"Roosevelt Made Fun Of By Women Part 2," Oregonian, February 07, 1912, 4.

 

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ROOSEVELT MADE FUN OF BY WOMEN
Suffragist Says His Editorial for Cause is Superficial and Sloppy.
HE’S DUBBED “GREAT OOM”
Mrs. J. G. Gauld Is Hostess in Reception for Leaders of California Campaign—200 Hear Plea for Cause of Equal Rights.
Referred to as “The Great Oom of the Outlook and of Oyster Bay, who has told the farmers’ wives how to dress and the stork how to fly,” laughter and sarcasm were heaped upon Theodore Roosevelt by members of the Portland Equal Suffrage League last night when they gathered at the residence of Mrs. J. G. Gauld, at 252 King street, to hear the leaders who were prominent in marshalling the women suffrage forces in California to victory last Fall.
The reference to Colonel Roosevelt was made in connection with an editorial by him appearing in a recent edition of the Outlook, in which he espoused the suffrage cause. Mrs. Helen Hay Greely, woman lawyer and representative of the New York Equal Suffrage League said:
“In a six-page editorial in the Outlook, he was flopped again. We do not, however, regard him as an important addition to our ranks. The editorial is superficial and it is sloppy, and you don’t have to read more than three pages of it to see just how sloppy it is.”
Some 200 persons attended the meeting, including a number of prominent business men. William D. Wheelwright acted as chairman of the evening and introduced the speakers, who, besides Mrs. Greely, were Miss Anita Whitney of San Francisco, and President Foster was announced to speak against the suffrage cause. Mrs. Solomon Hirsch, president of the league, and Mrs.  Andre Fouilhoux, its secretary, arranged the details of the meeting.
Votes Held as Protection
Mrs. Greely, the first speaker, made an ardent plea for the ballot for woman as the one means whereby she could obtain better conditions for the more unfortunate of her sex.
“We do not pretend that the ballot for women will prove a panacea for all ills, “ she said. “The ballot for woman is merely giving the working girl that protection that not a working man or a business man in Portland would be willing to give up if a move were made to take it from him. It is the carrying out of the doctrine that that man of sorrows, that man of grief, preached to the multitudes, that they were to love their neighbors as themselves.
“Just as men,” she said, “who sit in their offices and are willing to grow rich on the earnings of girls and children, who are compelled to consume their life’s vital spark in toil at starvation wages commit murder at longing and introduced the speakers, who besides Mrs. Greely, were Miss Anita Whitney, of San Francisco, and President Foster, of Reed College. President Foster was announced to speak against the suffrage cause. Mrs. Solomon Hirsch, president of the league, and Mrs. Andre Fouilhoux, its secretary, arranged the details of the meeting.
Votes Held as Protection.
Mrs. Greely, the first speaker, made an ardent plea for the ballot for woman as the one means whereby she could obtain better conditions for the more unfortunate of her sex.
“We do not pretend that the ballot for women will prove a panacea for all ills,” she said. “The ballot for woman is merely giving the working girl that protection that not a working man or a business man in Portland would be willing to give up if a move were made to take it form him. It is the carrying out of the doctrine that that man of sorrows, that man of grief, preached to the multitudes, that they were to love their neighbors as themselves.
“Just as men,” she said, “who sit in their offices and are willing to grow rich on the earnings of girls and children, who are compelled to consume their life’s vital spark in toil at starvation wages commit murder at long distance, the women who sit comfortably at home and are indifferent., commit murder at long distance by refusing to assist in a cause that will redeem and help these poor fellow members of humanity.
Help for Workers Seen.
“The working girl with the ballot will get just a little more attention from her employers when she demands no night work and no nerve-racking labor at long hours. By our having the ballot we can help them.”
She compared civic communities to large families that have been going along “on one leg” because they have had no mother at the head of them—gave to the woman with the ballot the place of the mother in the family. She said that women did not want to become identical with men. They wanted to help their own. Sex, she said, and they wanted to have a great deal to say about prevention before it became necessary to correct. She said their objects would take a long time to accomplish and would not be done in a generation.
Miss Whitney told how the suffrage movement was sweeping around the world, citing the abolition, by imperial edict, of bound feet in China and the doing away with veils by the women of Turkey, in support of her assertions. She denied that the ballot in the hands of woman is undignified.
“The ballot,” she said, “is a silent expression of opinion on a stated question on a certain day. Who will tell me that a silent expression of opinion is unwomanly?”
Opposition Laid to Sentiment.
President Foster, in speaking against women’s suffrage, said that in his experience the side of the opposition was not so much a matter of argument as of sentiment.
“Yet,” he said, “I believe that sentiment is well founded. The suffragists I have come to believe, from the close study I have made of the subject, have all the argument in their favor. If a man were to oppose it on the merits of argument wholly he would surely hang himself.”
Refreshments were served after the meeting by Mrs. Gauld, the hostess. Mrs. Greely and Miss Whitney expect to do active work in the state in the suffrage cause during the coming campaign.


