The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-05

kway, In spite Of all efforts 10 maintain their force.
not more earnest TO break them asundcf,s :
nearly drunk out p' tbo s hSbpS"r =, t9 %y ,SItSi sn a. hssy ave
# ! nsd come to its las, drop I y would pour it Is :
and the worlds hope.
Space can be given for only a brief extract
from the able speech Of Col. T. W. Higginson:
II is said that women are getting all tho things
they, need. one after another, without tho ballot.
suffrage movement for The past nifty years. = '
ar an1 snaS aan SSs91 sui Hio sso on woip Tho y used dn as an
spend the summer has about 1870 voters, and at a
any town Of its sizci but at a meeting held lately TO
vote on mo school question only Ave mon were
have full suffrage there IL no compliant that
they do not vote early and often. Two good
sets. women are elected 70, school boards much
S Snsn : cr snd refainsd there longer and there has
hrst proposed to put a woman on the School Board
the reverence felt for LonGsellow, and The fact that
his eldest daughter was the candidate. The eXtraor-
due, to women. and dates from the arst year Of their
having The school vote. Any woman may now go to
public places.
One Of the opponents, Mrs. Barrett Wendell.
declared that suffrage Is not a natural right"
and continued:
Most thoughtful people think that suffrage should
DO taken away from many of tho men.who now have
IT. That is impossible; but why add toitr 1t vas
thonshtfni people in England regret from the bot.
tom of their hearts the amount of suffrage they have
there.
She then admitted, to the amusement of the
sufrragists present, that she voted for School
Mrs. A. j. George said that women already
that the most intelligent woman is generally
the one least trained in public questions" On
the strength Of having lived in Colorado many
years and having a number of relatives there,
the Rev, Thomas Van Ness made some har;;
Denver who ''iay shillalahs on their wives to
compel them TO vote as they wish" and the
drsar on Woman in the %b6 BOTTOMS ar . Sof and the mora ,ow Und
more in Colorado and the better class women
Some questioning on the part Of the COM
mittee. developed the fact that he had moved
away from Colombo before the women were
also that his relatives were earnest advocates
of equal suffrage.
the startling assertion that the Anglo-Saxon
has been able to rule the world because he did
not care about governing SO long as he Is left
liberty while Mrs. Judith Andrews Of Boston
said III women voted we should have, more
This lady read a letter from Edward Everett
Hale declaring that the woman suffrage move
tionists, left without a job at the close, of the
war and has nothing to rest upon, Men are
duty. II women are to vote. they ought to be
Mr. Hale overIooks the fact that the require
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duties. and that men who are incapacitatcd for
all OF them still may freely exercise the suf-
fraGe. The gentleman himself doubtless has
been voting forthree-score years, and yet he has
no military record that | can recall, and. as a
minister of the Gospel. he is exempt from Jury
service. As regards fire duty. there is nothing
the Fire Department so much wishes rs that
peonle of both sexes shall keep out Of tho way
during a contaGration. 1t may also be re-
marked that women's taxes. as well as mems
contribute to the pay OF this department.
The above quotations are made as fair Speci-
mems of the g 'ments against suffrage for
women. They were reduced TO tatterS by
Alice Stone Blackwell, the worthy daughter of
Lucy Stone. who is continuing the work to
which her mother gave more than forty years
of devoted and effective service. and is among
the ablest Of the writers and speakers on this
question.
Awoman really did make her appearance. on
the floor OF the House OF Representatives last
week. She is assistant clerk OF a committee.
and the Chairman has the privilege Of taking
| n clerk on the floor with him.. There seemed
to be no interruption of the usual vociferous
| routine in that body. and Senator Morgan's
prediction that all work would cease" was
not realized. But then ii. probably. would he
different In the Senate. whose dignity Is cas- y
| Jared. Some day one of those wild and woody
Western States will send a woman to Congress
for a whole term and then we shall see whether
the foundations OF the Capitol will bear it.
WASHINGTON. D.. @. IDA Hustled HARPER.