New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-26
BOSTON WOMEN Ar THE POLLS.
PREPARING To TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE NEW LAW
IN TIE FALL-A MOVEMENT WITH CONSIDER
ABLE ENERGY IN II.

| PREPARING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE NEW LAW
IN TIE FALL-A MOVEMENT WITH CONSIDER
| ABLE ENERGY IN II.
FRoM An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.
| BosroN July 1S.-What will she do about it ?
! At picnics. moonlight walks. at soir6es fra
! grant with beliotrOpe and mlCnonette, and even
! in those sacred moments between meetings " on
Sunday when old women chatter over their bread,
butter and pie that question will come up whether
the ladies' viii exercise the privilege of suffrage in
school matters. To vote, 1.-THE female citizens of
| the Commonwealth" must give notice to
the town or city assessors by the 1st of
September that they desire to pay poll-taX.'
Here in Boston there are about 1000 ladies who are
already taxed for property that they have earned
or inherited. Ii is fashionable for the wife 10 own
the homestead and this custom largely increases
the above number of female taxpayers. In addl-
ton to these the women without property are be-
ginning to signify their purpose to be taxed. In
East Boston sixty ladies " stood up in meeting"
and slgnihcd that they were on the path to the
bailot-box. Fifty ladies in South Boston have
registered their names at the City Hall. and from
all the wards in the city Mp to the middle of July
1915 ladies have told the assessors to put them
down for pOll-tax. funny thing happened at
Cambridge. large number of ladies desired to
vote aud went to the City Hall to attend to pre-
| lminares but nobody seemed 10 know what to
tell them to do They went flying from official to
official like so many shutle-cOcks SO they
called meeting How the sterner sex did labor to
smooth down the rulled plumage of their fair
auditors To do this, it took the Rev. DR., Peabody
and the Rev. Dr. Mckenzie with their clerical
suayity Professor Benjamin Pierce with his liar-
ward dignity judge Russell with his legal lore ana
Colonel HIgginsOn with his culture. Lach one OF
these advocated the new movement. Cambridge
women will be on hand when the paper battle at
the polls shall open.
# has been feared that if suffrage granted
TO women there would be rush OF the " baser
sort for the polls, and IN consequence cold sweat
has stood on conservative brOWs. IL ~ interesting
TO hear at the City Hall the statement OF one OF
the assessors that not one case hau pre-
sentcd itself tor assessment but the woman was q
person of Intelligence, refinement and education"
TarmOnlzng with this IS an appeal from MIS-. Ap-
thorpe Mrs. AgaSsz, Mrs. Cailln and twenty other
ladies' standing the higher rounds OF the social
ladder urging women who care for the wise IN
struction of children 10 vote. IL Is "A significant
fact that many lady teachers purpose tovote Com
mittee men must bow still lower t9 the powers that
While there is this stir along the front of the
woman-ranks in general, there Is special agitation
i'm the sturdy Temperance wing. Inc ihihit1IH'o
Duty OF the Massachusetts, Nonans Christian en-
nrraucc Union" il the heading OF aclrcular sent out
by the Union 1t Is vigorous IN lts appear TO tlic
women 10 exercise their right ot school suffrage.
II wisely infcrs that the success OF school suffrage
yyill helm their petitOn for liquor suffrage. lie
TEMPERANCE ladies mean To keep knocking at the
state House door and let the "conscrpt fathers
know that they are coming and might as we'll he
let in at once $1,000
II has been rsshly estimated that 3 ZOO women in
BosOn will put piece Oi paper into the ballot-boN.
An such computations guesses Only the head
of the column has reached CITY Hall. People are
ont of town and September is distance ahead.
Enough ladies of the Boston stripe of culture will
vote To make il respectable, whether 5000 or 900
vote One would like to see Lucy stones face wncn
she throws her hrst ballot but there is doubt
n sbe will throw 1t the coming Fall, for she bias thus
far refused to be registered under "a huSpdnus
name. "A step which the new law requires.