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"Roosevelt Made Fun Of By Women Part 1," Oregonian, February 07, 1912, 4.

 

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ROOSEVELT MADE FUN OF BY WOMEN
Suffragist Says His Editorial for Cause is Superficial and Sloppy.
HE’S DUBBED “GREAT OOM”
Mrs. J. G. Gauld Is Hostess in Reception for Leaders of California Campaign—200 Hear Plea for Cause of Equal Rights.
Referred to as “The Great Oom of the Outlook and of Oyster Bay, who has told the farmers’ wives how to dress and the stork how to fly,” laughter and sarcasm were heaped upon Theodore Roosevelt by members of the Portland Equal Suffrage League last night when they gathered at the residence of Mrs. J. G. Gauld, at 252 King street, to hear the leaders who were prominent in marshalling the women suffrage forces in California to victory last Fall.
The reference to Colonel Roosevelt was made in connection with an editorial by him appearing in a recent edition of the Outlook, in which he espoused the suffrage cause. Mrs. Helen Hay Greely, woman lawyer and representative of the New York Equal Suffrage League said:
“In a six-page editorial in the Outlook, he was flopped again. We do not, however, regard him as an important addition to our ranks. The editorial is superficial and it is sloppy, and you don’t have to read more than three pages of it to see just how sloppy it is.”
Some 200 persons attended the meeting, including a number of prominent business men. William D. Wheelwright acted as chairman of the evening and introduced the speakers, who, besides Mrs. Greely, were Miss Anita Whitney of San Francisco, and President Foster was announced to speak against the suffrage cause. Mrs. Solomon Hirsch, president of the league, and Mrs.  Andre Fouilhoux, its secretary, arranged the details of the meeting.
Votes Held as Protection
Mrs. Greely, the first speaker, made an ardent plea for the ballot for woman as the one means whereby she could obtain better conditions for the more unfortunate of her sex.
“We do not pretend that the ballot for women will prove a panacea for all ills, “ she said. “The ballot for woman is merely giving the working girl that protection that not a working man or a business man in Portland would be willing to give up if a move were made to take it from him. It is the carrying out of the doctrine that that man of sorrows, that man of grief, preached to the multitudes, that they were to love their neighbors as themselves.
“Just as men,” she said, “who sit in their offices and are willing to grow rich on the earnings of girls and children, who are compelled to consume their life’s vital spark in toil at starvation wages commit murder at longing and introduced the speakers, who besides Mrs. Greely, were Miss Anita Whitney, of San Francisco, and President Foster, of Reed College. President Foster was announced to speak against the suffrage cause. Mrs. Solomon Hirsch, president of the league, and Mrs. Andre Fouilhoux, its secretary, arranged the details of the meeting.
Votes Held as Protection.
Mrs. Greely, the first speaker, made an ardent plea for the ballot for woman as the one means whereby she could obtain better conditions for the more unfortunate of her sex.
“We do not pretend that the ballot for women will prove a panacea for all ills,” she said. “The ballot for woman is merely giving the working girl that protection that not a working man or a business man in Portland would be willing to give up if a move were made to take it form him. It is the carrying out of the doctrine that that man of sorrows, that man of grief, preached to the multitudes, that they were to love their neighbors as themselves.
“Just as men,” she said, “who sit in their offices and are willing to grow rich on the earnings of girls and children, who are compelled to consume their life’s vital spark in toil at starvation wages commit murder at long distance, the women who sit comfortably at home and are indifferent., commit murder at long distance by refusing to assist in a cause that will redeem and help these poor fellow members of humanity.
Help for Workers Seen.
“The working girl with the ballot will get just a little more attention from her employers when she demands no night work and no nerve-racking labor at long hours. By our having the ballot we can help them.”
She compared civic communities to large families that have been going along “on one leg” because they have had no mother at the head of them—gave to the woman with the ballot the place of the mother in the family. She said that women did not want to become identical with men. They wanted to help their own. Sex, she said, and they wanted to have a great deal to say about prevention before it became necessary to correct. She said their objects would take a long time to accomplish and would not be done in a generation.
Miss Whitney told how the suffrage movement was sweeping around the world, citing the abolition, by imperial edict, of bound feet in China and the doing away with veils by the women of Turkey, in support of her assertions. She denied that the ballot in the hands of woman is undignified.
“The ballot,” she said, “is a silent expression of opinion on a stated question on a certain day. Who will tell me that a silent expression of opinion is unwomanly?”
Opposition Laid to Sentiment.
President Foster, in speaking against women’s suffrage, said that in his experience the side of the opposition was not so much a matter of argument as of sentiment.
“Yet,” he said, “I believe that sentiment is well founded. The suffragists I have come to believe, from the close study I have made of the subject, have all the argument in their favor. If a man were to oppose it on the merits of argument wholly he would surely hang himself.”
Refreshments were served after the meeting by Mrs. Gauld, the hostess. Mrs. Greely and Miss Whitney expect to do active work in the state in the suffrage cause during the coming campaign.


