Oct. 1, 1915. 
THE PHENOMENAL CarEER of J. Keir Hardie, who 
rose from a miner to leadership in the Parliament of 
Great Britain of the labor party, commands respect. 
views of life were radical and sometimes unpopular and 
are still open to opposition, but the personal success of 
To have risen from the ranks to 
leadership is creditable as a life work. 
Hardie is inspiring. 
ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS 
Wit, Reach MANCHESTER SATUR- 
DAY IN THEIR Tour. 
Editor North Shore Breeze, 
Dear Sir: 
Tomorrow, Saturday, between ~o 
and 10.30 in the morning the auto- 
mobile party of campaigners against 
Woman Suffrage, who are making a 
tour of the whole state, will arrive in 
Manchester, and will speak on the 
Common. ‘They will not talk exactly 
like the suffrage speakers who have 
preceded them. They will not in- 
dulge in inuendoes against their op- 
ponents, but in facts capable of abso- 
lute proof. They will show not only 
the falsity of the claim that the anti- 
suffrage cause is supported by the 
liquor interests, but they will give 
facts to show the exact opposite—not 
only in California, in Nevada, and 
OtHem) distant places, but over the 
whole country. 
If the suffrage misstatements were 
not in danger of misleading those who 
are naturally ignorant of facts which 
they have not especially studied, the 
grossness of those misstatements 
would be funny. Your own columns 
are frequently filled with accusations 
of an unholy alliance between liquor 
men and the opponents of woman sui- 
frage, and yet Harriet Stanton Blatch 
in president of the Woman’s Political 
Union of New York, and the fact 
that her money was derived from the 
sale of liquor does not deter the sut- 
fragists in the least. The late Mr. 
Platch was president of the May 
Brewing Company. Gen. Dennis F. 
Collins is president of a brewery—yet 
he held a prominent seat on the plat- 
form at an important meeting of the 
New Jersey Woman Suffrage League. 
Mrs. Gus Ruhlin of Brooklyn, wife 
of a prize fighter, runs her own sa- 
loon and decorates it’ with vote for 
women banners; the suffragists did 
not hesitate to make her a marshal in 
their parade. Miss Foley, Miss Mulry 
and several of the most promineat 
suffragists are at great pains to as- 
sure the brewers and others concern- 
ed that the votes of women will not 
hurt their interests, and the brewess 
appreciated this fact and have put 
themselves on record as saying that 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
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Tue Norru Suore felt the effects of the wind storm 
cn Sunday, but the South Shore, particularly the Buz- 
zards’ Bay section, was afflicted worse. 
land suffered and while the damages from the storm will 
amount to many thousands of dollars it is remarkabl 
tnat‘ more lives were not lost. 
All New Enp- 
e 
New England has rarely 
escaped from the wrath of such a gale so fortunately. 
the attitude of voting women had 
proved “‘benencial to the brewers’ 
trade. 
With. regard to feminism the 
speakers may also have something to 
say somewhat different from ‘the 
definition recently given in this town 
by Mrs. Beatrice Forbes-Robertson 
Haley se pherdefined where vas being 
only another name for the “woman 
movement” but in this connection ti 
is well to remember that Mrs. Hate 
months ago warned her associates 
that they must keep feminism in the 
background in order to win the ballot 
in New York state, and Massachu- 
setts is certainly as conservative-— 
shall we say—as is New York, and 
her definition of feminism must be in- 
terpreted in the light of her own 
warning to others. 
If Feminism is synonymous with 
the woman movement so much the 
worse for the woman movement, for 
at the recent National Suffrage Con- 
vention in Chicago Professor W. T. 
Thomas, of Chicago University, told 
his hearers that “Any girl mentally 
mature has a right’ to motherhood,” 
and “that woman’s assertion of her 
right to motherhood is a revolution 
that is coming, and no one can stop 
it.” and the comment of the president 
of the National Woman Suffrage As- 
sociation on this address was: “The 
address has set every woman who 
heard it thinking, and they are think- 
ing women who will consider both 
sides of such a proposition. Political 
emancipation is not the only emanct- 
pation. I do not believe in mother 
love. I believe in mother intelligence. 
1 believe Professor Thomas took the 
proper place to present those views.” 
It is peculiarly revolting to respect- 
able women to have the name of “the 
woman movement” used to cover this 
sort of indecency. In the fact that 
many good women have been won 
over by specious arguments and mis- 
statements of fact to support woman 
suffrage lies the only danger of the 
men of Massachusetts ever forcing 
the vote upon an unwilling and very 
large majority of women. The num- 
ber of wo'ven in Manchester who have 
registered themselves against woman 
suffrage is greatly in excess of those 
who have declared for it and Man- 
chester is only a sample of the rest of 
the state. 
These women opposed to woman 
suffrage believe so strongly in their 
equal duties with men to the state 
and to the nation that they beg the 
men of Massachusetts to vote nex 
November against forcing them to 
duplicate the duties of men, that they 
may be free to fulfill their own duties 
both private and public, which though 
equal are necessarily different from 
those of men. 
Mrs. WittiaAm Lower, Putnam. 
October 1, 1915. 
Tarr 1s NOMINEE FOR COUNCILLOR, 
AFTER ALL, 
Frederick H. Tarr of Rockport will 
be the Republican nominee for coun- 
cillor in the Fifth district instead of 
James F, Ingraham, Jr., of Peabody, 
unless something else. unexpected 
turns up in this already remarkable 
contest. 
Wednesday it was discovered that 
in transmitting the returns. from 
Amesbury on primary night, a mis- 
take was made and Mr. Tarr was 
credited with 100 less votes than he 
receiyveda. Mime neraham had «an 
apparently safe lead at the time of 
45 votes, but this unexpected addition 
te the Tarr total placed him 55 to the 
good. 
Opp Freitows LARGEST ORDER. 
From advanced sheets of the forth- 
coming report of the secretary of the 
Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fel- 
lows of the world it appears that the 
total membership of the order is now 
more than 2,000,000. It is by far the 
largest order in the world, many times 
larger than most secret orders. Its 
membership is found in all parts of 
the world. Previous to the European 
war the membership in Germany 
numbered many thousands, but it is 
expected that there has been a falling 
off in all the European countries. 
When the Sovereign Grand Lodge 
meets in California this month the 
flags of Germany, England, France, 
Italy, Belgium and other countries 
where the order has membership will 
hang side by side in the meeting hall. 
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