Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-06-08
PROMINENT sUFFRAGIsTs SPOKE.
Mrs. Carey of Brooklyn Says Kings County
Women Pay 80, 600 900 Taxes Annually.
Women From Rochester, Syracuse and
Other Cities Made Addresses.

ALBANY, June S.-The last hearing for
the woman suffrage advocates was given
in the assembly chamber before a vast au-
dience, and those heard in favor Of suf-
frage for women were from all parts of
the state.
Among the speakers We're Mrs. Cornelia
H. Carey, Mrs. Cora F. Sebrey, Mrs. Ma
rianna w. Chapman, president Brooklyn
Woman's Suffrage associations; Mrs. Mary
F. Cragie, Mrs. CorncA, X. Hood, presi-
dent Kings County Political Equality
league, all of Brooklyn; Mrs. Martha r.
Almy, vice president w. S. A, James
town; Mrs Elinor f. Morse, Utica; Mrs.
A. f. p. Soaring. ki' gston; Mrs. Helen
G. Ecob, Albany; George w. Nandcrveer
Esq, Amsterdam; Mrs Carrie living,
Westfeld Miss ARIA ) Huntington
daughter of Bishop Huntington, syria
cuse; Miss Emily Rowland, resident
Cayuga Woman's Suffrage associations;
Mrs. Clara Nymann, New Io,k; Mrs
Salina c. Merchant and DIR. a~ah Nor
ris, Buffalo; Miss Elizabeth Burrill Cur
It's, WesFNew Brighton, n. Y; Mrs. Mary
Lewis Gaunett, Rochester.
Brooklyn Women Speak.
Mrs. Carey of Brooklyn was the first
speaker, and her remarks i'll brief were
pointed and as follows:
Comforting the ballot will not only help
u.s. but it will help you also. 1t is like
mercy. Are you aware that the tax paid
by the women in Kings county at the
present per cent interest is over So, 000,-
900 a year?
"Supposing the women should combine
and not pay taxes. What would be the ro-
suit? You can say if our taxes are not paid
we would have to give up our real estate.
True, but the law is, rs it should be, very
lenient to owners of property and real es-
tate, and we might save money by letting
our taxes run fcw years. The word citi-
zenship means the power to use the ballot
If 1t must be so carefully guarded even
where men have committed crime, could
not you do as we'll by us, your friends,
your neighbors? We have committed no
crime, but are the law abiding, God fear
ing, home loving, tax paying, intelligent
citizens
Mrs. Cornelia Hood of the same city
spoke in like strain.
Mrs Mariana Chapman, also of Brook
lyn, spoke on the question on the ground
that the woman as a child bearer was the
foundation of the republic, and so she
should have the right of suffrage.
Mrs. Gannett's Speech.
Mrs Mary L. Gannett Of Rochester said:
''We come to ask you TO give TO women
political equality with men. You have
heard q great variety of reasons urged for
this. ask it because am happy wife,
because I am q mother, because home Is
tho dearest spot on earth to me and home
cares the sweetest. say let us share the
duties and responsibilities of the larger
homes-the city, the state, the nation. Let
US share these public burdens and gladly
meet them as a duty not to be feared and
put off, but gladly accepted. Rather than
less than wives and mothers, we shall
thereby be the better wives, the better to
fit our sons and daughters for true citizen
ship. By reason Of its wider horizon OF
large outlooking interests the home will
be the better, dearer, more helpful as o
home to its inmates and to all who enter
its doors, and 1t will be worth more to the
state. The women need the ballot, and the
state needs the woman's vote. The state
needs the powers developed in the home.
The community needs the homemaker.
Politics is simply national and municipal
housekeeping-is simply national and mu-
nicipal child rearing"
II a cannon ball could be made 555 times
larger than the largest yet known, and If 1t
could be charged with 555 times more pow
der than has ever yet been fired at a single
discharge, the sound could be heard around
the world.