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"Politics For Women," Oregonian, February 01, 1912, 10.

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"Woman’s Suffrage Approved Part 2," Oregonian, January 17, 1912, 7.

 

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WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE APPROVED

State Federation of Labor at The Dalles is Unanimous in Opinion

W.M. Davis returned Monday from The Dalles, where he presented a resolution before the State Federation of Labor, in session there, in favor of woman’s suffrage. The resolution was unanimously passed. Officers of the Federation asked the locals to support the measure and to work among members and individuals throughout the state in its favor. The resolution as presented was in part as follows:
That, whereas, the question of equal suffrage will be placed upon the ballot at the next election, in November of this year, in the following form: “In all elections not otherwise provided for by this constitution, every citizen of the United States, of the age of 21 years and upwards, who shall have resided in the state during the six months immediately preceding such election, and every person of foreign birth of the age of 21 years and upwards, who shall have resided in this state during the six months immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his or her intention to become a citizen of the United States one year preceding such election, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote at all elections authorized by law”; and,
Whereas, There does not appear to be any reason why women should not have equal rights with men in voting: be it, therefore,
Resolved, That the State Federation of Labor of Oregon, hereby assembled, recommend and indorse the initiative petition which has been heretofore filed with the Secretary of State, giving women the right of suffrage in the state of Oregon; and be it further
Resolved, That this body recommend to every subordinate body in the state of Oregon that equal suffrage be indorsed in the state of Oregon, and that every voter in the state of Oregon, members of this body, or any subordinate body, use their utmost efforts, and vote for said initiative ballot at the next election to be held in November.
N.J. Sinnott and Judge R.R. Butler have promised to campaign Eastern Oregon for the cause of suffrage.


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"Woman’s Suffrage Approved Part 1," Oregonian, January 17, 1912, 7.

 

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WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE APPROVED

State Federation of Labor at The Dalles is Unanimous in Opinion

W.M. Davis returned Monday from The Dalles, where he presented a resolution before the State Federation of Labor, in session there, in favor of woman’s suffrage. The resolution was unanimously passed. Officers of the Federation asked the locals to support the measure and to work among members and individuals throughout the state in its favor. The resolution as presented was in part as follows:
That, whereas, the question of equal suffrage will be placed upon the ballot at the next election, in November of this year, in the following form: “In all elections not otherwise provided for by this constitution, every citizen of the United States, of the age of 21 years and upwards, who shall have resided in the state during the six months immediately preceding such election, and every person of foreign birth of the age of 21 years and upwards, who shall have resided in this state during the six months immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his or her intention to become a citizen of the United States one year preceding such election, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote at all elections authorized by law”; and,
Whereas, There does not appear to be any reason why women should not have equal rights with men in voting: be it, therefore,
Resolved, That the State Federation of Labor of Oregon, hereby assembled, recommend and indorse the initiative petition which has been heretofore filed with the Secretary of State, giving women the right of suffrage in the state of Oregon; and be it further
Resolved, That this body recommend to every subordinate body in the state of Oregon that equal suffrage be indorsed in the state of Oregon, and that every voter in the state of Oregon, members of this body, or any subordinate body, use their utmost efforts, and vote for said initiative ballot at the next election to be held in November.
N.J. Sinnott and Judge R.R. Butler have promised to campaign Eastern Oregon for the cause of suffrage.


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