The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-14

Senate of 23 to IA.
 Tn Indiana the House passed a bil
 for an amendment giving the suffrag
 to women which was promptly killed b.
 the Senate because less than 10 per cent
 of the women care to exercise it.
 "In Wisconsin March 12 a bill fo
 woman suffrage was killed in the Sen
 ate without the formality of debate.
 Tn Illinois April 27 the House killed
 the measure framed to extend the suf'
 frage to women for township elections
 Tn Connecticut June 6 bill for wo'
 man suffrage was rejected by the House
 in concurrence with the Senate by g
 vote of 119 to 5S.
 "In Massachusetts March 15 the
 House defeated a proposition for wo.
 man suffrage by vote of 1856 to 53.
 "In number of States women have
 as you know, the school suffrage, and
 on occasions they have used it, but the
 years experience shows lessening
 rather than growing interest in this
 special branch of the suffrage. For in-
 stance, the Cincinnati Enquirer says
 With the opportunity given them to
 vote for members of school boards
 comparatively few women went to the
 polls and in most of the cities the num-
 Der was less than in former years.
 "The New Haven Register says of | Southington: The counting of ballots at yesterdays election failed to show a woman's ballot The Hartford Times,
 The returns show the usual light vote by women. None voted in New Lon i don, only ten in Norwich and twelve in 1 Manchester
 | "The Rochester Democrat: "A year ago at Cleveland election for school di- rectors 5000 women voted; this year only FOG went to the pools.
 ''These items are enough to prove that the agitation for school suffrage for women was the work of few wo- men only, which is what l wish to prove, all other pros or cons being be- side the present question. The suf- fragists pretended to voice great and popular demand. and they evidently were mistaken. This is just what they are pretending to do now for the full suffrage, and again--they are mistaken.
 'In Iowa the suffragists are particu- larly in evidence, and this year will make great effort to get constitu- tional amendment through the Legisla- ture. We, with the Massachusetts As- sociation, have been in correspondence with the Iowa women for the past two years or more and have offered any help which they may desire.
 There was deep resentment felt by the women of Iowa at the intrusion of the suffragists. They not unnaturally felt that they were competent to man. age their own affairs without outside suggestions or interference. Out of re- spect to this most commendable feeling we have not sent any one out to Iowa, but the women there who have express ed sympathy with our movement know that we will do so almost at moments notice.
 From Colorado still comes an abund- ance of evidence for both sides-proving nothing. There was much newspaper talk during the summer over the decis- ion of Colorado judge that an ordin- ance of the city of Denver prohibiting the sale of liquors to women by saloon- keepers could not be enforced, as it was a violation of her rights under the Equal Suffrage act This surely should have surprised no one, since what the suffragists ask for is that there shall be no political or even protective dis elimination between men and women.
 "The unrest of women incident to the changes and general develop ment during the last century shows it. self all over the world This unrest in the end is bound to work for the good of the race and is bound, too, by some | law, to be at first excess | sive.
 Those of us who can help to be the l balance wheel of the whirling machine !, of advancing civilization must do our best to let the excess be as little harm full as possible, and it is sustaining to | our efforts to know that from England | and from Holland we have had evil dence of the existence of a belief akin | to our own.
 "Mr. Isaac N. Ford, the special corre- spondent for the Tribune. has written most interestingly of the abatement of the woman suffrage agitation in Eng land, and from the annual report of the Illinois Association we learn that a so- ciety of ladies in Amsterdam sent re- Iest for all the anti-suffrage literature
 ''In our own State there has been nucn talK over what IS KnOWn as the Kelsey bill, which became a law last spring. This WAS bill empowering wo- men taxpayers in townships and vil- ages to vote upon all tax propositions
 This bill had passed the lower house n three successive Legislatures by leavy majorities, one year unanimous y, but had hitherto always been de- eated in the Senate. This year it pass d the Assembly by av ote of S2 to 27 lnd the Senate by 27 to IA. The gov .rnor signed the bill April "A and it be- anne a law.
 "A committee from the association vent to Albany and opposed the bill n the grounds that it was intended to 'e an entering wedge of woman suf- rage legislation, was not asked for by representative taxpayers and was use ass legislation. The large majority by which the bill passed was surprise to he committee which had worked so ard. "As the months have slipped by, how { yer, we have come to feel that in neith- ( r house was the bill considered wo- ( nan suffrage measure any more than ( he Married Woman's Property bill, in ( he words of an active and intelligent {