Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-06-14
WOMAN sUFFRaGISrs AND BABIES

Rev. Anna II. Shaw, whose visit to
this city last month VIII DO long 70.
memberei, has been the ,u1ject Of an
animated discussion IN San Francisco.
II was all because her woman friends
wanted her 10 make speech ut the
Fourth Of July celebration. The anti
suiithgists did not see what woman
had 10 do with independence anyway,
30 lar as public speschmsking was
concerned, aud insisted thAt the limo.
walton would DO this opening wedge Tor
destroying nstlonal independence.
Tho oGntsIt waxrd very warm, but
that trouble 10 past, tho family quarrel
Ia ended, tue parties have "kissed and
made up" and Miss shaw will crate
In San Francisco on the Fourth-tho
women got their way, as usual.
Hut what has all that to DO with
woman sutitAgists and babie,7 Just
thlE The chief oppo1ition was based
on the claim that the proposition was
In the interest Of woman suffrage, anu
that the granting Of such suffrage
would cause tho mother sex to 40 out
OF the field Of bAby.rAislng 10 engage
In politics. Tho Anti-suiirAgists based
their argument ON this statement OF the
situation;
an woman suffrage IN carried out II
viii ond IA the destruction OF thl, nation.
Statistics taken In Massachusetts Ia l,si
show that 5l2S per cent Of tho native
American women Of that state were
childluss, Tho Now York census Tor
1865 shows that 20 p0r cent of tho married
women average only ono child zach. The
birth rate II fIr less than the death ratio.
furty-nye p0r cont Of tho mon between
tho ages uf twOuty-hyo and thirty
arc unmarried, aud were 10
not Tor foreign immigration this
land Of ours would soon become q
bowling Wilderness.
just what arguments tho sudSAgil.s
broughtE - convince tho committee ure
not given Out, since that discussion
wss behind olosud IOors. IL may be-
that they Insisted that the equal sui.
fragile. platform would contain auti.
spiusIrrhloJ, anll-cnildless plsnEs,
or that the cause Of tue low birth rate
aud the failure o.! men 10 marry was IN
tho masculine manipulation OF politics,
and would be removed when tho
women had tho franchise. At any
ratio the CImmi,,ob was converted.
Olo thiug these women dill
declare, however, openly and
with emphasis, was that "ths new
woman" viii not abandon mother.
hood. She Is g1iug 10 bo wife
and mother, and viii not only 30.
crra.e he bir,h rate, hut viii decrease
the death rate among children. To
accomplish the latter purpose, she IA to
uso tho ballot to enforce regulations
that Will prevent the adultratlon OF
food pnd viii Insure cleanliness, VENT.
Ati0n, aud other sanitary ueuIs; bolug
power politically, she HlsJ Intend. 90
intro uco SOCIAL reforms which viii
r8b baChGluTiDm OF lts chief a',rac,
lions. Al least This was the trend OF
,ia discussion engaged Ia on the sub.
JecL Here are SOME features Of the
program polluted oIg by Me-. Hsleu
Guthrie Miller Dr. Florence ". Sal.
toua,ail, Mn. Marion Thrashpr, d.
Harriet Maxaon, Rev. Ada g. Bowles,
Mr.. Sarah Plat Carr and othcrs who
led 90 the recent womsns conference
on home and sanitation, In connection
with the suffrage movements
On0-'Onth tho children born die dur.
I ing the first month, and fourth duriu-
/ tho first year OF Ito. Ouu-halt ul tho ruun
/ dies buiuro reaching tho ugo OF ~ wears.
/ Boards ot health aud sanitary conditions
viii cease to bo composed wholly VI poll.
| uolans, but Will hay0 their Affairs. ad.
! mlnisIored by persons trained In health