The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-14
WOMEN To VOTE OR not !
IUO or THIM .lRGTE IT EEFORE
JHE NJNE1EENIH CENTURY CLUB.
President Gait of tn. Sufragists Disputed
Mrs. Crannell's Facts Rather sharply
Mrs. Crnnneii. However, Made the Club
Laugh WIN a south Dnkotn STORY.

President Gait of the Sufragists Disputed
Mrs. C%ranneil's Facts Rather sharply
" Crnnneii, However,, Made the club
Laugh with n south Dakota story.
The Nineteenth Century Club. meeting at the
Waldorf Astoria last evening. heard Mrs, Car
rio Chapman Gait. President OF the National
American Woman Suffrage Association, and
Mrs. W. Winslow Crunuell of Albany discuss
the question; should Women Have the Bal.
lotj' Mrs, CAT dealt much in broad generali-
%IatiOns. Mrs. Cranne,l, with some scorn, snid:
we deal in facts" when Mrs. Cranncll had
finished. Mrs. Gait. in an emphatic reIoinder.
said ~ many things stated by Mrs, Crannell:
1T il not true proceed ling 10 specify the state
mont which she disputed.
Said Mr.. Gait a. starting We pause 10 ask
whether il is true, indeed. that American
women 10 NOT know enough to speak at the
ballot lox. The majority Of Intelligence has
passed to women There is Il reason FOR 1t.
More and moro men come TO us by immigra-
tion They no longer bring their wives.
l~lllteracy is l. .gh among them. American men
need not fear tutrust the ballot 10 women. tor
there are more women in proportion to their
number here who can read their ballots than
there are men
Vt one part Of her discourse Mrs. Gait
a.krl. without Iausiug: is it any wonder
that New York is known as the G"h"nna Of the
couutryt'
Man suffrage il a failure she said. W
may no longer be sure that a man IN an e.ec-
tive Office has attained It honestly; no longer
DO sure that that sacred house, the American
Senate, is a democratic body. | would restrict
the : ffrogc by cutting it of at tho bottom
whore the danger lies. | should not ask
whether II ballot comes from beneath a bop-st
or Il derby hat.
We say that women have no right TO be
exempted from tn" Responsibilities Of Amerl-
can citizenship, We expect that enfranchise-
ment will give to women what it has given TO
men. II IL the function of government not TO
make government good. hut 10 make men
strong. Weeypect cufranchlsrmcnt will make
women stronger. give them III" incentive to
make the most of Themselves. 40 men have
done. As to the statement thai women do not
want the franchise, no peoul" hHt" wanted II
before they got t We rntranchiSed the black
men Of the South. not bccuus" they wanted II,
but because the Republican party wanted
them
Mrs. Crannrll began with the assertion:
Suffrage j. In no proper md exact sense a
right Il; all. but a duty imposed on Iu~diyIdua.- =,
~ the TEST, Interests. as It Is believed. OF the
community
Referring to the -ufraCists' contention that
with women IN possession OF the franchise the
cause Of temperance would b. advanced, She
said The saloons in cheyenne ara open day
and night. every day IN the wear. In Philadel-
phla nearly Ia Ol the liquor licenses are hcli
by women
A. TO the franchise enabling women to OBJ
tain employment and better wages. Mrs. Gram
urll sad Men vote and are unemployed.
They 10 not use the ballot 10 gain increased
wages; they strike
a man Is known ly the company he keeps:
so IS IA woman, she said, later, and strange
indeed have been the %political. .corAuaniuns Of
woman suffrage IN America. Woman suffrage
goes hand IN hand with that form of socialism
which seeks To destroy all existing lnstitu.
tlons.'
She said that II men demanded Of women as
sistancr IN those external affairs which We're
properly mems province, while themselves
unable TO share ia the duties nature had i'm
posed on women, II would he = paIpabl" AMI
mons'ruuI outrage and that the question OF
maternity arising with il vitiated the morality
- NOMer aud lowered the birthri ght OF thn
child. "Wher" women DO hay" the ballot. 30
~nc added. neither they nor tie state receive
any benefit from IT,
Mrs Craune,l told Of n visit she made TO
Sou'h naEO'a iust after an election had been
hrid at the place Of her dc:'lnatinpp, Just Two
women voted. she said, 'unr OF them was the
President Of the Wompn's Christian Temper
aucr [ mon, and the other was the Secretary.
On" Of the candidates was u I hrisillu gentle
man. The other was an l..t"rdle run seller.
EIth ,ut the women yotcl Tor me rums"l'r;
m President said that the other man had
worked against her husband. The Secretary
~au! that she didn't like the other mans wife
Mrs. Crannrll hTougnt out the greatest
laughter with this story. which may have been
the reason for the acerblty 81 Mrs. tatts re-
luIAdcr IN which she branded some Of her
10 iact, NJ the parliamentarians have il, but as
not true