New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-09
AN ANTT-WOMiN SUFFRAGE MEETING.
A SPIRITED ADDRESS Ply MRS. II. 9. wARDwELf
AT HER HOME IL nROOkLYN.

A SPIRITED ADDRESS Ply MRS. II. 2 wARDwELL
AT HER HOME ~ BROOKLYN
A meeting Of anti-sunrage held at
the home OF Mrs. Henry L. Wardwel No 500 St
Marks-ave.. Brooklyn. yesterday. about l2 people
being present Mrs Lyman Abbott presided and
introduced the speakers. Among them were Mrs
Wardwen, Miss Louise Bo,h-Hendriksen. Mrs
James McKeen Mrs. Tunis q. bergen Miss Bertha
X West and Mrs. William A. Putnam. \ number
OF those present who had not signed the protest
against the change In the State Constitution did ~
The principal address was made by Mrs. Ward
well who said In part:
Il have not yet found any women who really
want to vote. or course | have met womrl who
have signed the petition. tut when say 10 one OF
these DO you want 10 vote she always replies
Oh don't want TO vote myself. but and then
she generally branches of about the old State laws
in Rhode Island. the condition Of married women
in Louisiana. / don't want to vote. and don't
see why should be forced 10. The objection 70 CIV
ing women the suffrage is founded on the vital and
essential fact that. matter what women surrag-
lists may assert TO the contrary our gentlemen
are too gallant and perhaps overestmate us 100
much to contradict them-that women and men arc
not equal-they are unequal physically. they are
quite as unequal intellectually. very bright little
woman OF my acquaintance said to me the other day
that she did think II unfair that woman should be
disfranchsed for physiological reasons. she forRot
that the physiological reason Is the deepest ana
soundest reason OF all. Clever women may inhu-
ence but the vast majority never have taken any
part In government. and will.
When come TO compare men with women let
us not beat about the bush. but come squarey face
to face with facts. We all admit without question
that men are physically stronger and more power
full than women. And what female statesman, law
YER political economist. historian. dramatist. poet
artist, sculptor. musician orator. physician, can
equal I'm ability many men whose names instantly
occur to your minds in each and every one OF these
callings? We may say II II a want or centuries o!
training with women. But let man enter the lists
with a woman In her sphere tsave one. eH-
cept the mother, and he always excels her. VINO
makes the most beautiful clothes Tor women
year as "A cook? A man. Who M the posts OF
teachers and professors in our colleges ana hlgn
schools. Notwithstanding the assertion that women
are born teachers? Men. Man has governed the
world in the past governs 1t today ana WI gov
ern IL in the future. whether have the ballot or
not simply because he has stronger and more
acute Intellect. a greater capacity for knowledge a
self control and "A power OF endurance greatly SUI
peror and a nervous power and force that can
stand longer and more severe strain than that OF
women" - -, - ,-,.
Among those present were Mrs John r. seaI ies
Mrs Charles Weeks. Mrs. W. II. Cammeyer. MIS-
Henry Moore Hslstead Mrs TheSdore Il Cnyier'
Kinney. Mrs. CLARENCE W. sheldon Mrs Thomas .Sn,1
Mrs Charles ID. Rudd. Mrs William IL Lyons, Mrs.
Allen NJ Davis. Mrs. j. l.. Adams Mrs: THOMAS
Newcomb, Mrs. Henry Drsier. jrr and Mrs r. A.
Halsed.