The sun., 1899-03-12
FHE CAUSE OF WOMAN.
COMMENTS ON THE ARGUMENTS or
THE hNTI-SUFE RAGIS7S.


r,, spti.sufYraeists do some vcry fanny
,nnrs, which ought to furnish inexhanstible
.n",,e. for Joke writer's. Fancy body Of tax
..Ing women going before the Judiciary
TO-, roIttee OF the New York Legislature and
.InadInq that II shall not report bill granting
~ oman taxpayers the right to vote on ques-
,I..so, local taxation. Imagine another body
',trc n " remonStrance against bill pend
,nain the Massachusetts Legislature to give to
u,n,bors equal guardianship with fathers over
IL children Both Of these things have been
Nv, Nv. he Tho women of these States within the
w., ,uo weeks. and certainly justify the con-
,sn,nt which is felt by not small number OF
- t,r the opinions of women on public
questions 49, A.. ~
yorl legislative committee was the Joint prod
r,+ of three women. I'VE scorn the assertion
NAT a man or two had part In it, 1t was pre-
sared by Mrs Rossiter johnson and Mrs. Helen
n Moody, 1t recites with great pride that "suf-
,,.os advocates had no connection with tho
Nil granting property rights to the women OF
yav York which was passed in 1913 mot at
,ho clamo- OF women" Elizabeth Cady Stan
,nr Ernestine L. Rose and Paulna Wright
,n,visl from 1910 to lS45 circulated petitions
,.tlne for bill granting property rights to
married. women. and several times addressed
,.gslative committees in its behalf. For this
NAV we're ostracized socially. but they perse-
y.red and bla2ed the way that women may
COW appear before Legislatures even to protest
,eainst any more freedom for their sex and not
,mnair their social standing in the least.
In 1854 Susan b. Anthony trudGed from door
h, door and made a canvass of country dis
,ricts OF New York in sleigh getting sigma
,ures to petitions asking that married woman
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have an equal guardianship OF her children
She and her assistants secured 5000 names of
men and women to this petition. which was
promptly rejected by the Legislature. Some
Of its mem bers declared it ar "unholy
movement" others said "it would un-
,4x every female in the land" while
o,bsr, declared lit would establish a
,peces OF leEalized adultery" But Miss An
tbony and her few brave coadjutors continued
To roll M new and longer petitions every year
until 1880 In March OF that year Mrs. STAN
ton made magnificent plea before Joint ses-
,ion OF the Legislature in Albany. aud the next
day the bill was adopted by the Assembly
which already had been passed 10y the Senate,
Rying to married women practically all the
lseal rights which they enjoy to-day in New
YORK.
OF course there was no "clanor on the part
o, women" in general. They did not know
enough 70 clamor. Tney did not know enough
to form an association opposed to the exten-
sion Of further rights to women. All they could
and did do was to slam the door in the faces
Of those who were circulating the petitions.
with the declaration that they mad all the
rights they wanted They lid not hesitate.
however 70 avail themselves OF all the privi-
leses secured for them. and II there
should te an effort pow to take away any
Of these there would be an uRm.stak-
able clamor Just - with these aGri-suffra-
rists; when the ballot i conferred on women
they vii. D.; hesitate to avail themselves Of the
pover it ccafe-s. Those who read this article
viii see the prophecy fulfilled that some Of the
yery women who are now bssisEiEE the Legis-
lstures ror 70 drag women in'h public ii!e will
themselves b. candidates FOR the Ia. Offices.
giving a. ;rs,iara-ioG :hat the duty being
aid Rp9- hem ;L-y iare no; sh!yk-
TIL. -s-a-kauls Johnson -Non3y document
makes tns assertion that ~ vI-tUaiy th%re IS 10
cDuecnor ..-twe=u voting ana ,axpayinE,"
This - sss~ n oa- Revo,uJ!3na-T ancestors.
who v=It = 4. ne trouble and exTense oi
nven YES Ea- II prove tha; L ther were
AIed tb-y r-c..-Se5 20 tA represented not
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