The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-16

having q bin prsssnssd 70 gsnt 70 ns-
paying women In towns and Villages q vopS
on questions Of special taIation II pas. ,'t
was defeated In the Senate by a vote OF ~
TO 81. In 1900 It again passed the Assembly
with only two votes against II, those VI
John Hid Morgan OF Brooklyn ana james
B. McEwan Of Albany. In the senate ~
was fought by senator Thomas +. Crazy
of New York, and a motion to advance II on
the calendar receiytd 20 ayes, ~ noes NOV
a constitutional majority.
In 1901 the Assembly voted for II, 81 70
20, Speaker Nixon having expressed the
hope In his opening address that this meae-
ure OF justice should pass AZ q hesrins
granted nv the Senate Judiciary ON
mittee the bill was earnestly advocated py
Mrs. Mariana w. Chapman. President OF
the State Suffrage Association; Mrs. s,ary
billiard Loines, chairman OF the l6glshsif9
Committee; Miss Alice Stone
recording secretary OF the National Sunrage
Association and a taxpayer In New fork,
and Miss Margaret Livin gston Chanler, a
large taxpayer in Dutchess county, Eleveh
members OF the anti-euffrage society APP
Mrs. Arthur n. Dodge, Mrs. W. W. CralneD'
Mrs. William Putnam and Mrs. Helen Men
drick johnson, begged that ts1payiIg
women should not have the right TO VOC on
the taxation OF their property. On hprh
10 the Oenaf0 DdhrfV Nlt Ohi w ,H
IA noes, and Il was signed by Gov. odeh
II is said that about nine hundred towns
and villages and several hundred thousaho
women are included in is PROVISIONS,
During the last ten months the women
yery Generally have awaited themselves oi
their new privilege wherever epecial
elections have been held, and everybody
seems satisfied. in fact, at a meeting
Of the Alti-Sufrage Society In Bunalo ~
November, just six months after the on
had passed, this same Mrs. Dodge VINO
had implored the Senate committee not 10
favor Il Is reported to have said: Our
members are abou evenly divided on inc
justice of granting suffrage to a1-paylhs
women!'
noses simply 70 extend the taxpayers SUI
frage 20 women In cities OF the third class
A number Of these already grant this iran.
chise Ia their charter. ms Will De al 'hat
the Legislature has power TO grant, as
questions of AVIATION are not sIonit.'edd
class. The former bill had many strong
supporters, as the vote showed. but ins
especial champions were senators W W
Armstrong and l.. ii. Humphrey and Assem-
blyman Otto Kelsey. All OF these are
still la the Legislature end can be depended
upon 10 guard the interests OF the present
btl None OF the objections to what may
be called political suffrage can be applied
TO this Taxpayers franchise. and, except
from those who are totally opposed 10 the
principle Of allowing women any repre-
~sentation whatever, there ought 10 Do no
opposition TO the measure
TIL communication from a lady OF Mount
Vernon, y. Y, criticising rather severely
the editor OF this department for saying
that with the help OF women the recent
there was carried for the bond
issue, when the contrary was the case, was
entirely Unsuitable. This Is also true, per-
hans. Of her conclusion that she cannot
depend upon statements In regard 70 Things
and places where she Is not familiar with
he facts, when she knows this about her
town TO be false
IL the editor never made a mistake she
would be infallible and superior TO every
other editor in the world. The fact, how
ever, that in over three years the state
ments in this department rave been chal-
Ienged only two OF three times ought 10
be- accepted as proof hat very great care
Ii taken TO obtain correct information. A
certainly does destroy con- |
and the writer who values her
and influence does not w1lfuuy
one. The information on which the
in regard to the Mount Vernon
election was based came in a letter from
prominent woman in New York city who
watches such vents very closely and who
undoubtedly had been misinformed in this
case. There has beer apparently no con
tradiction of il except the communication
above referred TO in the Daily Argus OF
Before that was published In THE Sun
nv Mrs Helen Kendrick johnson IL had
been sent 10 the editor OF this de-
partment bv several sufra gists, including
Inc chairman Of the National Press Com
urging that the correction should
he made al once. II, as Mrs. johnson 30
elegantly SAYS. II were the intention TO
NAV a grand game Of buff" in this de-
at least. II would be the part Of
70 go n little farther away from
New York than Mount Vernon, and to select
a somewhat larger subject than a local
for building a village schoolhouse.
When a woman. even though better quail
thar any other candidate, gets that
SO. OoO-a-year position as principal OF the
BROOKLYN high school, we will give an order
20 the dressmaker for our millennium
gowns and begin to take lessons on the
harp.
As the average ~housekeeper and mother
reads that eight hours a day is entirely
too long for a policeman to he on his feet
she wonders what would become Of the
poor fellow II he changed places with her.
Madame Kaissavow. who recently died
in St. Petersburg, left n library of $500
volume written bv women. Evidently
she wanted TO get the feminine point Of view,
but it is doubtful if she succeeded.
IDA Hustled HARPER.
spurEe0n's Correction.
From the Homilstic Rer'ep.
One day the Mayor OF Cambridge. who had
tried 10 curb Mr. spurgeon's tendencies 10
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