28 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
finance commissioner, Mr. Sullivan 
incurred the undying enmity of every 
crook and grafter in the city. He is 
loved for the enemies he has made. 
The suffrage cause must be in des- 
perate straits, when the suffragists 
are forced to descend to personalities 
in the effort to cloud the issue. 
It is a touching picture L. R. 5. 
gives of the poor suffragists, who she 
says cannot afford to spend money on: 
meetings! Do they have the large 
theatres where they have countless 
meetings given to them rent free? 
Among the poor struggling suffrag- 
ists whose names are constantly in 
suffrage columns are Mrs. O. H. P. 
Belmont of Marble Palace, patie 
Mrs. Havemeyer, Mrs. Jay Gould, 
Mrs. Medill McCormick, Mrs. Stan- 
ley McCormick, Mrs. Quincy Shaw, 
and many other of like poverty. The 
suffragists are constantly spending 
thousands of dollars for their futile 
endeavors—$20,c0o0 for their black 
list campaign, which was completely 
a failure; $53,000 for their unsuc- 
cessful work in Congress last winter ; 
$20,000 for Mrs. Pankhurst cam- 
paign of destruction in England; 
many thousands in campaigns in 
Ohio, Missouri, Nebraska, North and 
South Dakota, ‘where they were over- 
whelmingly defeated. Where does 
the money come from? In their ap- 
peal for money which they are send- 
broadcast through Massachusetts they 
say “We need $100,009. Do not put 
us off because of the demands made 
upon you by the Red Cross and Relief 
Funds for the sufferers from the 
war.” They were willing to give 
Mrs. Pankhurst many thousands to 
work of destruction in 
England, but they begrudge money 
spent to relieve human = suffering 
caused by this terrible war, because 
they want it for suffrage! 
What is the real reason that the 
suffragists are so bitter about the 
Anti-suffrage, Anti-socialist meeting? 
It is because they realize, too late, 
what a mistage they have made in 
allying themselves so closely with the 
socialist movement. There has been 
heretofore little attempt on the part 
of leading suffragists to conceal this 
fact. Many of those leaders are so- 
cialists as well as suffragists, and to 
them the alliance seems wholly na- 
tural and desirable. But the rank 
and file of suffragists who have not 
realized where their cause was lead- 
carry on her 
ing them are beginning to wake up. 
Their first emotion is not indignation 
at the charge that an alliance exists 
between the two movements, and they 
SPRAYING, 
CEMENTING, 
and INSECT WORK 
BURLAPPING, 
BOLTING 
accuse the Antis of mixing these is- 
sues. But it is not the Antis who 
have mived the two. It is the suf- 
fragists themselves. 
On May first in New York, the 
yellow banners of the suffragists and 
the red flags of the socialists inter- 
mingled as the two organizations 
moved simultaneously up Fifth ave., 
in their annual parade. In the suf- 
frage parade at Philadelphia, which 
was led by the Rev. Anna Shaw, 
tweleve hundred socialists were ex- 
pected to march in line. Suffragists 
chose May first as Suffrage Day be- 
cause it was known all over Europe 
and America as Socialist Day. Alice 
Stone Blackwell, the President of the 
Massachusetts Suffrage association is 
an avowed socialist. Every socialist 
is a suffragist. Dr. Anna Shaw 
“welcomes every socialist vote.” 
Socialism is rampant in foreign 
countries which have woman suf- 
frage,—Finland, Norway, New Zea- 
land, and Australia. ‘We have the 
opinions of hundreds in those nations 
where women vote,” says a pamphlet 
issued by the Men’s League for Wo- 
man Suffrage, which was organized 
in 1912, “which support our reason- 
able expectations that their influence 
will favor rather than retard social- 
ism.” Mrs. Vickery, a prominent 
worker in New South Wales, says: 
“Woman suffrage has simply for- 
warded the most socialistic form of 
legislation. Socialism is the only 
gainer.” The Socialists are working 
with might and main to bring about 
woman suffrage knowing how great- 
ly it will help their cause. 
A despatch from Reno to the New 
York Call, the organ of the socialists 
on Novy. 5, the day after woman suf- 
frage went through in Nevada, says: 
“The victory is due to the united 
socialist vote which went solidly for 
suffrage. The socialists campaigned 
steadily and effectively for suffrage, 
and to them goes the credit for its 
victory.” 
Socialism has already made great 
gains in the Western states since wo- 
men have voted, as the socialists fully 
expected. The New York Call, com- 
menting with amusement on the fact 
that suffrage has become a fashion- 
able fad, says 
“How many a society belle would 
tremble if she knew with what 
mighty forces she had put her feet 
in line, and what was the ultimate 
goal of her latest fad!” 
The socialist-woman suffrage alli- 
ance 1s a public menace. Socialists 
openly avow the connection; suffrag- 
Box 244. BEVERLY. MASS. 
May 21, 1915 
ists in denying it merely show their 
ignorance of the situation, and con- 
firm the opinion that they are being 
used as tools by their clever allies. 
—J. W. 
Boston, May 14, 1915. 
EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES. 
Last week was an epoch in the his- 
tory of Massachusetts Suffrage, when 
the Annaul Convention and Campaign 
Conference, was held,—probably for 
the last time! The delegates came 
from all over the state and crowded 
the hall of the New England Wo- 
man’s club. There four work con- 
ferences were held, a great banquet 
was held at the Hotel Somerset, and- 
the whole ended on Saturday with a 
monster rally on Boston Common. 
The key-notes of the whole conven- 
tion were enthusiasm, hope and pat- 
riotism. Two hundred leagues re- 
ported increased membership and a 
large number of voters’ cards already 
signed. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 
who is also the Editor of the Wo- 
man’s Journal, was re-elected Presi- 
dent of the Mass. W. Suff. Ass’n, 
also of the New England Ass’n. 
Among the speakers at the banquet, 
Dr. Hugh Cabot of Boston, speaking 
from the scientific point of view, said 
that co-operation of the sexes is the 
key-note of life and that the Equai - 
Suffrage means co-operation (Dr. 
Cabot is one of the highest medical 
authorities in Boston) ; ex-Gov. Bass 
of New Hampshire, said that his po- 
litical experience had made him a 
Suffragist, though he used to be op- 
posed; and Miss Helen Todd of Cali- 
fornia, telling of the Suffrage cam- 
paign in that state, said that every 
vicious and corrupt interest worked 
against the Woman’s Cause in San 
Francisco, but the great vote which 
gave the women their victory came 
frem all over the state,—from the 
little towns and country districts;—in 
short from the real men of California 
who were not influenced by the vice 
of the city. We expect it will be 
much the same here, and we look to 
the real Massachusetts men, the men 
of the towns and rural districts, for 
our big vote in November. 
I should like to mention that some 
of the beautiful flowers used at the 
big banquet were donated by Mr. 
Axel Magnuson of Manchester. 
It should be reported also that the 
Mass. Suff. Ass’n, in convention, 
passed a_ resolution of respectful 
sympathy with President Wilson in 
his attitude toward war and peace and 
R. E. HENDERSON 
Telephone. 
