:. hrst pht'-e, we all know that w h.-:i rhi- roiifoitiit.on of the I'mi'-d .Sta;es v. if f.'.mi'd the rlu'.'d to vole was K'vr' o id v I o ; h- im-n, a the women wre d toed this priv.;ei-'-. .V.W, w;u-re Is tiie has,- tr.iiinr who darts to Ptand up ami -.iv that i tie tr .. k-r.-i of the constitution lid i."t j .o.sev-4 a.l ki;ow;edire and wisdom, wis-dom, pa.-t. p.-"-. nt and future? Who will m-; t,..-;r (.-.. t ami infallibility? Well, thin, tf tiiey km.-w it all. it is rank pr-o- i m; it ! in on o-ir part, in tuhs corrupt a-id lit r.-:..-ra Won, to add anything to t :..- ro nst 1 1 u .0:1. Proposition Dead Wrong. "If vo'.s for women were a jrc-od thtnff. w 1'i.d :;i fati; ts rmt have made pro'i-sa-n aiv(1r-,,i.k'iy? 'hy. rrtam.y. And .-.n-t- thrv l:d not po p:"V.ii--, J: is a Ir-ad-p;pe : tt h that this- proposition f'T worn-a; worn-a; 's si.fi'ra-'e i al! .ha-l w roriK'. and It will le utii-a t r;ot ii- and un-American for us to j:.'b-'-:.tk' any innovations now. "Mr. 1'r-.-s:d.'M. witn the men dolnc ah thr otint.-. f;;e from outside interfercrice r ih filiation cn the part of the other the organization and the planning of legislative program, the house then ad iourned until 2 o'clock this afternoor Th.e question of the eligibility of Repre sentatives Welling and O'Neil may b tr.ken up today and vacancies will b filled in the clerical staff. Since the sen ate has rat tried the national woman'. s;;ftraL'e amendment, the house probabo will take similar action at the sessioi this afternoon. ise. i:.f -irarid and .or.ous country or 'irs h;o i;rown from thirte.-n weak and r ' : 1 1 n i: co. .n l-s to the proa t est. freest and i.ahon hi the world, stretch ing from the ro. -k bou nd con sts of Maine to t! - sunny sloped (.f the Sierras. SJ-iali we now abandon the true and only American Amer-ican poi.ry. un i-T which we have achieved all this rra-atness? Not on your life! What do v. e rare about the wrongs and bur lens of the women folk, so lone as the men are ail rm'ht? The motto of "Safety First' is uood enouph for us. Let such l;: rr-bra tped dream- rs and fdoalists as ( "m-istonh.er Coiumhus. the Pilgrim I-'ather.?, Thomas JefTeison and Abraham h.n.'o'n try their rash eieriments in chant'. i.g tho established ordr of things, if thev want to he foolish and reckless. As for us. we will not take a chance. "1 l to re fore propose, that in ratifying this amendment wo tack on a reservation , pnliry and practice, and that it must he inilerstood that when this amendment to the constitution shall have been adopted the siid constitution shall in no wise have been changed. No Entangling Alliances. "In the second place I invite attention to the fact that George Washington, in his farewell address, cautioned us against entangling alliances. Heretofore the men have done the voting and have run the government. It is now proposed to take the women into partnership and give them an equal voice in our politics. If that Is not an entangling allienco of the worst kind, what is it? Are we poing to repudiate the advice of the Father of his Country? Are we going to abandon our time-honored policy of masculine isolation and permit ourselves to be drawn into every petty squabble among the women? "Women have a set of interests all their own. "In the third place and this is of the gravest important I want to point out that if we men give the women the vote we shall be surrendering our sovereignty. Perhaps we shall lose only a part of it, but if we give woman the vote in addition to the last word which she already possesses, I am afraid she will soon have all the sovereignty there is. What is sovereignty? It is the right of doing as you please. It is the right of choosing your own course. "Furthermore, anybody who has the brains of a mosquito can see that if this amendment is adopted in its present form we shall be setting up a super-government. Tho women, being in the majority, will run everything sure a.s shooting, and the men will be in a helpless minority. What Shall They Avail? "What will avail us our ward-heelers and party bosses, if the women, who are so confoundedly numerous, can foregather a: the back gate or on the front porch, or at their 5 o'clock teas, or at anyTtf their hen parties and hatch out their diabolical plots for the e melioration of human affairs af-fairs and then, having probably five votes to our one, proceed to put them over? "For it goes without saying that every proposal thev may put forth is bound to i be chock full of downright wickedness and deviltrv and with no other purpose in mind than to destroy the republic which has heretofore been the guiding light of lihertv-loving men throughout the world. "After I shall have had time to look up suitable references, I shall prove by quotations quo-tations and the doctrines and covenants Mormon an ilthe doctrines and covenants that this proposition of votes for women I is contrary to the will of God. I suppose ' there will be scoffers who say you can proe anything by a judicious selection of general language and isolated sentences, but I despise their crass ignorance." |