New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-16
AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
MISS BIssELL's ADDRESS TO CONGRESS COM
AIITTEES.


MITTEEs
The paper read before the House and Senate
committees at Washington Tuesday, by Miss
Emily P. BjsselI Of Wilmington. Del, opposing
the extension Of the suffrage 70 women, made the
following points;
It is not the tyranny but the chivalry Of men
that we American women have 70 fear The men
OF America want TO give US eyery1nllng We really
minority for a HaJorily. Lsat IS WY We are
iorty who DO not want the ballot The suffrage
movement must be,againsJ the opinions Of most 81
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movement really desired by women has succeeded.
The educational movement mot necessarily the CO.
way, may mention mere 1haJ me presidents OF
four Of the most prominent women colleges are
anti-suffragsts The movement Tor property rlgAls
trance Of women into all occupations and profess
occupallo-lSS c' 81 ~ @sT=iIs ~ fSGS willie now
hundred trades and occupations And the club
SUPERINTENDENT gentlemen wherever there are
two women nowadays there is a club. The remotest
ments have had no trouble in winning their way.
and they have not taken half a century 10 do IL
either. The woman Suffrage movement Is the only
woman's movement in existence that after fifty
but with strong associations Of women banded
The suffrage movement IS a minority movement,
even where II has succeeded. In Colorado where
I have been twice since the equal suffrage law
was passed and where I have friends who are
Old residents I have been assured that The ma
iorfty OF did not desire the vote. and have
been Indifferent ever since as TO casting their BAL
lots When 1 was gong 20 oregon last year
had a most interesting talk with Oregon suf-
aafs " sought disSuade rom opposing
suffrage. I asked her If she did not think that
course the majority Of women here in the East are
against Us. and you viii IND the majority out
thev vii voteT' And wnen I reached oregon I
found that she was right n her nrst remark a.
The suffrage movement is minority movement;
TOO In that the four States which have accepted
suffrage ara representative Of our large com
rnunities Colorado by the Census Of 1880. had less
Baltimore: by the last estimate made by It's Gov
ernor IT, had Just about twenty thousand lnnao-
a margin. WyOmings total population IS Less man
the foreign pOpulaLi IN OF Maryland ana Maryland
IS not a land of immigrants by any means. Inc
population Of Idaho Is Tar below me NUMBER OF
coiored people in Maryland Utah where the adn1is-
sion Of women TO the suffrage can hardy Dc said
in view OF recent events 10 have elevated the char
-hare are negroes Arkansas. and. altogether the
four states that have equal sunEa al put TO-
man Chicago and not half as many as New-Xork
City Gentlemen, results from such states even
II they were conclusive and positive Wouid stlll De
Bur even in those States the results neg
alive Colorado has no advance n Legislation 70
speak OF no purincarion OF politics, no improve
ing wOmens wages no toheis OF Sls el5 5
dawn whatever Utah has sent Erlgnarn ROD
erts here but he mas been returned with thanks
{rhrough the efforts OF the women without the BAL
ntj Utah's effort 10 uplIt the country goes
for nothing wyoming has had equal suffrage for
thrtv years vet nothing important has happened
sbars ~, more than in Idaho which has Just begun
rhe axnsrfueut Negative tsults such as these
speak powerfully against suffrage 10 our mind.